Modern, feature-rich, without access to Youtube
About this app
Podcini, an open source podcast instrument, attuned to Puccini, adorned with pasticcini and aromatized with porcini, invites your harmonious heartbeats.
Do I hear your heartbeats? Great!
Common functionalities of a podcast player are well-supported:
• Search, discover and subscribe to podcasts, by keywords, simple RSS URLs, or OPML files.
• Download, stream or queue episodes, and enjoy them the way you like with adjustable playback speeds.
• Save effort, battery power and mobile data usage with powerful automation controls for auto-downloading/auto-enqueuing episodes.
• If the feed contains no media (plain RSS feed), Text-to-Speech engine is used to play the text.
• Listening progress can be instantly synced through a NextCloud server or across devices in the same Wi-Fi network without a server.
So what's special with this podcast app among the many?
Well, aside from doing the above well, the following make it stand out:
• It's open sourced, free to use and free of ads, free as in beer and free as in speech!
• It takes advantage of modern frameworks to be efficient and conserve energy.
• In addition to subscriptions, it allows you to create your own synthetic podcasts to compile your interested episodes from various sources to better focus on your interests.
• While the list of episodes (filtered and sorted by you) in each podcast serves a natural playlist for you, it also empowers you with multiple queues each associable with any podcasts to group similar contents for better listening.
• On any podcast/episode, you can assign 5 levels of rating allowing you to make better decisions on where to put your attention.
• You have 12 levels of play states (like to play soon, play again, etc) to better plan and enhance your listening experiences.
• You can also keep your personal notes with your opinions/comments on each podcast/episode.
• It has sophisticated sorting and filtering options for you to better select contents.
• When you unsubscribe a podcast, it allows you to preserve your important episodes of the podcast in a synthetic feed.
• It keeps a record of your unsubscribed podcasts and notifies you if you unknowingly try to re-subscribe to some.
• It caches streamed audio for seamless local rewind and replay.
• You can record audio clips or mark positions on any episodes for better review.
• You can also set selected episodes related for better grouping.
• Sure, you can play any episodes in your car's speakers.
• And, it's not all about audio, video is well handled.
• You can cast the audio/video to Chromecast speakers/screens.
Some other podcast players can also do all of the above?
Join the Podcini community!
Podcini is under active development by volunteers. You can contribute too, with code, comments or improvements. See source code on github.com/XilinJia/Podcini.X
Licensed under GPL-3.0-only, by Xilin Jia.
What's New in v11.2.2.8
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- * fixed local media not playing
Version history
Jun 2, 2026 · 67.2 MB · Android API 26–36 · code 323
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- * fixed local media not playing
SHA-256 6efe3f59fa27aaf4018234ad20da5f6b59fb7fff3648820301851169595bed2e
May 30, 2026 · 67.2 MB · Android API 26–36 · code 322
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- * corrected giving direct data source at native player creation
- * disabled likely unnecessary uploading duration data when playing an episode
- * fixed position not set properly when playing an episode midway
SHA-256 a3f149026740ecac9d6ed850ae0ffe40ce42d4b72d1e3dff04a4dba87518e725
May 29, 2026 · 67.2 MB · Android API 26–36 · code 321
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- * restored the recording feature partially, seems not working in some cases
- * fixed streaming interruptions after about 10 minutes
- * ensure to handle server ending episode prematurely when streaming
- * fixed episode not playing on FindFeed screen
- * amended horizontal swipe in PlayerDetails screen
- * Left to associated queue of the feed of curEpisode, else toast message
SHA-256 75a5ef8158045e22d6d6d5c84ed7bedb6dda8b679a7355cd22e0b0d3d6f29bf8
Will it run on your device?
92%
- Runs on a broad range of modern Android versions.
- Multiple CPU architectures are covered.
- Aligned with the latest Android target SDK expectations.
Installation Guide
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Open the downloaded APK file from your Downloads folder
Tap "Install" and wait for installation to complete
Launch the app from your home screen
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