Podcast Player - Castbox

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.7
304K reviews
10M+
Downloads
Editors' Choice
Content rating
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
Aug 27, 2024
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Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
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This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 4 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.7
294K reviews
Joshua Wolf
August 28, 2024
Started out great. But, it's become super glitchy over the last couple months, and it seems to be because of careless and aggressive changes to advertising. Random and poorly-timed content interruptions are bad enough, but it seems that forcing more ads also results in the player thinking an episode has finished when there are still several minutes left. It's especially frustrating to lose the content *that I'm paying for*, just so the platform can force more advertising on their users
3 people found this review helpful
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
August 29, 2024
Hi, we are very sorry for such inconvenience. Next time you have the same issues, could you please go to the app Personal page > About > Contact us > Submit report via email and send [email protected] a video or a screen recording? We will try our best to make the app right and better for you. Thanks for your kind support! :-) - Jowanna
Kim Hawko Vitiello
September 3, 2024
I used to really love this podcast app. I could choose what episodes to download, search for individual episodes easily, et . There were some issues that made me uninstall this app completely. Constant warnings saying that my settings for keeping it from working properly, when actually my settings were just keeping it from harvesting data in the background; warnings about data use I couldn't disable; full screen ads that I couldn't close when driving which is unsafe.
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
September 4, 2024
Hi, sorry for that. Please rest assured that all the data we collect is strictly used to ensure the proper functioning of the app. We have strict measures in place to protect your data and we will never misuse it. You can go to the phone Settings > Notification to enable Castbox. If anything else, please reach us at [email protected]. Thanks!
Whitney Jackson
August 21, 2024
This app is terrible. It constantly glitches. It will randomly stop playback for no reason or skip forward sometimes 20 minutes without warning. When I only have 5 or so minutes left of a podcast often times it will just skip the whole ending and play another episode. I used to be a paying subscriber but it is no longer worth it. I Gave this app years to work out the kinks but I will be switching to something else
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
August 22, 2024
Hi, sorry about that. Could you go to your phone Settings and turn off the battery optimization for Castbox to see if it helps? Is it about the downloaded episodes? If it still doesn't work, could you go to the app Personal page > About > Contact us > Submit report via email and send a screen recording of the Playback issue to [email protected]?