Pocket Casts Android Release Notes
Last updated: Mar 24, 2026
- March 2026
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8.9
Pocket Casts Android adds playback error alerts, buffering progress, and improved sharing error handling.
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)
- March 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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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)
- February 2026
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- February 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)
- February 2026
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- January 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)
- January 2026
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- January 2026
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8.4
Updates
- Improved the performance of the Up Next syncing (#4883)
- Removed Radioactivity UI theme (#4888)
Bug Fixes
- Fix transcript content being obstructed by navigation bars (#4892)
- January 2026
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