Podcast Addict
Podcast Addict is a heavily used Android podcast app with a large, loyal user base that discovers shows through its own in-app directory and search.
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Podcast Addict is one of the most downloaded podcast apps on Android, with a dedicated user base that actively browses and searches for new shows within the app itself rather than relying entirely on external links. It's a real discovery channel, not just a passive listening app.
This matters most for shows with any Android-leaning audience, and given how much of the world runs Android, that's most shows outside a purely US iOS-heavy niche.
The gotcha is that while your feed usually gets indexed automatically since it aggregates broadly, actually claiming the show to fix a wrong category or broken artwork means going through their ownership verification process, which takes a bit of back and forth.
Check how your show actually looks inside the app periodically, since aggregator-pulled metadata can drift out of sync with your actual feed over time.
Sources for this review
- Official product website · Checked 2026-08-27
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