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The Podcastle alternative for podcast clips (2026)

Podcastle is now Async. The rename was announced on 21 October 2025 and finished on 19 January 2026, and podcastle.ai now sends you to async.com. Async says your account, projects, billing and pricing stay the same, but the product has grown into an AI creative suite: recording, editing, AI voices and AI video generation, with clipping as one tool among many. Podcasters look at Slice when they mainly want clips, from more than an hour or two of episodes a month, without minutes running out.

Our bias: we make Shorts by Slice. Compared from Podcastle (now Async)'s own pricing and product pages, checked 15 October 2026. We did not test Podcastle (now Async) hands-on, and where it is the better choice we say so.

By the Slice teamChecked 15 October 2026

Shorts by Slice turns a long podcast or stream into captioned vertical clips. $14.99 a month. Your first video and first 3 clips are free, no card. After that it's one plan, and you can cancel any time.

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Is Podcastle (now Async) free?

Yes, in part. Async (formerly Podcastle) has a free plan at £0 with 15 minutes of AI Clips in total (lifetime, not monthly), exports up to 720p and one export. Its pricing table does not tick watermark removal on Free; it does from Essentials (£19.99 a month, or £11.99 billed yearly). Checked 15 October 2026, prices as shown from the UK.

  • 15 minutes of AI Clips, AI Reframe and AI Subtitles, each lifetime.
  • 10 AI credits (lifetime) and 1 hour of media for its AI chat editor (lifetime).
  • Exports up to 720p, and 1 export.
  • 2GB of cloud storage and 1 hour of remote recording (lifetime).

Read on from Async pricing (podcastle.ai/pricing redirects here) and Podcastle is now Async, not signed in. On Slice, your first video and first 3 clips are free, no card, and nothing is ever watermarked.

Want to know which moments are worth clipping before you choose a tool? Slice’s free podcast clip finder picks the three best from your podcast feed, with timestamps, no account needed.

Slice vs Podcastle (now Async)

Shorts by SlicePodcastle (now Async)
Price$14.99/month or $149/yearFree; £19.99 / £39.99 / £84.99 a month, or £11.99 / £23.99 / £49.99 billed yearly
What the entry plan getsEverything: no cap on videos, up to 1,000 exports a month, no watermarkEssentials: 45 minutes of AI Clips a month, Full HD, English subtitles
Clipping limitNo cap on videos; up to 1,000 exports a monthMinutes of footage: 15 lifetime free, then 45 / 120 / 300 a month
Longest file3 hours and 4.5GB (MP4, MOV or WebM)Not stated on the pricing page
Audio-only episodesYes: upload MP3, M4A, WAV, OGG or FLAC; each clip is drawn with one of 46 templates from the words, your cover and the soundAn Audio to Video tool; AI Clips is described for video
WatermarkNeverFree plan not ticked for watermark removal; removed from Essentials
Caption languagesCaptions in the speaker's language; fonts cover Latin scripts and HebrewAI subtitles English only on Essentials and Pro; 5+ languages on Teams
Link importUpload only for now: MP4, MOV or WebM, up to 4.5GBComputer, Google Drive or Dropbox
Also in the planCaptions, Reframe, Podshare and MoodboardRecording studio, editor, AI voices, hosting, stock media, AI video and image models

Podcastle (now Async)’s figures from its pricing page and its own site, 15 October 2026. Prices in pounds, as the page showed them to us from the UK; it shows each visitor their local currency.

Choose Podcastle (now Async) if…

  • You want to record remote interviews, edit them and clip them in the same app.
  • You want AI voices, voice cloning, dubbing or AI-generated video and images as well as clips.
  • You only clip one episode a month, or less: Essentials covers 45 minutes of footage.
  • You want a stock library of images and video inside the tool.

Choose Slice if…

  • You publish weekly and want every episode clipped without counting minutes: Slice has no cap on videos.
  • Your episodes are long. Slice takes up to 3 hours in one file.
  • You want clips chosen from the whole episode, including moments joined from different parts of it, and to export a dozen together in one zip.
  • Your show is audio-only: Slice draws each clip in one of 46 templates from the words, your cover and the sound of the voices.
  • You want captions in Spanish, Portuguese or another Latin-alphabet language without paying for a Teams seat.

Where Slice loses to Podcastle (now Async)

  • Slice does not record. If you want the recording, the edit and the clips in one place, Async does all three.
  • Slice has no AI voices, dubbing or AI video generation.
  • Slice has no stock library: its b-roll is pictures you add yourself.

Podcastle (now Async), in short

Best for creators who want remote recording, editing, AI voices and AI video generation in one subscription, and who clip less than an hour or two of footage a month.

Pricing, in plain words

  • Free: £0. 10 AI credits and 15 minutes of AI Clips (both lifetime), exports up to 720p, 1 file, 2GB of storage. Watermark removal is not ticked.
  • Essentials: £19.99 a month, or £11.99 a month billed yearly. 450 credits a month, 45 minutes of AI Clips a month, Full HD exports, 20GB, 4 hours of recording, AI subtitles in English only.
  • Pro: £39.99 a month, or £23.99 a month billed yearly. 1,200 credits, 120 minutes of AI Clips a month, exports up to 4K, 120GB, 20 hours of recording.
  • Teams: £84.99 per creator a month, or £49.99 billed yearly. 3,000 credits, 300 minutes of AI Clips, AI subtitles in 5+ languages, dubbing and lipsync, brand kit.
  • Business: custom.
Async (formerly Podcastle)'s pricing page as it appeared on 15 October 2026
Async (formerly Podcastle)'s pricing page, 15 October 2026 (monthly prices in pounds, as shown from the UK) Tap to enlarge.

