Lysten vs Kasey Podcast
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lysten
Easily discover and listen to podcasts with a privacy-focused player. Enjoy features like offline listening, interactive widgets, and seamless sharing with friends. Syncs via iCloud for a personal experience.
- Privacy-focused design
- iCloud sync for progress
- Offline episode downloads
- Interactive widgets
- Sleep timer
- Adjustable playback speed
- Spotlight search indexing
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Start listening in seconds — search for any show, follow it, and get a clean list of episodes ready to play. Share episodes and shows with anyone, whether or not they have the app. iPhone and iPad users get an App Clip that drops them straight into playback. Tap the share button to invite your friends and loved ones. Lysten is a lightweight podcast player. Sign in with your email to keep your followed shows, episodes, and listening progress in sync across all your devices — iPhone, iPad, and CarPlay. Features: - Sync your library and listening progress across devices with a simple email sign-in - Interactive widgets showing your feed and unfinished episodes — catch up where you left off with a tap - Sidebar on iPad with cover art and grouped sections - CarPlay support, including a Continue Listening carousel - Download episodes to listen offline — long press an episode and select Download - Sleep timer, set, enjoy & sleep - Adjustable playback speed - Podcasts and episodes indexed in Spotlight - SharePlay support — listen to episodes with friends and family - Extremely lightweight If you run into any trouble or have any questions, please reach out: - E-mail: support@ambi.se - X (Twitter): @ambiApps - Mastodon: @ambiApps@mastodon.social Privacy policy: https://ambi.se/privacy Terms of use: https://ambi.se/terms
Kasey Podcast
This podcast player allows you to organize your audio content using custom tags for both podcasts and individual episodes. It offers a straightforward way to manage your listening library beyond basic playback.
- Organize podcasts by tags
- Tag individual episodes
- Simple podcast playback
- Customizable organization
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Organize your podcasts and episodes by tags. Otherwise it's just a simple podcast player.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Kasey Podcast at 5.0 against Lysten's 4.4. Kasey Podcast also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Lysten sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Kasey Podcast asks for nothing beyond the download.
Kasey Podcast holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Lysten's written reviews are positive against 100% of Kasey Podcast's.
Lysten ships an update every 2 months, Kasey Podcast every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 16, 2026 and July 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lysten | Kasey Podcast |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ambi Studio AB | Kasey Baughan |
Customer experience
Lysten
Kasey Podcast
In-app purchases
Lysten
- Lysten+3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Lysten+ Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
Kasey Podcast
No in-app purchases
