Buzzsprout vs HunnyDewBee
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Buzzsprout
This app simplifies podcast management on the go. Track your show's performance, share episodes with AI-generated text, and edit episode details from your phone. Stay motivated with achievement tracking and access a library of learning resources.
- Push notifications for achievements and updates
- Daily stats breakdown by location and platform
- Episode performance comparison
- Social media sharing with AI text generation
- Achievement and progress tracking
- Access to learning resources
- Edit episode details and schedule publication
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Your stand-alone companion app for Buzzsprout. We’ve made podcasting even easier with our new powerful iOS app for Buzzsprout, the easiest way to host, promote, track, and monetize your podcast trusted by over 120,000 podcasters. • Get push notifications for achievements, episode processing, soundbite creation, and new ad opportunities. • Check your daily stats with a breakdown by location, devices, apps, and platforms. • Evaluate the performance of your latest episode compared to the average performance of your show’s recent episodes. • Share episodes and visual soundbites directly to your social media accounts, with suggested text generated by Buzzsprout’s Cohost AI (if enabled). • Stay motivated and track progress toward your next achievement — 10 episodes, 25 episodes, 2,500 downloads, 10K downloads, etc. • Browse our vast resource library of free learning materials with hundreds of articles, videos, and partner discounts. • Easily edit each episode’s details from your phone and schedule future episodes for publication. • Quickly manage your show’s info such as hosts, podroll recommendations, and show artwork. • Seamlessly manage your podcast hosting and distribution. Plus you’ll get convenient access to the industry’s friendliest, fastest support team with 30,000+ Great Reviews from podcasters like you. Managing your podcast has never been easier, faster, and more convenient. Precisely what you need in the palm of your hand to keep podcasting! **************** Note: A Buzzsprout account is required to use this app.
HunnyDewBee
Manage household tasks with a shared family to-do list app. Assign tasks, track progress, and organize chores by category. Features end-to-end encryption for privacy and a single subscription for your entire Apple Family.
- Shared family to-do lists
- Task assignment and live sync
- Customizable todo categories
- Sub-tasks and due dates
- Location-based chores (Hive Map)
- End-to-end encryption
- Single subscription for Apple Family
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HunnyDewBee is the shared family todo app built on Apple Family Sharing. One subscription covers your whole group, lists sync in real time, and your todos stay unreadable to us. Built for the household actually doing the chores: partners, parents, kids old enough to claim their own list, and anyone tired of scrolling back through the family chat to find that one thing they forgot. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Share a todo list with everyone in your Apple Family • Assign todos to family members and watch progress sync live • Sort todos by category: Shopping, Chores, Recipes, Errands, or any you create • Set due dates, recurring schedules, and notes on each todo • Break big todos into subdos and check them off one at a time • Drop pins on the Hive Map so chores tie to the places they happen • Ask the Hive Mind AI assistant to draft, organize, and prioritize your todos • Earn badges for staying consistent PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your phone encrypts your todos and subdos before they sync. Only the devices in your family group hold the keys, so we can't read them. Your hive's name and the content of shared notifications work the same way. Profile details and app settings are encrypted on our servers, but not yet end-to-end. We're moving them to the same device-held keys. List names save as ordinary app data. The Hive Mind AI assistant is different. To answer you it may send any of your hive's todos to our AI provider, not just the ones you mention, along with titles, due dates, priorities, and who they're assigned to. Your device answers many requests on its own if it supports Apple Intelligence. Otherwise our AI provider writes the reply, and it doesn't use your data to train its models. We store your chat history with your account like regular app data. It isn't end-to-end encrypted, so your conversations stay available. A Recovery Code keeps you in control if you switch devices or lose iCloud Keychain. Sign in with Apple works too, including Hide My Email. ONE SUBSCRIPTION, YOUR WHOLE APPLE FAMILY Subscribe once and everyone in your Apple Family Sharing group gets the app. No invite codes. No separate accounts. No extra payments. Every member keeps their own login and their own private todos. They just share what's in the family hive. CHOOSE YOUR TIER • Lone-Bee. Free. Personal todos for solo use. • Hive. Shared family todos, categories, recurring schedules, and full Apple Family Sharing. • Hive Mind. Everything in Hive, plus an AI assistant that helps you draft, organize, and prioritize todos. Some requests run on your device, others use our AI provider. https://hunnydewbee.com/privacy-policy https://hunnydewbee.com/tos
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Buzzsprout at none against HunnyDewBee's 4. Buzzsprout also leads on ratings volume (1.7K vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). HunnyDewBee's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. HunnyDewBee sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Buzzsprout asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Buzzsprout against 5.0 for HunnyDewBee. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Buzzsprout has 1.7K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Buzzsprout ships an update every 2 months, HunnyDewBee weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Buzzsprout | HunnyDewBee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (1.7K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.7K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Buzzsprout | Wesley Franks |
Customer experience
Buzzsprout
HunnyDewBee
Bugs and requests
Buzzsprout
Reported bugs
1 issue- App crashes/errors reported by some users
Requested features
2 requests- Ability to record/upload podcast episodes directly from the app
- More customization options for the website
HunnyDewBee
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Buzzsprout
No in-app purchases
HunnyDewBee
- Hive Monthly$4.991 Month
- Hive Mind$9.991 Month
- Hive$49.991 Year
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- Hive Mind Annual$99.991 Year
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