Podcini.X - Podcast instrument

Modern, feature-rich, without access to Youtube
AppID:ac.mdiq.podcini.X
Author:Xilin Jia
License:GPL-3.0-only
Donation:
InRepoSince:2025-01-15
LastRepoUpdate:2025-11-07
LastAppUpdate:2025-11-07
LastVersion:8.24.0
Categories:Multimedia, Internet
APK source:Github
Google Play:Check if it's there
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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:

So what's special with this podcast app among the many?

Well, aside from doing the above well, the following make it stand out:

  1. It's open sourced, free to use and free of ads, free as in beer and free as in speech!
  2. It takes advantage of modern frameworks to be efficient and conserve energy.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. On any podcast/episode, you can assign 5 levels of rating allowing you to make better decisions on where to put your attention.
  6. You have 12 levels of play states (like to play soon, play again, etc) to better plan and enhance your listening experiences.
  7. You can also keep your personal notes with your opinions/comments on each podcast/episode.
  8. It has sophisticated sorting and filtering options for you to better select contents.
  9. When you unsubscribe a podcast, it allows you to preserve your important episodes of the podcast in a synthetic feed.
  10. It keeps a record of your unsubscribed podcasts and notifies you if you unknowingly try to re-subscribe to some.
  11. It caches streamed audio for seamless local rewind and replay.
  12. You can record audio clips or mark positions on any episodes for better review.
  13. You can also set selected episodes related for better grouping.
  14. Sure, you can play any episodes in your car's speakers.
  15. And, it's not all about audio, video is well handled.
  16. 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

WhatsNew:

# 8.24.0

* amended app init mechanism, likely fixed various strange issues
* fixed possible NullPointer in episodes lists on startup
* use one time request to schedule feeds refresh, more flexible and hopefully more timely and more frequent
* Android may kill the refresh process if it takes over 10 minutes
* in case of errors (including being killed), retry is scheduled for maximum of 3 times at interval of a quarter of the refresh interval
* retry is only performed on feeds not refreshed pr

Hint: This app is available in both, F-Droid Main and IzzyOnDroid repos.
anti Anti-Features:
  • NonFreeNet (this application promotes/depends a non-Free network service):
    ⇒ The app reaches out to Fyydlin.
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While you can download the APKs here directly, you should preferably use an F-Droid client so the app stays up-to-date on your device. Some clients have this repo enabled by default, e.g. Neo Store, Droid-ify, or, of course, the IzzyOnDroid client by Sunil. With others (like the official client) you'll have to add this repo manually (see the hint on top of the package list for how to do that).

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Version 8.24.0 (2025-11-07) verified help icon

Android Versions:
  • Target: 16.0
  • MinVer: 8.0
  • ABIs: arm64-v8a
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