Baucast vs Comink
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
Comink
Access your comic collection from various sources like NAS, cloud storage, or local files. Enjoy immersive reading with features like spread stitching and AI-powered coloring and enhancement. Learn Japanese from manga with integrated translation tools.
- Connect to NAS, media servers, and cloud storage
- Supports numerous comic and ebook formats
- Immersive reading modes for comics and webtoons
- On-device AI coloring and image enhancement
- Offline OCR translation for Japanese and Western comics
- Japanese learning tools with furigana and vocabulary saving
- Create and share 'Moments' from favorite scenes
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Comink puts your comic collection on every screen. Whether it's your iPhone on the commute, your iPad on the couch or the big screen of the Apple TV in your living room, Comink gives you smooth, immersive reading. No converting, no copying files around: set up the address once and start reading. CONNECT EVERYTHING, SKIP THE HASSLE · NAS: native SMB and WebDAV, works with Synology, QNAP and other popular NAS · Media servers: full support for Komga, Kavita, Suwayomi and OPDS · Cloud and local: Baidu Netdisk, OneDrive, Dropbox and Box; import from the Files app or send files over Wi-Fi on your local network · Every format: CBZ, CBR, CB7, ZIP, RAR, 7z, PDF, EPUB, MOBI and AZW3, read straight from the archive with no unzipping A READER TUNED FOR COMICS · Spread stitching: double-page spreads join seamlessly, just like a printed volume · Immersive webtoons: smooth continuous vertical scrolling, tuned for manhwa and long-strip comics · Keep reading: turn past the last page and the next volume opens, so you can finish a whole series without leaving · Make it yours: page direction, smart margin cropping, color filters and auto-advance AI COLOR: BRING BLACK-AND-WHITE PAGES TO LIFE · On-device AI colors black-and-white manga. Everything runs on your device and no image is ever uploaded · Several color styles to choose from; Luminous gives the most natural skin tones and lighting · Turn on auto-color for every comic you open, with spreads colored consistently in reading order · AI image enhancement: on-device super-resolution brings out the detail in old, low-resolution scans OFFLINE AND ON-DEVICE · On-device OCR translation: recognizes and translates Japanese manga and Western comics so you can read raw pages right away. Download the language pack once, then use it offline · Optional offline engines: lightweight translation models for English, Japanese and Korean, about 80 MB per language · Full-volume downloads: save whole volumes for a flight or the subway LEARN JAPANESE FROM MANGA · Tap a line of dialogue to see furigana and a word-by-word breakdown · Tap any word for its meaning, with conjugated forms recognized in context · Save words in one tap, with JLPT levels, grammar notes and scheduled reviews · Export your word list as an Anki deck or CSV, original panels included MOMENTS: KEEP THE SCENES YOU LOVE · Long-press a page that moves you to save it as a Moment · All your Moments come together in a personal scrapbook to revisit and share anytime · Synced across your devices with iCloud, so they move with you PEACE OF MIND · iCloud sync: reading progress, favorites and shelf settings carry over between iPhone, iPad and Apple TV · Kids Mode: assign specific sources to a child's profile; adding or removing a server requires a PIN · Privacy first: no reading data is collected, and account credentials are kept in the system Keychain FAIR PRICING: BUY ONCE OR SUBSCRIBE · 7-day free trial with every feature, no payment method needed · After the trial: 3 free chapters and 1 free translated chapter every day · Lifetime: one purchase unlocks everything forever on Apple TV, iPhone and iPad, with Family Sharing · Or subscribe monthly or yearly and cancel anytime ABOUT SUBSCRIPTIONS · Comink PRO is offered as monthly and yearly auto-renewing subscriptions that unlock all features during the subscription period. Prices are shown in the app · Payment is charged to your Apple ID account when you confirm the purchase · Subscriptions renew automatically at the same price unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period · Turn off auto-renewal anytime in Settings › Apple ID › Subscriptions · Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ · Privacy Policy: https://charles8260.github.io/comicflow-support/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Comink at 100% against Baucast's 57%. Comink also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). Baucast's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, 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. Baucast sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Comink sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Comink holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Baucast's written reviews are positive against 100% of Comink's.
Baucast ships an update weekly, Comink every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Baucast | Comink |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 313 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | 海宏 陈 | 芳芳 王 |
Customer experience
Baucast
Comink
In-app purchases
Baucast
- Audio Memo$0.99
- Custom Playlist$0.99
- Support the project$1.99
Comink
- Comink PRO Monthly$1.991 Month
- Comink PRO Yearly1 Year trial$12.991 Year
- Comink PRO 终身版(限时特惠)$14.99
- 解锁无限阅读$19.99









