Fanlist
Free fan pages for podcasters: voice messages, tips, memberships, and premium content.
About
Fanlist gives every podcaster a free fan page that turns listeners into supporters. Fans can leave audio or text messages (audio messages are auto-transcribed, like visual voicemail), tip messages they love, buy perks, join a chat room, and subscribe to paid memberships for premium episodes. It started life in 2021 as PodInbox, a simple voice-message inbox, and rebranded to Fanlist in 2023 as the feature set grew; the old podinbox.com URLs still redirect to fanlist.com.
Notably, the company made all Pro features free when it rebranded, so the free tier is the whole product rather than a teaser. Sponsors can also be featured on fan pages via a sponsors widget. The trade-off for free is dependence on a small indie vendor: support is community-scale, and monetization runs through Fanlist's own checkout rather than your existing stack, so treat it as a community front door, not a billing platform.
What it can do
- Free fan pages for podcasters and creators
- Audio and text messages from fans
- Automatic transcription of fan audio messages
- Tips, perks, and paid memberships
- Chat rooms for listener community
- Sponsors widget for featured sponsors
Setup
- Claim your free fan page at fanlist.com.
- Share the link in show notes and episode outros.
- Collect audio and text messages, review auto-transcriptions.
- Enable tips, perks, or memberships to monetize.
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Trust score — 6/10
Scored 6/10 (TIER metrics, metrics-v1). Evidence: live product, official rebrand announcement (PodInbox -> Fanlist, 2023) with podinbox.com redirecting to fanlist.com, all Pro features made free per the vendor blog, third-party coverage (Silicon Florist, Podcast Pontifications). Strengths: genuinely free full product, real rebrand history documented. Docked for: (1) small indie vendor with limited independent review coverage; (2) monetization runs through their checkout, not yours. License: proprietary (free SaaS).
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 5.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 6.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 3.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 5.0/10
- · Rebranded from PodInbox (2021) to Fanlist in 2023; podinbox.com redirects to fanlist.com (verified).
- · All Pro features made free at rebrand per vendor blog.
- · Small indie vendor; limited independent review coverage.
- · Monetization runs through Fanlist's own checkout.
Sources
Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.