Comparison

Podbean Pro vs DahongMemo

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

DahongMemo

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Write down a thought and find it when you need it. DahongMemo keeps notes simple, with folders, tags, and search across your memo text, folders, and tags. No separate account, ads, or third-party tracking. Your memos stay on your device by default. WRITE WITHOUT THE SETUP • Start with one flexible memo body—no title required • Keep a draft safe while you choose a folder and multiple tags • Read, edit, favorite, and move memos; undo accidental deletions FIND WHAT YOU SAVED • Search memo text, folders, and tags together • Narrow results with folder and tag filters • Return to your search context after opening a result • Revisit favorites and recent memos from Home MAKE THE SPACE YOURS • Organize with the default folder and your own folders • Lock folders with device authentication • Create and manage colored tags • Choose Dahong, Peach, Sky, or Lavender in Light, Dark, or System appearance • Cycle through favorite memos in Medium and Large Home Screen widgets ON YOUR DEVICE, WITH OPTIONAL iCloud SYNC Your memos are stored on your device by default. If you choose to enable iCloud, your memos, folders, tags, and favorites can sync through your private iCloud account. The developer does not operate a memo server. Keep up to 50 memos for free. An optional one-time purchase removes this limit. Existing memos, editing, search, folders, tags, themes, widgets, and iCloud remain available without purchase.

Screenshots

Podbean Pro4 screens
DahongMemo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Podbean Pro at none against DahongMemo's 1. Podbean Pro also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.6). DahongMemo's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks 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. DahongMemo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Podbean Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Podbean Pro ships an update every 3 months, DahongMemo every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Podbean Pro versus DahongMemo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPodbean ProDahongMemo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (255 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings255 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB8 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperPodbean IncorporatedYoungWon Studio

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

DahongMemo

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Podbean Pro

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

DahongMemo

One-time1
  • Unlimited Memos$1.99

Questions

Is Podbean Pro free?
Podbean Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DahongMemo free?
DahongMemo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Podbean Pro or DahongMemo have ads?
Neither Podbean Pro nor DahongMemo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Podbean Pro or DahongMemo?
Podbean Pro ships an update every 3 months, and DahongMemo every 2 weeks. Most recently, Podbean Pro was updated on October 22, 2026 and DahongMemo on October 29, 2026.

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