You built the audience. Stop renting access to it.
MainStay gives your show its own branded app on iOS and Android. Spotify and Apple are where they find you. Your app is where they belong to you.
Send us your feed. We build, submit and launch. Most apps are live in weeks.
An algorithm change isn't a notification. You find out from your numbers.
Everything you've built rests on a single connection: reaching the people who listen. That's the part worth owning.
Spotify, Apple, and YouTube are where your audience listens. They also decide whether your next episode surfaces at all.
You did the work of building a listener base. But on someone else's platform, you're renting access to it, and the terms can change without warning.
Your show is what your audience counts on. Where they find it should be just as dependable.
Working podcasters with a real business behind the mic.
MainStay is built for independent podcasters who already treat their show as a business:
- You earn from your audience already, through coaching, courses, memberships, books, or events.
- You publish weekly or more often, and your listeners plan around it.
- You don't have your own app yet, and you don't want to hire a development team to get one.
Three steps. You keep publishing exactly as you do now.
Your show, as it is
We start from your existing RSS feed. Your episodes, artwork, and publishing workflow stay exactly where they are. Nothing to migrate, nothing to re-upload.
Your branded app
We build and ship your app to the App Store and Google Play under your name, your artwork, and your colors. We handle submission, review, and updates.
Your listeners install it
You point your audience to your own app from your episodes and channels. Once it's installed, new episodes, announcements, and push notifications go straight to them.
Every part of your show gets a place.
An episode library with resume position and playback speed, plus moderated live chat, polls, and contests, all under your name and not a platform's.
Everything it takes to reach your listeners directly, without building it yourself.
Your own branded app
Native iOS and Android apps, published to the App Store and Google Play under your show's name, with the full back catalog from your RSS feed, resume position, and playback speed.
New episode. One push. Every phone.
New episodes, announcements, and episode alerts go straight to their phones, with no algorithm in between.
The poll looks like fun. It's quietly building your list.
To vote, a listener registers once. That relationship lives in your database — not an algorithm's — and you can export it whenever you want. Moderated live chat, polls, contests, and listener voice messages, all under your name.
Who listens, where, when — in a dashboard, not a black box.
Listener registration with self-serve CSV export. Download your audience whenever you want; it belongs to you.
- Show calendar and episode alerts
- Analytics dashboard in a web admin panel
- CarPlay and Android Auto
- Accessibility mode
- Run your own advertising: banner, audio pre-roll, and video pre-roll, with all revenue yours.
- Managed launch. MainStay handles the build and store submission, so no developer is needed on your side
Banner, audio pre-roll, and video pre-roll
100% of the revenue stays with you
Your ads. Your audience. All the revenue.
Run and sell your own banner, audio pre-roll, and video pre-roll advertising inside your app. MainStay does not sell ads against your show or take a share. Every dollar of advertising revenue stays with you.
See what your audience does, then take the relationship with you.
The web dashboard brings audience analytics, registered listeners, and episode performance into one view. Export your listener list as a CSV whenever you want.
No take rate. No revenue share.
Flat, whether your show makes $500 a month or $50,000. Two plans, every core feature in both, and the same managed launch. Pro adds more room to customize and unlocks every advertising format.
MainStay
$124/month
Plus a one-time $495 build fee, waived if you pay for your first year up front. Your complete branded podcast app: everything your show needs to reach listeners directly.
- Branded iOS and Android apps, published under your show's name
- Full RSS back catalog with resume position and playback speed
- Push notifications
- Moderated live chat
- Polls and contests
- Listener registration with CSV export
- Show calendar and episode alerts
- Listener voice messages
- Analytics dashboard
- CarPlay and Android Auto
- Accessibility mode
- Managed launch and store submission
- 1 additional app icon, 1 app icon update per year, album art, and banner advertising included
MainStay Pro
$149/month
Plus a one-time $495 build fee, waived if you pay for your first year up front. Everything in MainStay, with more room to make the app yours and the full ad stack included.
- Everything in MainStay
- Up to 5 additional app icons (vs. 1)
- App icon updates 4× per year (vs. 1×)
- Audio and video pre-roll advertising included (a $25/mo add-on each on the base plan)
Fair questions, straight answers.
Your show, on their home screen.
Give listeners one place for every episode, conversation, poll, and announcement. We manage the setup and launch for you.