Podcast Player - Castbox

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.8
362K reviews
10M+
Downloads
Editors' Choice
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
Nov 11, 2025

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
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Ratings and reviews

4.8
352K reviews
Callum Woolgar
November 3, 2025
Have used this for years, but moving away to another platform after recent changes to how ads appear. They now seem to pop up randomly and be of a frustratingly inconsistent variety. They pop up all over the place, and sometimes you just can't get rid of them without closing the app! I understand free apps need to generate revenue, but the ads used to be fairly non intrusive. They've now become so annoying that my user experience is awful and I don't want to use the app anymore.
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
November 4, 2025
Hi, 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] some screenshots, your time zone and when you met the ads issue? We will try our best to make it right and better for you. Thanks for your kind support!
Indy
September 7, 2025
I don't normally leave reviews but this app is just so perfect that I have to. there are no obtrusive ads (unless the podcast has added them itself), can skip to anything, can rewind, and is completely usable without paying a single penny. any app that doesn't interrupt with unskippable ads gets my support and if ever I do need the premium i will very happily buy it it has pretty much everything you could dream of on any other platform, just without interruptions!
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
September 8, 2025
Hi, we really appreciate your kind words! If you have any feedback or suggestions, please feel free to reach us at [email protected]. We will continue to optimize our app to deliver a better gaming experience. Thanks a lot for your support! :-) - May
Samuel O'Kane
April 12, 2024
Hit and miss. No major issues with the player, but getting several annoyances. Sometimes skips back a few seconds, and if resumed from previously closed it will fail to continue to next episode due to 'a broken source'. Point of uninstall was seeing that it was creating a significant battery drain even on days that it should've been closed and not even used.
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
April 12, 2024
Hi, sorry for this inconvenience. Please go to your phone Settings > Applications > find Podcast Player > Storage > clear the cache to see if it works. If it still doesn't work, could you go to the app Settings > More > About > Contact us > Submit report via email and send the links to the problematic podcasts to [email protected]?