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 Simplecast
Simplecast is a podcast publishing, distribution, analytics and monetization platform. 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 Simplecast describes on its own site.
Simplecast features, app by app
| Feature | microfeed |
|---|---|
| Podcast publishing and hosting | Yes |
| One-click publishing to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pandora and other apps | Partly |
| IAB-certified analytics | Partly |
| Dynamic ad insertion with an ad marketplace | No |
| Embeddable web players for a single episode or a whole show | Partly |
| Podcast site builder with a custom domain | Yes |
| Multiple shows and collaborators with permission levels | Partly |
| Show Migrator for moving a podcast from another host, and an API | Partly |
Self-hosted CMS that publishes podcasts, posts, photos and links as a website, RSS feed and JSON Feed on Cloudflare
- What a Simplecast user would miss
- It has no ad insertion, no collaborator roles, no statistics dashboard and no show migrator.
- 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 publishing and hosting. Audio and video uploaded to R2 and served as the RSS enclosure.
- Partly One-click publishing to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pandora and other apps. Subscribe links to directories, but the RSS URL is submitted by hand.
- Partly IAB-certified analytics. OP3 or Podtrac tracking prefixes on media URLs; no built-in statistics.
- No Dynamic ad insertion with an ad marketplace. No ad insertion or ad marketplace found.
- Partly Embeddable web players for a single episode or a whole show. Item pages play audio and video; no embed code found.
- Yes Podcast site builder with a custom domain. A themeable website with item pages, search and a custom domain.
- Partly Multiple shows and collaborators with permission levels. Several instances can be managed with the CLI; no collaborator roles found.
- Partly Show Migrator for moving a podcast from another host, and an API. An authenticated API with OpenAPI docs and webhooks; no importer for another host's feed found.
Sources:github.com/microfeed/microfeed#-featureswww.simplecast.com/features