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# Welcome 👋
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[![release-badge]][release] [![license-badge]][license] [![contributions-badge]][contributions] [![semantic-release-badge]][semantic-release] [![crowdin-badge]][crowdin] [![discord-badge]][discord] [![stars-badge]][stars]
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Castopod is a free & open-source hosting platform made for podcasters who want
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engage and interact with their audience.
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Castopod is easy to install and was built on top of
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[CodeIgniter4](https://codeigniter.com/), a powerful PHP framework with a very
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small footprint.
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::: info Status
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Castopod is currently in **beta** but already quite stable and used by
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podcasters around the world!
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:::
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<div class="flex items-center">
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<a href="/getting-started/install" class="inline-flex items-center px-4 py-2 mx-auto font-semibold text-center text-white rounded-full shadow gap-x-1 bg-pine-500 hover:no-underline hover:bg-pine-600">Install<svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" width="1em" height="1em" class="text-xl text-pine-200"><path fill="currentColor" d="m16.172 11-5.364-5.364 1.414-1.414L20 12l-7.778 7.778-1.414-1.414L16.172 13H4v-2z"></path></svg></a>
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## Features
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- 🌱 Free & open-source (AGPL v3 License)
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- 🔐 Focused on data sovereignty: your content, audience, and analytics
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belong to you, and you only
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- 🪄 Podcasting 2.0 features: GUID, locked, transcripts, funding,
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chapters, location, persons, soundbites, …
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- 💬 Built-in social network:
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- 🚀 Castopod is part of the Fediverse, a decentralized social network
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- ❤️ Create posts, share, favourite, and comment on episodes
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- 📈 Built-in analytics:
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- ⚖️ GDPR / CCPA / LGPD compliant
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- 🪙 Standard IABv2 audience measurement
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- 🏡 On-premises analytics, no third party involved
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- 📢 Built-in marketing tools:
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- ✅ SEO ready (open-graph meta-tags, JSON-LD, …)
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- 📱 PWA: install as a standalone app
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- 🎨 Customizable theme colors
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- 🎬 Generate ready-to-share Video clips from episodes
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- 🔉 Generate soundbites
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- ▶️ Embeddable player, embed your episodes on any website
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- 💸 Monetization:
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- 🔗 Funding links
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- 📲 listen-to-click ads
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- 🤝 value4value / WebMonetization
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- 📡 Publish your episodes everywhere with RSS:
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- 📱 On all indexes and apps: Podcast Index, Apple Podcasts, Spotify,
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Google Podcasts, Deezer, Podcast Addict, Podfriend, …
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- ⚡ Broadcast your episodes instantly with WebSub
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- 📥 Podcast import: move your existing podcast into Castopod
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- 📤 Move your podcast out of Castopod
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- 🔀 Multi-tenant: host as many podcasts as you want
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- 👥 Multi-user: add contributors and set roles
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- 🌎 i18n support: translated in English, French & Polish with more to
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come!
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## Motivation
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The podcasting ecosystem is decentralized by nature: you can create your podcast
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as an RSS file, publish it on the web and have it shared everywhere online.
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It is in fact one of the only media to have stayed this way for a long time.
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As usages are evolving, more and more people are getting into podcasts: whether
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it is creators finding new ways to share their ideas, or listeners in the search
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for better content.
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With podcasting becoming more widely used, some companies are trying to shift it
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towards a more controlled and centralized medium.
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Castopod was created in an effort to provide an open and sustainable alternative
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to hosting your podcasts, promoting decentralization to ensure that podcasters
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creativity can express itself.
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This project is pushed by the open-source community, and specifically by the
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[Fediverse](https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/) and
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[Podcasting 2.0](https://podcastindex.org/) movements.
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## Comparison with other solutions
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We believe that a solution is not necessarily right for everyone, it highly
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depends on your needs. So, here are comparisons with other tools to help you to
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gauge whether Castopod is the right fit for you.
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### Castopod vs Wordpress
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Castopod is often referred to as "the Wordpress for podcasts" because of the
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similarities between the two. In some ways this is true. And actually, Castopod
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was greatly inspired by the Wordpress ecosystem, seeing the ease of adoption
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from the community and the number of websites running it.
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Just like Wordpress, Castopod is free & open source, built using PHP with a
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MySQL database and is packaged in a way that you can easily install on most web
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servers.
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Wordpress is a great way to create your website and extend it with plugins to
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get what you want. It is a full fledged CMS that helps you get any type of
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website online.
