As YouTube’s role in podcasting increases, Pocket Casts announced today that its web, Mac, and Windows apps are now free with a subscription no longer required.
The Automattic-owned Pocket Casts has long offered web and desktop clients, but this previously required a “Plus” ($3.99 per month/$39.99 annual) or “Patron” ($9.99 per month/$99.99 annual) subscription to access.
As of today, the “Pocket Casts Web Player is now accessible to all, no subscription required”: play.pocketcasts.com. It follows Apple Podcasts launching a web app last August.
These changes also apply to our Mac and Windows Desktop Apps, giving you more ways to listen on your terms.
The Mac and Windows apps were redesigned in June.
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Additionally, you can be signed out and use the apps to browse/play. Making an account will allow: Syncing playback progress across devices, Managing your podcast queue seamlessly, and Saving subscriptions and preferences.
As for why Pocket Casts is making this change:
The Pocket Casts Plus subscription offers: Folders organization, Smart Shuffle, Bookmark creation, Chapter Preselection, Apple Watch and Wear OS app access, 20GB of cloud storage, and more app customization (themes + icons).
Meanwhile, Pocket Casts for Android is getting a new header design after just adding pull-to-refresh. It helps modernize the app, which recently went edge-to-edge, but a Material 3 redesign is also needed at this point.
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