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 Podbean
Podbean is a podcast hosting and monetization platform with a recording app, a podcast website and analytics. 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 Podbean describes on its own site.
Podbean features, app by app
| Feature | microfeed |
|---|---|
| Podcast hosting for audio and video | Yes |
| Scheduled publishing | No |
| Distribution to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and other apps | Partly |
| IAB-certified podcast analytics | Partly |
| Podcast website included with hosting | Yes |
| Embeddable players for single episodes or multiple tracks | Partly |
| Monetization with ads marketplace, dynamic ads and subscriptions | Partly |
| AI tools for audio cleanup, titles, show notes, chapters and transcripts | Partly |
Self-hosted CMS that publishes podcasts, posts, photos and links as a website, RSS feed and JSON Feed on Cloudflare
- What a Podbean user would miss
- It has no scheduled publishing, no built-in statistics, no embed player, no ad tools and no AI audio or text 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 Podcast hosting for audio and video. Audio and video uploaded to R2 and served as the RSS enclosure.
- No Scheduled publishing. No scheduled release found.
- Partly Distribution to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and other apps. Subscribe links to directories, but the RSS URL is submitted by hand.
- Partly IAB-certified podcast analytics. OP3 or Podtrac tracking prefixes on media URLs; no built-in statistics.
- Yes Podcast website included with hosting. A themeable website with item pages, search and a custom domain.
- Partly Embeddable players for single episodes or multiple tracks. Item pages play audio and video; no embed code found.
- Partly Monetization with ads marketplace, dynamic ads and subscriptions. A podcast:funding support link; no ads, subscriptions or listener payments.
- Partly AI tools for audio cleanup, titles, show notes, chapters and transcripts. Transcript and chapter fields and an agent CLI; no built-in generation of transcripts or show notes.
Sources:github.com/microfeed/microfeed#-featureswww.podbean.com/podcast-hosting-features