# Castmagic

> Turns podcasts and recordings into transcripts, posts and clips

Castmagic transcribes podcast episodes, videos, webinars and meetings, then drafts written content from each transcript: show notes, newsletters, blog posts, social posts and quotes. It also cuts captioned clips and image carousels and can answer questions across a whole back catalog of recordings. Plans are set by the total hours of transcription kept in your library rather than by monthly usage.

- **Category:** Writing Tools
- **Made by:** Magic Studio LLC
- **Website:** https://www.castmagic.io
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026

## Pricing

Castmagic is a paid product, starting at $19 per month, billed annually ($29 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Paid
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hobby | $19 per month for up to 3 seats, billed annually ($29 billed monthly) | 30 transcribed hours in the library, 3 spaces and 50 GB of storage, with unlimited AI content and clips. No API access. $239 a year. |
| Starter | $48 per month for up to 5 seats, billed annually ($69 billed monthly) | 100 transcribed hours, 10 spaces, 250 GB of storage, API access and an onboarding call. $579 a year. |
| Team | $139 per month for 5 seats, billed annually ($199 billed monthly) | 400 transcribed hours, 25 spaces, 1 TB and priority support. Extra seats cost $159 a year or $19 a month each. $1,669 a year. |
| Business & Scale | $699 per month and up, billed annually ($999 billed monthly) | Custom transcription volume, seats and storage, an SLA and dedicated support for studios and publishers, sold through a demo with sales. |

Read from https://www.castmagic.io/pricing on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Castmagic before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save 30% with annual billing** (Annual discount): Billed annually, Hobby is $19 a month instead of $29, Starter $48 instead of $69 and Team $139 instead of $199. The pricing page calls this a 30% saving. Source: https://www.castmagic.io/pricing

## Key features

- **Import and transcription:** Bring in files, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, TikTok or Reel links, Zoom, Loom or Google Drive. Transcripts are speaker-labelled and timestamped in 60+ languages.
- **Content pipeline:** Define a set of outputs once, such as show notes, a newsletter and social posts, and every new recording gets them drafted in your brand voice.
- **Podcast autopilot:** Point Castmagic at an RSS feed to import the back catalog and draft content for each new episode as it is published.
- **Studio clips and carousels:** Cut captioned vertical clips in 9:16, 1:1 or 16:9 on a multi-clip timeline, make audiograms, and draft image carousels from what was said.
- **Content strategist and library chat:** Ask questions across any set of recordings and get answers that cite the moment, or a weekly publishing plan drawn from your library.
- **Audience chatbot, API and Claude:** Put a chatbot trained on your episodes on your site to capture leads, use the REST API from Starter up, or connect Claude to your library.

## Good for

- Podcast hosts who want show notes and social posts from every episode
- Marketing teams repurposing webinars and interviews
- Creators with a large back catalog of recordings to mine

## Worth knowing

- The pricing page shows no free plan or free trial, and the terms say payments are non-refundable.
- Transcription hours are a running library total of 30, 100 or 400 hours, not a monthly allowance; more can be bought.
- API access needs Starter or higher, and Hobby is limited to 3 seats and 3 spaces.
- Apart from an iOS app for recording, it works in the browser; no desktop or Android app is mentioned.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Castmagic takes a podcast episode, video or webinar, transcribes it, and drafts the show notes, newsletter, blog post and social posts for you, plus captioned clips. It's a recording-to-content tool more than a writing app, so we've graded it against its alternatives. There's no free plan or trial, and payments aren't refunded.

- **Value for money: C.** Graded against its alternatives. Hobby is $19 a month billed yearly, $29 monthly, for up to 3 seats, in line with Descript and Riverside, and Starter at $48 covers five people. But Hobby's 30 hours is a library total, not a monthly allowance, and more hours cost extra.
- **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no free trial on the pricing page, and the terms say payments aren't refunded. You pay before you see a single draft.
- **Features: C.** It does the repurposing job fully: imports from files, YouTube, Spotify or Zoom, labelled transcripts in 60+ languages, drafts in your brand voice, an RSS autopilot, clips and carousels, and chat across your library. It only writes from recordings, though, a smaller job than a writing app's.
- **Ease of use: B.** No store rating on record, but there's little to set up: drop in a file or paste a link and the transcript and drafts come back. Defining your content pipeline once is the only real work, and it's optional.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with an iPhone app for recording, and links to Zoom, Google Drive, Loom, Zapier, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Claude, plus a REST API from Starter. No desktop or Android app is mentioned.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Castmagic's own pages on 18 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among writing tools

- Castmagic's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 5 of the 69 other writing tools we grade, and level with 5.
- It stands best on ease of use (B, above 32 of 69) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $19 a month, against a middle price of $8 for the category: 42 of the 44 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 15 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/writing

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Castmagic you would be making a video editor. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 59 of the 69 other writing tools grade higher. It costs $228 a year.

- You could not: A video editor.
- You could not: Speech turned into text you can trust.
- You could not: A real app for iOS. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Zoom, Google Drive and Loom among them, and has an API.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Zoom, Google Drive, Loom, Zapier, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Claude

**Tags:** Transcription, AI features, Video editing, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Descript](https://toolgpa.com/tools/descript): Audio and video editor that works by editing the transcript. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/castmagic-vs-descript)
- [Riverside](https://toolgpa.com/tools/riverside): Remote recording studio for podcasts and video interviews. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/castmagic-vs-riverside)
- [Jasper](https://toolgpa.com/tools/jasper): AI content platform with marketing agents and brand voice. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/castmagic-vs-jasper)
- [Rytr](https://toolgpa.com/tools/rytr): AI copy generator with 40+ use cases and tone matching. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/castmagic-vs-rytr)
- [Otter.ai](https://toolgpa.com/tools/otter): Live meeting transcription with summaries and AI chat. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/castmagic-vs-otter)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026:

- https://www.castmagic.io/pricing
- https://www.castmagic.io/
- https://www.castmagic.io/features
- https://www.castmagic.io/about
- https://www.castmagic.io/terms

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/castmagic
Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).