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You’ll soon see a Google Podcasts app on the Play Store (Update: Google spills the beans)
July 21, 2025
Update (06/19/18):It looks like someone prematurely revealed a host of details about the upcoming Google Podcasts app. According to a comment onProductHuntattributed to a Google employee (h/t:Android Police), the app will deliver personalized recommendations based on your subscriptions and listening habits.
Got aGoogle Home? Then you’ll be happy to hear the Google Podcasts app will sync across platforms via Google Assistant. This means you can listen to an episode on your Google Home, then finish it on your phone (or vice versa).
The employee adds that there’s no iOS app available today just yet, but the core podcast experience should still be the same if you prefer using Google Play Music.
In any event, the app is essentially a shortcut to the podcast functionality found in the Google Search app. You might want to visit our list ofbest podcast appsif you’re looking for something a little more powerful.
Original article (06/08/18):AlthoughGooglehas made it clear that it places the utmost importance on podcasts andthe future of podcasting, it strangely doesn’t have a dedicated podcast app. As of now, it pushes that responsibility toGoogle Play Music.
However,9to5Googlespotted some information at the end of May that pointed to Google integrating a podcast feature into the official Google Android app. Now, today, the same publication found that there will also bea dedicated Google Podcasts appon the Play Store.
Now, this is where things get a bit confusing. It is not likely that the Google Podcasts app will be a standalone application. Rather, it will be more likeGoogle Lensin that the Lens feature is baked intoGoogle Assistantand the “app” you download from the Play Store is simply a shortcut to that feature.
9to5Googleexpects the Google Podcasts app to simply be an icon you may place on your home screen or in your app drawer that will directly launch Google Podcasts from within the Google app. In other words, you’ll need the official Google app in order for the Google Podcasts shortcut to work.
This is the likely logo for that dedicated Google Podcasts shortcut:
While this seems counterintuitive (and overly complicated), it is nice to see that Google is bringing some sort of podcast functionality to something other than Google Play Music. While GPM certainly does podcasts fine, it doesn’t do it nearly as well as it does music and feels more like a tacked-on feature than anything else.
There’s no telling when we’ll see this podcast functionality, but it should be relatively soon, as so much information is now available on the features. Stay tuned!
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