Comparison

Podbean Pro vs Shopwiser

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

Shopwiser

This app helps you make informed purchasing decisions across various categories like groceries, electronics, and clothing. It offers real-time collaboration on shopping lists and a user-friendly interface. Enjoy smart shopping without confusion or buyer's remorse.

Highlights
  • Informed purchasing decisions
  • Real-time collaboration on shopping lists
  • User-friendly interface
  • Free to use
  • Privacy-focused
Features
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Make a list. Shop a little wiser. Shopwiser is a shopping list app for your weekly groceries, household essentials, and everything in between. Organize items into sections, share lists with the people you shop for, and keep shopping offline. After the shop, scan your receipt to keep what you paid. Price history and spending insights give your next shopping list a little more context. HOW IT WORKS 1. Make a list for your next shop and organize it into sections. 2. Shop together, tick off items, and keep going without a connection. 3. Scan a receipt when you want to save the trip and remember your prices. WHAT YOU GET - Organized lists: group groceries into sections, tick them off, and find completed items in Got it. - Scan to add: scan a product barcode to add recognized products to your list. - Shared lists: plan with the people you shop for. - Lists for your routine: icons, colors, pinning, and hiding. - Offline lists: keep shopping without a connection and sync when you reconnect. - Receipt scanning: save items, prices, and totals without entering each line. - Price history: see what you paid for an item, where, and when. - Spending insights: explore your spending by date, store, and aisle. - Nutrition labels: compare available facts for foods in your purchase history. - Receipt history: revisit past trips organized by month. FREE TO USE Receipt scanning, spending insights, and sync require an account and a connection. Receipt scans have a free allowance, shown in the app. Sharing your receipt prices with other Shopwiser shoppers is on by default and gives you a higher allowance. You can turn sharing off in Privacy & Permissions; this stops future contributions. Prices already shared remain in the shared data. YOUR CHOICES Usage analytics are optional and exclude list content, item names, prices, barcodes, and location. Price sharing is a separate setting. Publishing prices and receipt photos to the public Open Prices database is another separate choice, off unless you enable it, and does not affect your scan allowance. Auto-Pick Store compares your location with your saved stores on your phone. Your GPS coordinates stay on the device.

Screenshots

Podbean Pro4 screens
Shopwiser4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Podbean Pro at 237 against Shopwiser's 3. Podbean Pro also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). Shopwiser's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). 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

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 Shopwiser. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Podbean Pro has 237 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Podbean Pro ships an update every 3 months, Shopwiser every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Podbean Pro versus Shopwiser: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPodbean ProShopwiser
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (237 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings237 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB38 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperPodbean IncorporatedCarlos Harry

Customer experience

Podbean Pro

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

Shopwiser

All ratings3 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

Shopwiser

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Podbean Pro

No in-app purchases

None

Shopwiser

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Podbean Pro free?
Podbean Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shopwiser free?
Shopwiser is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Podbean Pro or Shopwiser?
Shopwiser is rated higher. Podbean Pro averages 4.9 out of 5 from 237 ratings, while Shopwiser averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Podbean Pro or Shopwiser have ads?
Neither Podbean Pro nor Shopwiser shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Podbean Pro or Shopwiser?
Podbean Pro ships an update every 3 months, and Shopwiser every 3 weeks. Most recently, Podbean Pro was updated on October 16, 2026 and Shopwiser on October 8, 2026.

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