- Free
- Category: Entertainment
- First released: June 26, 2012
- Versions: 14 archived
- Installable: 14 of 14
- Availability: Still on the App Store ↗
- Seller: Apple
- com.apple.podcasts
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
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Bundle Size Over Time
Chart History
Ratings Over Time
sampled from 62 archived captures| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 26, 2012 | — | — | 435 | Free |
| January 22, 2013 | — | — | 19,373 | Free |
| June 28, 2015 | 2.2 | ★ 2.0 | 33,794 | Free |
| July 28, 2016 | 2.4 | ★ 2.0 | 33,762 | Free |
| December 11, 2018 | — | — | — | Free |
| June 29, 2019 | 3.6.1 | — | — | Free |
| February 18, 2020 | 3.6.2 | — | — | Free |
| November 27, 2020 | — | — | — | Free |
| November 27, 2021 | 3.7.6 | ★ 4.7 | 43,448 | Free |
| December 9, 2021 | 3.7.6 | ★ 4.8 | 77,664 | Free |
| November 29, 2022 | 3.8.3 | ★ 4.9 | 1,023,628 | Free |
| December 4, 2022 | 3.8.3 | ★ 4.9 | 1,032,390 | Free |
| November 11, 2024 | 3.8.9 | ★ 4.9 | 1,796,144 | Free |
| March 20, 2026 | 4.4 | ★ 4.9 | 2,067,957 | Free |
| April 10, 2026 | 4.4 | ★ 4.9 | 2,068,982 | Free |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 15Don’t you dare touch the lock screen, or your podcast will move forwards, or backwards, and you’ll have no control over that at all. Please please please Apple add some kind of lock functionality so I won’t accidentally skip around on my podcasts! Other apps do that!
Just try doing a search / it’s the biggest piece of trash you could ever imagine. It is absolutely unfathomable how something that is used by so many people can be so unbelievably useless for things like search. Literally everybody who worked on this app should be fired.
Fix the keyboard in iOS
This app works great. I’ve been using it for a long time but recently it’s had this glitch where without me touching anything it starts speeding up first two times speed then four then eight then 16 etc., and the only way to stop it is to manually delete and reinstall the app
Upgrading from iOS 18.7.9 to iOS 26.5, Podcasts will not play next episode over Cellular when a Podcast ends. Wi-Fi does not have a problem. All settings on iPhone are correct. All Apps were updated prior to and after iOS update. I have reset iPhone 13 Pro Max multiple times. Hoping for a fix.
Every few days the app just refuses to download podcasts. They will begin the process but then can’t get past about 15%. Extremely irritating.
They really messed this app up after adding video, app performance is awful now and very buggy bc the app has issues trying to keep up with video downloading and buffering even though I don’t want to watch my podcasts…
I love it but I constantly need to look for more podcasts about games I like and some people add like one episode which is annoying.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.