Find great podcasts. Podcast App is the #1 most downloaded independent podcast player on iOS. Millions and millions of downloads, over 415,000 ratings, and named one of Apple's Apps We Love.
Podcast App is built around one idea: getting you to your next episode as fast as possible. You're usually on the go, so everything is simple, intuitive, and takes the fewest possible steps. Save episodes and build playlists in a tap as you discover them, and get back to anything you've saved or started just as fast. And it's reliable where it counts: new episodes arrive the moment they're released, and your audio never stops, because we know you're listening while doing everything else. Less time fiddling with an app, more time enjoying what you love.
NEW: AI DIGEST, YOUR PODCAST ADVISORS
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FIND YOUR NEXT FAVORITE IN SECONDS
* Search shows and episodes across millions of podcasts by topic, guest, person, or event
* Search within a show to find that one episode someone recommended, or check if your favorite host covered a topic or invited a guest
* Get recommendations based on your listening, so you keep discovering new favorites
* Flip through the latest releases from all your favorite shows in our stories style feed
* Explore trending shows in true crime, news, comedy, sports, health, business, education, parenting, and more
SAVE, ORGANIZE, CURATE
* Save any episode with one tap as you discover it
* Build your Listen Later list and have it downloaded, offline, and ready to go
* Create episode playlists by topic or guest, for what's next or the favorites you want to keep
* Share your playlists with friends, family, and coworkers to bring them along
LISTEN YOUR WAY
* Get new episodes the moment they launch
* Pick up right where you left off, speed up playback, rewind or skip ahead
* Track your listening history and streaks, and quickly find that insightful episode you want to revisit or pass along
* Listen in the car with CarPlay
* Listen on your Apple Watch, no iPhone needed
Whether it's the news on your commute, true crime on a road trip, or a bedtime story to wind down, Podcast App makes the world of podcasts your own. Stop scrolling. Just listen.
BUILT BY A TEAM YOU CAN TRUST
Our team has built consumer products with 100M+ installs, and our work has been featured by Apple, TechCrunch, Yahoo, Fast Company, and Fox.
PREMIUM
Our free app is ad supported, with visual ads. Upgrade to Premium to:
* Remove all visual ads completely
* Unlock your full listening history
* Add your own private podcasts by URL
* Create podcast show folders to organize your favorites
* Customize per show settings, including push notifications and default sort order
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I switched to this app from the Apple app years ago and have never regretted it. it’s a nice, light, air design, but more than that it is super user-friendly and intuitive. I love that I can have my favorite podcasts all in one place and know who’s dropped a new one. In another view, I can see the episodes in order of release dare on all my favorites in one list, no tapping around the app to collect them one by one! The other thing I really love is that I can save episodes to listen later (just once) in a list and it auto clears them once I’ve listened to them. I can also create a playlist to listen to again and again. These guys are killing it! If there’s a development opportunity, I would say it’s around the ability to organize podcasts within the permanent playlist, though that might be my user error. I would love to be able to reset the podcast easily – I have a Yoga playlist and I would love to have a single button “start from the beginning “option.
No auto-play?
Marmosette
I have used the heck out of this app and it is mostly awesome. It just has a weird quirk where podcasts don’t automatically play the next episode. It used to. I thought maybe they’d changed that in an update, but I just went back and caught up on another podcast with 4 new eps since the last time I’d listened, and those DID start right off—when one episode ended, the next one would start playing after only a second or two. Most of the time, when one episode ends, it moves to the next episode and just stops. I have to hit play for it to start loading the ep, wait a few secs for it to stop loading and say “error,” turn my wifi off and back on again, go back to the app, hit “play” again, and usually do that a few more times while I wait 5-10 min for it to download the entire episode. Then I have to go to the podcast’s page, scroll to find the last ep I’d listened to, hit play on THAT, then go to the one I just loaded and hit play on that. Then it will play. I know my connection speed is slow, but it does this when I’m connected in other locations with better speeds. I was just resigned to this weird buggy thing until I just checked up on that other podcast and it actually started playing the next ep right away without nannying and cajoling, and before it had downloaded the whole thing. Is that just happening to me?
Developer Response
Hi Michta2, how are you? We are so sorry to hear you are having a bad experience with our app. Please contact us at help@podcastapp.io so we can help you with this and further investigate what is the issue that you are having. Thanks!
Ads are dangerous, these developers are psychos
Stoltz23
I think most people can agree that although staying off your phone while driving should be done 100% of the time, there will be the once in a while where you have to tap a slip or pause button while on the road. If you're driving and you need to hit one button in the app, you expect it to be a 2 second procedure, yet it is not, because as soon as you interact with the app after not doing so for more than 5-10 minutes, you will be harassed with 10 second ads that are purposely hard to close out of, and purposely put in places that are the most distracting (going to your listen later will prompt it, as well as going to your currently playing podcast, aka the 2 most used functions while listening). I then have to pullover to do what originally should have been, again, a 2 second procedure at most. Many people who are more impulsive will not pull over, and instead will probably battle with the ads with their hand still on the steering wheel, and these developers know this. They know they are creating an absolute road hazard with where they place these ads and what they look like and it's extremely disheartening to see no regard for safety or their users to this degree. You don't deserve to have an app this functional/useful to so many people, you are not responsible with the power.
Developer Response
Hi Stoltz23! We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience you've experienced with our app. Your feedback is highly valuable to us, and we are committed to continuously improving through regular app updates. Rest assured, we will thoroughly investigate this matter. In the meantime, you may want to try creating a playlist to enable continuous episode playback. Additionally, if you encounter ads while listening, you can play the podcast, lock your phone, and then pause and resume listening without interruptions or seeing ads. We take safety seriously, especially while driving, and we have taken note of your input for our development plans. If you have any questions or require further assistance, please feel free to contact us at help@podcastapp.io. Thank you for your time!
After being a loyal user for a long time, it’s time to switch, too many crashes and bugs
Mike Whitmer
The title pretty much says it all. This was the first specific podcast app I ever tried and I fell in love with it initially because of its simplicity and intuitiveness. Unfortunately, over the last four or five months, I have been averaging upwards of 2 to 3 full crashes per day with only this app, never issues with any other ones. If it was just an issue where the app closed out and I could immediately open it again, I would not even be writing this review. But what happens 90% of the time with a crash is that I am then forced to restart the entire phone, and I then have about a 50-50 chance as to whether the app will actually load at that point, or if I need to cycle the phone off and on again — or just wait a while for the wind to change or the app gods to favor me. Otherwise, the app will remain frozen and no amount of closing and reopening will make a difference, I’ve got a bricked podcast app until it decides to start working again. I want to reiterate that I might have an issue with another app crashing about once a month on average, if that even, but I experience at least 100 crashes per month with only this podcast app alone. Seems pretty cut and dry to me, so unless I’m missing something I believe it is time to make a change to another app. It’s a shame since I just re-upped my annual subscription, but worth it to move to a platform that will not consistently ruined my listening experience, typically right when I’m in the middle of something critical at work and trying to focus in, or on a run where it is difficult to fiddle with my phone.
Hey there, loyal users!
In this release, we are improving the overall reliability of the app.
Your feedback makes The Podcast App better. Keep it coming! Please email us at help@podcast.app We read it all.
By the way, App Store reviews are very helpful for us. If you think The Podcast App is worthy, would you mind taking a moment to write a review? We'd greatly appreciate it. :)
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Information
Seller
Evolve Global, Inc.
Size
123.2 MB
Category
News
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
