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The Recast Studio alternative for podcast clips (2026)

Recast Studio is built for marketing teams: upload a podcast, webinar or interview and it makes clips, audiograms and written posts, then publishes them to six social platforms. Podcasters look at Slice when they want many clips from every episode without counting upload and export minutes, or clips with their hosts' and guests' faces and names on screen.

Our bias: we make Shorts by Slice. Compared from Recast Studio's own pricing and product pages, checked 8 October 2026. We did not test Recast Studio hands-on, and where it is the better choice we say so.

By the Slice teamChecked 8 October 2026

Shorts by Slice turns a long podcast or stream into captioned vertical clips. $14.99 a month. Your first 3 clips are free, no card. Then a 3-day free trial for the rest.

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Is Recast Studio free?

Free to try. Recast Studio's free trial costs $0 and gives 60 credits once (one credit is one upload minute), 5 export minutes and exports of up to 1 minute; its audiogram page says "No credit card required". Paid plans start at Starter, $17 a month or $14 a month billed yearly. Checked 8 October 2026.

  • The trial includes the AI clip generator, auto reframe, filler and silence removal, animated captions and the soundwave layer, like the paid plans.
  • 3GB of storage, kept for 7 days.
  • Its audiogram page says "10 free AI minutes included", a different figure from the pricing page's 60 credits.

Read on from Recast Studio pricing and Recast Studio audiogram page, not signed in. On Slice, your first 3 clips are free, no card, and nothing is ever watermarked.

Slice vs Recast Studio

Shorts by Slice (Slice Audio)Recast Studio
Price$14.99/month or $149/yearStarter $17, Professional from $37 a month, or $14 / $26 a month billed yearly
Free to tryYour first 3 clips free, no card; then a 3-day free trial, which takes a card60 credits (upload minutes) once; exports of up to 1 minute
Monthly limitsNo cap on episodes; up to 1,000 exports a monthStarter: 150 upload minutes and 300 export minutes; Professional: from 360 and 600
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 soundYes: audiograms with animated waveforms, captions and cover art
Finding the momentsReads the whole episode and lists the moments that stand on their ownAn AI clip generator, on every plan
Longest exportEach clip runs 30 seconds to 2 and a half minutesUp to 1 minute (trial), 15 (Starter) or 60 (Professional)
PostingNo: you download and postDirect to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn and X, on Professional
Written contentA post caption for each clipSocial posts, blog posts, show notes and summaries
WatermarkNever, trial includedNot stated on the pricing page

Recast Studio’s figures from its pricing page and its own site, 8 October 2026. Prices in US dollars.

Choose Recast Studio if…

  • You want clips published and scheduled for you on six platforms.
  • You want blog posts, show notes and social posts written from the same recording.
  • You clip webinars and interviews for a marketing team, and want longer exports (up to 60 minutes on Professional).
  • You want b-roll, image and progress-bar layers in the editor.

Choose Slice if…

  • You make many clips from every episode and do not want to count upload and export minutes: Slice has no cap on episodes.
  • You want the moments listed from the whole episode, including ones joined from different parts of it.
  • You want clips that look like your show: 46 audio templates, with your hosts' and guests' photos and names.
  • You want to start free with 3 finished clips, no card.

Where Slice loses to Recast Studio

  • Recast Studio publishes to six platforms; Slice does not post anything.
  • Recast Studio writes blog posts and show notes; Slice writes a post caption for each clip.
  • Recast Studio exports up to 60 minutes in one go; a Slice clip is at most 2 and a half minutes.

Recast Studio, in short

Best for marketing teams and podcasters who want clips, audiograms and written posts from one recording, published straight to six social platforms.

Pricing, in plain words

  • Free trial: $0. 60 credits once (1 credit is 1 upload minute), 5 export minutes, exports of up to 1 minute, 3GB of storage kept for 7 days.
  • Starter: $17 a month, or $14 a month billed yearly ($170 a year). 150 credits a month, 300 export minutes, exports of up to 15 minutes, 15GB of storage.
  • Professional: from $37 a month for 360 credits, or $26 a month billed yearly ($310 a year); more credits cost more. 600 export minutes, exports of up to 60 minutes, 50GB, direct publishing to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn and X.
  • Every plan, the trial included: the AI clip generator, auto reframe, filler and silence removal, social posts, blog posts and show notes, animated captions, and a soundwave layer.
Recast Studio's pricing page as it appeared on 8 October 2026
Recast Studio's pricing page, 8 October 2026 (monthly prices shown, not signed in) Tap to enlarge.

Reviews

We did not read Recast Studio's reviews for this page, so there are no ratings, praise or complaints here: its own pages, read on 8 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.

For a show with no video, it is Slice Audio: video clips for audio-only podcasts, part of Shorts by Slice. Upload the audio and each clip is drawn in one of 46 templates, with your cover, your colours and your hosts’ and guests’ photos and names. Same account, same plan.

$14.99 a month or $149 a year. Your first 3 clips are free, no card, then a 3-day free trial for the rest. It does not post, schedule or add b-roll. Upload the file (MP4, MOV or WebM, up to 4GB).

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 Recast Studio, 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 or the free trial, the same as on the website.

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 Recast Studio free?

Free to try. Recast Studio's free trial costs $0 and gives 60 credits once (one credit is one upload minute), 5 export minutes and exports of up to 1 minute; its audiogram page says "No credit card required". Paid plans start at Starter, $17 a month or $14 a month billed yearly. Checked 8 October 2026.

How much does Recast Studio cost?

Its pricing page showed Starter at $17 a month and Professional from $37 a month for 360 credits, or $14 and $26 a month billed yearly, on 8 October 2026. One credit is one upload minute.

Does Recast Studio make audiograms?

Yes. Its audiogram page describes branded audiograms with animated waveforms, captions and cover art, in several formats from one clip.

Can Slice post clips to TikTok or Instagram for me?

No. Slice gives you the finished files and a post caption to paste. Recast Studio publishes directly, on its Professional plan.

How was this compared?

Compared from Recast Studio's own pricing and product pages, read in a browser on 8 October 2026, not signed in. We did not read its reviews and did not test Recast Studio hands-on. We make Slice.

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