Podcasts

Learn, laugh, and stay informed. Discover hundreds of thousands of downloadable podcasts, from thought-provoking stories to hilarious interviews to sports and politics. Subscribe to your favorites, search categories, and see what’s rising to the top of the charts.

Features

Discover

• Explore hundreds of thousands of free podcasts on a variety of topics, including arts, business, comedy, music, news, sports, and more.

• Subscribe to your favorites and automatically get new episodes for free as they become available.

• Browse audio or video podcasts, or see what's most popular in Top Charts.

• Keep up with the latest episodes from your favorite podcasts in the Unplayed tab.

Play

• Enjoy all of your audio and video podcasts in a single app.

• Stream episodes or download them to listen while offline.

• Ask Siri to play specific shows or stations by name, like “Play TEDTalks.”

• Take your podcast on the road and listen through CarPlay.

• Skip forward and back using simple playback controls.

• Adjust the playback speed of your audio or video podcasts.

• Control playback from anywhere in the app with the MiniPlayer.

• Turn on Sleep Timer to automatically stop playing a podcast while listening in bed.

• Enjoy your favorite podcasts on your TV with AirPlay and Apple TV.

Organize

• Receive a notification when new episodes from podcasts you've subscribed to become available.

• Use the On-The-Go playlist to play just the episodes you want.

• Download new episodes automatically when they become available, even when the app is not open.

• Save your favorite episodes to keep them on your device.

• Create custom stations of your favorite podcasts that update automatically when new episodes become available.

• Subscribe to podcasts that require authentication—just enter the podcast URL into Search in My Podcasts.

• Share your favorite episodes with friends using AirDrop, Facebook, Twitter, Messages, and Mail.

Sync

• Optionally sync episodes and playlists from iTunes on your Mac or PC.

• iCloud remembers your place in an episode, your subscriptions, and your stations—and keeps them up-to-date on your devices, Mac, PC, and Apple TV.