Playback 2025 explores your Listening History and shows you snapshots of your journey with Pocket Casts over the past year in the form of stories. You can then preserve these unique stories as photos and share your journey with others across different platforms like Tumblr, X, Facebook, Instagram, and so on.
This feature is available on our Android and iOS apps from version 8.1.
Your Playback 2025 stories are automatically generated from your Listening History.
Yes, Playback 2025 uses your Listening History to generate your stories, so you’ll need to be logged in to your Pocket Casts account. Signing up for one is free!
This normally happens if you’ve cleared your listening history at any point over the past year.
We don’t keep copies of users’ listening histories for privacy reasons. So, if the listening history has been deleted, we’ll only be able to create stories with data from after the deletion.
Slight differences across platforms would be due to how the calculation is done. Specifically, some small differences might occur based on the synced data in the devices.
Yes! All your listening data from 2025 will be reflected in your stories. So, if there’s a podcast you’d like to see highlighted in your stories, just listen to it!
Yes and no.
We’re unable to track smart speed from Playback Effects, so what you’ll see is the amount of listening time in real-world seconds. This means that, if you listened to a 60-minute episode in 3x speed, we’d count it as 60 minutes instead of 20. We hope to improve that soon, however, to provide more accurate listening time.
The top podcasts are ordered by taking into consideration both your listening time and the number of episodes you listened to. The intention is to avoid results that might be influenced by, say, a podcast with lengthy episodes that you only listened to a few times.
Playback 2025 will be available from the end of 2025 until early 2026.
Yes. This year, we have the following two stories that are exclusive to paid users:
- Year over year — shows how your listening time from 2025 compares to 2024
- Completion rate: shows your episode completion rate throughout 2025
Any user, however, can start seeing and sharing these exclusive stories by subscribing to Plus or Patron right from the stories!
