🆚 Apple Music vs. Castbox
- 📈 Apple Music is much more popular than Castbox.
- 🌎 Apple Music is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Castbox is more popular in Iran, Vietnam, and Oman.
Statistics based on 3.4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Audio streaming service
Audio streaming service
About
Apple Music is a subscription-based audio and video streaming service developed by Apple Inc.
It offers over 100 million songs, supports lossless and spatial audio quality, and is available in over 160 countries and regions.
Castbox is a global spoken audio platform with automated transcribing, an indexing tool for podcasts, and an advanced recommendation engine.
Headquarters
Cupertino, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Pricing
Free version ❌Free trial for 1-3 months
Student$5.99/month
Individual$10.99/month
Family$16.99/month
Free version ✔️
Premium$7.99/year
Categories
Audio Streaming › Rank #4
Audio Streaming › Rank #20
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Apple Music audio streaming service is 18 times more popular than Castbox.
Total websites
Market share
Audio Streaming
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Apple Music is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Castbox is more popular in Iran, Vietnam, and Oman.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
France
Netherlands
Italy
Canada
Spain
Australia
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Audio Streaming category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Audio Streaming category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in France in the Audio Streaming category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the Netherlands in the Audio Streaming category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Italy in the Audio Streaming category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Iran in the Audio Streaming category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in the United States in the Audio Streaming category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Apple Music is more popular among sites focused on entertainment, blogs and wiki, and marketing and merchandising, while Castbox is more commonly used on general news sites.
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Online Shopping
Streaming Media
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Personal Pages
Games
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,406,701 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.

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