Name: Pocket Casts: Podcast Player
Rating: 4.04244 (4713 reviews)

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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Reviews

Very good app…

Found this app when Stitcher went away. Would have given it 5 stars but because Episode Search results appear in totally random date order, the results are basically unusable! Also this app is not nearly as powerful as Downcast, which allows you not only to group podcasts by topic, but also to add podcasts to multiple Playlists (by topic, length, etc).
By EHA2

What happened to this app?!

This has been my go-to for years. It’s so buggy now I’m going to have to stop using it. Pressing play on a title takes MINUTES to start playing on iPhone 13. Makes no sense.
By Arabian Drum

Activist Liberal Outfit

They push their political agenda onto your phone and car dashboard screen for a month and then say, “if you don’t like it just go into nested menu settings and reverse it.”
By DanMcDermott

Doesn’t have access to all podcasts

As a podcast player it’s great except it doesn’t have access to all available podcasts. Shame.
By Toomanybarts

Dangerous for drivers drivers

This podcast is just fine for listening around the house. It may even be the best for this. But if you listen while driving it is downright DANGEROUS! You can’t easily navigate to the next podcast while one is playing. Let’s face it, sometimes you get bored jn the middle of a podcast and want to move on. I have to pull over just to get to the next podcast. The app does not respond well to voice control. Until there is an easier way to move to the next podcast while driving, I would find another solution. I’m sad to write this as I think it is a great podcast player otherwise.
By Brianalumbra

Really Buggy Lately

Been using the app for years and it’s been pretty good, I even subscribed to the premium tier for a while but recently I’ve been having a bunch of bugs like skipping partially played episodes in my queue or just skipping to random parts in my podcast so that I’m never sure if I’ve missed something, or the podcast pauses and won’t resume after Siri announces a message on AirPods
By R_nick.naume.D

Constantly jumps back and ends podcasts early

Will update once it stops. Normally love this app. Recently the app has been doing this and it’s annoying. Update: still occurring.
By Ignatious W

Beautiful, simple, useful, free

What a fabulous app, finally! I love that is is simple to use, easy to share episodes, and the graphics are beautiful! I see the covers of all the podcasts I follow for easy clicking, and I can rearrange those covers however I want, according to any criteria I think is useful. The free version is enough, but I have the + because I like to payback companies that do a great job for me, and being a member has its benefits.
By Bonnie in Tuscany

Mid

This app doesn’t update podcasts in a timely fashion. And if you subscribe to a podcast, expect bumerouz headaches to get your podcast updated. Apple podcasts is a superior products, and that says a lot because Apple podcasts is garbage.
By Sparkleyflowers