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July 2026
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Jul 6, 2026
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8.17

Pocket Casts Android 8.17 ships a new release update.

8.17
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July 2026
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8.16

Pocket Casts Android adds Up Next sorting by duration.
New Features

Up Next sort by duration (#5399)

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June 2026
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Jun 23, 2026
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8.16

Pocket Casts Android 8.16 is now available.

8.16
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June 2026
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Jun 10, 2026

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Jul 6, 2026
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8.15

Pocket Casts Android fixes crashes, improves Wear OS and Automotive performance, and tightens playback and login flows.
Bug Fixes

Fix crash when scrolling to the top of a long Up Next queue (#5320)

Improve handling of search results where the podcast title is missing (#5451)

Wear OS performance improvements (#5446)

Improved Automotive sign up screen (#5487)

Fix broken Login with Phone flow on Wear OS (#5492)

Fix overlapping text issue on Automotive after orientation change (#5477)

Fix link screen's text overlap on Automotive (#5475)

Updates

Reset player after playback finished on Automotive (#5488)

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June 2026
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Jun 8, 2026
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8.14

Pocket Casts Android adds synced episode transcripts and an explicit badge in Discover, with fixes for landscape settings and missing metadata.
New Features

Synced episode transcripts (#5324)

Add the explicit badge to the Discover section (#5370)

Bug Fixes

Fix Profile settings gear being unreachable in landscape (#5371)

Fix missing episode dates and durations in Android Auto and Wear OS (#5388)

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May 2026
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May 28, 2026
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8.14

Pocket Casts Android 8.14 ships as a new release.

8.14
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May 2026
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May 25, 2026

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May 29, 2026
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8.13

Pocket Casts Android adds episode summaries, generated chapters, and an explicit podcast badge in search results.
New Features

Show episode summaries where possible (#5276)

Show episode summary on fullscreen player (#5278)

Use generated chapters when author didn't provide them (#5277)

Add an explicit podcast badge to search results (#5351)

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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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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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