Every podcast app, host, network, studio and tool that shut down, sold out or quietly disappeared, with what happened and when.
30 entries
No longer operating, whether it was switched off or bought and then closed.
A narrative podcast studio closed after a round of layoffs.
Audacy laid off staff in March 2025 and then shut Pineapple Street down.
Sources: radioinsight.com
2016–2025Image archived from wondery.com via the Wayback Machine.
The studio behind Dr. Death and Business Wars.
Amazon bought Wondery in 2020 and wound down its studio in 2025 as it reorganized its audio business.
Sources: bloomberg.com
2017–2024Image archived from chartable.com via the Wayback Machine.
Podcast analytics and smart links, bought and then switched off.
Spotify acquired Chartable in 2022 and shut it down in 2024. Its link service Podlink later found a new home.
Sources: blog.podlink.com
2024Image archived from repod.io via the Wayback Machine.
A player built around comments and discussion.
It went offline sometime in 2024.
Sources: web.archive.org
2024Image archived from radiopublic.com via the Wayback Machine.
A listening app built to help shows get discovered and paid.
It started as a crowdfunding campaign, was bought by Acast in 2021 and shut down in 2024.
Sources: podnews.net, republic.com
2018–2024Image archived from podcasts.google.com via the Wayback Machine.
Google's own podcast app, retired in favor of YouTube Music.
Google closed the app on April 2, 2024 and moved its podcast plans to YouTube Music. Many listeners switched to Pocket Casts or Podcast Addict.
Podcasts inside the Facebook app.
Facebook added podcasts in 2021 and removed them in 2023.
Live radio shows hosted by creators.
Amazon launched Amp in 2022 and shut it down in 2023.
Spotify's live audio app, first launched as Greenroom.
Spotify launched Greenroom in 2021, renamed it Spotify Live and closed it in 2023.
2016–2023Image archived from parcast.com via the Wayback Machine.
A network of true crime and mystery shows.
Spotify bought Parcast in 2019 and merged it with Gimlet in 2023.
The studio that helped make narrative podcasts a business.
Spotify bought Gimlet in 2019 and merged it with Parcast into Spotify Studios in 2023.
One of the longest-running podcast apps, and one of the first to stream episodes instead of syncing files.
SiriusXM shut it down on August 29, 2023, fifteen years after launch.
Sources: podnews.net
2022Image archived from whooshkaa.com via the Wayback Machine.
An Australian hosting and podcast advertising platform.
Bought by Spotify and folded into its podcast business.
Short podcast clips in a swipeable feed.
A beta in 2020 promised the best moments of podcasts as community-picked clips. It went offline in 2022.
Sources: producthunt.com
Voice chat with people who heard the same episode.
It relaunched during the pandemic as a social network for listeners and left the app stores around 2022.
Sources: producthunt.com
2022Image archived from acast.com via the Wayback Machine.
Acast's own listening app.
Acast closed its listening app in 2022.
Sources: acast.com
From the founders of HipChat: see what your friends are listening to.
Backed by Kevin Rose, it went offline in 2021.
Sources: web.archive.org
2021Image archived from breaker.audio via the Wayback Machine.
Once called the Instagram of podcast apps.
Twitter bought Breaker in January 2021 and moved its team to work on Twitter Spaces. The app closed soon after.
Sources: techcrunch.com
A social player for clipping and discussing episodes.
It launched in 2016 and disappeared from app stores around 2020.
Sources: producthunt.com
Podcasts inside Google Play Music, in the US and Canada only.
Google added podcasts in April 2016 and removed them in October 2020 as it moved listeners to Google Podcasts and YouTube Music.
An iPhone podcast app by developer David Smith.
Launched on September 24, 2013. The last trace of it online is from 2018.
Its developer ran out of money to keep it going.
Martin Hering shut down the iOS and Mac apps on June 16, 2015, and later made the project open source.
Sources: martinhering.me
An Android-only Google Labs experiment for podcasts.
Launched in August 2009 to search, subscribe to and stream podcasts, then retired.
Image archived from pippa.io via the Wayback Machine.
A hosting platform for independent podcasters.
Bought by Acast and closed.
Bought or renamed, and still running under a new name.
2023Image archived from squadcast.fm via the Wayback Machine.
A remote recording studio for podcasts.
Descript bought SquadCast in 2023 and turned it into Descript Rooms, which still runs today.
2015–2023Image archived from anchor.fm via the Wayback Machine.
The free app that made starting a podcast one tap.
Spotify bought Anchor in 2019. It became Spotify for Podcasters in 2023, and later Spotify for Creators.
2022Image archived from podsights.com via the Wayback Machine.
Ad attribution for podcasts.
Spotify bought Podsights in 2022 and folded it into Spotify Ad Analytics.
2005–2019Image archived from apple.com/itunes via the Wayback Machine.
Where most early listeners first subscribed to a podcast.
Apple added podcasts to iTunes in June 2005. In October 2019 it replaced iTunes with separate apps, including Apple Podcasts. On Windows, iTunes kept podcasts until February 2024.
Sources: youtube.com
Turned into something else entirely.
2021Image archived from bitcast.fm via the Wayback Machine.
Comments laid out along the episode, SoundCloud-style.
It let listeners comment on moments and share clips, then pivoted to Verb.fm in 2021.
Sources: producthunt.com
2018Image archived from ottoradio.com via the Wayback Machine.
A news and podcast player that became an audiobook app.
On July 26, 2018 it turned into the audiobook brand Hibooks.
Sources: web.archive.org
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