HearHere vs Wallflower
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 • 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/
Wallflower
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Wallflower replaces Reddit's web pages with a boring reader. WHAT YOU GET - The front page, subreddits, posts and comment threads, as expected. - Sort feeds by best, hot, new, top, etc. Sort comments by best, top, new, controversial, etc. Tap a comment's header to collapse it. - Image and gallery viewer. Swipe between images, pinch to zoom. Videos are just video tags. - Type a subreddit name to go there. WHAT YOU DON'T GET - You can't log in, vote, comment, post or subscribe. - There's no inbox, no chat, no profile. - User pages, search and wikis aren't supported.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: HearHere at Free against Wallflower's $2.99. HearHere also leads on ratings volume (9 vs 1). Wallflower's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and chart position (#8 vs unranked). On rating, update cadence, ads 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
HearHere is free to download; Wallflower costs $2.99 up front. HearHere sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Wallflower 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 Wallflower. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HearHere has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
HearHere ships an update every 9 days, Wallflower weekly. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | HearHere | Wallflower |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | — | #8 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 147 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Toni Na | And a Dinosaur |
Customer experience
HearHere
Wallflower
In-app purchases
HearHere
- HearHere Fellow - Monthly$1.991 Month
- HearHere – Annual$15.991 Year
Wallflower
No in-app purchases