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On the other hand, Castopod is meant to address the podcasters needs
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specifically, focusing on podcasting, and nothing else. You don't need any
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plugin to get you started on your podcasting journey.
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This allows optimizing the processes specific to podcasting: ranging from the
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creation of your podcasts and the publication of new episodes all the way to
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broadcasting, marketing and analytics.
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Finally, depending on your needs, Wordpress and Castopod can even live side by
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side as they share the same requirements!
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### Castopod vs Funkwhale
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Funkwhale is a self-hosted, modern free and open-source music server. Just as
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Castopod, Funkwhale is on the fediverse, a decentralized social network allowing
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interoperability between the two.
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Funkwhale was initially built around music. And later on, as the project
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evolved, the ability to host podcasts was introduced.
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Unlike Funkwhale, Castopod has been designed and built around podcasting
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exclusively. This allows easier implementation for features related to the
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podcasting ecosystem, such as the podcasting 2.0 features (transcripts,
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chapters, locations, persons, …).
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So, you should probably use Funkwhale if you want to host your music, and use
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Castopod if you want to host your podcasts.
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### Castopod vs other podcast hosts
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There are many solutions for you to host your podcasts, some of which are really
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great and [a lot of them](https://podcastindex.org/apps) are jumping into the
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Podcasting 2.0 wagon just like Castopod!
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Each of these solutions differ from one another, you may compare with the
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[list of features](#features).
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That being said, there are two main differences with other podcasting solutions:
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- Castopod can be self-hosted and is the only solution that allows you to keep
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full control over what you produce. Also, as it is open-source, you can even
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customize it as you wish.
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- Castopod is the only solution that currently integrates both a decentralized
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social network with ActivityPub as well as many of the podcasting 2.0
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features, hoping to bridge the gap between the two.
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## Contributing
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Love Castopod and would like to help? Take a look at the following documentation
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to get you started.
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### Code of conduct
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Castopod has adopted a Code of Conduct that we expect project participants to
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adhere to. Please read the
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[CODE_OF_CONDUCT manual](https://code.castopod.org/adaures/castopod/-/blob/beta/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md)
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so that you can understand what actions will and will not be tolerated.
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### Contributing guide
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Read our [contributing guide](./contributing/guidelines.md) to learn about our
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development process, how to propose bugfixes and improvements, and how to build
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and test your changes to Castopod.
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## Contact
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You may reach us for help or ask any question you have on:
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- [Discord](https://castopod.org/discord) (for direct interaction with
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developers and the community)
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- [Issue tracker](https://code.castopod.org/adaures/castopod/-/issues) (for
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feature requests & bug reports)
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Alternatively, you can follow us on social media platforms to get news about
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Castopod:
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- [podlibre.social](https://podlibre.social/@Castopod) (Mastodon instance)
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- [Twitter](https://twitter.com/castopod)
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- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/castopod)
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- [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/castopod)
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## Sponsors
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The ongoing development of Castopod is made possible with the support of its
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backers. If you'd like to help, please consider
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[sponsoring Castopod's development](https://opencollective.com/castopod/contribute).
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<a href="https://adaures.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img src="/images/sponsors/adaures.svg" alt="Ad Aures Logo" class="h-16" /></a>
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<a href="https://nlnet.nl/project/Castopod/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img src="/images/sponsors/nlnet.svg" alt="NLnet Logo" class="h-16" /></a>
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</div>
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## License
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[GNU Affero General Public License v3.0](https://choosealicense.com/licenses/agpl-3.0/)
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Copyright © 2020-present, [Ad Aures](https://adaures.com/).
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https://img.shields.io/gitlab/v/release/2?color=brightgreen&gitlab_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcode.castopod.org%2F&include_prereleases&label=release
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https://img.shields.io/github/license/ad-aures/castopod?color=blue
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https://img.shields.io/badge/contributions-welcome-brightgreen.svg
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https://img.shields.io/badge/%20%20%F0%9F%93%A6%F0%9F%9A%80-semantic--release-e10079.svg
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https://img.shields.io/github/stars/ad-aures/castopod?style=social
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[release]: https://code.castopod.org/adaures/castopod/-/releases
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[license]: https://code.castopod.org/adaures/castopod/-/blob/beta/LICENSE.md
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[contributions]: https://code.castopod.org/adaures/castopod/-/issues
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[semantic-release]: https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release
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[discord]: https://castopod.org/discord
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[stars]: https://github.com/ad-aures/castopod/stargazers
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[crowdin]: https://translate.castopod.org/project/castopod
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