Long-form audio belongs on your biggest speakers, not in your pocket.
A native Android TV podcasts app. Subscribe by RSS, queue episodes, listen on the speakers you actually like — not the ones you keep next to your face.
For reasons nobody can explain, no major podcast app — Pocket Casts, Overcast, Spotify, Apple, none of them — ships an Android TV build. Your living room has the best speakers, the most comfortable seats, and a remote anyone in the house can drive. And until now, no podcast app for it.
Earhorn Podcasts is the answer.
As of April 2026, no major podcast client offers a native Android TV app. None. Pocket Casts has only a phone app you can cast from. Overcast is iOS-only. Spotify's TV app is for music. Apple's is locked to Apple hardware. The closest workarounds are sideloaded phone apps that don't know what a D-pad is.
Earhorn Podcasts ships a real Android TV build — Leanback launcher integration, D-pad-first focus model, banner art, the works. Not a phone app stretched to 1080p. A TV app, designed for your remote & your room.
The TV is where podcasts should have always lived.
Your speakers are right there
The living room is where the good speakers are — soundbar, AVR, hi-fi, whatever. Earhorn Podcasts plays through the TV's audio chain. No struggling with a phone speaker; no Bluetooth pairing dance.
Kitchen-context listening
Cook, fold laundry, stretch, paint a room — and listen to a long-form interview from across the room. The TV has the volume and the persistent sightline; a phone has neither.
No phone in your hand
Listening on your phone means a phone in your hand. Which means doomscroll. Earhorn Podcasts puts the audio on the TV and the phone in the drawer — where it belongs while you're trying to listen to a 3-hour conversation.
Full-attention listening
The TV doesn't have notifications, doesn't autoplay reels, doesn't compete for your attention with twelve other apps. Once Earhorn Podcasts is playing, the room belongs to the show — the way long-form audio is supposed to work.
Subscribe, queue, listen.
Subscribe by feed or import OPML
Search a directory, paste an RSS URL, or import an OPML file from any other podcast app — Pocket Casts, Overcast, AntennaPod, gPodder, Apple Podcasts. Your subscriptions come over with one file.
Auto-download new episodes (optional)
By show. Limit by count, by age, by Wi-Fi only. Or stream everything live — the choice is per-show. Episodes that drop overnight are sitting in the TV's local cache by morning, ready to play without buffering.
Queue, play, sleep
Queue episodes across shows. Variable speed (0.5×–3.0×, fine-grained). Skip silence, smart speed, sleep timer with fade-out, chapter navigation when the feed includes them. Resume across sessions — pick up exactly where you left off, even days later.
Built for couch listening, not commuting.
OPML import & export
Bring your subscriptions in. Take them out. Standard format. No lock-in. Ever.
Variable speed
0.5× through 3.0× in 0.05× steps. Per-show speed defaults so the host you naturally listen to at 1.4× plays at 1.4× automatically.
Sleep timer with fade-out
Five, fifteen, thirty, sixty minutes. Or "end of episode." Fades out gradually so the silence at the end isn't startling.
Smart auto-download
Per-show: how many to keep, how old to allow, Wi-Fi only or any network. Keep storage tidy without micromanaging.
Chapter navigation
When a feed includes chapters (most prestige podcasts do), the TV remote's chapter button skips between them. Fall asleep at the wrong segment? Tap forward to the next one.
Directory search
Search a public podcast index from inside the app. No browser tab required. Voice search via the system keyboard's mic — say the show name; subscribe.
Per-episode queue
Queue an episode from one show, then one from another, then back. Reorder with the D-pad. The next-up rail on the home screen shows what's coming.
Resume across sessions
Position is saved per-episode. Stop mid-episode on Tuesday; pick up at the same second on Friday. No "let me find where I was."
What Earhorn Podcasts does not do.
- No accounts. No sign-up, no login, no email collection. Subscriptions live on the device.
- No telemetry. No analytics SDK, no crash reporting service, no usage tracking. The app has no mechanism to phone home.
- No ads injected by us. Earhorn Podcasts does not insert ads into your episodes. The dynamic ads in podcast feeds are inserted by the podcast networks themselves before the audio reaches us — that's a feed-level choice the show's host made.
- No third-party SDKs that phone home. Network traffic is RSS feed fetches, episode audio downloads, and directory search queries. That's the surface.
- Your subscriptions are yours. OPML export at any time. Take your library to any other client; bring it back. No vendor lock-in. No "premium" tier that hides features behind a subscription.
- Open source. Full source on Codeberg. Read it. Audit it. Build it. GPLv3.
The whole point of long-form audio is sustained attention. Earhorn Podcasts isn't going to interrupt that with a notification asking you to rate the app.
For Android TV. Sideload-ready.
Earhorn Podcasts · Android TV
A native Android TV podcasts app — Leanback launcher integration, banner art, D-pad-first focus model. Works on Sony, Hisense, TCL Google TV, Shield TV, Fire TV, GrapheneOS — any Android TV box, with or without Google Play Services. Sideload-ready APK, no app store account required.
Package · dev.earhorn.podcasts · Android TV 5.0+ · ~10 MB
Source code on Codeberg. Issue tracker, changelogs, and build instructions live there. GPLv3 — fork and ship.
In praise of the long-form listen.
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker — Writer
Listening is a magnetic and creative force.
Karl Menninger — Psychiatrist
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway — Writer
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus — Philosopher
There is a difference between truly listening and waiting for your turn to talk.
Ralph Waldo Emerson — Writer
Big results require big ambitions.
Heraclitus — Philosopher
The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich — Theologian
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
Bryant H. McGill — Writer