What is the best free podcast app?

Pocket Casts is the best free podcast app on iPhone and Android, with clean design, sleep timers and sync between devices. Apple Podcasts is already on every iPhone. AntennaPod is a fully free, open source choice for Android with no account.

Sites last checked 15 Oct 2026. How we test

Our pick

Pocket Casts

Our pick

Clean, works on both phones, syncs.

Free plan + paid Android, iPhone, Web 1 ad network · 3 trackers

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Pocket Casts homepage on a phone — Pocket Casts on a phone, captured 15 Oct 2026

Also good

Apple Podcasts

Good

Already on every iPhone.

Built in iPhone, Mac No ads · No trackers

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AntennaPod

Good

Open source podcast app, no account.

Free Android No ads · No trackers

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What is the best free podcast app?

Our pick

Pocket Casts

Also good

Apple Podcasts

AntennaPod

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