Comparison

HearHere vs think

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

Head to head
About

HearHere

This application offers a distraction-free podcast listening experience with features like chapter preselection, automatic downloads, and silence skipping. It allows for speed adjustment per podcast and includes a sleep timer. Users can also create smart playlists and sync their listening across devices.

Highlights
  • Chapter preselect
  • Automatic downloads
  • Queue management
  • Skip silences
  • Speed adjustment
  • Smart Playlists
  • Apple Watch sync
Features
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No trackers, no ads, no feed. Just the podcasts you love. HearHere was created by a listener, for listeners. It stemmed from an idea to return to basics - your shows, in one place, without unnecessary distractions. Features: • CarPlay • Apple Watch App • Skip chapters • Reorder chapters • Automatic downloads • Queue management • Skip silences • Speed adjustment (per podcast) • Sleep timer • Smart Playlists • Apple Watch sync • Customizable swipe actions • Listening statistics • Sync subscriptions, playlists, and favorites when you choose to sign in • Podcast import • Add by URL
 Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

think

This news app offers a focused reading experience by presenting one story at a time, free from distractions like auto-playing media or infinite scrolling. Users can customize their news sources by selecting topics, publishers, or adding custom RSS feeds, with all data stored locally for privacy.

Highlights
  • One story at a time reading
  • Customizable publisher selection
  • Add custom RSS/Atom feeds
  • Bookmark stories for later
  • No account or tracking
  • Offline data storage
Features
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think renders news the way e-ink renders a page: soft greys, a serif headline, dithered photographs, nothing that blinks, auto-plays, or refreshes itself while you're looking at it. ONE STORY AT A TIME No infinite scroll, no feed to doomscroll through. Each story fills the screen — headline, photo, publisher, and a read-time estimate. Swipe up for the next one, swipe right (or tap) to open the full article in-app. When you've seen everything your topics have to offer, the feed says so and stops, instead of padding itself out with filler. PICK YOUR PUBLISHERS, SKIP THE ALGORITHM There's no engagement-driven ranking deciding what you see. Choose your topics, and think shows you a curated catalog of publishers behind them — 208 publishers across 32 topics at last count. Vote a story up or down to tune the mix, or mute a publisher outright. Want a source that isn't in the catalog? Paste any site's RSS or Atom feed URL and think adds it to your list. SAVE FOR LATER Bookmark anything you don't have time for now. Saved stories are grouped by topic and stay in your list until you clear them. NO ACCOUNT, NO TRACKING There's no sign-in and no user id. think has no analytics, advertising, or crash-reporting SDK, and no server of its own — it only talks to your chosen publishers' RSS feeds and their image hosts. Your topics, your publishers, your votes, and your saved stories live on your device only, and are deleted when you delete the app. Available in English and Vietnamese. Requires iOS 15 or later.

Screenshots

HearHere4 screens
think4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: think at free against HearHere's free with in-app purchases. think also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). HearHere's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and ratings volume (15 vs 5). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. HearHere sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and think sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for HearHere against 4.8 for think. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 5 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HearHere ships an update every 9 days, think every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
HearHere versus think: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHearHerethink
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (15 ratings) — better4.8 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size180 MB51 MB
Age rating9+17+
DeveloperToni NaKhanh Trinh Le Ba

Customer experience

HearHere

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

think

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

HearHere

Subscriptions2
  • HearHere Fellow - Monthly$1.991 Month
  • HearHere – Annual$15.991 Year
1 purchases

think

One-time1
  • think forever$9.99

Questions

Is HearHere free?
HearHere is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is think free?
think is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, HearHere or think?
HearHere is rated higher. HearHere averages 4.9 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while think averages 4.8 from 5 ratings.
Do HearHere or think have ads?
Neither HearHere nor think shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HearHere or think?
HearHere ships an update every 9 days, and think every 2 weeks. Most recently, HearHere was updated on November 9, 2026 and think on November 10, 2026.

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