Pocket Casts - Podcast App

Name: Pocket Casts - Podcast App
Rating: 4.782189 (124186 reviews)
Author: Automattic, Inc

Automattic, Inc

★ 4.8 (124,186 ratings)

⬇ 1,000,000+ downloads

Est. actual: 4,863,287

Free

Released: Mar 6, 2011

IAP: $3.99 - $99.99 per item

No ads

Rated: Teen

Signals

4 this week · 2 positive · 1 warning All of this week's signals →

📈Last 7 days +15K installs — 25% slower than the week before (+19K) · 2.2K/day since Sep 26
🏆Among News & Magazines apps top 1% by installs gained this week (28 peers growing)
⭐Rating steady at ★ 4.78 since Sep 26
🛠Updates actively updated · updated 22 days ago · every ~28 days (2 updates tracked)

Installs since launch

+88,298 installs · +286 ratings since Sep 26

Update history

— Oct 23, 2026 · seen Oct 16, 2026

Stay in the loop with our new What’s New feed! Find announcements from the Pocket Casts team right on your Profile tab. Your read messages sync across devices when you’re signed in. We also polished Profile navigation and fixed a couple of crashes, including one on Android 8.0. Less crashing, more casting.

VARY Sep 25, 2026

Pocket Casts is now on Android TV! Enjoy your podcasts on the big screen, browse your favourite shows, and search for your next listen. We’ve also smoothed out video playback, improved rotation and transcript behaviour, made background playback kinder to low-memory devices, and stopped oversized episodes from sneaking into your downloads. Your podcasts just got a little more comfortable.

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Pocket Casts - Podcast App is a news & magazines app by Automattic, Inc with 1,000,000+ downloads (about 4.9M estimated). +15K installs in the last 7 days. Rated 4.8 from 124K ratings. Released Mar 6, 2011. Install growth, rank history, SDKs and ad networks.

From the store listing: “Pocket Casts is the world's most powerful free podcast app, made by listeners, for listeners 🎧. Our free podcast player makes it easy to listen, discover, and enjoy podcasts your way. Stream podcasts, trending shows, and audiobooks all in one powerful audio app. Are you a podcast addict? Find new shows with our…”