Async
Async (formerly Podcastle): a chat-based AI suite for recording, editing, and repurposing podcasts and video, still including one-click filler-word removal, audio leveling, and AI voice cloning.
The verdict on Async: Podcasters and video creators who want recording, editing, chat-directed repurposing, and publishing handled in one browser-based tool Async, formerly Podcastle, combines recording, cleanup, editing, and chat-directed repurposing for audio and video. Pricing: Free / $14.99/mo Pro.
Best For
Podcasters and video creators who want recording, editing, chat-directed repurposing, and publishing handled in one browser-based tool
Standout Feature
Rebranded from Podcastle to Async, a chat-based video and audio suite that retains Magic Dust for one-click filler-word removal, audio leveling, and noise cleanup
TL;DR
A genuine time-saver for quick podcast editing, Descript still wins on detailed word-level control.
Alternatives
Fit Score: use-case reference
How this is scoredAsync scored 1 to 5 on five dimensions for the named use cases below. Part of our catalog-wide use-case reference, not a product-quality review rating.
Remote podcast recording and cleanup
4.2/5- Capability
- 4/5
- Reliability
- 4/5
- Value
- 4/5
- Ease
- 5/5
- Compatibility
- 4/5
Record remote participants, clean noise and filler words, and publish podcasts from a browser workflow. Free exports use lower bitrates, and detailed word-level editing has limits, so review the result and choose the plan for your delivery needs. The free and Pro subscription options do not establish any promised processing time.
Chat-directed audio and video repurposing
3.6/5- Capability
- 4/5
- Reliability
- 3/5
- Value
- 3/5
- Ease
- 4/5
- Compatibility
- 4/5
Turn existing audio or video into new formats through chat-directed repurposing. Check transcript corrections and final delivery formats, since the current assessment does not establish repurposing accuracy or a processing-time guarantee. Free and Pro plans are listed, but confirm feature access and export quality for the intended output before paying.
Editorial judgment grounded in this tool's own published pricing, features, and our existing pros and cons, not a certification or a measured benchmark. Product quality is assessed separately under our review methodology.
Overview
Not yet reviewedProduct quality is assessed from original evidence. How reviews work.
Podcastle has rebranded to Async, a chat-based AI video creation, editing, and repurposing suite that still includes the original record-podcast and edit-audio workflows rather than dropping them. You can direct edits and content transformations through a chat interface, and the platform continues to support the core podcast recording and cleanup features that made Podcastle popular, alongside newer video-focused tools. Its Magic Dust feature, carried over from Podcastle, automatically removes filler words, levels audio across speakers, and cleans background noise in a single click.
AI voice cloning lets you fix mispronunciations or add lines post-recording without reshooting. Remote recording captures each participant locally at studio quality and syncs tracks automatically.
The source of the legacy catalog rating and review count has not been substantiated. Neither is presented here as a verified review rating or included in review structured data.
Workflow Fit Scores are separate, use-case-specific editorial judgments, not user-review averages. Read the Fit Score methodology.
- • Magic Dust makes a full hour of audio edit-ready in under a minute
- • No software install: entire workflow runs in the browser
- • Voice cloning for corrections is unique among podcast tools
- • Voice cloning accuracy degrades on complex sentence corrections
- • Export quality on the free tier is capped at lower bitrates
- • Not as powerful as Descript for detailed word-level editing
Key Features
- Browser-based remote recording capturing each participant locally
- Magic Dust: one-click filler word removal and audio leveling
- Background noise removal with voice isolation
- AI voice cloning for post-recording corrections
- Automated transcript with word-level editing
- Chat-directed video and audio repurposing across formats
- Direct publishing to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and RSS
Trust & Data
Verified 2026-09
- Training on your data
- Not publishedAsync's (formerly Podcastle's) AI terms of use say user input may be processed to improve services and ensure policy compliance, a broad improve-services framing rather than an explicit statement that customer data trains models, and no opt-out mechanism is described; this is treated as not-published/ambiguous rather than a confirmed 'yes'. The privacy policy explicitly covers voice recordings and voice-clone or biometric data, including a right to request deletion of voice clones. A specific retention period could not be confirmed: the retention/destruction schedule section returned no retrievable body text during extraction.
- Compliance
- Not published
- Retention
- Not published
- Export
- Full export
Sources: podcastle.ai/privacy, podcastle.ai/ai terms of use
As published by the vendor. Verify independently before purchase decisions.
Our Take
Evaluate whether its workflow fits the edits you actually make, including transcript corrections, audio cleanup, and delivery formats. The former Podcastle name describes the product’s history, not a separate current platform, and the old processing-speed claim should not be treated as a measured promise for today’s product.