Podcast Player - Castbox

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4.7
297K reviews
10M+
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Editors' Choice
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Teen
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About this app

With Castbox, you can find all your favorite shows, get the latest episodes, discover more recommendations, and customize your listening experience.

Castbox is the best FREE Podcast Player & Podcast App on Android.

Our OPML Import feature makes it easy to transfer your subscribed podcasts from other apps to Castbox. This ensures that you don't miss a beat in your podcast listening and can continue enjoying your favorite shows without interruption. Try it out today and discover why Castbox is the ultimate podcast app.

The best free podcast player and podcast app to find, save, download, and listen to your favorite podcasts (such as Crime Junkie, Stuff You Should Know, The Daily), FM, radio and audiobooks.

Castbox is an easy to use free podcast player for podcast lovers, offering a super clean layout and easy to navigate interface. With a wide category of podcasts, you can stream or download your favorite podcasts anywhere, anytime for free.

Access over 95 million audio content including podcasts, audiobooks, FM radio and more on your android devices. Discover popular podcasts on various topics:

- News & Politics podcasts: CNN 10, NPR News Now, Fox News Radio Newscast, The Overcast by The Seattle Times;
- Music-related podcasts: Dissect from Cole Cuchna & Spotify Studios, Defected Radio, Capital FM;
- Games & Hobbies podcasts: Wolverine: The Lost Trail from Stitcher;
- Sports podcasts: The Ringer MLB Show, MLB Network, The Chicago Audible;
- Technology podcasts: The Overcast Podcast, This Week in Google, Google Cloud Platform Podcasts;
- Talk Shows: Sincerely, X from TED and Audible, By The Book from Stitcher, Luminary from Luminary.fm
- Business podcasts: Youpreneur FM Podcast;
- Sleep: Sleep With Me, Guided Sleep Meditations, Sleep and Relax ASMR

Castbox is perfect for a variety of situations.
- Listen to daily news updates from your favorite commentators as you drink your morning coffee.
- Flip to your favorite channel during your daily commute or drive with Waze and listen on your way to work or school.
- Plug in while you are running, at the gym, or just walking your dog and make the most out of every minute.
- Unwind at the end of the day and relax before bed with a story or meditation to ensure a good night’s sleep.
- Import your favorite podcasts with OPML from Google podcast, Overcast, iHeartradio, Pocket Casts, Podbean, Podcast Addict, Spotify, Stitcher, the Podcast app, Tunein, and apple podcast app!

Castbox is proud to present you all of the popular podcasts:
Fox News, Freakonomics Radio from Stitcher, Call Her Daddy, Phil in the Blanks by Dr. Phil, Bill O'Reilly, Today, Explained from Vox and Stitcher, S Town, The Luminary Agent Podcast, BBC iPlayer Radio, Criminal, Heaven's Gate from Stitcher, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, ESPN Radio, My Favorite Murder, NPR, Radiolab, Serial, Sleep with Me, Stuff You Should Know, Sword and Scale, TED Radio Hour, TEDTalks, The Dave Ramsey Show, LeVar Burton Reads from Stitcher, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Tim Ferriss Show, Wolverine from Marvel and Stitcher, Luminary podcast from Luminary.fm, Luminary Business with Todd Staples, Olympik iPlayer Podcasts, You are dead to me by BBC Sounds, Friday Night Comedy from BBC iPlayer Radio, Brexitcast by BBC Sounds and iPlayer Radio, Comedy of the Week by BBC iPlayer Radio, the Doorstep Murder by BBC iPlayer Radio, Fall of the Shah by BBC Sounds, Waze by davchti, Waze Out Radio by Waze Out Radio, KVR Music Tracker, Tracker, VGM Tracker, The Christie Tracker, TV Tuners, Sales Tuners, Is The Tuner On?, Tuner, Life Tuner
Updated on
Apr 15, 2024

Data safety

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Data is encrypted in transit
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Ratings and reviews

4.7
288K reviews
Matthew Boyer
April 17, 2024
I'm disappointed I paid for this app, because it's hot garbage. Don't expect it to interact well with your Android audio. It'll keep playing after you've turned off the car through the phone speaker rather than turning off. The process for creating a repeating playlist of the same podcasts over and over is incredibly complex for the software. It's almost as if they just want to keep pushing new podcasts at you rather than provide you with actual good stable service.
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S Thomas
April 6, 2024
Initially, I tried YouTube Music when Google Podcasts went away. It failed miserably as a podcast app. I then found Castbox(orange). It is superior! It has additional features that I was waiting for Google Podcasts to implement, like multiple playlists. I'm still trying to learn the new layout of the app. The sorting feature is lacking, as there are options to sort by, but you are unable to choose which direction. Also, I hope this app can be selected as a podcast service in the Google Home app.
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Marah Murphy
April 16, 2024
Well, it *used* to be good - but the last few weeks the app has been terrible. I've been using this app for several years & always loved & recommended it to others. Lately it keeps shutting off the app mid episode which is annoying. Then this week, when I try to open the app back up, it just stays frozen on the loading screen forever. It does this even if I take off battery optimization or after rebooting my phone. I've even tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app & that didn't help either.
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
April 17, 2024
Hi, we are very sorry for such inconvenience. Now we've fixed the Crash issue! Could you please kindly update your Castbox to the newest version 11.13.1 to see if it helps? Really hope you can give us another chance. If it still doesn't work, please feel free to reach us at contact@castbox.fm. Thank you very much for your kind support! :-) - Fiona