You can quickly find a list of all the podcasts that you have downloaded but not listened to by you. You have the option of setting the number of podcasts you'd like at any one time, and the app will perform auto-clean ups, deleting old podcasts as the number is reached. This also means that the Podcasts are downloaded automatically without your having to even open the app. The interface is absolutely sublime, with its adaptive interface, which changes colors to go with the artwork attached to the podcast you're playing.Īll of your subscriptions, podcasts, playlists, and progress are stored on the Pocket Casts server, which means that not only will all your Pocket Casts data be synced across all the iOS devices that you own, but it also means that you can easily set up a new device and restore all your podcasts that are safely tucked away in the server clouds. The Android and iOS apps are available now under Mozilla Public License 2.0, a copyleft license that stipulates all derivative projects or modifications have to be released under the same license.First impressions are important and the developers of Pocket Casts certainly know this. It’s perhaps not the biggest of surprises that Automattic has elected to push the Pocket Casts app code onto GitHub, given that Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg is a huge proponent of open source - and WordPress is among the top open source projects on the planet.īy making Pocket Casts open source, this means that anyone can access the code, fix bugs, create new features, and even fork it to build their own competing service on top of the Pocket Cast codebase.

Pocket Casts is one of the most popular “podcatcher” apps outside the big tech ecosystems of Google, Apple, and Spotify, allowing users to search and subscribe to podcasts for free, with premium features such as desktop apps available for a fee. WordPress parent company Automattic acquired Pocket Casts last July, having been acquired by a group of public radio companies, including NPR, back in 2018. Popular podcast platform Pocket Casts has released its mobile clients under an open source license.

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