Podash vs Podscan.fm

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.

Podscan.fm is a podcast database and search service for finding and working with episode audio and metadata. Its REST API provides access to more than 72 million episodes from more than 4.9 million podcasts, with full-text transcript search and filters for category, language and date. Podscan says it transcribes and analyzes thousands of new episodes daily. Summaries cover topics, key quotes, guests and sponsors, while topic extraction connects named subjects across the podcast corpus. The service also offers a real-time Firehose API, custom webhooks and a Zapier integration with pre-built triggers for new scan results. Its MCP server works with ChatGPT, Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, Claude Code and other MCP-enabled clients, using OAuth 2.1 without an API token; REST API requests use API-key authentication. A free plan and 10-day trial are listed. After the trial, alerts pause and API access stops until a paid plan is selected. Premium costs $100 a month. One-time options include Day Pass at $20, paid once and Research Pass at $50, paid once.