Castmagic

Castmagic takes a recording, whether a podcast, webinar, interview, sales call or YouTube video, transcribes it, and then drafts the written content around it: show notes, titles, timestamps, key quotes, LinkedIn and X posts, a newsletter, a blog post. You can write your own prompts for formats you use every week, chat with the transcript to pull out ideas, and cut short clips and audiograms. It connects to Zoom, Google Drive and Zapier, so new recordings can flow in without uploading.

Pick it when you publish long recordings and the writing around them is the bottleneck. Opus Clip is better if you mainly want short video clips; Riverside and Descript record and edit but do less with the text. You could get similar results by pasting a transcript into Claude or ChatGPT, but Castmagic saves the prompts, keeps a searchable library of every episode and does it in one click.

The catch: the show notes are usually close to ready, but social posts often read like generic AI copy and need rewriting in your voice. Plans are capped by total transcribed hours, there is no free plan, and the jump to the business tier is steep.

• Podcasters
• Content marketers
• Agencies
• Coaches
• B2B marketing teams

Businesses and agencies running a podcast, webinar series or YouTube channel who need the written content to go with it.

• Transcription

  Transcribes audio and video in 60+ languages with speaker labels and timestamps.

• Instant content drafts

  Generates show notes, titles, key points, quotes, social posts, newsletters and blog posts from each recording.

• Custom prompts

  Save your own prompts for formats you publish every time, and rerun them as often as you like.

• Magic Chat

  Ask questions across a recording or your whole library to pull out ideas, stories and stats.

• Clips and audiograms

  Cut short video clips and audiograms for social media from the same recording.

• Automatic imports

  Pull recordings from Zoom, Google Drive, an RSS feed or YouTube without manual uploads.

• Hobby

  $19/mo billed yearly ($239/yr)

  A single show publishing a few episodes a month.

  • 30 hours of transcribed audio in total
  • Up to 3 spaces and 3 seats
  • All content outputs and custom prompts
• Our pick

  Starter

  $48/mo billed yearly ($579/yr)

  Businesses with a regular podcast or webinar series.

  • 100 hours of transcribed audio
  • Up to 10 spaces and 5 seats
  • API access

• Team

  $139/mo billed yearly ($1,669/yr)

  Agencies and teams working on several shows.

  • 400 hours of transcribed audio
  • Unlimited seats and up to 25 spaces
  • Priority support and onboarding call

• Business & Scale

  From $699/mo

  Studios, publishers and platforms.

  • Custom volume
  • SLA and dedicated support

Prices in USD unless noted, checked 22 October 2026. Vendors change plans often, so confirm on their site before you buy.

Ways Castmagic can slot into your week.

1. 1

   Podcast in, week of content out

   Upload an episode and publish the show notes, three LinkedIn posts and a newsletter section from the drafts.

2. 2

   Webinar to blog post

   Turn a recorded webinar into a blog post and a list of key takeaways for attendees.

3. 3

   Agency client content

   Keep a space per client, run the agency's saved prompts on each recording, and edit before sending.

4. 4

   Mine sales calls for stories

   Upload customer calls and ask Magic Chat for quotes, objections and stories to use in marketing.

Record in Riverside or Zoom, let Castmagic draft the written content, then polish it in Claude or your editor and schedule it with a social tool. Zapier can push drafts into Notion or Google Docs.

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