🆚 Apple Podcasts vs. SoundCloud
- 📈 SoundCloud is noticeably more popular than Apple Podcasts.
- 🌍 SoundCloud is more popular in Germany, the United Kingdom, and France.
- 🌎 Apple Podcasts is more popular in the United States, Taiwan, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Apple Podcasts
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About
Apple Podcasts is a podcast distribution and streaming platform from Apple that allows users to discover, follow, and listen to shows across Apple devices.
It provides creators with 
RSS-based distribution and directory listing, supports paid subscriptions and channels through Apple Podcasts Subscriptions, offers episode transcripts and offline listening, and synchronizes playback across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and CarPlay.
SoundCloud is an online music streaming and distribution platform that allows musicians upload, share, and monetize audio tracks, while listeners discover and engage with content.
It hosts over 400 million tracks, supports social features such as a feed based on friends’ likes and follows, direct in-app messaging, public commenting on tracks, personalized recommendations, playlists with up to 500 tracks, and offers analytics and messaging tools for artists.
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Pricing
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Audio Streaming category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Taiwan in the Audio Streaming category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the Audio Streaming category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Australia in the Audio Streaming category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Canada in the Audio Streaming category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Audio Streaming category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Audio Streaming category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Ukraine in the Audio Streaming category.
- 🥇 Most popular in South Africa in the Audio Streaming category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Iran in the Audio Streaming category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Spotify
Libsyn
iHeart
Podigee
Bandcamp
Mixcloud
Beatport🗃️ 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 3,523,511 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.