Podcast Player App - Podbean

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216K reviews
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About this app

Podbean is the best podcast app / podcast player app on Android with 10 Million+ downloads, 120K+ reviews, 300K+ live show hours, 1 Billion+ episodes downloaded, and an average rating of 4.7/5.

Also nominated as one of the "Top podcast player apps, 50 best podcatchers for Android and iOS" by TCC.👍

Podbean Podcast App is an easy to use podcast player for podcast fans, offering a super clean layout and easy to navigate interface. With millions of popular podcasts to choose from, you can stream or download your favorite podcasts anywhere, anytime for free.

⭐️DISCOVERY / RECOMMENDATION
•  Subscribe to millions of podcast channels including top networks like NPR, CBC, BBC, HowStuffWorks, The New York Times, This American Life and Gimlet.
•  Search by podcast name, episode name, or author name.
•  Browse new/trending/top podcasts by topics or categories.
•  Get customized recommendations based on your play history.
•  Choose audiobooks from bestsellers and classics for FREE.

⭐️PLAYBACK / AUDIO EFFECTS
•  Instantly stream or download podcasts to play offline.
•  Stay organized with customizable playlists.
•  Intelligent speed removes silences from an episode without distortion.
•  Volume boost normalize the volume and make shows easier to listen to.
•  Advanced playback features like auto-play next and Sleep timer.
•  Support mini podcast player widget on your android homepage.
•  Support bluetooth, ChromeCast and android auto.
•  Integrate with Amazon Alexa.

⭐️NOTIFICATION / AUTOMATION
•  Stay updated: Get new episode notification from followed podcasts.
•  Automatic download and option to delete after being played.
•  Support batch mode to download, delete, and add playlist.
•  Settings can be customized by podcast.

⭐️AUDIO RECORDER / PODCAST STUDIO
•  Professional podcast recording studio app with easy-to-use interface.
•  Rich background music and various sound effects to choose from.
•  Powerful post-production including edit, split, merge, and export.
•  Free large space, various promotions, and social sharing.
•  All-in-one audio recorder and podcast creator to make a podcast.
•  Remote group recording, collaborating with invited people.
•  Instant interaction and feedback in the live chat.
•  Cloud server backup, get originals for future editing.
•  Podbean AI, innovative audio optimization and content generator.

⭐️ Ambient Relaxation
•  Listen to soothing relaxation sounds at your fingertips.
•  Explore a delightful variety of captivating mixes.
•  Customize your own sound combinations with ease.

Listen best podcasts on Podbean - Podcast App & Podcast Player, including This American Life, Serial, The Joe Rogan Experience, S Town, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, Radiolab, My Favorite Murder, True crime, Criminal, Joel Osteen, The Dave Ramsey Show, ESPN Radio, The Daily, Dirty John, Up First, The Moth, The Tim Ferriss Show, Freakonomics Radio, Startup, Stuff You Should Know, How Stuff Works, Bloomberg, Revision3, Relay FM, PodcastOne, The New Yorker, Showtime, Slate, TEDTalks, NPR podcasts, Wondery, WNYC, 5by5, KCRW, NASA, CBS Radio, CNET, CNN, CBC, BBC and Bill O'Reilly etc.

Download Free Podbean Podcast App now!
Podcast app: play popular podcasts & livestreams with the great podcast player.
Updated on
Oct 14, 2026

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 6 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

208K reviews
Sleeping Lea
August 21, 2026
I'm less and less happy with the app. The glitches are getting worse. It used to skip back about half a minute, now it skips forwards too and in even bigger chunks. The 'play next' function also often doesn't work. I appreciate that it's a free app but there's an awful lot of adverts and when basic functions don't work then it's kinda losing the point. I'll stick with it for now but starting to look elsewhere cause I mostly use it in a car where I can't endlessly fiddle with the player.
4 people found this review helpful
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Podbean - Podcast & Radio & Audiobook
May 19, 2026
Thanks for your feedback. We keep track of users' experiences with functions, performance, and features of the app so that we can fix bugs and improve the app. Our tech team is continually upgrading the service.
Joel Lidén
April 1, 2026
Kind of just works, not too many intrusive ads, has the basic features you would want. I have used it for a couple of years, and I'm not feeling the need to switch to anything else for now. As a free alternative, it's good. A downside is that it sometimes doesn’t skip over episodes you've played. Also, the reason I can never give this 5 stars, is due to a bug which skips backward randomly. Very annoying...
605 people found this review helpful
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Podbean - Podcast & Radio & Audiobook
April 9, 2026
Thanks for your feedback. We keep track of users' experiences with functions, performance, and features of the app so that we can fix bugs and improve the app. Our tech team is continually upgrading the service.
Rolf Mack
February 22, 2024
The app has improved since my earlier review but there are still some niggles. Downloading is still rather primitive – only one download at a time, and if a download fails (e.g. phone loses WiFi) there's no automatic retry and no indication to you that a download failed and is just sitting in the"Paused" bin. Also, it would be useful if you could do a text search over all the episodes in a given podcast. I wanted to find a specific episode among 250, had to read the description of each one.
45 people found this review helpful
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Podbean - Podcast & Radio & Audiobook
September 19, 2019
Hi, Thanks for your feedback. Would you please send more details on the issue to contact@podbean.com, so our support staff can better help you?

What’s new

Some new features of Ambient Relaxation:
1.Users can now preview Premium+ content before subscribing.
2.Users can swipe up or down to switch between mixes.
3.Users can now turn off the video background.
4.Bug fixes and performance improvements.