Podcast Player App - Castbox

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.7
2.99L reviews
1Cr+
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Editors' choice
Content rating
Everyone 10+
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About this app

Castbox is a Winner of Google Play Best App! (Best Daily Helper and Best Hidden Gem)

New Feature
Join the millions experiencing better bedtime, lower stress, and less anxiety with Zen mode on Castbox!
Zen Mode is an ambient sounds player of peaceful soundscapes that are guaranteed to lull you into a deep and restful slumber. Zen Mode has 100+ ambient soundscapes for adults and children, such as nature sounds, lullaby and city ambience.

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 to choose from, you can stream or download your favorite podcasts anywhere, anytime for free.

Castbox offers continuous playback with customized playlists, one-button subscription options, and the ability to download episodes for offline listening. Our mission here at Castbox is to make information accessible to everyone, anytime, anywhere.

★🌟 Nominee of Google Play Awards: Standout Startup
★ 🏆 Winner of "Top Trending Apps" from Global Best Apps by Google Play
★ 🎊 Winner of "Most Entertaining" from Best Apps by Google Play
★ ☝️ Winner of the Best Music + Audio App by TabbyAwards

With continuously updates carefully considering ALL your suggestions and feedback, we at Castbox is striving to build the best worldwide podcast community ever.

Listen to top Podcasts from Around the World

- Subscribe to over 1 million podcast channels including top networks like NPR, Gimlet, BBC, Earwolf, HowStuffWorks, PRX, This American Life and CBC.
- Stream or download 95 MILLION+ episodes of podcasts, radio channels & audio books for FREE.
- Search or listen to your favorite podcasts in 70 different languages.
- Discover new and trending podcasts from 16 different categories.
- Listen to podcasts in your native language or try learning a new language with our many language teaching podcasts.
- Keep track of your subscriptions with cloud syncing. Listen from any device anytime and anywhere.
- Smart speakers supported, including Google Home, ChromeCast, Apple HomePod, Amazon Alexa.
- Android Auto support

Other Key Features:

- Personalized recommendations based on your listening history and channel subscriptions.
- Powerful search function that allows you to find your favorite podcasters, channels and episodes.
- Discover new podcasts with Castbox’s daily trending and most popular lists.
- Simple one-click subscription for your favorite podcast channels so you never miss an episode.
- Comment on podcasts to share your opinions with others.
- Share your favorite podcasts with friends via Facebook, Twitter, email and more.

Visit our website: www.castbox.fm
Like us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/castbox.fm
Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/Castbox_FM
Contact us: [email protected] (for audience) / [email protected] (for podcasters)

Castbox is proud to present you all of the popular podcasts:
Fox News, Phil in the Blanks by Dr. Phil,Today, Explained from Vox and Stitcher, S Town, The Luminary Agent Podcast, BBC iPlayer Radio Podcast, 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 LeVar Burton and Stitcher, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Tim Ferriss Show, Wolverine: The Long Night 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, Audible Suno, Suno Research, The Suno India Show.
Updated on
26-Oct-2022

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
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
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
4.7
2.99L reviews
Nathan Steiner
24 October 2022
The past couple days there has been an issue where the video ads in the player suddenly start playing audio over the podcast (so the audio from the podcast is playing and suddenly there is audio of, say, a car ad playing at the same time). It's super annoying and I have to pause the podcast, wait for the ad to finish, and then back up a bit to hear what I missed. I had this issue a few years ago and it stopped happening so hopefully it is fixed again because it's a extremely annoying issue.
71 people found this review helpful
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
25 October 2022
Hi, we are so sorry for such an inconvenience. The ads are provided by third-party advertisers like Google, Facebook, or Applovin. Also, could you please send [email protected] any video or screenshot regarding the "Ads' Sound" issue when you meet next time? It'll be helpful for us to locate the issue. Thanks for your support. :-) - Fiona
fiona vettes
23 October 2022
I hate this app and don't know why I continue to use it. It's constantly crashing (then I lose my episode and have to scroll to find it again)... and for some reason it stops playing when I lock my phone, which is super annoying. Also it randomly rewinds and replays something I heard ten seconds ago which is a disorienting experience. It literally just crashed again as I'm writing this review.
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
24 October 2022
Hi, sorry about any inconvenience. Could you please go to your phone Settings and turn off the battery optimization option for Castbox? If it still doesn't work, please send [email protected] a video about this "Crash" issue. We will further look into that and make the app right for you. Thank you very much for your support! :-) - Fiona
James
19 October 2022
Audio skipping around, stopping randomly. I used to trust castbox exclusively for my content on my 1hr daily commute. Unfortunately, the app randomly stops playing, requiring me to open it and pressing the play button several times during my drive to work. Additionally, the audio inexplicably skips around, causing me to miss minutes of content. At first I thought that was an editing issue, but once I installed a different app, I realized the problem is with Castbox specifically.
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
20 October 2022
Hi, sorry about this issue. Could you please kindly take a screen recording or a video regarding the whole process of the "Skip and Stop" issue, and send it to [email protected]? It would be very helpful for us to locate the issue and make the app right for you. Thank you very much for the support! :-) - Fiona

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