Crowdcast Mobile vs Buzzsprout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crowdcast Mobile
This platform helps creators host various virtual events like webinars, workshops, and concerts. It focuses on simplicity, interaction, and audience growth with features like integrated registration, live chat, and analytics. Participants can join easily from any device without downloads.
- Host livestreams, webinars, workshops, Q&As, shows, summits, concerts
- One event URL for registration, live event, and replay
- Browser-based access, no downloads required
- Audience engagement via chat, Q&As, polls, and on-stage participation
- Email collection and integration with 1.4k+ apps
- Ticket sales and membership-only events
- Robust analytics for livestream performance
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Crowdcast is an all-in-one virtual events platform for creators. - - - Grow your audience with livestreams, webinars, workshops, Q&As, shows, summits, concerts and more. We've reimagine how to gather over live video and focused on 3 key areas: simplicity, interaction, and growth. Simple for hosts and participants -> One intelligently event URL handles registration, live event, and replay. Join via the browser or the app on any device, nothing to download. Interactive at scale -> Engage your audience over chat, Q&As, polls and even pull attendees up on stage with one click. Stream from your phone or professional encoders in HD. Tools for growth -> Collect emails, integrate with over 1.4k apps, charge ticket prices, host members only events through Patreon and grow you channel followers. Use robust analytics to measure how effective your livestreams are. Discover live conversations all over the world. See you on air.
Buzzsprout
This app simplifies podcast management on the go. Track your show's performance, share episodes with AI-generated text, and edit episode details from your phone. Stay motivated with achievement tracking and access a library of learning resources.
- Push notifications for achievements and updates
- Daily stats breakdown by location and platform
- Episode performance comparison
- Social media sharing with AI text generation
- Achievement and progress tracking
- Access to learning resources
- Edit episode details and schedule publication
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Your stand-alone companion app for Buzzsprout. We’ve made podcasting even easier with our new powerful iOS app for Buzzsprout, the easiest way to host, promote, track, and monetize your podcast trusted by over 120,000 podcasters. • Get push notifications for achievements, episode processing, soundbite creation, and new ad opportunities. • Check your daily stats with a breakdown by location, devices, apps, and platforms. • Evaluate the performance of your latest episode compared to the average performance of your show’s recent episodes. • Share episodes and visual soundbites directly to your social media accounts, with suggested text generated by Buzzsprout’s Cohost AI (if enabled). • Stay motivated and track progress toward your next achievement — 10 episodes, 25 episodes, 2,500 downloads, 10K downloads, etc. • Browse our vast resource library of free learning materials with hundreds of articles, videos, and partner discounts. • Easily edit each episode’s details from your phone and schedule future episodes for publication. • Quickly manage your show’s info such as hosts, podroll recommendations, and show artwork. • Seamlessly manage your podcast hosting and distribution. Plus you’ll get convenient access to the industry’s friendliest, fastest support team with 30,000+ Great Reviews from podcasters like you. Managing your podcast has never been easier, faster, and more convenient. Precisely what you need in the palm of your hand to keep podcasting! **************** Note: A Buzzsprout account is required to use this app.
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Verdict
Crowdcast Mobile and Buzzsprout both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 92% of Buzzsprout's written reviews are positive against 61% of Crowdcast Mobile's. Crowdcast Mobile's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (28K vs 2.5K). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Buzzsprout holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Crowdcast Mobile has 28K ratings behind it against 2.5K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Crowdcast Mobile's written reviews are positive against 92% of Buzzsprout's.
Crowdcast Mobile ships an update fortnightly, Buzzsprout every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crowdcast Mobile | Buzzsprout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (28K ratings) | 4.9 (2.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.0% of reviews | 92.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 28K — better | 2.5K |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Crowdcast | Buzzsprout |
Customer experience
Crowdcast Mobile
Buzzsprout
User reviews
Crowdcast Mobile
From 28K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great way to hear from those I follow
- 👍 Intuitive app for presentation & interaction
- 🚀 Seamless and user friendly
- 🚀 Excellent sound quality
- 👍 Good app
Room to improve
- 🐛 Latest version has major delays, glitches, and issues
- 🐛 Constant buffering, freezing, and loss of audio/video
- 🐛 Difficult to use, many technical problems
- 🐛 Keyboard covers the screen, text size issues
- 🐛 Can't cast to TV, poor iPad layout
Buzzsprout
From 2.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 🚀 Helpful features
- 🚀 Great customer support
- 🚀 Reliable platform
- 🚀 Streamlines podcast management
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes/errors reported by some users
Bugs and requests
Crowdcast Mobile
Reported bugs
4 issues- Video constantly restarts, rewind button issues
- Can't see all speakers on mobile, chat doesn't work
- Keeps cutting out, have to refresh constantly
- Blurry video, audio sync problems
Requested features
4 requests- Add future events to Google calendar
- Include day of week in date/time format
- Larger video view, ability to hide chat
- Improve login process, allow password manager
Buzzsprout
Reported bugs
1 issue- App crashes/errors reported by some users
Requested features
2 requests- Ability to record/upload podcast episodes directly from the app
- More customization options for the website
In-app purchases
Crowdcast Mobile
No in-app purchases
Buzzsprout
No in-app purchases
Questions
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