Wired: 'Pocket Casts Is the Podcast App Every iPhone User Needs' Find your next obsession with our hand curated podcast recommendations for easy discovery, and seamlessly enjoy your favorite shows without the hassle of subscribing. (I’ve purchased the Android and iOS versions.) It’s highly recommended.Pocket Casts is the world's most powerful podcast platform, an app by listeners, for listeners.Our podcast player provides next-level listening, search and discovery tools. But I recommend doing so, as I’ve never found a podcast app that works this good, and this consistently across platforms. It’s not free, and you actually have to purchase each client independently. Pocket Casts is available on Android, iOS, and the web. Shift Jelly says it will be adding more features to this Sonos integration over time. Meaning, you can start a podcast on your phone, continue it on your Sonos, and then pick it up again later at the correct place on your phone again. (It would be nice if you could just “cast” to Sonos from the Pocket Casts app and other apps.) So instead of the normal podcast-based UI, you get New Releases, In Progress and Starred links, each of which provides a list of episodes across multiple podcasts.īecause Pocket Casts maintains a cloud-based library, however, you do at least get seamless playback. Then, open the Sonos app and navigate to Add Music Services in the menu and then to Pocket Casts.Īs is usually the case, the look and feel of Pocket Casts is completely different on Sonos. To do so, first install Pocket Casts on your phone and sign-in to your account.

Pocket Casts on Sonos is currently in beta, but any Sonos user can access it. “Judging by the amount of tweets and emails we’ve had over the years this is one of your most requested features and we’re excited to finally share it with you.” “We’re excited to announce that Pocket Casts support for Sonos has gone into Beta,” a new post to the Shift Jelly blog reads. But let’s focus on this week’s good news. This is good news for me, and it leaves Audible as my only regularly-used audio service that isn’t available on Sonos. Pocket Casts-my preferred podcast service-is now available via the Sonos smart speakers in an open beta.

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