Podash vs PodcastStats.com

Podash tracks podcast rankings and activity across Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Its charts cover 15 countries and 18 categories, with historical data available for up to 30 days. Users can search for podcasts and view their details, while the app monitors Apple Podcast reviews. Connecting Simplecast and YouTube aggregates download numbers for the last five episodes. Widgets are available for the Home Screen and Today View, as well as on iPad and Mac. The free download has in-app purchases: Indie Podcaster costs $0.99 a month or $9.99 a year, and Podcast Network costs $9.99, paid once and allows following an unlimited number of podcasts. The maker describes the charts as useful to marketing experts monitoring recently popular shows for performance marketing. Podash is made by fruitful apps, an app studio in Hamburg, Germany. The maker says the app has no tracking, data collection or ads, and that a Simplecast API key is kept in iCloud Keychain where only the user can access it. iPhone requires iOS 17.4 or later; Mac compatibility requires macOS 14.4 or later and Apple M1 or later.

PodcastStats.com provides podcast analytics for tracking downloads, understanding audiences and following podcast growth. Its download tracking uses IAB-compliant bot filtering and deduplication to reduce bot traffic and duplicate counts, with live updates. Reports cover geography, devices, platforms, apps, retention and engagement, including city-level geographic detail. To connect a podcast, users can add tracking URLs to an RSS feed or send data through the REST API, which offers webhooks, embeds and custom integrations. Historical data can be imported from Libsyn, Anchor and Buzzsprout. The Free plan costs nothing and allows up to 10K downloads per month, with basic dashboard analytics, seven-day data retention, bot filtering and email support. Premium costs $19 a month, allows up to 1M downloads per month and adds advanced insights, unlimited retention, API access and webhooks, widgets, geographic insights and priority support. Enterprise costs $99 a month and includes unlimited downloads, white-labeling, custom integrations and reporting, multi-user accounts, a dedicated support manager and a 99.99% SLA guarantee. A 14-day Premium trial requires no credit card.