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  • May 2026
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      May 11, 2026
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    8.13

    Pocket Casts Android 8.13 ships as a new release.

    8.13

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  • May 2026
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      May 1, 2026
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    8.12

    Pocket Casts Android fixes episode duration display after downloads for feeds without an RSS length attribute.

    Bug Fixes

    • Restore episode duration after download for feeds without an RSS length attribute (#5258)
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  • April 2026
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      Apr 27, 2026
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    8.12

    Pocket Casts Android 8.12 ships as a new app release.

    8.12

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  • April 2026
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      Apr 23, 2026
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      May 4, 2026
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    8.11

    Pocket Casts Android adds an explicit podcast page indicator, preserves archived episode status across sync, and shows retryable playback errors.

    New Features

    • Added explicit indicator to podcast page (#5243)

    Updates

    • Make sure archived episode status is preserved across sync (#5227)
    • Display dedicated error message for retryable playback errors (#5244)
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  • April 2026
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      Apr 16, 2026
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    8.11

    Pocket Casts Android ships 8.11.

    8.11

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  • April 2026
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      Apr 8, 2026
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      Apr 13, 2026
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    8.10

    Pocket Casts Android fixes playback position sync and sends new accounts to the Podcasts tab after following recommendations.

    Updates

    • Make sure users with new accounts land on the Podcasts tab when they followed some recommended podcasts (#5197)

    Bug Fixes

    • Fix active episode not syncing its playback position (#5213)
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  • April 2026
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      Apr 7, 2026
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    8.10

    Pocket Casts Android 8.10 is a release update.

    8.10

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  • March 2026
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    • First seen by Releasebot:
      Mar 24, 2026
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      Apr 13, 2026
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    8.9

    Pocket Casts Android improves playback errors, buffering progress, sharing error handling, and crash fixes.

    New Features

    • Display playback errors on bottom bar (#5188)

    Updates

    • Show progress while mini player is buffering (#5165)
    • Enhance error handling around sharing a downloaded episode (#5168)

    Bug Fixes

    • Fix crash with stale experiment cache (#5196)
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  • March 2026
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    • First seen by Releasebot:
      Mar 18, 2026
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      Mar 24, 2026
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    8.8

    Pocket Casts Android improves transcript detection, adds auto-download storage control, and fixes multi-selection counts.

    Updates

    • Improve detection of generated transcripts. (#5097)
    • Add a setting to control if auto downloads should wait for enough internal storage. (#5163)

    Bug Fixes

    • Fix multi-selection counter indicator showing wrong count. (#5127)
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  • February 2026
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    • First seen by Releasebot:
      Feb 20, 2026
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      Mar 18, 2026
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    8.7

    Pocket Casts Android releases new features like predictive back navigation, a wear offline indicator, and pull to refresh on the wear main screen. It also updates artwork handling, rewrites the download system, adds retry for streamed episodes, and fixes various issues across auto downloads, file status, Discover, Android Auto, and onboarding visuals.

    New Features

    • Support predictive back navigation (#5014)
    • Show offline indicator next to time on wear (#5036)
    • Add pull to refresh on wear main screen (#5037)

    Updates

    • Improve the design of podcasts missing artwork on the podcasts tab (#4976)
    • This release includes a rewrite of the download system, making downloads more reliable and surfacing issues with additional details; if you manually queued any downloads before this update and they did not complete, you will need to queue them again. Auto downloads will resume as usual after you refresh the app from the Profile page or when the app refreshes automatically. (#5017)
    • Retry playing streamed episodes in case of failures. (#5060)

    Bug Fixes

    • Respect global auto download setting (#5013)
    • Fix user file status not updating (#4998)
    • Prevent category duplication in the Discover section (#5064)
    • Skip metered network data warnings during Android Auto and Android Automotive playback to prevent interruptions while driving, as the option explains (#5047)
    • Fix onboarding page status bar icon color (#5073)
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  • February 2026
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      Feb 16, 2026
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    8.7

    8.7

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  • February 2026
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      Feb 9, 2026
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      Mar 2, 2026
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    8.6

    Updates

    • Move playlist toolbar action to be in the overflow menu by default (#5020)

    Bug Fixes

    • Fix up next queue episode ordering on the large widget (#4957)
    • On the podcasts tab show the podcast title when artwork is missing (#4973)
    • Fix Up Next not syncing for free users when a custom file is added to it (#4991)
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  • February 2026
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      Feb 3, 2026
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    8.6

    8.6

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  • January 2026
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      Jan 20, 2026
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      Jan 30, 2026
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    8.5

    New Features

    • Add episode to a playlist from episode details (#4923)

    • Add toolbar action to add episodes in bulk to playlists (#4928)

    Updates

    • Only pause playback after 200ms on AUDIO_FOCUS_LOSS_TRANSIENT_CAN_DUCK (#4905)

    • Delete orphaned transcripts when downloaded episode is deleted (#4903)

    Bug Fixes

    • Fix feature item text color on Classic theme (#4901)
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  • January 2026
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      Jan 19, 2026
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    8.5

    8.5

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