Podcast Player App - Castbox

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.7
299K reviews
10M+
Downloads
Editors' Choice
Content rating
Everyone 10+
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About this app

Castbox is the best FREE Podcast Player & Podcast App on Android with over 24 million downloads, 280K reviews, 2 Billion episodes downloaded and Winner of Google Play Best 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.

The podcast player Castbox is a Winner of Google Play Best App! (Best Daily Helper and Best Hidden Gem)
Castbox is an Android Excellence App!

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

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.

Access over 95 million audio content including podcasts, audiobooks, FM radio and more in 27 different countries on your android devices. Discover popular podcasts on various topics including:

- 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, and if you love to listen, learn, or be entertained, you can find the best time to do so.
- 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
Oct 26, 2022

Data safety

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No data shared with third parties
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Data is encrypted in transit
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4.7
299K reviews
Nathan Steiner
October 24, 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.
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
October 25, 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
October 23, 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
October 24, 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
October 19, 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
October 20, 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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