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RomMvsYouCast

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

RomMYouCast
Score81/10046/100
Rank in category#1 of 5 in Emulation#8 of 18 in Podcasts
GitHub stars14 134265
Stars, last 30 days+978—
Stable releases, 12 months100
Latest release5.4.1 · 22 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0GPL-2.0
Main languagePythonC

Which one should you pick?

RomM scores 81/100 against 46/100 for YouCast, so it is the safer default.

RomM ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for YouCast.

If you want the quickest setup, YouCast is easier to run; RomM needs more configuration.

RomM is growing faster right now (+978 stars in 30 days).

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