Pocket Casts
Pocket Casts is a podcast listening app for Mac that helps you discover shows, manage subscriptions, and play episodes across devices.
What is Pocket Casts?
Pocket Casts is a podcast app for Mac focused on finding, organizing, and playing podcast episodes in one place. It is made for regular podcast listeners who want a desktop player for following shows, building queues, and keeping playback progress in sync with other devices. The app supports browsing and subscribing to podcasts, managing episode lists, and controlling playback with common podcast features such as variable speed and silence trimming. It also fits well into cross-device listening workflows, letting users move between desktop and mobile while keeping their place. Pocket Casts is published by Automattic, Inc. and is available as a native desktop download for macOS as well as through its broader web and mobile ecosystem.
Key features
- Browse and subscribe to podcast shows
- Create and manage an Up Next listening queue
- Sync subscriptions and playback progress across devices
- Control playback speed and trim silence
- Filter episodes to organize new, in-progress, or downloaded content
- Use a desktop mini player for quick playback controls
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
Pocket Casts is a legitimate podcast player for macOS. It typically needs network access to stream shows, sync your account, and download episodes, which is normal for this type of app. If you sign in, your subscriptions, listening progress, and downloaded media may be stored through your account and on your Mac. Remove downloaded episodes or sign out before deleting the app if you do not want local or synced listening data to remain available.
Recommendation: Keep Pocket Casts if you use it for podcast listening on your Mac or want your subscriptions and playback progress available across devices. If you no longer use it, you can remove it like other apps, but expect to lose local downloads and quick desktop access until you reinstall it.
Common paths
/Applications/Pocket Casts.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.electron.pocket-casts
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/Pocket Casts
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.electron.pocket-casts.plist
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