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Welcome 👋

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Castopod is a free & open-source hosting platform made for podcasters who want engage and interact with their audience.

Castopod is easy to install and was built on top of CodeIgniter4, a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint.

Install

Features

• 🌱  Free & open-source (AGPL v3 License)
• 🔐  Focused on data sovereignty: your content, audience, and analytics belong to you, and you only
• 🪄  Podcasting 2.0 features: GUID, locked, transcripts, funding, chapters, location, persons, soundbites, …
• 💬  Built-in social network:
  • 🚀  Castopod is part of the Fediverse, a decentralized social network
  • ❤️  Create posts, share, favourite, and comment on episodes
• 📈  Built-in analytics:
  • ⚖️  GDPR / CCPA / LGPD compliant
  • 🪙  Standard IABv2 audience measurement
  • 🏡  On-premises analytics, no third party involved
• 📢  Built-in marketing tools:
  • ✅  SEO ready (open-graph meta-tags, JSON-LD, …)
  • 📱  PWA: install as a standalone app
  • 🎨  Customizable theme colors
  • 🎬  Generate ready-to-share Video clips from episodes
  • 🔉  Generate soundbites
  • ▶️  Embeddable player, embed your episodes on any website
• 💸  Monetization:
  • 🔗  Funding links
  • 📲  listen-to-click ads
  • 🤝  value4value / WebMonetization
  • 💎  Premium podcasts
• 📡  Publish your episodes everywhere with RSS:
  • 📱  On all indexes and apps: Podcast Index, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Deezer, Podcast Addict, Podfriend, …
  • ⚡  Broadcast your episodes instantly with WebSub
• 📥  Podcast import: move your existing podcast into Castopod
• 📤  Move your podcast out of Castopod
• 🔀  Multi-tenant: host as many podcasts as you want
• 👥  Multi-user: add contributors and set roles
• 🌎  i18n support: translated in English, French, Polish, German, Brazilian Portuguese & Spanish… with more to come!

Motivation

The podcasting ecosystem is decentralized by nature: you can create your podcast as an RSS file, publish it on the web and have it shared everywhere online.