The company has opted to open source the apps under the Mozilla Public License (MPL 2.0). The source code for the Pocket Casts mobile apps for iOS and Android have been released on GitHub, each version has its own repository. Since this is a completely optional add-on, you can just ignore it and use the mobile versions for free. The premium plans start at a price of $0.99 a month, and costs $9.99 for a yearly subscription (before taxes). It offers extra features such as 10GB of cloud storage, themes, folders for organizing your podcasts, desktop apps for Windows and Mac, and Apple Watch playback. It's good to see someone go head on to compete with the bigwigs.Īutomattic says that it will continue supporting its premium subscription, Pocket Casts Plus. It explained that it wants to support a diverse ecosystem of third-party clients, as the reason for making the apps open source. A blog post that announced the news on Automattic's website says that the company does not want podcasting to be controlled by Apple and Spotify.
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