Yes, some users may upgrade to Pocket Casts Plus if they want to support us or access some of our more niche features. We fully expect the free version will be the way the vast majority of our users access our app. Even more importantly, we will continue to update the free tier with new features and functionality. Most certainly! We aren’t locking any existing features behind a paywall. You probably have some questions at this point, so let’s cover those first: I paid for this app in the past, will I still have access to all the features I paid for? Here’s the big news: both the Android and iOS apps are now free. We’d like to go into a bit of detail about what this means for you today and going forward. We also have updates for our web and desktop versions rolling out today.

The Android version is currently rolling out, and the iOS version is in review with Apple and will be available soon. We knew we had to do something about it, and so in the spirit of Shifty Jelly of yore, we did.Īfter many months of hard work, we’re excited to share version 7.5 of our Android and iOS apps. For a while now, we’ve felt that charging for our apps conflicted with their core values of being free and available to everyone.

We have the backing of some amazing partners, all of whom come from the world of public media, and firmly believe in an open-access approach.

It was a business model that paid the bills, but often caused confusion with our customers: “I’ve already bought the iPhone app, why do I have to pay again on Android?!”, “Why is the app paid?”, “How can I recommend this to friends when it will require them to pay?” Today, things are different. Back then, we had a small company to run and our families literally depended on the money we made from app sales. Pocket Casts has been a paid app since it first launched in 2010.

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