Pinepods
Pinepods is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Music Streaming category, licensed GPL-3.0 and written mainly in Rust. It is a self-hosted alternative to Pocket Casts and ships a Docker image. It has 1,030 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 24, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 1,030
- Forks
- 77
- Open issues
- 125
- Commits, last 12 months
- 487
- Last commit
- Oct 24, 2026
- Latest release
- 0.9.0Jun 26, 2026
- Created
- Sep 3, 2022
- License
- GPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 24, 2026, 487 commits in 12 months.
| Last commit | Oct 24, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 487 |
| Latest release | 0.9.0 (Jun 26, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 2 |
| Releases, all time | 38 |
| Open issues | 125 |
| Open pull requests | 29 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Sep 3, 2022 |
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About 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 adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/madeofpendletonwool/PinePods.
Topics
- hacktoberfest
- fastapi
- mariadb
- podcast-player
- podcasts
- postgres
- python
- rust
- yew
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Is Pinepods free and open source?
Yes. Pinepods is open-source software released under the GPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Pinepods with Docker?
Yes. Pinepods provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Pinepods?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Pinepods include Navidrome Music Server, koel and Beets. Pinepods itself is a self-hosted alternative to Pocket Casts.
Is Pinepods actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Pinepods was on Oct 24, 2026 with 487 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is 0.9.0, published Jun 26, 2026. It had 125 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.