Podcat vs NewsFlash
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Podcat
This podcast client offers advanced features for managing and listening to your favorite shows. It supports various chapter marker types and provides community-specific enhancements. Enjoy customizable playback speeds, sleep timers, and intelligent episode sorting.
- Supports Podlove and chapter markers
- Customizable playback speed per podcast
- Sleep timer
- Manual and automatic episode sorting
- Background downloading of new episodes
- CarPlay support
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Podcat 3 is the German podcast reference. You are looking for a Podcatcher that supports Podlove, can display any kind of chapter markers and also offers some special features especially for the German speaking community? Then you are right with the Podcat 2. The Podcat can have different speeds per podcast and has a sleep timer. Episodes can be sorted manually and played accordingly. You can sort podcasts into groups or use automatic groups with search options. For all podcasts, there are a variety of settings that will make your everyday life easier. New episodes are automatically searched for and downloaded in the background. You decide whether to attach them to the playlist or play them directly next. Subscribed but not heard so regularly? Then just do not put the episode into the list. It's your choice. And Carplay? No problem!
NewsFlash
A fast, modern RSS reader designed for a clean, distraction-free news experience. Organize articles with tags, filter content, and search your entire feed. Offers custom push notifications and developer-friendly features.
- Clean, distraction-free reading experience
- Customizable tags and filtering
- Full-text search across articles
- Keyword blocking for unwanted topics
- Custom push notifications
- iCloud Sync for private data backup
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Your sources. Less noise. NewsFlash is an independent RSS reader for people who want to choose what they read, without an algorithm, ads, tracking, or a separate account. Bring the websites, blogs, and links you care about into one organized library on iPhone and iPad. Filter out what doesn't interest you and keep what does. FOLLOW YOUR SOURCES Subscribe to RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds. Paste a website or feed address, preview its articles, or start with suggested feeds. Import and export your subscriptions with OPML. CONTROL THE NOISE Hide articles that match words or phrases in their title, summary, or URL. Apply a filter to one feed or your whole library, and preview what it matches before you save it. The source stays; only the stories you don't want disappear. KEEP MORE THAN A BOOKMARK Save articles for later, add tags and personal notes, and organize feeds in nested folders. Search across titles, sources, tags, and notes to find things again. SAVE LINKS FROM ANYWHERE Share a page from Safari or any other app straight into NewsFlash, even if you don't follow its source. READ IT YOUR WAY Choose Hero, Full, Compact, or Text Only layouts, with separate settings for each feed. Light and Dark Mode, larger text, and Safari Reader on supported websites help you read comfortably. Seen and read are tracked separately. YOUR READING, WITHIN REACH Your library syncs through your own iCloud account. Get to headlines and saved articles with widgets, Siri, Shortcuts, Control Center, and Spotlight, and choose which feeds may notify you. On iPad, a sidebar keeps your folders and tags in view. Good to know: saved articles are kept when older articles are removed automatically, but saving doesn't store an offline copy of the full webpage. Feed alerts depend on refresh timing, and iOS manages background refresh. An independent RSS reader, made by Michael Steurer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Podcat at none against NewsFlash's 3. Podcat also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). NewsFlash's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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. NewsFlash sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Podcat asks for nothing beyond the download.
Podcat holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Podcat's written reviews are positive against 67% of NewsFlash's.
Podcat ships an update every 2 months, NewsFlash monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Podcat | NewsFlash |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 4.8 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 69.8% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Jeanette Mueller | Michael Steurer |
Customer experience
Podcat
NewsFlash
In-app purchases
Podcat
No in-app purchases
NewsFlash
- Espresso$0.99
- Cappuccino$2.99
- Specialty Coffee Aeropress$4.99









