Podbean Pro vs CathWorks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Secure content access
- Offline listening
- Episode search and history
- Advanced playback controls
- New episode notifications
- Comment for engagement
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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
CathWorks
This application allows users to securely scan and share anonymized log files with the CathWorks Support Team. It ensures privacy by protecting sensitive data within the files.
- Scan log files
- Anonymize data
- Password protection
- Share with support team
- Secure data transfer
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Scan anonymized and password protected log files to CathWorks Support Team.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Podbean Pro at every 3 months against CathWorks's every 15 months. Podbean Pro also leads on ratings volume (237 vs 2). 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Podbean Pro against 5.0 for CathWorks. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Podbean Pro has 237 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Podbean Pro ships an update every 3 months, CathWorks every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Podbean Pro | CathWorks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (237 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 237 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Podbean Incorporated | CathWorks |
Customer experience
Podbean Pro
CathWorks
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
CathWorks
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Podbean Pro
No in-app purchases
CathWorks
No in-app purchases
