Podcast Player - Castbox

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.7
305K reviews
10M+
Downloads
Content rating
Parental guidance
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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
24 Oct 2024

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
295K reviews
Shreyans Chordia
10 November 2024
It's a decent app. Nice small features. Sometimes I have trouble manual and automatically downloading episodes when on WiFi. Nice features: -Audio prompts when downloading with mobile data and when playlist ends -Change of no. of seconds to jump forward and back -Sound booster -Upto 3x audio speed Missing features: -Automatic audio transcription -Playing queue
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
10 November 2024
Hi, thank you very much for the support! As a startup, every review matters very much to us. If you think of any way we can improve going forward, please reach us at [email protected] with any feedback at all. Hopefully our continued improvement will earn your 5th star! Thanks! :-) - May
A Google user
3 June 2019
very convenient app, ads are non intrusive. my only gripe is not being able to cycle/clear recommended podcasts. this flaw has me looking at the muggin of that sociopath jake paul every time I start it up. edit: thank you for reading this, devs, that's some commitment! got rid of annoying recommendations at last, I'm glad to say. though the method to achieve this is still a bit opaque, maybe something for the future?
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
31 May 2019
Hi Bram, If you do not like to see a podcast on the Discover page, please try to report it, by taking this article for your reference: https://helpcenter.castbox.fm/portal/kb/articles/report-channels-and-comments. Thus it would be hidden for you. For more info, please feel free to reach us at [email protected]. Thank you very much for the support!
Sara Brown
4 January 2025
Design of the app is fairly good, but it has several problems. 1) You either can't, or I can't figure out how to, select an episode to play next. I suppose you could make a playlist, but I shouldn't need 100s of playlists to listen to multi-episode topics in order. 2) Sometimes episodes abruptly end, marked as done, so I have to find where I was; it doesn't know, because it's marked as finished. 3) SO. MANY. ADS. Holy hell, 5+ minutes straight sometimes!! Like, Jesus, it's so excessive!!
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
5 January 2025
Hi, sorry for such inconvenience. As a startup, we have to survive and support ourselves by integrating with ads. Next time you have the same issue, could you please go to the app Personal tab > About > Contact us > Submit report via email and send the screen recording to [email protected]? Thanks for your kind support! :-) - Jowanna