Headliner

Audiograms and clips

Headliner more or less invented the podcast audiogram and a decade later it's still one of the most affordable and most-used. Free tier is genuinely usable, paid starts at $7.99/mo, and the BBC, CNN, and Bloomberg use it. If you want auto-clipping that finds the moment for you, Opus or Submagic do that better. For producing a clean clip from a moment you've already picked, Headliner is hard to beat for the price.

Headliner more or less invented the podcast audiogram — the animated waveform video clip that lets podcasters share audio on social platforms that don't natively support audio — and despite years of newer entrants, it remains one of the most widely used tools in the category. The platform reports over 1.5 million users including independent podcasters and major media organizations like the BBC, Bloomberg, CNN, and the Wall Street Journal. Beyond audiograms, Headliner now handles automated transcription in 100-plus languages, AI-powered video clipping, automatic caption generation, 1080p video export, optimization for YouTube uploads, scheduling and posting to social platforms, an embeddable publisher widget called Disco for websites, and an API for enterprise integrations. The free tier is meaningfully usable. Paid plans start at $7.99/mo, and the overall pricing remains one of the more accessible in the space. The product suite is split into named tools — Make for audiograms, Eddy for transcription, Podcast Promo for growth, Disco for publisher discovery widgets — which can feel fragmented but lets you pay only for what you need. Where Headliner falls short relative to newer competitors: AI moment-detection for auto-clipping doesn't match Opus or Submagic, the template library can feel a step behind the latest viral aesthetic, and the mobile app is less polished than the web product. But for the specific job of producing a clean audiogram or social clip from a moment you've already picked, Headliner is still hard to beat. Best for budget-conscious creators, media outlets producing volume, and anyone who values reliable audiograms over the newest AI clip selection.