Ages 5+·5 min read··By Faithful Kids Team·Updated August 31, 2026
The short answer: the Adventures in Odyssey Club offers a 14-day free trial with no credit card required, which opens the full archive of over 1,000 episodes. Beyond the trial, the ongoing free options are the weekly broadcast episodes on Christian radio and the official podcast feed. After 14 days the Club costs $8.99/month, billed annually at $107.88, and the trial expires on its own if you do nothing.
The 14-day Club trial — the biggest free window
This is the answer most people are looking for. Focus on the Family's official Adventures in Odyssey page states the trial is a "free 14-day trial with no obligation or cost," and — unusually — asks for no card up front. It also confirms the trial "will automatically expire after 14 days and no action is needed to cancel."
That last detail matters. Most free trials are a billing trap dressed as generosity: you hand over a card, forget, and get charged. This one simply ends.
What the trial opens up, per their own listing:
Episodes
Access over 1,000 episodes
Devotionals
Access over 1,000 devotionals
Trial length
14 days
Credit card
Not required
Cost after
$8.99/month, billed annually at $107.88
Over 1,000 episodes in fourteen days is more Odyssey than most families will get through in a year. If you have a long road trip coming, timing the trial to it is the single best free move available.
How to use it well: download episodes in the app before you leave home. Fourteen days of offline listening covers a lot of driving.
Free every week: the radio broadcast
Adventures in Odyssey has aired on Christian radio for decades and still does. Broadcast episodes are free by definition — you are listening to a radio programme.
The current week's episodes are typically made available to stream at no cost through the official site, rotating as new ones air. It is a small window compared to the Club archive, but it costs nothing and it never ends.
Use it if: you want a permanent free trickle rather than a two-week flood.
The podcast feed
Official Adventures in Odyssey podcast content is distributed through the usual podcast apps. It is free, it downloads for offline listening, and it works in the car without an extra subscription.
The catalog available this way is a fraction of the 1,000+ episodes in the Club, and it is not the full run in order. But for families who just want Odyssey playing during the school commute, it does the job at no cost.
See what they get
Watch a Real Lesson From the App
Press play on Noah and the Great Flood — a complete lesson exactly as your child sees it. 300+ episodes cover the whole Bible in order, each ending in a fun quiz to check what they learned.
A real lesson from the app — watch the whole thing free.
What you're actually buying if you pay
The Club is $8.99/month billed annually ($107.88/year). For that you get the complete archive, the devotional library, and Club-only content that never airs.
Whether that is worth it comes down to one question: are your kids going to listen to hundreds of episodes, or a dozen? For a family with a long daily drive, $107.88 is excellent value against 1,000 episodes. For occasional listening, the free weekly broadcast covers it.
Why Odyssey still works
Adventures in Odyssey is audio drama, and that is its quiet advantage. There is no screen. Kids build the pictures themselves, which is why it survives car journeys and bedtimes where video does not.
It has also been running long enough — since the 1980s — that a lot of parents are handing down something they grew up with. That is not nothing.
The limitation is the same as its strength: it is drama, not instruction. Episodes teach character and values through story, brilliantly, but they are not a route through Scripture and there is no way to check what a child took in.
If you want the Bible part too
Odyssey teaches character. If you also want your kids working through the actual biblical narrative, that is a different tool.
Faithful Kids is a Bible video app for ages 5–15: 300+ short lessons running Genesis to Revelation in order, each ending with a comprehension quiz and a reflection question, so you see what your child understood rather than hoping. It is $6.48/month billed yearly, with a 3-day free trial and no ads.
The two do genuinely different jobs. Odyssey is the audio drama for the car; this is the structured Bible block for the morning. Families often run both, and homeschoolers in particular tend to pair them — we wrote more about that on our homeschool page.
Frequently asked questions
Is Adventures in Odyssey free?
Partly. The 14-day Club trial is free and requires no credit card, and the current week's broadcast episodes plus the official podcast are free ongoing. The full 1,000+ episode archive requires a Club membership at $8.99/month billed annually.
Do I need a credit card for the Adventures in Odyssey free trial?
No. Focus on the Family's own page states the 14-day trial requires no obligation or cost, and that it expires automatically after 14 days without you needing to cancel.
How much does the Adventures in Odyssey Club cost?
$8.99 per month, billed annually at $107.88, which includes over 1,000 episodes and over 1,000 devotionals.
How many Adventures in Odyssey episodes are there?
The Club advertises access to over 1,000 episodes, spanning decades of production since the show began in the 1980s.
Can I download Adventures in Odyssey episodes to listen offline?
Yes, through the Club app — which is what makes the 14-day trial genuinely useful if you time it to a road trip.
Is Adventures in Odyssey good for young kids?
It suits roughly ages 6 and up. Younger children sometimes struggle with audio-only drama with no pictures to anchor them, while older kids tend to stay with it longer than they do with most children's video.
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