Pocket Casts: Podcast Player
Your favorite podcast player
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Description

Pocket Casts is the world's most powerful podcast platform, an app by listeners, for listeners. Our podcast player provides next-level listening, search and discovery tools. Find your next obsession with our hand curated podcast recommendations for easy discovery, and seamlessly enjoy your favorite shows without the hassle of subscribing.

Here's what the press has to say:
Wired: "Pocket Casts Is the Podcast App Every iPhone User Needs"
iMore: "Pocket Casts is the best podcast app for iPhone"

With a unique set of simple yet powerful features and a limitless podcast database, you're sure to find something you love.

WE SWEAT THE DETAILS
Design: Easily listen to, manage and find new podcasts.
Themes: Whether you're a dark or light theme person we've got you covered. We even have you OLED lovers covered with our Extra Dark theme.
Universal: Custom but familiar iPad interface, supporting Slide Over, Split View and Picture in Picture.
Everywhere: CarPlay, AirPlay, Chromecast and Sonos. Listen to your podcasts in more places than ever before.

POWERFUL PLAYBACK
Up next: Automatically build a playback queue from your favorite shows. Sign in and have that Up Next queue sync to all your devices.
Trim silence: Cut silences from episodes so you finish them faster, saving hours.
Variable speed: Change the play speed from anywhere between 0.5 to 3x.
Volume boost: Increase the volume of voices, while decreasing background noise.
Stream: Play episodes on the fly.
Chapters: Jump between chapters easily, and enjoy embedded artwork that the author has added (we support MP3 and M4A chapter formats).
Audio & video: Play all of your favorite episodes, toggle video to audio.
Skip playback: Skip episode intros, jump through episodes with custom skip intervals.
Apple Watch: Control playback from our Apple Watch app, adjust the volume or change playback effects, all without ever touching your phone.
Sleep timer: We'll pause your episode so you can rest your weary head.
Airplay & Chromecast: Send episodes straight to your TV or speakers with a single tap.
Sonos: Browse and play your podcast collection directly from the Sonos app.
CarPlay: When you're in the car, so are we.

SMART TOOLS
Sync: Subscriptions, Up Next, listening history, playback and filters are all securely stored in the cloud. You can pick up where you left off on another device and even the web.
Refresh: Let our servers check for new episodes, so you can get on with your day.
Notifications: We'll let you know when new episodes arrive, if you like.
Auto download: Automatically download episodes for offline playback.
Filters: Custom filters will organize your episodes.
Storage: All the tools you need to keep your podcasts tamed.

ALL YOUR FAVORITES
Discover: Subscribe to any podcast in iTunes and more. Browse by charts, networks and categories.
Share: Spread the word with podcast and episode sharing.
OPML: Jump on board without any hassle with OPML import. Export your collection at any time.

There are many more powerful, straight-forward features that make Pocket Casts the perfect podcasting app for you. So what are you waiting for?

Visit pocketcasts.com for more info about the web and other platforms supported by Pocket Casts.
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In-Apps

Plus Yearly
$59.99
Plus Monthly
$5.99
Patron Yearly
$149.99
Patron Monthly
$14.99

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User Rating

4.31 out of 5

642 ratings in Australia

5 star
474
4 star
52
3 star
26
2 star
20
1 star
70

Ratings History

Reviews

Randomly skips back or forward 20 seconds

Gibbo_1981 on

I’ve loved this app for years but in the last 12 months, podcasts randomly skip forward or pack 30 seconds. Aside from the things I love, playing a podcast without interruption is the only thing I need it to do.

Great podcast manager

Daniel1976duesentrieb on

Easy to use, sleek, great design and functionality

Never going to use Go Daddy!

Game videos need to be updated on

Absolutely appreciate the need to monetise. But if I hear another “go daddy” advert in the pre, post and during roll of every podcast , I’ll have to switch apps. Shame, because it’s a great app.

New home screen is weird

Lucas Caton on

The initial screen with the list of podcasts just got weird in this last update. Thumbnails are smaller and the sky blue color on the numbers doesn't seem to match the look and feel of the rest of the app. That's the sort of change that you'dA/B test... ie.: create an option for uses to come back to what we had before, track what users choose and only then you remove the least favourite.

The * best *

MargaretIsabella on

Not often I write reviews, and I’m often a bit picky about apps … but this works so well it deserves the praise … I’ve used four different podcast apps, now across two different iPads and an iPhone 11. It’s got more flexibility - than even one I previously bought. Even a naff like me was able to import my playlist easily Depending on what speed the podcast presenter talks at, how involved it is etc I like to adjust the speed up or down. This is the first speed adjustment I’ve come across where you can do that in increments of 10% Just then I was listening to meditation podcast. Had a bit of spare time so slowed it down to 70% and the meditation never worked better I love it!

Perfect and free!

JoMiLiDa_Murfett on

Perfect podcast app. Keeps track across devices where I am up to in an episode, and what episodes I have listened too on any device. Configurable to get notifications for only some pos cast new episodes. No fee for all these features!

Won’t import from Apple Podcasts

mengpants on

When I use the shortcut to import, it says OPML Import Failed and refuses to import. So cannot use this (and I have subscriptions in Apple Podcasts so I do t wish to manually add). Is there any solution for this? Am using an iPhone 14 Pro Max running iOS 17.4.

Hungry developers

Ando, west oz on

Would have rated higher but when they raised the subscription price so heavily, I left. I now use Apple podcast free app and it does pretty much the same job.

Re-review

Wilderodin on

Apparently my old 1-star review from before it went free was deleted so quickly. It functions mostly fine, but, there are a bunch of bugs that are infuriating. It also takes forever to add new episodes when they release on subscribed podcasts. To name a few bugs, it constantly tells me the wrong progress through an episode, I might be 20 minutes into a podcast but it tells me I’m over an hour in. Sometimes when I skip back 10 seconds to rewind, I am instead skipped forwards multiple minutes and have to scroll back. It constantly removes episodes from my up next queue so I have to re-ad them.

Best Poscast App EVER!

SXA525 on

I've been using this app for 5+ years now and it is hands down the BEST podcast app ever. The developer has the best app update notes and the app is updated regularly with cooler and cooler features that I didn't even know I needed!

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Top Grossing
15
Top Grossing
23
Top Grossing
34
Top Grossing
39
Top Free
43

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App Info

Category
News
Publisher
Automattic, Inc.
Languages
English, Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Swedish
Recent version
7.68 (2 days ago )
Released on
Jun 16, 2012 (12 years ago )
Last updated
1 week ago