Playpod: The Podcasting Platform Built for Education

From primary schools to universities, empower your students by giving them a voice. Create, share, and listen to educational podcasts in a secure, global learning community.

A safe place to talk listen share learn create grow

How to Start Your Educational Podcast in 4 Steps

1.Register Securely

Join as an educator and easily generate private access codes for your students.

2.Create & Organize

Record directly or upload audio files. Launch custom series and categorize episodes by subject, grade level, or course.

3.Share with Control

Keep episodes private for your own classroom, or publish them to the global Playpod network for other institutions to discover.

4.Listen & Learn

Listn to your students' audio projects and explore an ad-free library of educational podcasts from campuses worldwide.

Built by Educators,

for Educators

Behind Playpod is a team of passionate teachers. We believe that students and schools deserve a dedicated, collaborative space to communicate, create, and learn together.

Why Bring Podcasts into your Classroom?

Empowerment

Give every student a voice in a secure, privacy-compliant environment built for academic use.

Skill Building

Develop essential soft skills like public speaking confidence, active listening, and storytelling.

Dynamic Study Aid

Provide an engaging, asynchronous study tool that students can access anywhere.

Global Community

Break down institutional walls. Foster collaboration and share knowledge with other centers worldwide.

Inclusivity

Offer an audio-based alternative to text assignments, supporting diverse learning styles.

F.A.Q

What is Playpod?

An app designed specifically for creating and listening to school and educational podcasts. It’s tailored for school and family life: a secure platform where all content is teacher-reviewed and categorized by age, grade, and subject.

Who can sign up?

Educators can sign up and grant access to students, and parents from elementary through higher education. It’s also a great tool for educational professionals like pedagogues and psychologists.

What Can I Do on Playpod?

Add students into your classroom, upload, create and edit audios, launch podcast series, get automatic transcripts for every episode, and discover educational content from other schools. Completely free!

Is Playpod Free?

Yes! You can register, add students, and both create and listen to podcasts from your own school and other registered schools completely free of charge.

Is It Safe?

Absolutely. It is safe for all users, especially students. We do not ask for personal data from students, we don’t display full or last names, and students can choose to use an alias. For added security and quality control, teachers must listen to and approve their students’ podcasts before they are published publicly.

Choose Your Plan

$ 0 Monthly

Ad-free experience
Upload pre-recorded audio tracks
Listen, review, & approve student podcasts before they are published
Create up to 3 active groups simultaneously
Up to 3 hours of total audio across your active groups
Unlimited students per group
Your podcasts are published to our internal community library (accessible only to registered users)
Automatic text transcripts in the audio's original language
Organize individual episodes into cohesive, thematic learning series by subject and grade