Is Your Podcast Feed Ready for Every Player?

It checks your podcast RSS feed against five categories: RSS 2.0 compliance (required elements like title, description, enclosure), Apple Podcasts requirements (artwork, categories, explicit tag), Spotify requirements (email, episode format), Podcasting 2.0 tags (chapters, transcripts, funding), and general feed health (episode count, publish frequency, HTTPS usage).

No. We fetch your feed server-side to run the validation checks, but we do not store the URL, the feed content, or any results. Nothing is logged or shared with third parties.

Apple requires a valid channel title, description, language, artwork (minimum 1400×1400px, recommended 3000×3000px, JPEG or PNG), at least one itunes:category, an itunes:explicit tag, and an itunes:author tag. Each episode needs a title, enclosure with audio URL, and a GUID. Our validator checks all of these.

Common reasons: dimensions below 1400×1400px, non-square aspect ratio, file size over 512 KB, non-RGB color space, or the image URL returns a 404. Apple recommends 3000×3000px JPEG or PNG. Use our Cover Art Checker for detailed artwork analysis.

Not currently. The validator fetches your feed from our server, so it needs to be publicly accessible. If your feed requires authentication, you will see a "feed unreachable" error. For private feeds, check your hosting platform's built-in validation tools.