Open Source Mac Podcast Software

RSS Guard is a simple RSS/ATOM feed reader for Windows, Linux, BSD, OS/2 or macOS which can work with RSS/ATOM/JSON/iCalendar/Sitemap feeds as well as many online feed services. RSS Guard is also a podcast player as it can play everything via its built-in mpv-based (or ffmpeg-based) media player.

Winds is a beautiful open-source RSS and Podcast app created using React & Redux on the frontend and Express.js on the backend. Use the free hosted version or run it on your own server and customize it as you see fit. Contributions in form of pull requests are always appreciated. Activity Feeds & Discovery in Winds are powered by Stream, the app leverages Algolia for search, AWS for hosting, MongoDB Atlas for a hosted database (DBaaS), and SendGrid for email. All of these services have a free tier. Stream is an API for building activity feeds. For Winds the follow suggestions and the list of articles from the feeds you follow is powered by Stream. Stream accounts are free for up to 3 million feed updates and handle personalization (machine learning) for up to 100 users.

On Linux and Windows

Podcast Generator is an open source Content Management System written in PHP and specifically designed for podcast publishing. It provides the user with the tools to easily manage all of the aspects related to the publication of a podcast, from the upload of episodes to its submission to the iTunes store.

HolzCast is a jQuery Plugin that uses RSS feeds as a playlist format and supports more than one playlist. View my project page to get an Idea of how it works.

Monopod is a simple Podcast client. It's for people who want to select a few channels, come back later, and find the the Podcast MP3s turn up on the hard disk.

Software to make creating new iTunes-compatible RSS feeds for podcasts easy.

Podcastfy is an open-source Python package that transforms multi-modal content (text, images) into engaging, multi-lingual audio conversations using GenAI. Input content includes websites, PDFs, youtube videos as well as images. Unlike UI-based tools focused primarily on note-taking or research synthesis (e.g. NotebookLM), Podcastfy focuses on the programmatic and bespoke generation of engaging, conversational transcripts and audio from a multitude of multi-modal sources enabling customization and scale.

Podget is a simple podcast aggregator optimized for running as a scheduled background job (i.e. cron), with support for categories & folders, importing servers from OPML lists & iTunes PCAST files, exporting an OPML file, automatic playlist creation and cleanup. Updated in Version 0.8 on June5, 2016 to include support for ATOM feeds in additions to RSS feeds. As of Nov 9, 2015 the CVS hosted by Sourceforge will no longer be updated. The last version to be uploaded into the CVS was version 0.7.9. I've moved the development files to Git and they are accessible at: https://github.com/dvehrs/podget I will continue to post release versions here so feel free to download them!

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A beautiful and easy to use podcast app designed for elementary OS and other GTK-based Linux desktops. Includes a built-in video player, automatic updating, smart library management, library importing and exporting, custom skip intervals, and more!

castero is a TUI podcast client for the terminal.