Vortex for Podcast vs PodInbox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vortex for Podcast
Discover and manage podcasts with a feature-rich player. Enjoy advanced audio controls, offline listening, and seamless data syncing. Customize your experience with a beautiful, intuitive interface.
- Podcast management via RSS and OPML
- Advanced audio playback controls
- Offline episode downloads
- Automatic data backup and iCloud sync
- Customizable themes and interface
- Voice Boost feature
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Discover your next favorite podcast with Vortex, a powerful and elegant podcast player designed for the modern listener. Built with the latest iOS technologies like SwiftUI and SwiftData, Vortex offers a seamless and feature-rich experience. Key Features: Powerful Podcast Management: Easily subscribe to your favorite shows via RSS, import your library with OPML, and let Vortex keep everything up-to-date automatically. Our smart sorting and favorites system helps you find what to listen to next. Advanced Audio Experience: Enjoy high-quality audio with robust playback controls. Manage your listening with a flexible playback queue, and never lose your spot with playback position memory. Enhance your listening with our Voice Boost feature and stream to your devices with AirPlay. Listen Anywhere, Anytime: Download episodes for offline listening. Vortex intelligently manages downloads and can even pre-download items in your queue, ensuring you always have something ready to play, with or without a connection. Seamless Data Sync & Backup: Keep your subscriptions and playback progress safe with automatic silent backups and iCloud sync. Easily export your data or create manual backups whenever you need. Tailored To You: Customize your experience with theme switching. Vortex is designed to be beautiful and intuitive, with smooth animations and a clean, responsive layout. Download Vortex today and rediscover the joy of podcasts!
PodInbox
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PodInbox turns new episodes into a listening queue that fits your available time. — Tell it your time, get a queue - Pick 15 / 30 / 45 / 60 minutes (or custom) and Smart Queue builds a queue that fits - Ask Siri: "Build my PodInbox queue" - Episodes you already started come first, then the newest - Preview, reorder, or trim before you commit — An inbox for podcasts - New episodes land in your Inbox, grouped by day - Swipe to play next or archive (with undo), tap to queue or save - Per-show Smart Rules quietly archive old and finished episodes — Built for real listening - Optional auto-download keeps your whole queue offline for subways and flights - Optional quiet notification when new episodes arrive — including how long your queue is - Playback speed remembered per show, intro skip, sleep timer (incl. End of Episode) - Background audio, lock screen and headphone controls out of the box — Your library, honest numbers - Saved, Downloads, History, and Archive in one place - Weekly listening summary computed from your actual history — Easy switch - Search shows by name, import OPML from another app, or paste an RSS URL — PodInbox Pro - Unlimited shows and unlimited downloads - Full Smart Rules (keep latest 3, auto-archive after 7/30 days) - Monthly listening recap PodInbox isn't a discovery app. It's the app that fits podcasts into your life. — Privacy: https://pomeranianstudio.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Vortex for Podcast at fortnightly against PodInbox's every 5 weeks. 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
Both are free to download. Vortex for Podcast sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and PodInbox sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Vortex for Podcast ships an update fortnightly, PodInbox every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.
| Parameter | Vortex for Podcast | PodInbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 恒敏 吴 | kurihara kazuki |
In-app purchases
Vortex for Podcast
- Buy me a Coffee$0.99
- Buy me a Lunch$2.99
- Buy me a Feast$5.99
PodInbox
- PodInbox Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- PodInbox Pro Yearly$29.991 Year









