HearHere vs think
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Chapter preselect
- Automatic downloads
- Queue management
- Skip silences
- Speed adjustment
- Smart Playlists
- Apple Watch sync
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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 • 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/
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: think at none against HearHere's 2. think also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). HearHere's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. HearHere sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. think asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for HearHere against 5.0 for think. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HearHere has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
HearHere ships an update every 9 days, think fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HearHere | think |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 143 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Toni Na | Khanh Trinh Le Ba |
Customer experience
HearHere
think
In-app purchases
HearHere
- HearHere Fellow - Monthly$1.991 Month
- HearHere – Annual$15.991 Year
think
No in-app purchases








