Podarium is a podcast server you run yourself — it subscribes to your shows, downloads the audio, and serves it to your own players. Publishers see one address, and Apple is never in the loop.
Most podcast apps make your phone fetch every episode straight from the publisher, and Apple's catalogue decides what exists. Podarium inverts that.
Feeds, audio, and artwork are all pulled by your server and served from it. Publishers see one address — no client of yours ever makes a request to a host you didn't choose.
Discovery runs through the open Podcast Index — search, categories, and trending — never iTunes. Or just paste a feed URL.
Silence removal and loudness leveling happen once, on the server — no client repeats the work. Ad breaks marked by publishers get skipped, and intros and outros trim per show.
Podarium fetches transcripts where publishers offer them, so you can search your library by what was said — not just episode titles — and bookmark the exact timestamp.
Your queue, your retention rules, your statistics — measured honestly.
Search, browse categories, see what's trending — all via Podcast Index — or paste any feed URL directly.
Episodes arrive before you want them, with retention rules per show or globally — the server decides what to keep.
A play queue, an inbox with filters, starred episodes, and a resume list that knows where you left off.
Speed per show, chapter skip, publisher-marked ad-break skipping, intro/outro trimming, and a sleep timer.
Listening time measured from audio that actually played — not from what got marked as done.
Web push for new episodes with a badge on the home-screen icon, and offline playback for episodes you save.
Bookmark a timestamp inside an episode — the thing that's hardest to ever find again — and jump straight back.
Bring your subscriptions from any app, and leave with them any time — plus Prometheus metrics and a nightly database dump.
Your phone never talks to a publisher's CDN, an ad network's tracker, or Apple's catalogue. Your server fetches everything and serves it with range requests — to the installable web app today, and to the native iOS app that's in progress against the same API.
The name follows the Latin habit: an -arium is a place where things are kept — an aquarium for fish, a Podarium for your pods.
You need Docker with Compose. A NAS is a good home; the Portainer stack ships with a nightly database dump built in.
Paste the Portainer stack (or compose file), set your Postgres password.
Search Podcast Index, browse trending, or paste your OPML from another app.
Add the web app to your phone's home screen — episodes are already downloaded and waiting.
Serves the web app and API from one address on :8044 — which matters, because playback rides a same-origin httpOnly session cookie.