TL;DR: - The iOS and Android apps are now free - Web and desktop apps now require a Pocket Casts Plus subscription, for 0.99/mo or 9.99/yr - Current web and

TL;DR: - The iOS and Android apps are now free - Web and desktop apps now require a Pocket Casts Plus subscription, for 0.99/mo or 9.99/yr - Current web and desktop users will be grandfathered into 3 free years of Pocket Casts Plus Personally, this change worries me. I'm reminded of these snippets they had on their web player purchase page when I bought access a few years back: >No monthly subscriptions or freemium hoo-ha. >If you like what you see, we'll ask you for $9. Just once. >We don’t do freemium. No VC funding. No crazy. We love podcasts and we’ve built the web player that we want to use. We’ve priced it at a point where we’ll stick around to keep it up to date. You can expect support, features and many more awesome things in the future. https://web.archive.org/web/20150315000705/https://play.pocketcasts.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150315000705/https://play.pock... Additionally, they note that they "may introduce other ways to keep this whole thing sustainable in the future"... seems like it's only a matter of time until "free" turns into "free, but with ads."