Podcast Player - Castbox

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4.8
332K reviews
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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
11 Mar 2025
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Ratings and reviews

4.8
322K reviews
Matt Dalby
8 February 2025
The app would be better if ads were fixed. Unpredictability, but too often the ad screen that pops up when I click on a podcast won't have a button or X to close it down. It will then sit there for 20-30 minutes. I can't click away or open another podcast. I just have to close the app and keep checking until the ad is gone.
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
9 February 2025
Hi, thanks for leaving us a review. 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 contact@castbox.fm 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! - Jowanna
Christopher Fitzhenry
19 May 2025
this app is so much better than a previous one I was using. The Zen mode is just an awesome add on that blows others oth if the water. The only thing I have a problem with is syncing. I use it on an iPad and my Samsung. Its not when it comes to what im subscribed to, but, it doesn't sync what I listen to across devices - making it a kind of guessing game where I left off.
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
19 May 2025
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 contact@castbox.fm with any feedback at all. Hopefully our continued improvement will earn your 5th star! Thanks! :-) - May
Matthew
5 May 2025
mostly fine, however issues with ads between screens can make the app stop working. adverts normally will show up, the X to close it will appear, tap it and close the ad and go back to episodes. however a number of adverts have false X's or never close or show the X at all. requires you to close the app and reopen it in order to do anything. otherwise gathers episodes fines the library is good and the search function is good enough. p.s: absolutely, it's usually the temu adverts that go weird.
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
5 May 2025
Hi, thanks for leaving us a review. 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 contact@castbox.fm 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!