“Ads and homepage trash — Constant ads and home page is filled with bizarre trash.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 506 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.9 ★199,793 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
176 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
The best podcast app & podcast player to find, save, download, and listen to your favorite podcasts, FM, and audiobooks.
Access over 95 million audio content including podcasts, audiobooks, FM radio, white noise/fan noise, guided meditation podcasts from 27 different countries.
Download Castbox and turn your iPhone or iPad into a fully functional podcast player. You would be able to control the playback on your apple watch, switch to the next episodes using CarPlay, or meditate to the guided meditation podcasts with your Apple HomePod, Amazon Alexa.
Discover popular podcasts on various topics, including:…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 10.31.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 10.31.0, updated 2026-07-22.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
90% or more five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Raised by 63 distinct reviewers — 12.5% of the 506 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Cheapest and priciest options are far apart
The disclosed in-app purchases span an unusually wide price range. Published as context: the cheapest and priciest items may be different kinds of product entirely, so the spread alone deducts nothing.
What we saw: In-app purchases run from USD 0.99 to USD 49.99 — a 50x spread across 10 items
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Good app, awful ads — The app itself is functional. However, it will serve you full screen gambling ads every other time you navigate between menus which require multiple button presses to dismiss. Frankly, dirty websites have less…”
“So many ads now — New review: so the ads went away. But the problem lately is that the player freezes but keeps playing the podcast. Even when I close the app it continues to play!!! Reopening the app refreshes it and seems to fix the…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 10.31.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown10
Lowest$0.99
Highest$49.99
3 Months Premium$9.99
Castbox Premium Yearly Promo$34.99
Castbox Premium Yearly$34.99
Castbox Premium Pro Yearly$49.99
Unlock Castbox Premium$24.99
Show 5 more purchases
Castbox Premium$3.99
Castbox Premium$0.99
Castbox Premium$7.49
Castbox Premium Promo 180$0.99
Castbox Premium Promo 90$0.99