Podcast Player - Castbox

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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
Your podcast player. Listen & subscribe to all podcasts, a highly customized app
Updated on
Oct 15, 2026

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Ratings and reviews

360K reviews
a lex
June 22, 2026
Had to give castbox another shot, it's somehow gotten even worse: instead of subscribing you to a bunch of garbage by default, it tried to sneakily download like 30-40 pod episodes; and later I got a notification telling me to listen to something, which played for a moment, meaning it wasted my traffic again. Insane behavior, unless literally everything else is banned in your country, there's no reason to use this (and it's not even the best of the two castbox apps).
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
June 23, 2026
Hi, sorry for such inconvenience. On the guidance page, you can uncheck the suggested podcasts. Also, to fully disable the auto-download feature, please go to the app Personal tab > Settings > Auto download > New Episodes > turn it off. For more info, please reach us at contact@castbox.fm. Thank you very much for the support! :-) - Jenny
A Google user
July 26, 2019
When I 100% download podcasts and start to listen to the downloaded podcasts, periodically the app stops to play the podcast and start downloading the podcast (or just doing other stuff but not playing). the only solution to make the app play the podcast is to switch off "mobile data" on my phone. It obviously does something with the app trying to download some data, because if I switch on the "mobile data" option it will stop to play again after 3-5 minutes.
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
July 26, 2019
Hi Oleg, Sorry about this issue. Could you please kindly take a screen recording regarding the whole process of the issue, and send it to contact@castbox.fm? 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! :-) - Sarah
Ginny Magee
January 14, 2025
I used this app for years longer than I should have just because I already had all my favorite podcasts saved on it and didn't feel like switching. You can literally not listen to one episode without having the episode suddenly either skip ahead or skip backwards at some point. This isn't an issue with the UI, it's literally that something happens when the episode is being uploaded to the platform so content gets skipped over or repeated. Every. Single. Episode. I'm so happy I switched.
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Castbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
January 15, 2025
Hi, we are very 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 contact@castbox.fm a video recording? We will try our best to make the app right and better for you. Thanks for your kind support! :-) - Jowanna