Podcast Player - Castbox

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.7
302K 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
19 Jul 2024

Data safety

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Data is encrypted in transit
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Ratings and reviews

4.7
293K reviews
Ben van Zyl
05 August 2024
Castbox does fine as a Podcasting app. It has all the features you would want, but there are a couple of glaring oversights: 1.) there is no way to turn off the streaming over cellular warning. It's a nice feature if you care about data, but it would be equally nice to have the option to disable completely it if you don't, so you don't have to hear the prompt each time. 2.) when you go into a specific podcast list, and leave the app and come back, the play progress at the bottom disappears.
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
06 August 2024
Hi, thanks for your kind support! For the second issue, please check this article to see if it helps: https://helpcenter.castbox.fm/portal/en/kb/articles/how-do-i-resume-from-where-i-left-off. We have forwarded your request to our team and will continue to update our app. If anything else, please reach us at [email protected]. Thanks! - Jowanna
Fera Sabet
02 August 2024
Update: I was not talking about audio ads. Actually video ads and photo ads that cover the episode covers or jump in when I try to search for a podcast are the most troublesome. Castbox is using every bit of space to push an ad. And for some reason it has gotten worse in the recent months. Original comment: Too many ads, many interruptions because it's draining the battery. Someone should make a light version of this app, as many of favorite podcasts are just on castbox.
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
02 August 2024
Hi, so sorry that the ads bother you. We are now under tremendous pressure from high development and operating costs, so we have to insert some ads to support the further development of this free app. Hope you could understand. We will also try to find a better solution. If anything else, please reach us at [email protected]. Thanks! - Jowanna
Katherine Manrriquez
29 July 2024
I used to really like this app, but there are multiple problems with it now. Even with background play on it constantly stops playback if it's not in the forground. What is the point of background play then?! If you turn off background play, it constantly stops to tell you turn it on. Additionally, I have been and am still PAYING for no ads for years, but now they have it only applying to visual ads. They still shove ads into the podcasts.
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
29 July 2024
Hi, sorry about such inconvenience. Could you go to your phone Settings and turn off the battery optimization for Castbox to see if it helps? 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]? Thanks! - Jowanna