Cablecast vs Radio Rethink
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cablecast
Stream live and on-demand content from Public, Education, and Government Access channels in HD. Catch up on local news, city meetings, and sports events conveniently on your mobile device.
- Live and on-demand streaming
- HD quality broadcasts
- Local news and city meetings
- Public, Education, Government channels
- Location-based station suggestions
- Recently watched station saved
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Watch local news, city meetings & more on the go with this mobile streaming app. This app aggregates live and on-demand shows from Public, Education, and Government Access channels and streams them in HD to your mobile device. Now you can catch up on last week's City Council meeting or see the Wildcats win in overtime whenever and wherever it's convenient for you. Enable location services for the best experience. This app features stations from all over the country. If you enable location services, the station closest to you will appear at the top of the list. Your most recently watched station will be saved as a default the next time you open the app. You can pick a new channel from the list at any time. Cablecast is a streaming service provider for the stations featured in this app. If you have questions or comments for an individual station featured in this app, please contact them directly.
Radio Rethink
This app is dedicated to bringing community and micro-community radio to the forefront of mobile media. Developed by a team with expertise in both radio and mobile technology, it aims to explore innovative projects for this niche.
- Community radio exploration
- Mobile media integration
- Niche radio projects
- Dedicated fan community
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Radio Rethink is a small group of devoted community radio fans. With experience in both the community radio world and the mobile industry, we're exploring projects to move community and micro-community radio into the spotlight of the mobile media landscape.
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Verdict
Cablecast and Radio Rethink are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Cablecast against 5.0 for Radio Rethink. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 15 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cablecast | Radio Rethink |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cablecast Community Media LLC | Muddlegeist |
Customer experience
Cablecast
Radio Rethink
In-app purchases
Cablecast
No in-app purchases
Radio Rethink
No in-app purchases
