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Best AI Podcast Tools

6 tools 6 with a free plan 5 built for this Prices verified 4 September 2026

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Descript

By DescriptSan Francisco, United States1 product across 2 categories

Built for this. Edits video and audio by editing the transcript, which is the fastest workflow available for podcasts and talking-head content.

Free plan: Yes; Free tier with limited transcription hours
Month to month: $24/mo; Hobbyist
Billed yearly: $16/mo; Hobbyist plan −33%

Watch out: Less suited to cinematic editing. It is a spoken-word tool first.

All plans (5)

Plan	Price	What you get
Free	$0	Free tier with limited transcription hours
Hobbyist	$24/mo · $16/mo yearly	one person, 10 media hours and 400 AI credits a month, 1080p export without watermark
Creator	$35/mo · $24/mo yearly	teams up to 3 billed separately, 30 media hours and 800 AI credits a month, 4K export, full Underlord access
Business	$65/mo · $50/mo yearly	teams up to 5, 40 media hours and 1,500 AI credits a month, team-wide Brand Studio
Enterprise	Custom

Open Descript Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Podcastle

By PodcastleBerkeley, United States1 product across 2 categories

Strong fit. Records, cleans and edits a podcast in the browser, with transcription and voice tools in the same place.

Free plan: Yes; Free sign-up, with a free trial of the paid plans; Podcastle now sells as Async at async.com
Month to month: $19.99/mo; Essentials
Billed yearly: $11.99/mo; Essentials plan −40%

Watch out: Podcastle has rebranded as Async and now sells a credit-priced creative suite, so the price depends on how many credits you pick. Browser recording is only as good as the connection.

All plans (5)

Plan	Price	What you get
Free	$0	Free sign-up, with a free trial of the paid plans; Podcastle now sells as Async at async.com
Essentials	$19.99/mo · $11.99/mo yearly	450 credits a month at the base level, roughly 61 short videos or 900 images
Pro	$39.99/mo · $23.99/mo yearly	1,200 credits a month at the base level, all video, image and audio models
Teams	$84.99/mo · $49.99/mo yearly	3,000 credits a month per creator at the base level
Business	Custom

Open Podcastle Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Riverside

By RiversideNew York, United States1 product across 2 categories

Built for this. Records remote interviews at full quality on each end rather than over the call, then edits by transcript.

Free plan: Yes; Free plan with limited hours, and a 14-day trial of the paid plans
Month to month: $35/mo; Pro
Billed yearly: $24/mo; Pro plan −31%

Watch out: Local recording needs everyone to stay on the page until the upload finishes. Free tier is capped tightly.

All plans (5)

Plan	Price	What you get
Free	$0	Free plan with limited hours, and a 14-day trial of the paid plans
Pro	$35/mo · $24/mo yearly	up to 4K video, 48kHz audio, no watermark, teleprompter, multi-cam recording, AI editing
Grow	$45/mo · $34/mo yearly	adds social scheduling, newsletter, creator website, podcast hosting for two shows, video hosting
Webinar	$99/mo · $79/mo yearly	webinars for up to 100 registrants, pre-recorded streams, recurring webinars, unlimited sessions
Business	Custom	unlimited studios and separate track downloads, up to 10,000 webinar registrants, unlimited storage, custom branding

Open Riverside Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

ElevenLabs

By ElevenLabsNew York, United States1 product across 1 category

Built for this. The category standard for voice — generation, cloning, dubbing across languages, and voice agents.

Free plan: Yes; Free tier with text to speech, speech to text, sound effects, voice design and music, roughly
Month to month: $6/mo; Starter
Billed yearly: $5/mo; Starter plan −17%

Watch out: Voice cloning consent rules are strict and vary by country. Free tier is small; costs scale with audio minutes.

All plans (4)

Plan	Price	What you get
Free	$0	Free tier with text to speech, speech to text, sound effects, voice design and music, roughly 10 minutes of audio a month
Starter	$6/mo · $5/mo yearly	commercial licence, instant voice cloning, 20 Studio projects
Creator	$22/mo · $18.33/mo yearly	professional voice cloning and extra credits
Pro	$99/mo · $82.50/mo yearly	44.1kHz PCM output over the API and 192kbps audio

Open ElevenLabs Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Opus Clip

By Opus ClipSanta Monica, United States1 product across 1 category

Built for this. Takes a long video and cuts vertical clips from it, picking moments and adding captions automatically.

Free plan: Yes; Free forever plan with 60 credits a month, 1080p clips with a watermark, no editing, and clips
Month to month: $29/mo; Pro
Billed yearly: $14.50/mo; $174 a year, Pro plan −50%

Watch out: Its idea of a good moment is not always yours, and the caption timing needs a pass.

All plans (4)

Plan	Price	What you get
Free	$0	Free forever plan with 60 credits a month, 1080p clips with a watermark, no editing, and clips that stop being exportable after three days
Starter	$15/mo	150 credits a month, AI clipping, captions in 20+ languages, auto-posting, one brand template
Pro	$29/mo · $14.50/mo yearly	300 credits a month (3,600 a year on annual), two-seat team workspace, AI B-roll, scheduler, limited API access; extra credit packs sold on top
Business	Custom	priority processing, custom credits and seats, API and integrations, dedicated storage

Open Opus Clip Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Otter.ai

By Otter.aiMountain View, United States1 product across 2 categories

Built for this. Joins meetings, transcribes them, and produces summaries and action items without anyone taking notes.

Free plan: Yes; 3 lifetime file imports
Month to month: $16.99/mo; Pro
Billed yearly: $8.33/mo; Pro plan −51%

Watch out: Recording-consent rules vary by jurisdiction. Say it is running before it runs.

All plans (4)

Plan	Price	What you get
Free	$0	Basic plan, free; Zoom, Teams and Meet, AI chat across meetings, live transcription, speaker identification, 3 lifetime file imports
Pro	$16.99/mo · $8.33/mo yearly	1,200 in-app recording minutes, advanced AI workflows, 10 file imports a month
Business	$30/mo · $19.99/mo yearly	unlimited meetings and recordings, custom AI workflows, unlimited file imports
Enterprise	Custom	unlimited custom workflows, Otter Sales Notetaker, CRM and dialler integrations

Open Otter.ai Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Podcasting pages

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Best AI for Podcast Editing

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Best AI for Podcast Transcription

Speaker labels, timestamps and what you do next

Best AI for Podcast Notes

Show notes, chapters and the summary in the feed

Best AI for Podcast Clips

Automatic moment picking, and caption timing that needs a pass

Best AI for Podcasters

Recording, transcript editing and the promo clips

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How to read this list

Two things separate these and both are on every card.

Fit

Whether a tool is built for this job, a strong fit for it, or able to do it without that being its focus.

Free plan

Whether there is a tier you can keep using rather than a trial that expires.

The order

Fit first, then a free plan, then alphabetical. There is no score, no weighting we decline to publish, and nothing on this site a company can buy.

Questions

What is the best ai podcast tools?

There is no single answer, which is why this page lists 6 rather than one: Descript, Podcastle, Riverside, ElevenLabs, Opus Clip, Otter.ai. 5 of them are built for this kind of work rather than able to do it. Start with a free one.

Which of these have a free plan?

6 of the 6: Descript, Podcastle, Riverside, ElevenLabs, Opus Clip, Otter.ai. Free means a real free tier you can keep using, not a trial that expires.

How was this list chosen?

By hand, from the 750 products this site tracks, and it is checked against the catalogue on every build — a product renamed or removed breaks the build rather than quietly disappearing from here. Nothing on this site can be paid for: no listing, no position, no wording.