WebForge gives your station a real website and an installable app for every device, with live now-playing and an AI prep room for your DJs. Built and branded for you in hours, fully managed, and yours to own.
Your second signal
A WebForge site is not a brochure about your station. It is your station, on every mobile phone, PC and Mac and car dashboard, and it works for every department.
Not a page with a play button. A living home page where the music, the artwork, and every card update in real time.
A real app that doesn't require any app store. Your station installs from the browser on iPhone, Android, Mac and PC in one tap, then opens full-screen with its own icon, tab bar and lock-screen controls.
Cars are where radio was born. Car mode strips the interface to what a driver needs: big art, one giant play button, a high contrast screen. All with zero distractions.
A voicemail recorder that lives right in the website page. No app to download, no number to dial. Thirty seconds of listener praise, delivered straight to the station inbox.
Not a contact form. Listeners sign in, browse your station's up-to-date music library, and drop a request straight into your playlist automation. Requests are queued in your system and played at your station's discretion, never on demand.
Every morning WebForge provides a full talent prep packet for each host: on-this-day facts, music history, trivia, caller hooks and shout-outs. Then it rewrites any content in that host's own voice. A listener assistant works the site around the clock.
The revenue engine
Ads, fundraising and sponsorships are built into the platform, sold by you, tracked for you.
A sponsor spot plays before the stream every time a listener presses play. Each ad carries sponsor, CPM and a date window, and every play is logged as a billable impression you can download and invoice against.
One network-wide message overrides every station's pre-roll for the length of your drive, and donation widgets appear on any page. Flip it on, run the campaign, flip it off.
Sponsor banners can be placed into widget slots on the home page, station pages, host pages, and a dedicated custom page. No sponsor? Rotate your own jingles and station IDs in the pre-roll slot instead.
The setup fee, retired
One well-known radio web vendor publishes a $500 website setup fee, plus $250 for every additional station, plus a separate setup charge for each station-branded page, and you still need your own Apple and Google developer accounts and a lot of patience before the app can ship. We think the app deployment should be painless, and the price of starting should be zero.
Security
Most radio website providers rely on WordPress plugins to deliver the features broadcasters need. But that convenience comes with a cost.
Security research consistently shows that the vast majority of WordPress vulnerabilities originate in third-party plugins and themes. And the more you customize your station's website, the more plugins you typically need.
The result? A website built around software you don't control, maintained by developers you don't know, with security risks you can't always anticipate.
WebForge is one purpose-built platform, written for radio and maintained by the people who run stations on it. There is no plugin marketplace, no third-party theme, no update from a stranger that can take your site down when you least expect it.
Bots hammer WordPress login pages around the clock. WebForge has no wp-admin and no SQL database to inject. Admin access uses hashed passwords and keyed API calls, and your whole station backs up as plain files you can copy anywhere.
SSL, backups and updates are handled for you and reach every installed app the moment we publish. Your domain, your data, your branding. No mandatory "powered by" badge in your footer.
Live demos
Every one is a live WebForge station you can open today.
Multiple + custom widgets
A multi-station network with custom widgets and pages.
Open the site →How it works
Send your logo, colors and stream details. We provision your station, brand it and bring up your streams and now-playing.
A no-code admin for shows, DJs, podcasts, news and design. Change anything yourself, and updates publish from one place.
Custom domain, SSL, backups, and a platform that keeps shipping new features to your station automatically.
Why WebForge
A cheap DIY builder won't give your station the tools it needs. A WordPress radio vendor will, for a setup fee, provide a plugin stack and a demo call before you see a price. WebForge provides your station an app, an audience engine and a team behind it, with the price clearly displayed on the page.
| Capability | WebForge | WordPress radio vendor | Typical DIY builder |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setup fee | $0 (optional guidance $49.00) | $500 + $250 per extra station | Usually none |
| Platform | Purpose-built for radio, no plugins | WordPress + proprietary plugins | Generic templates |
| Installable mobile and desktop app | Built in, installs from the browser | Native app, needs your Apple and Google developer accounts | Web page only |
| App-store fees and review queues | None | Both stores, on you | n/a |
| Internet-only stations | All stations welcome | Often declined | Yes |
| Multi-station network layouts | 1 to 100+, no per-station setup | Extra setup per station and per branded page | Single station |
| AI show-prep and listener assistant | Built in, daily | Basic helper; Pro is a paid add-on | None |
| Pre-roll ads with impression reports | Built in | Paid extension | None |
| Pro player: replay, saved songs, sleep timer, EQ | Full suite | Persistent player | Play button |
| Car mode and pop-out mini player | Yes | CarPlay via native app only | No |
| Pricing published | Yes, below | Demo call required | Yes |
| Your data, domain and site | Yours to own | Vendor hosting only, code stays theirs | Rented cloud |
| Time to launch | Days | 1 to 2 weeks | Whenever you finish it, plus Apple & Google approval time |
WordPress-vendor column reflects fees, requirements and paid extensions published on a leading WordPress-based radio web vendor's own FAQ and extensions pages, September 2026. DIY column reflects features advertised by self-serve radio website builders as of 2026. WebForge entries reflect the current shipping platform.
Pricing
Plans from $19.99/month, the Power-Ups Package from $9.99/month. Annual subscribers get one month free.
Setup fee: $0No setup fees, ever. Optional Setup Assistance by Thasis: $49.00 one-time, and that is the only setup charge we offer.
Questions, answered
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