Audio and podcasting

Everand alternatives

2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

bookorbit/bookorbit1,989AGPL-3.0Self-hosted reading platform for managing and reading ebooks with a user-facing web interface.Open on GitHub advplyr/audiobookshelf13,885GPL-3.0Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server with web streaming and library management features.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Licensed catalog and publisher/author deals (large/new-release inventory)
Exclusive Originals and content rights
Scale, CDN-optimized streaming for many concurrent listeners
Integrated reading-community and analytics at scale

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Everand, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.