Baucast vs HyperCatcher
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Baucast
This app offers a streamlined podcast listening experience with features like marking favorite moments and saving notes directly on the timeline. It provides access to millions of free podcast episodes and allows for easy management of subscriptions and playback queues.
- Access 30M+ free podcasts
- Mark favorite parts on timeline
- Save notes on episodes
- Manage subscriptions and queue
- Alternative app icons
- Supports Dark Mode
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Baucast is a new podcast player for better listening. - Connect to over 30M free podcast contents Free listen and download your beloved podcasts and discover more. - Markup your favorite parts on episode's timeline Leave notes on an episode's timeline while playing back, save as your personal memo to the content. - Simply design, simply use Plan your listening easily by manage your subscriptions and episodes in inbox and queue. - Alternative App Icons We produced a set of app icons, includes special icons to celebrate the Bauhaus 100th anniversary. You can change the icon from Library - Settings. - Support iOS 13 & Dark Mode
HyperCatcher
This app enhances your podcast listening experience with AI-powered research tools, note-taking, and interactive content. Discover related videos, books, and news in real-time, and organize your listening with bookmark feeds.
- AI-powered live topic research
- In-podcast note-taking
- Embedded chapter text, images, and links
- Activity feed of bookmarks and chapters
- Subscribe to podcasts and newsletters
- Light and Dark Mode
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HyperCatcher is a premium podcast app with advanced AI features: - Research any topic being discussed live and get helpful links to videos, books, news, research and more! - Add notes at any point during a podcast so you can remember highlights later - Bring out the embedded Chapter Text, Images and Web Links in any podcast that includes this content - Build an activity feed of podcast bookmarks or chapters as you listen so you don't miss important context - Light and Dark Mode - Subscribe to all your favorite podcasts and newsletters
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Baucast at 13.0 against HyperCatcher's 17.0. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Baucast sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and HyperCatcher sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Baucast against 4.1 for HyperCatcher. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 24 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 57% of Baucast's written reviews are positive against 63% of HyperCatcher's.
Baucast ships an update weekly, HyperCatcher every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Baucast | HyperCatcher |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (12 ratings) — better | 4.1 (24 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 62.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 24 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 海宏 陈 | David Norman |
Customer experience
Baucast
HyperCatcher
In-app purchases
Baucast
- Audio Memo$0.99
- Custom Playlist$0.99
- Support the project$1.99
HyperCatcher
- Premium Podcast Content$4.991 Month
