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Pocket Casts
Basic Information
Release Year	2011
Product Type	Software
In Production	Yes
Official Website	https://pocketcasts.com/

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Pocket Casts is a podcast player for Android, iOS, and Web^[1].

Consumer-impact summary

The company that bought the Pocket Casts app, Automattic, reneged on its promise to never show ads to Lifetime purchasers of the app.

Incidents

Showing advertisements to Champion/Lifetime users (September 2025)

Main article: link to the main CR Wiki article

In September 2025, the parent company Automattic changed the app to display advertisements to users who had purchased a lifetime license for the Pocket Casts app^[2]. Support staff responded to complaints justifying the change as necessary to provide ongoing support and development of the app^[3]^[4]. Later, the CEO posted on Hacker News claiming that showing ads to users that had purchased a lifetime subscription was a bug^[5].

References

[1] ttps://pocketcasts.com/

[2] ttps://www.theverge.com/news/784429/pocket-casts-ads-lifetime-memberships-complaints

[3] ttps://forums.pocketcasts.com/forums/topic/the-new-advertisements-seriously-suck/#post-10923

[4] ttps://forums.pocketcasts.com/forums/topic/ads-despite-being-a-paid-customer/#post-11055

[5] ttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45354405

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 ==Consumer-impact summary==
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+The company that bought the Pocket Casts app, Automattic, reneged on its promise to never show ads to Lifetime purchasers of the app.
 ==Incidents==
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+In September 2025, the parent company Automattic changed the app to display advertisements to users who had purchased a lifetime license for the Pocket Casts app<ref>https://www.theverge.com/news/784429/pocket-casts-ads-lifetime-memberships-complaints</ref>. Support staff responded to complaints justifying the change as necessary to provide ongoing support and development of the app<ref>https://forums.pocketcasts.com/forums/topic/the-new-advertisements-seriously-suck/#post-10923</ref><ref>https://forums.pocketcasts.com/forums/topic/ads-despite-being-a-paid-customer/#post-11055</ref>. Later, the CEO posted on Hacker News claiming that showing ads to users that had purchased a lifetime subscription was a bug<ref>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45354405</ref>.
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