[3][4] Pocket FM was founded in 2018 by two alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, Rohan Nayak, Nishanth KS along with Prateek Dixit.

[6] Pocket Novel, an online reading platform, was officially launched by the company in 2024 after a year-long beta phase.

[7][8] Pocket FM offers content in various genres including romance, horror, fantasy, sci-fi, mythology, suspense and thriller.

[9] Pocket FM offers content in a variety of languages including Hindi, English, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi and Bengali.

Thereafter the platform charges the listeners, giving them a choice to make a micropayment per episode or buy the entire audio series.