Comparison

MyNetstar vs Listen Now

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

MyNetstar

This app provides real-time telematics and stolen vehicle recovery solutions. It allows users to track vehicles, review trip history, generate reports, and set up custom alerts for safety and driver behavior. Users can also manage accounts, vehicle details, and share access securely.

Highlights
  • Real-time vehicle tracking on interactive map
  • Trip categorization and replay with export
  • SARS-compliant logbook generation
  • Customizable safety and driver behavior alerts
  • Secure vehicle access sharing
  • Account and vehicle details management
Features
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Netstar provides industry-leading telematics and Stolen Vehicle Recovery (SVR) solutions, which come in various price points. MyNetstar is the digital engagement platform that connects you to those solutions in real-time and empowers you to manage your accounts and your fleet, and access important documents on demand. And provides a mechanism to contact Netstar should you require assistance. Features: 1) Vehicle Tracking - Easily track your vehicles on an interactive map. - See vehicle status information such as location, battery voltage, dynamic events, and so much more. 2) Trip Replay - Categorize your trips as Business or Personal. - Powerful trip filters to quickly find the trips you are looking for. - Generate trip replays on an interactive where you can see events and alerts. - Export trip reports. 3) SARS Logbook - Generate a SARS-compliant logbook. 4) Alerts - Set up a variety of alerts which include Safety (impacts and ignition on) and Driver Behavior (speeding, harsh braking, acceleration, cornering, and rapid lane change). - Get real-time push notifications that detail date and time, alert type, location, and vehicle. - Set up geo-zones around areas of interest and get alerts when entering or exiting those areas. 5) Share Vehicle - Securely and easily share access to selected vehicles without needing to share your login credentials. - If you are a Consumer, you can share vehicles with loved ones. - If you are a Business Owner, you can share access with drivers. 6) Manage account - Ability to manage and update personal and financial details. - Able to download your latest statement and invoice. 7) Manage Vehicle - Update odometer. - Update vehicle and driver details. - Download your fitment certificate and latest test certificate.

About

Listen Now

Features
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Listen Now is a calm place to find podcasts and live radio — and to remember what you heard — without an account, without tracking, and without the endless feed. You open it, see a small, considered set of things to play, and press start. It begins with a simple question: what could I listen to now? Instead of a wall of thumbnails, Listen Now suggests a few good options that fit the time you actually have. PICKS FOR THE TIME YOU HAVE Three time chips — 15 minutes, 45 minutes, or 60+ — tailor each suggestion to your moment. A quick gap before a meeting or a long walk home, the picks fit. WHAT'S IN THE AIR RIGHT NOW A short, honest read on the specific stories your unplayed episodes are actually talking about — surfaced on-device, and biased towards what more than one show is covering. Tap one to start the episode behind it. A JOURNAL OF WHAT YOU HEAR Every episode you finish is quietly distilled into a private journal: a short summary, the key ideas worth keeping, and a searchable record of what you listened to. Ask it in plain language — "that thing about interest rates" — and it finds the moment. It's the opposite of a feed you forget. ON-DEVICE AI, NOT A PROFILE ON A SERVER The picks, the summaries and the transcripts are computed on your phone — using Apple's on-device Foundation Models and a bundled on-device model. Podcasts can be transcribed and summarised locally; live radio is transcribed as it streams. Your taste, your history and what you heard never leave your device. PODCASTS, YOUR WAY Search the Apple catalogue, follow the shows you love, or add any podcast by pasting its RSS feed. Each show has its own "how to listen" strategy — play in order, newest first, or latest only — so narrative series catch up in sequence while news shows surface the latest episode. LIVE RADIO FROM AROUND THE WORLD Search a global station directory, or start with curated UK defaults including BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. Add your own custom streams whenever you like. LISTEN ANYWHERE, EVEN OFFLINE Background downloads keep episodes ready for the tube, a flight or a dead spot. Intelligent auto-download stays ahead of you, and downloaded-episode cleanup keeps things tidy. A PROPER PLAYER AirPlay, lock-screen and Now Playing controls, a sleep timer, variable speed, and resume exactly where you left off. A home and lock-screen widget puts your next listen one glance away. YOUR PRIVACY, BY DESIGN Privacy here isn't a setting — it's how the app is built. • No account, no sign-in, no password. Just open it and listen. • No analytics, no tracking, no advertising SDKs, and no third-party SDKs at all. There's no App Tracking Transparency prompt because there's nothing to track. • On-device AI. Recommendations, summaries and transcripts run locally, so your history stays on your phone. • Local-first. Your library, journal, history and progress live on your device. • Optional private sync — through your own iCloud, using Apple's end-to-end private CloudKit. Never a third-party server. • The only network requests fetch the content you ask for: podcast search, the station directory, and the actual audio. No behavioural data is collected or sold. That's why Listen Now maps cleanly to an App Store "Data Not Collected" privacy label. Open it. Find something for right now. Listen — and remember what you heard.

Screenshots

MyNetstar4 screens
Listen Now4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: MyNetstar at fortnightly against Listen Now's every 6 weeks. MyNetstar also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MyNetstar ships an update fortnightly, Listen Now every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
MyNetstar versus Listen Now: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMyNetstarListen Now
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (160 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings160 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size122 MB3.1 GB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNETSTAR (PTY) LTDMatthew MILLAR

In-app purchases

None

MyNetstar

No in-app purchases

None

Listen Now

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MyNetstar free?
MyNetstar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Listen Now free?
Listen Now is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MyNetstar or Listen Now have ads?
Neither MyNetstar nor Listen Now shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MyNetstar or Listen Now?
MyNetstar ships an update fortnightly, and Listen Now every 6 weeks. Most recently, MyNetstar was updated on November 7, 2026 and Listen Now on October 31, 2026.

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