Self-hosted CMS that publishes podcasts, posts, photos and links as a website, RSS feed and JSON Feed on Cloudflare
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Self-hosted alternatives to Buzzsprout
Buzzsprout is a podcast hosting service for publishing audio and video episodes and distributing them to podcast directories. One listed app does its main job and runs in your own Cloudflare account.
Each answer comes from the app’s README and source code, compared with the features Buzzsprout describes on its own site.
Buzzsprout features, app by app
| Feature | microfeed |
|---|---|
| Audio and video podcast hosting | Yes |
| Publishing immediately or scheduling an episode date and time | No |
| Distribution to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and other directories | Partly |
| IAB 2.2 certified statistics with bot filtering | Partly |
| Podcast website with an RSS feed, transcripts and directory links | Yes |
| Embeddable podcast player | Partly |
| Automatic transcriptions and AI-generated show notes, titles and chapters | Partly |
| Monetization through ads, listener support and subscriptions | Partly |
Self-hosted CMS that publishes podcasts, posts, photos and links as a website, RSS feed and JSON Feed on Cloudflare
- What a Buzzsprout user would miss
- It has no scheduled releases, no built-in statistics, no embeddable player code, no generated transcripts and no ad tools.
- What it adds
- Built by Listen Notes on one Worker with D1 and R2, with an RSS feed, a JSON Feed and an agent CLI.
- Yes Audio and video podcast hosting. Audio and video uploaded to R2 and served as the RSS enclosure.
- No Publishing immediately or scheduling an episode date and time. No scheduled release found.
- Partly Distribution to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and other directories. Subscribe links to directories, but the RSS URL is submitted by hand.
- Partly IAB 2.2 certified statistics with bot filtering. OP3 or Podtrac tracking prefixes on media URLs; no built-in statistics.
- Yes Podcast website with an RSS feed, transcripts and directory links. A themeable public website, an RSS feed that carries transcripts, and a Subscribe methods list of directory links.
- Partly Embeddable podcast player. Item pages play audio and video; no embed code found.
- Partly Automatic transcriptions and AI-generated show notes, titles and chapters. Transcript and chapter fields and an agent CLI; no built-in generation of transcripts or show notes.
- Partly Monetization through ads, listener support and subscriptions. A podcast:funding support link; no ads, subscriptions or listener payments.
Sources:github.com/microfeed/microfeed#-featureswww.buzzsprout.com/features