Castmagic

What it is for

Castmagic is a podcast-to-content desk: drop a YouTube / RSS / Zoom file, get a transcript, then ship show notes, clips, and posts from the same recording. Use it when the job is turn one episode into a week of assets, not when you need a full NLE.

What makes it unique: the cover is Castmagic’s own homepage import workspace — customer-interview.mp4 (31 min Transcribed), “Draft a newsletter from this week's episode,” and Caption / Newsletter / Tweets chips — not a pricing card.

Key features

• Transcribe — speaker-labelled, timestamped text minutes after upload (castmagic.io; Getting Setup). A transcript, not a post.
• AI writes — show notes, blog, newsletter, LinkedIn, and titles from that transcript (homepage “Turn 1 Recording Into 100+ Content Assets”). Every written asset is one write stream.
• Studio clips — captioned vertical cuts and audiograms from the same file (pricing “Media clipping”). A cut, not a paragraph.
• Ask the library — query across recordings, or put an audience chatbot on your site (homepage Ask / Audience chatbot). Q&A, not a generate.
• Autopilot / RSS — auto-import each new episode from a feed and draft it (homepage “Podcast autopilot”). Ingest, not a clip.

Magic Chat / custom prompts sit on the same write stream. API (Starter+) and Zapier are install / SDK. Transcribed-hour library caps are the meter.

Who it's for

Best fit: podcast and content teams who will pay Hobby or Starter so more than a one-off trial upload becomes a reusable hour library.

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-22 (Asia/Shanghai) from castmagic.io/pricing. Cards printed per month, billed annually.

• Hobby — $19/month billed annually ($239/year). 30 transcribed hours (library total); unlimited AI outputs and Studio clips; up to 3 seats / 3 Spaces; 50 GB.
• Starter — $48/month billed annually ($579/year). 100 hours; 5 seats / 10 Spaces; 250 GB; API; onboarding call.
• Team — $139/month billed annually ($1,669/year). 400 hours; 5 seats included, then +$19/mo or +$159/yr per seat; 25 Spaces; 1 TB; priority support.
• Business & Scale — from $699/mo (card also showed $999/mo). Custom volume, seats, storage, SLA.

The page we opened did not print a Free $0 card. Homepage “Try Castmagic” is a trial path — do not invent a permanent free hour count. Buy more hours anytime. 60+ languages.

Limitations / costs

• $19 / $48 / $139 are yearly-billed cards. Confirm monthly checkout if you do not want annual.
• No public $0 plan card. Hours are a growing library, not a monthly drip.
• Repurpose desk, not a timeline NLE. For silence-cut + titles, see Descript.

Alternatives

• Descript — edit the recording itself, not a 100-asset factory.
• Adobe Podcast — enhance + transcribe when you do not need a clip/social desk.
• Typefully — social composer without a podcast library.

Official tutorial

Official Castmagic channel exists. The “Create captioned social media video clips” clip is a Studio feature, not a first-hour getting-started lesson. Use written Getting Setup + Your First File plus Pricing and that official channel.

Website

https://www.castmagic.io

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is Castmagic’s official homepage import workspace (customer-interview.mp4 + newsletter chip). Dollars checked on castmagic.io/pricing yearly cards (Hobby $19; Starter $48; Team $139 / mo). Channel: @castmagicai. No getting-started embed.

Last verified

2026-10-22 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.