Pocket Casts0.14.0

Pocket Casts lets Linux users discover, stream, and listen to podcasts from a desktop window connected to the Pocket Casts service. It brings the official Pocket Casts and NPR web-app code to the desktop rather than offering a separately designed native podcast interface. Its central use is podcast playback and access, including finding shows and listening to favorites through the familiar Pocket Casts experience.

The program is a community-built Electron wrapper created by Ricardo N. Feliciano, not a native desktop application made by the official Pocket Casts team. Using it requires an existing Pocket Casts account, and the service is accessed through a purchased Pocket Casts subscription. The project provides Snap, Flatpak, and .deb builds, while this Linux release requires Linux with snapd and targets x86_64 (amd64) systems.

Version 0.14.0 suits Linux listeners who want their podcast service in a desktop launcher alongside other applications, instead of relying on a browser tab. Ubuntu and most Ubuntu-based distributions can use its Snap package, while Flatpak builds cover Debian, Fedora, elementary OS, and other distributions, and .deb files are published for releases. The project is open-source under the MIT license, but the Pocket Casts web application bundled inside remains proprietary software belonging to the Pocket Casts team and NPR.

FelicianoTech has not published macOS packages for this project, and Windows users are directed toward Pocket Casts’ official desktop application. Because the interface is the packaged web app, its Pocket Casts account and service access remain central to everyday use rather than being replaced by local podcast-management features.