Comparison

Podbean Pro vs RBA Voices

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Podbean Pro

This app provides secure access to branded podcast content for employees, partners, or customers. It offers features like offline listening, episode searching, and advanced playback controls to enhance engagement and brand building.

Highlights
  • Secure content access
  • Offline listening
  • Episode search and history
  • Advanced playback controls
  • New episode notifications
  • Comment for engagement
Features
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Podbean Pro is a convenient, secure app for companies/organizations using Podbean's podcasting solution for branded podcasts. It allows employees, partners, or customers to easily and securely access the audio and video content you wish to deliver to them. Podbean Pro offers highly secure channels, user subscriptions, and fully-customizable options and also improves brand building. App Features: • Instantly stream or download episodes for offline listening. • Easily search episodes to find relevant content, view your play history, and save “liked” episodes. • Advanced playback features such as auto-play, skip forward and backward, and sleep timer. • Stay updated on the latest content with new episode notifications and automatic downloads. • Easily comment to increase engagement • Cellular data controls

About

RBA Voices

This platform helps international brands improve frontline worker engagement through secure communication, surveys, and a learning academy. It offers data dashboards for analyzing engagement metrics and trends, alongside a worker-focused ecosystem for company news and HR information.

Highlights
  • Frontline worker engagement
  • Secure communication
  • Worker surveys
  • Learning academy
  • Data dashboards
  • Company news access
Features
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RBA Voices by MICROBENEFITS RBA Voices is a global platform used by international brands, designed to specifically to improve their frontline worker engage efforts. An ideal solution for factories to securely and safely communicate, survey workers. Our app includes a comprehensive learning academy to provide personal and career development educate your workforce. Includes a data dashboards to analyze worker engagement metrics, and worker trends for performance benchmarking. RBA Voice also provides the worker a comprehensive eco-system to gain trusted factory specific information including company news, with important HR metrics important to workers. Further, RBA Voices includes a robust learning library that include factory specific courses, and personal improvement learning modules. Come join us in our mission to provide impact to every worker!!

Screenshots

Podbean Pro4 screens
RBA Voices3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Podbean Pro at 255 against RBA Voices's 1. RBA Voices's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Podbean Pro against 5.0 for RBA Voices. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Podbean Pro has 255 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Podbean Pro ships an update every 3 months, RBA Voices every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Podbean Pro versus RBA Voices: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPodbean ProRBA Voices
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (255 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings255 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB16 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperPodbean IncorporatedMicrobenefits Financial Consulting Services Suzhou Co., Ltd

Customer experience

Podbean Pro

All ratings237 ratings
Positive97.9%
Neutral0.8%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral3.7%
Negative7.4%

RBA Voices

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Podbean Pro

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Keeps kicking me out
  • Can't remove from iPhone
  • Podcast menus won't rotate on iPad in horizontal mode

Requested features

1 request
  • Horizontal iPad support

RBA Voices

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Podbean Pro

No in-app purchases

None

RBA Voices

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Podbean Pro free?
Podbean Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RBA Voices free?
RBA Voices is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Podbean Pro or RBA Voices?
RBA Voices is rated higher. Podbean Pro averages 4.9 out of 5 from 255 ratings, while RBA Voices averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Podbean Pro or RBA Voices have ads?
Neither Podbean Pro nor RBA Voices shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Podbean Pro or RBA Voices?
Podbean Pro ships an update every 3 months, and RBA Voices every 2 months. Most recently, Podbean Pro was updated on November 3, 2026 and RBA Voices on November 3, 2026.

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