The Daily FM
A podcast platform that turns websites, X posts, Hacker News threads, and other text sources into custom audio feeds, and lets you merge multiple podcasts into one feed.
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Description
Keeping up with tech news, a favorite blog, or a handful of podcasts usually means juggling several apps and feeds. The Daily FM turns that into one custom audio feed: it can convert websites, X accounts, Hacker News stories, or existing podcasts into a spoken-word feed, and let you combine several sources into a single subscription you listen to in your regular podcast app.
You can subscribe to pre-built podcast libraries via plain RSS with no account required, or create custom summary podcasts by combining multiple websites, X accounts, Hacker News activity, and other podcasts into one feed. It also supports niche sources like state legislature bill activity. Feeds work in standard podcast apps (Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, YouTube Music), and there's a Claude Code / MCP client integration so pods can be managed by conversation rather than a web dashboard. Pricing is freemium with the exact price point not published.
💬 Our review
The short version: if you follow several text-heavy sources — a niche blog, Hacker News, specific X accounts — and would rather listen than read, The Daily FM's ability to merge and convert them into one podcast feed is a genuinely useful bit of information-diet plumbing, and the no-account RSS option keeps the barrier to trying it low.
Against a generic 'text-to-speech article reader' app, The Daily FM's differentiator is the feed-merging and multi-source aggregation — it's not just reading one article aloud, it's building an ongoing custom show out of several sources. Against manually following each source separately, this trades some control over exact framing/tone for real time saved. The MCP/Claude Code integration is a genuinely novel touch for developers already living in that workflow, though most listeners will use the plain RSS/podcast-app path — worth checking whether your specific sources (a given blog, a given X account) are actually supported before assuming full coverage.
💰 Pricing
📊 Global score
🤖 AI-enriched data
Prix exact non publié.
Pros
Fusionne plusieurs sources en un seul flux
Abonnement RSS sans compte
Intégration Claude Code / MCP
Cons
Prix exact non publié
Couverture des sources à vérifier au cas par cas
Qualité de synthèse vocale non détaillée publiquement