Pocket Casts was already available on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch for years, but a native Apple TV app was conspicuously absent — a gap that left users without a seamless way to listen on the living-room screen. The new app closes that gap, making the experience truly omnipresent: phone, watch, car, speakers, and now the TV .
As Pocket Casts put it, the app brings "your podcasts, your Up Next, your place in every episode, right on the screen in front of you" , and promises: "Start something on your phone at the bus stop. Finish it on the couch that night, exactly where you left it. Nothing to re-find. Nothing to sync by hand"
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Apple announced a completely redesigned Podcasts app for tvOS 27 at WWDC 2026, featuring video podcast playback, a new sidebar navigation, smart downloads, and a modern Liquid Glass design . That app is still in beta (Beta 4 was seeded July 20) and is expected to ship to all users this fall
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By launching its native tvOS app now — weeks before Apple's own overhaul reaches the public — Pocket Casts gains several advantages:
Pocket Casts for Apple TV is available now from the tvOS App Store on Apple TV HD and Apple TV 4K models running tvOS 26 or later . Signing in with a Pocket Casts account is recommended to sync subscriptions, Up Next, and playback progress across devices, but users can also browse without an account
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