Reviews

We did not read Podcastle's reviews for this page, so there are no ratings, praise or complaints here: its own pages, read on 15 October 2026, are the only source.

Slice, in short

Best for podcasters and clippers who cut long episodes and streams, video or audio-only, into lots of clips and export them in one go.

$14.99 a month or $149 a year. Your first video and first 3 clips are free, no card. It does not post, schedule or add b-roll. Upload the file (MP4, MOV or WebM, up to 4.5GB).

Three clips ticked on the Slice clips page with an "Export these 3" button above them
Batch export in Slice: tick the clips, then "Export these 3", 30 September 2026 Tap to enlarge.
The Shorts by Slice editor with a vertical clip showing the hook title "The starving artist is a load of crap" over the speaker
A clip in Slice's editor with its hook title on, 30 September 2026 Tap to enlarge.

Slice on a real episode, start to finish

We did not run Podcastle (now Async), so we will not guess how it does. Here is what Slice did with a real one. The episode is LinuxGameCast Weekly 430, a three-host video podcast, 1:21:55 long, 1280×720, 531MB, published by LinuxGameCast LLP under CC BY-SA 4.0. We ran it through Slice on 2 October 2026 and read the times back from our own database afterwards.

  • Upload of the 531MB file: about two minutes.
  • Three and a half minutes after the upload finished, Slice listed four moments. Most of that was the transcript; the search itself took 39 seconds.
  • No moment was one unbroken stretch. “The lady with the magic calligraphy books” runs 1:07, joined from 17 passages between 1:20 and 4:05; “I spent two months fighting Netflix over a copyright claim” runs 1:11, from 6 passages.
  • We picked two. Both were finished 4 minutes later: 1080×1920 MP4s at 30 frames a second: 1:08 and 1:11 long, 70MB and 56MB.
Four suggested clips from an 82-minute episode on the Slice website: The lady with the magic calligraphy books (1m 7s), I spent two months fighting Netflix over a copyright claim (1m 11s), Twitch and YouTube are not your friends (34s) and A $4 Android game slapped on Steam (51s), each with a row of marks showing where it comes from in the episode and a Use this clip button.
What Slice found in LinuxGameCast Weekly 430, an 82-minute episode: four moments, listed 39 seconds after the transcript was ready. The marks on each row show where its passages sit in the episode. Tap to enlarge.

What came out wrong

  • The framing. The episode is three webcams side by side under the show’s logo. Slice kept the middle camera, cut the logo to “AST 430”, and a line of stream chat shows in the first clip.
  • The joins. One join dropped a word; another left a stray “have.” between two sentences.
  • The language. The show swears, and the third moment opens on it, so we skipped that one.
Left: the original 16:9 frame of the stream, three webcams side by side under a LINUXGAMECAST 430 logo, with chat alerts along the bottom. Right: the vertical clip made from it, showing only the middle webcam, with the logo cut to "AST 430".
Left, the original 1280×720 stream layout: three webcams and a chat bar. Right, the vertical clip: Slice kept the middle camera and cut the logo in half. Tap to enlarge.

Each of those is a fix in the editor before posting. The full run, with both clips frame by frame, is in Can ChatGPT make clips from my video?.

Or do it inside ChatGPT

If you already work in ChatGPT, you don’t have to open another app. Add Slice to ChatGPT once, attach the video in a chat and type “@Slice turn this video into short clips”. Slice lists the moments it found with their lengths and opening lines; reply with the numbers you want and you get download links for vertical clips with captions and a hook title. Clips need a Slice plan (your first 3 clips on the website are free).

Can ChatGPT make clips from my video? has a real run from upload to finished files. The full steps are in how to make podcast clips with ChatGPT, and adding Slice takes a couple of minutes with the setup guide.

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Questions

Is Podcastle (now Async) free?

Yes, in part. Async (formerly Podcastle) has a free plan at £0 with 15 minutes of AI Clips in total (lifetime, not monthly), exports up to 720p and one export. Its pricing table does not tick watermark removal on Free; it does from Essentials (£19.99 a month, or £11.99 billed yearly). Checked 15 October 2026, prices as shown from the UK.

Is Podcastle now Async?

Yes. Podcastle announced the new name on 21 October 2025 and published "Podcastle is now Async" on 19 January 2026. podcastle.ai/pricing now redirects to async.com/pricing, and Async says accounts, projects, billing and pricing stay the same.

How many clips can I make with Podcastle (Async)?

Its AI Clips are metered by minutes of footage, not clips: 15 minutes in total on Free, then 45 minutes a month on Essentials, 120 on Pro and 300 on Teams, per its pricing table on 15 October 2026. Slice has no cap on videos and allows up to 1,000 exports a month.

Does Podcastle (Async) add a watermark?

Its pricing table does not tick watermark removal on the free plan, and ticks it from Essentials up. Slice puts nothing on your video, on any plan or on free clips.

Is Slice cheaper than Podcastle?

Slice is $14.99 a month or $149 a year, for clips and four other tools. Async's Essentials is £19.99 a month or £11.99 billed yearly (in pounds, as shown from the UK) and includes recording, editing and AI credits. If you clip more than one episode a month, Slice costs less per episode; if you want the studio too, compare what you would pay for both.

How was this compared?

Compared from Podcastle (now Async)'s own pricing and product pages, read in a browser on 15 October 2026, not signed in. We did not read its reviews and did not test Podcastle (now Async) hands-on. We make Slice.

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