Comparison

Podbean Pro vs AZNote

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

AZNote

Features
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AZNote is a note app built around structure. Every line is its own item, so a note behaves like an outline instead of a wall of text: click a bullet and the branch folds away, click again and it returns exactly as you left it. WRITE THE WAY YOU THINK Type "- " to start a list. Tab and Shift-Tab move an item in and out, carrying everything underneath it. Paste a list from anywhere and it becomes a real outline, with its levels intact. TAGS, PEOPLE, PRIORITIES Drop a coloured chip into the text — TODO, IDEA, or any you define — with a click or a shortcut. The same chips mark who is doing what and how urgent it is. Filter the whole library by any of them: only the documents carrying it stay in the tree, and inside a document a counter steps you through every occurrence, opening folded branches on the way. TICK LINES OFF Mark a line done from the toolbar, a shortcut or the context menu: it is struck through and stamped with the date and time. One switch hides every done line, so what is left is what still needs you. REMINDERS ON THE EXACT LINE Give a line a date and time. Tapping the notification opens that document, scrolls to the line that raised it and highlights it — you land on the thought, not near it. THE AGENDA: EVERYTHING DUE, IN ONE PLACE Pick a tag, a person and a priority — together, not one at a time — and see every line in the whole library that carries them, soonest reminder first and overdue in red. It sits beside your note: click an entry and the editor jumps there, across notes, while the list stays open for the next one. BOOKMARKS Mark any line you keep coming back to and reach it from the toolbar, whichever note it lives in. SHARE A NOTE — OR ONE BRANCH — ON THE WEB Send a link to someone who does not use AZNote. They open a page in any browser and edit it with you, changes travelling both ways. Give each link a name, and every change made through it is filed under that name in the note's History — who, when, and which lines. Encrypt the note and the key travels only in the link, so the server keeps something it cannot read. A short wizard sets what the link allows: read-only, tick boxes or not, and whether you are told when someone edits it. Sharing a folder through iCloud works too, for other Apple users. ALSO IN THE PAGE Search across notes, folders and chips. Editable keyboard shortcuts. Handwriting with Apple Pencil, PDF import and annotation, audio recording linked to the page, a word-processor toolbar, and automatic backups you can restore whole or one note at a time. IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC One app for all three. Your notes sync through your own iCloud account — no AZNote account, no server in between. Web sharing is the one exception, and only for the notes you choose to share. FREE AND PRO Use AZNote free for up to three documents, with every feature available. One yearly subscription removes the limit, on all your devices. Payment is charged to your Apple Account; the subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://aznote.edros.com/privacy

Screenshots

Podbean Pro4 screens
AZNote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Podbean Pro at none against AZNote's 1. Podbean Pro also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). AZNote's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 months). On price, ads and device support 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. AZNote sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $14.99 per year. Podbean Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Podbean Pro ships an update every 3 months, AZNote every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Podbean Pro versus AZNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPodbean ProAZNote
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (237 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings237 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB7 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperPodbean Incorporatedilevia

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

AZNote

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Podbean Pro

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

AZNote

Subscriptions1
  • AZNote Pro$14.991 Year

Questions

Is Podbean Pro free?
Podbean Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AZNote free?
AZNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Podbean Pro or AZNote have ads?
Neither Podbean Pro nor AZNote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Podbean Pro or AZNote?
Podbean Pro ships an update every 3 months, and AZNote every 2 days. Most recently, Podbean Pro was updated on October 11, 2026 and AZNote on October 1, 2026.

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