Find podcasts. Follow your favorites. Listen anywhere.
Search by name or topic, get recommendations, listen offline, watch video episodes, and keep up with new episodes.
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boxlore is an Android app for finding, following, and playing podcasts. Search for a show even when the spelling is imperfect, or describe a subject to find relevant shows and episodes.
The app uses your listening activity—such as what you play, skip, and like—to suggest more podcasts. This personalization is processed on your device. You can listen online or offline, build a queue, and keep subscriptions, downloads, history, and likes in one library.
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
| Find podcasts | Search by show name, even with a misspelling, or describe a topic to find podcasts and individual episodes about it. |
| Recommendations | Get suggestions based on what you play, skip, and like. These suggestions are calculated on your device. |
| Automatic queue | When the list of episodes waiting to play runs low, Smart Queue can add more from the current show, unfinished listening, subscriptions, and recommendations. |
| Audio and video player | Play audio and video episodes with speed controls, a sleep timer, chapters, transcripts, intro skipping, and a queue you can reorder. |
| Downloads and library | Keep subscriptions, new episodes, downloads, likes, and listening history together. Smart Downloads can prepare episodes for offline listening. |
| Alerts and widgets | Choose which shows can send new-episode alerts. Home-screen widgets show playback controls, subscriptions, or new episodes. |
| TV and car playback | Send playback to supported TVs and speakers with Google Cast, or listen through Android Auto. |
| More ways to discover | Browse short question cards that lead to related episodes, or play an optional daily news briefing with sources and chapters. |
| Import and backup | Import a subscription file (OPML) from another podcast app, then export your subscriptions or a full library backup whenever needed. |
| No app ads | boxlore has no banner ads and does not charge to unlock features. Podcasts may still contain ads placed by their publishers. |
New features and improvements for the next release are currently in development.
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🚨 Critical:
- Episodes now reliably resume from your latest listening position after overnight or background playback, and restored players show progress as soon as boxlore opens.
- Unsubscribing now works on the first try even while podcast data is loading, so removed shows no longer reappear or jump to the front of Home.
- Sharing podcasts and episodes is now clearer, with cleaner artwork cards for messages and Instagram Stories.
- Playback widgets now handle long episode names more cleanly, show more context for new episodes, and offer a new compact Next-control layout.
- Briefing market now keeps the explicit global market setting, ensuring you see the right content for your region.
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Verify details in the changelog and linked pull requests.
 Home Continue listening and see suggestions |
 Search Find a name or explore a topic |
 Player Controls, chapters, transcripts, and queue |
 Recommendations Suggestions based on what you listen to |
 Library Subscriptions, downloads, likes, and history |
 Daily briefing Optional news audio with sources |
- Google Play is the recommended install.
- GitHub Releases provides the latest APK for sideloading.
Android may ask you to allow installation from your browser or file manager when sideloading.
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boxlore is source-available under the PolyForm Strict License 1.0.0. Noncommercial use is allowed; redistribution and derivative works are restricted by the license.