Pocket Casts mobile apps for Android and iOS are now open source

guest · Oct 24, 2022

by Ashwin - October 24, 2022

Pocket Casts has announced that its apps for Android and iOS are now open source. The podcast player app debuted in 2010, it was available as a premium offering with a $3.99 price tag.
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NPR acquired the rights for Pocket Casts in 2018, and a year later, the podcast apps were made free when the company introduced a premium monthly subscription called, Pocket Casts Plus.
Pocket Casts mobile apps are now open source
The journey didn't end there, Automattic acquired Pocket Casts in 2021.

A blog post that announced the news on Automattic's website says that the company does not want podcasting to be controlled by Apple and Spotify. It explained that it wants to support a diverse ecosystem of third-party clients, as the reason for making the apps open source. It's good to see someone go head on to compete with the bigwigs.
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The source code for the Pocket Casts mobile apps for iOS and Android have been released on GitHub, each version has its own repository. The company has opted to open source the apps under the Mozilla Public License (MPL 2.0). Plenty of issues and pull requests have been filed over the past few months in preparation for the announcement, and now users and developers can contribute to the projects to suggest new features, and bug fixes to make the app better.

Note: Pocket Casts desktop apps are not open source, since they are exclusive to the premium subscription.
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If you don't have the app on your phone, you can download Pocket Casts from the Google Play Store or the iOS App Store. The Android app's repo has an APK available for download, so the app could make its way to F-droid too. Since the source code has been released, it is very likely that we could see other developers forking Pocket Casts to create their own version of the app, and improve upon its design and features.

Pocket Casts is already very popular, but now that it has gone open source, I think it might attract even more users.
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Pocket Casts: Pocket Casts Mobile Apps Are Now Open Source

We are overjoyed and proud to announce that the Pocket Casts mobile apps are now open source!

We’ve been eager to take this step since we joined Automattic last year — after all, the company’s creed includes the phrase “I know that open source is the most powerful idea of our generation.”
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