Google Podcasts

4.3
750K reviews
500M+
Downloads
Content rating
USK: Ages 12+
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About this app

With Google Podcasts, you can play the latest episodes from your favorite shows, explore podcast recommendations just for you, and manage your listening activity.

Discover podcasts that you'll love
• Subscribe and listen to all your favorite podcasts.
• Explore show and episode recommendations just for you.
• Browse popular and trending shows in comedy, news, history, music, business, TV & film, education, health & fitness, technology, arts, science, sports and more.

Customize your listening experience
• Listen at faster playback speeds or skip over silences.
• Queue up episodes for a seamless listening experience.
• Easily keep track of your listening history, downloads and subscriptions.

Listen wherever you are
• Listen on multiple devices – phone, laptop, smart speaker – without losing your place.
• Stream episodes for instant playback or auto-download episodes to listen offline and on the go.
• Discover podcasts using Google Search and Google Assistant.

To find out more, visit our Help Centre: https://support.google.com/websearch/topic/9739148?hl=en-GB&ref_topic=3036132&p=podcasts&visit_id=637190448011338458-2709322194&rd=1
Updated on
Sep 11, 2023

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
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 5 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted
Independent security review

Ratings and reviews

4.3
733K reviews
Oskar Ztl.
August 6, 2022
Very simple app, great catalog. But I sometimes encounter the problem, that I just can't close the app. It continues to play music even after I force close it. Need to open a video on YouTube to get it stop playing and restart the phone to get it running properly again. Casting doesn't find devices sometimes. Very buggy overall!
3 people found this review helpful
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A Google user
December 3, 2018
One of the simplest podcast apps I've tried. It is good about remembering where you are in a podcast, and which you have listened to, which doesn't seem that tough but I've had bad experiences with others. My biggest problem with Google Podcasts is that it will always try to play the next podcast in the series, even if you haven't downloaded it, which leads to large data usage if you aren't paying attention.
9 people found this review helpful
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Annalena Imler
July 18, 2020
I like this app significantly less since the new layout and it seems to get worse every week. It forgot about all the episodes I've listened to in the past and even ones that I've listened to recently are not shown as "listened to". The new layout and library of saved podcast is not intuitive or efficient at all. I wish we could switch back to how it was a few months ago.
29 people found this review helpful
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What's new

Google Podcasts now supports adding podcasts by RSS feed! Open the app and navigate to Activity, and then to the Subscriptions tab. Select the three dots in the top right corner and then "Add by RSS Feed." Once added, the podcast will appear along with your other subscribed shows, including at the top of the Home tab.