PodcastPlayer.com Podcast App vs Podtastic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PodcastPlayer.com Podcast App
Discover and listen to millions of free audio and video podcasts with offline playback, seamless cloud sync, and advanced search. Organize your favorite shows, enjoy video podcasts with picture-in-picture, and customize your listening experience.
- Offline listening
- Cloud sync across devices
- Video podcast support with picture-in-picture
- Advanced episode-level search
- Podcast organization by genre and mood
- Sleep timer
- CarPlay support
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Podcastplayer.com is a new podcast player app and website that empowers listeners around the world to search, discover, and listen to more than 20+ million free audio and video podcast episodes. You can find your favorite shows and discover new ones focused on pop culture, news, technology, sports, comedy, true crime, and more! Plus, discover robust features for watching video podcasts, free audiobooks, documentaries, relaxing sounds and interviews easily by using our curated discovery categories and advanced episode-level search. KEY APP FEATURES • Offline listening - When you're commuting and relaxing, your podcast player is still there for you, even with no wifi. • Seamless cloud sync - Cross device sync lets you pickup right where you left off • Video Podcasts - Podcastplayer.com is optimized for video, with easy discovery of videos, fully featured app player, and picture in picture for multi-tasking • Discover - See what new shows, episodes, and videos are most popular • Colors & dark theme - Customize the app to fit your style • Podcast organization - Group your shows into genres and moods. • Sleep timer - Let the podcasts sleep when you do. • CarPlay support - Listen in your car and easily control your shows from your dashboard PREMIUM FEATURES The Podcastplayer.com subscription includes the following additional features • Space Saver - Compress downloaded episodes, while maintaining audio quality. A 100MB MP3 could compress to 30MB! • Relax & Sleep - Discover and listen to relaxing sleep sounds hand-picked by our editors. • Custom App Icons - Choose from 9 unique app icons to match your home screen. • iPad support - Explore the app in Portrait and Landscape views. • Ad-Free experience - Focus on the content of your favorite podcast episodes without the distraction of ads. • Play on multiple devices - Easily sync playlists, full play history, and resume playback across devices. • Playlists & bookmarks - Organize with playlists and timestamped bookmarks tied to your cloud account. • Theme editor - Full control on themes, cloud-sync all your themes, unlock all premium themes. • Turbo Fetch - Get updates early & often. Be the first to know! • Personal search - Locate any episode with ease from your subscriptions and playlists. Support: support@podcastplayer.com Detailed subscription terms and more information about podcastplayer.com can be found here: Terms of Service: https://podcastplayer.com/legal Privacy Policy: https://podcastplayer.com/privacy
Podtastic
This app uses AI to intelligently skip filler content and summarize episodes, allowing you to focus on the most important parts of podcasts. It offers smart playback, topic jumping, and silence trimming for a more efficient listening experience.
- AI-generated episode summaries
- Smart Jump Ahead to skip filler
- Topic highlighting and section jumping
- Auto-filling playback queue
- Silence trimming and playback speed adjustment
- Offline episode downloads
- Playlist organization
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The independent podcast app built for listeners, not advertising companies. Listen to more of the shows you love; your data stays private, and you control how you listen. SMART SKIP Skip past the bits other listeners skip. Smart Skip spots commonly skipped topics using aggregated listener data, so you spend more time on what matters and less on the filler. The more the community listens, the smarter it gets. SMART SUMMARIES Every podcast and episode gets an AI-generated summary that evolves over time. Discover new shows you'd never have found. Quickly decide if an episode is worth a listen, before you press play. Summaries update as podcasts grow, so you always have the latest picture. SMART TOPICS Key topics are automatically highlighted across your favourite podcasts. Jump straight to the sections you care about most. No more scrubbing through episodes looking for the good parts; Smart Topics surfaces them for you. Share a topic timestamp with a friend in a single tap. ALSO INCLUDED Skip Silence trims silences and dead air from every episode without changing how natural the host sounds. Pair it with adjustable playback speed (0.5x–3x) and pitch correction to fit even more into your day. FEATURES - Support innovation in open podcasting - Smart Skip auto-skips commonly skipped topics - Smart Summaries for every podcast and episode - Smart Topics with section jumping and shareable timestamps - Skip Silence trims silences and dead air - CarPlay support - Add any podcast by search or RSS URL - Download episodes for offline listening - Adjustable playback speed (0.5x–3x) with pitch correction - Sleep timer - Background playback with lock screen and Control Center controls - Playlists to organise episodes across shows - Auto-download new episodes - Auto-delete played episodes - Wi-Fi only downloads - Episode-ready notifications - Dark mode PLANS & PRICING Building and maintaining a multi-platform, open, distributed podcasting app costs a lot! Recently large media platforms with hundreds of millions in funding have entered the space with the goal of killing the RSS feed and making podcasting just one more entertainment form in their closed subscription apps. Your small monthly payment goes a small way to covering the costs, while sending a big message to these platforms that you want to keep podcasting open. Start free. Add as many podcasts as you like and put Podtastic's smart features to work on 2 of them, no time limit. Go Unlimited to unlock the smart features on every podcast you follow: - Just $2.99/month, billed annually ($34.99/year), save 70% - Or $9.99/month - 14-day free trial, cancel anytime Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://podtastic.app/info/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://podtastic.app/info/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PodcastPlayer.com Podcast App at 5.0 against Podtastic's 4.1. PodcastPlayer.com Podcast App also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). Podtastic's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (17 vs 2). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. PodcastPlayer.com Podcast App sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Podtastic sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PodcastPlayer.com Podcast App holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Podtastic has 17 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | PodcastPlayer.com Podcast App | Podtastic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.1 (17 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 58.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 17 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 184 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Maple Media Apps, LLC | Freewheel Group |
Customer experience
PodcastPlayer.com Podcast App
Podtastic
In-app purchases
PodcastPlayer.com Podcast App
- Podcastplayer.com - Monthly$1.991 Month
- Podcastplayer.com - Annual$14.991 Year
Podtastic
- Starter Monthly14 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Unlimited Monthly14 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Unlimited Annual14 Days trial$34.991 Year
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- Starter Annual14 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Unlimited Annual14 Days trial$47.491 Year
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