Comparison

Sleepcast! vs Reverse Audio

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

Head to head
About

Sleepcast!

This app helps you fall asleep to podcasts without manual timer management. It features intelligent sleep timers, motion-based extensions, smart night recaps, and custom playlists for a seamless listening experience.

Highlights
  • Intelligent sleep timer
  • Motion-based timer extensions
  • Smart night recaps
  • Customizable playlists
  • Transcript search
  • AI summaries
  • One-tap bookmarking
Features
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Fall asleep to your favorite podcasts without managing timers, rewinding episodes, or losing the best moments. Sleepcast is built around a simple idea: your podcast player should adapt to your sleep, not the other way around. With an intelligent sleep timer, motion-based extensions, smart night recaps, custom playlists, transcript search, AI summaries, and one-tap bookmarking with audio clips and transcripts, it creates a seamless listening experience from drifting off to waking up. Just press play, relax, and let Sleepcast handle the rest. Drift off to your favorite shows without worry, thanks to an exceptionally advanced Sleep Timer: - Flexible Sleep Timer: Set it by duration or stop automatically at the end of the current episode. - Smart Sleep Check: A gentle beep and motion detection can sense if you're still awake, extending the timer so listening isn’t interrupted too early. - Scheduled Listening: Activate the sleep timer only during specific hours with Time Window, perfect for your nightly routine. - Sleep Timer Statistics: Review a detailed history of your sleep timer sessions. - Continuous Play: Keep the timer going across multiple episodes with auto-restart. - Volume Fade-Out: Audio gently fades out during the final seconds for a smooth transition. Bookmarking and Fragment Sharing - Effortless Bookmarking: Save your spot instantly with one tap or a quick volume-button gesture. - Precision Fragment Editor: Trim captured audio clips with a visual waveform editor and share the exact moment you intended. - AI Transcription: Audio fragments can be transcribed automatically. - Search & Highlight: Search bookmark transcripts and quickly find the moment you saved. - Add Notes & Share: Attach notes and share the audio fragment, transcript, and your thoughts. A Full-Featured Podcast Experience - Personal Inbox: See the newest episodes from all subscriptions, with customizable episode limits per podcast. - Immersive Playback: Enjoy a clean, dynamic player that adapts its colors to the podcast artwork. - Custom Playlists: Create, manage, sort, batch-add, and clear your own episode playlists. - Versatile Queue Management: Switch easily between Playlist Mode, custom playlists, Binge Mode, and Remix. - Discover New Favorites: Explore top podcasts and episodes by country and genre, or search for exactly what you want. - Offline Listening: Download episodes for playback anywhere, with Wi-Fi-only options and simple storage management. - OPML Import/Export: Bring subscriptions from other apps or back up your library. - Multi-Language Support: Fully localized in English, Dutch, German, French, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish. Experimental Features - Sudden Loud Sound Suppression: Real-time audio analysis detects volume spikes and smooths them out. - Speed-Sensitive Volume: Automatically adjusts playback volume based on your movement speed. - AI Summaries: Generate searchable podcast summaries and transcripts, with improved cancellation support. Simple Mode — a new way to use SleepCast SleepCast 3.5 introduces Simple mode, a streamlined experience built around falling asleep to podcasts with a smart sleep timer. Simple vs Expert — Choose your experience in Settings → Experience Mode. New users start in Simple mode; existing users stay on Expert. - Podcast grid — Your subscribed shows appear as a clean grid of cover art with tilted artwork, accent shadows, and flippable tiles that reveal episode info and controls. - Grid or list layout — Switch between grid and list views, with sorting by title, latest episode, rating, subscription date, and more. - Fullscreen player — A dedicated player with a collapsible sleep timer panel; full timer options remain in Settings. - Downloads — Pick episodes to download per podcast, or let Simple mode keep the latest episode ready automatically. CarPlay Support Control Sleepcast directly from your car with a clear interface for your queue, subscriptions, and playback controls.

About

Reverse Audio

Record or import audio and instantly play it backward. Enhance your sound with effects like pitch shifts, echo, and speed control. Perfect for pranks, music remixes, and creative sound design.

Highlights
  • Record live audio
  • Import audio files
  • Instant sound reversal
  • Pitch shift effects
  • Echo and speed control
  • Easy sharing
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Reverse Audio: flip any recording backwards and turn your voice into a Demon, Chipmunk, Helium, Giant or Robot. Ever wondered what your voice or favorite song sounds like in reverse? Record or import audio, reverse it in one tap, then warp it with playful voice presets and studio effects. Hear the result instantly, save it, and share it anywhere. VOICE PRESETS • Demon: deep and menacing • Chipmunk: high pitched and squeaky • Helium: light and airy • Giant: deep and booming • Robot: metallic and digital SOUND EFFECTS • Echo: repeating echoes • Reverb: wide room ambience • Slowed + Reverb: dreamy slow-room sound • Underwater: deep sea muffled • Custom: dial in your own pitch and speed WHY YOU WILL LOVE IT • Reverse in one tap: record live or import a file and play it backward right away • Layer effects: stack a voice preset with pitch, speed, echo and reverb • Compare instantly: switch between the original and your reversed mix • Import your own audio: MP3, WAV, M4A and more • Share anywhere: save your creation and send it to friends or social apps • On device: your recordings stay on your phone GREAT FOR • Pranking friends with demon and chipmunk voices • Decoding backmasking and hidden messages in songs • Singing backwards challenges and reverse covers • Sound design, skits and voiceovers Record, reverse, remix. Download Reverse Audio and hear the world in reverse. PURCHASE INFORMATION Reverse Audio is free to use and supported by ads. A one-time Remove Ads purchase removes all ads and unlocks every export format, including WAV and FLAC. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. There is no subscription and no recurring billing. Terms of Use (EULA): https://getreverseaudio.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://getreverseaudio.app/privacy

Screenshots

Sleepcast!4 screens
Reverse Audio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sleepcast! at 100% against Reverse Audio's 33%. Sleepcast! also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). Reverse Audio's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99) and ratings volume (23 vs 3). On device support and iOS requirement 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

Reverse Audio is free to download; Sleepcast! costs $4.99 up front. Reverse Audio sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Sleepcast! asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sleepcast! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Reverse Audio has 23 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Sleepcast!'s written reviews are positive against 33% of Reverse Audio's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sleepcast! ships an update fortnightly, Reverse Audio monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Sleepcast! versus Reverse Audio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSleepcast!Reverse Audio
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better4.6 (23 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings323 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size194 MB88 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArthur de RijkeFabulous Apps LLC

Customer experience

Sleepcast!

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Reverse Audio

All ratings23 ratings
Positive87.0%
Neutral4.3%
Negative8.7%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

Sleepcast!

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Reverse Audio

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly Plan$0.997 Days
  • Annual Premium3 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Plan$29.99

Questions

Is Sleepcast! free?
Sleepcast! costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Reverse Audio free?
Reverse Audio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sleepcast! or Reverse Audio?
Sleepcast! is rated higher. Sleepcast! averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Reverse Audio averages 4.6 from 23 ratings.
Do Sleepcast! or Reverse Audio have ads?
Reverse Audio shows ads; Sleepcast! does not.
Which is updated more often, Sleepcast! or Reverse Audio?
Sleepcast! ships an update fortnightly, and Reverse Audio monthly. Most recently, Sleepcast! was updated on November 8, 2026 and Reverse Audio on October 30, 2026.

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