Pinepods
Podcast management system with multi-user support. Pinepods utilizes a central database so aspects like listen time and themes follow from device to device.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 187 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 0.9.0 (Jun 2026).
Comparisons in Media Streaming - Audio Streaming: Spotify alternatives, SoundCloud alternatives, Podbean alternatives.
At a glance
Pinepods quick facts
- Health score
- 92/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 1,037
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 0.9.0, Jun 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "A forest of podcasts, rooted in the spirit of self-hosting."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Pinepods scores 92/100, #5 of 28 in Media Streaming - Audio Streaming: 187 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (0.9.0, 4 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 1,037 stars add 12.1 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 7.9 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
187 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
0.9.0 released 4 months ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 12.1 / 20
1k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 187
- Last 90 days
- 508
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #5 of 28 tools in Media Streaming - Audio Streaming by health , between multi-scrobbler (#4) and Beets (#6) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Docker |
| Latest release | 0.9.0 · 4 months ago |
| Stars | 1,037 |
| Open issues | 85 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | madeofpendletonwool/PinePods ↗ |
Pinepods vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Pinepods (Media Streaming - Audio Streaming), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Navidrome Music Server | 98 | 24k | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Audiobookshelf | 97 | 15k | GPL-3.0 | 7 days ago |
| LMS | 93 | 1.7k | GPL-3.0 | 1 month ago |
| multi-scrobbler | 92 | 1.3k | MIT | yesterday |
| Pinepods (this tool) | 92 | 1k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| vod2pod-rss | 83 | 390 | MIT | today |
Pinepods: common questions
Is Pinepods still maintained?
Pinepods had 187 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, 0.9.0, is from 4 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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