Spotify / Apple Podcasts
European podcast platforms for listeners and creators — privacy-first hosting, GDPR-compliant, and fair creator monetization.
Acast
🇸🇪Acast says it offers podcast hosting, distribution and monetisation, with a free Starter plan.
Podimo
🇩🇰Podimo offers paid podcast memberships and says it has over 1 million listeners. Podimo says its exclusive podcasts are found nowhere else.
Podigee
🇩🇪Podigee says its podcast hosting includes automatic transcripts with every release, plus analytics.
Choosing an alternative to Spotify / Apple Podcasts
Acast describes an all-in-one platform to manage, distribute and monetise a podcast, with distribution to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and more. Podigee says it lets you record in the browser with up to 8 people, then publish to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube and 12 more platforms, and it offers a free plan. Its about page promises that your content belongs to you and that you can cancel and take your podcast and listeners with you.
Podimo is for listeners. Its German page presents a subscription app with exclusive ad-free podcasts and over 32,000 audiobooks, with a 30-day free trial and then 4,99 € per month.
If you publish, check that you can leave with your RSS feed and your audience, compare what each plan includes, and see how ads are sold. If you listen, check that the shows you follow are on the service and compare the monthly price.