This guide will help you look for your favorite podcasts in Pocket Casts and help you discover new ones.
You can search for particular shows in Pocket Casts by entering the podcast name, podcasting network, podcast author, or RSS feed URL in any of the following places:
- iOS and Android mobile apps:
- Search bar in the “Podcasts” tab – accessible by tapping the Search icon, which looks like a magnifying glass on the upper-right corner of the “Podcasts” screen
- Search bar in the “Discover” tab – located at the very top of the “Discover” screen
- Web and desktop apps: Search bar in the upper-right corner of the screen, to the left of the Profile icon
Once you’ve found the show you’d like to follow, tap the + or Follow icon to add it to your podcast collections.
You can also play episodes without following a podcast, so feel free to stream episodes straight from Discover. Then, you can follow when you know you want to keep up with the entire show.
Pro Tip: If you have an Apple Podcasts or SoundCloud link, you can use this tool to extract the feed URL, then paste that into the Pocket Casts search box.
If searching for a particular podcast doesn’t turn up any results or the results you expect, there are several possibilities:
- The podcast has not yet been added to Pocket Casts.
- The podcast is private, so it isn’t showing up in our public search database.
- Tap “Show All” to view up to 50 Episodes in the search results.
If you can’t see a podcast in Pocket Casts because it has not yet been added to our platform, you can submit it yourself so that our system can begin parsing it.
Entering a podcast’s feed URL into the search bar in the apps will also submit it to our system automatically if it’s not already there.
If a podcast is missing in Pocket Casts because it has been set to private, it’s likely because its RSS feed contains the following XML tag:
<itunes:block>Yes<itunes:block>If the podcast is not supposed to be private, please follow these steps:
- Remove the
<itunes:block>Yes<itunes:block>tag from the feed if you have access to it. If you don’t have access to the feed, you can request the tag’s removal from the podcast creator. - If the podcast is still not showing up in Pocket Casts search even after the
<itunes:block>Yes<itunes:block>tag has been removed from the feed, please get in touch with us.
The Pocket Casts podcast database includes over a million shows.
To find new podcasts, tap the Discover tab and browse by Featured, Trending (Top 100) and Popular, along with our human-curated sections such as exclusive Guest Lists, and Network Highlights.
