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Podcastle built its reputation as an all-in-one podcast studio: record, edit, host, and generate AI voiceovers without leaving one tab. If you searched “podcastle pricing,” there’s one thing to know before the plan breakdown below — Podcastle rebranded to Async on February 4, 2026. The company’s own announcement is explicit that this is a name change, not a new product: existing accounts, projects, pricing tiers, and billing structures carried over unchanged, and the free/paid plan boundaries described below are current on Async’s live pricing page as of August 2026. We’ll use “Podcastle” and “Async” interchangeably in this guide since that’s how people are actually searching, and note anywhere the rebrand changes what you’ll actually see on screen.
This page is a plan-by-plan look at what Podcastle/Async actually costs, what its free tier really includes, and whether its bundled AI voice tools (Revoice, text-to-speech) are good enough on their own — or whether you’ll end up adding a dedicated voice engine like ElevenLabs on top.
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Podcastle plans: what’s actually on offer
As of August 2026, Async’s pricing page (still reachable at podcastle.ai/pricing, which now 308-redirects to async.com/pricing) lists five tiers: Basic (free), Storyteller, Pro, Teams, and Business (custom/contact-sales). The plan names and feature gating are confirmed directly from the live vendor page. One honesty note on the numbers: Async’s pricing page currently renders its dollar amounts via client-side scripting rather than static HTML, and third-party pricing trackers don’t fully agree on the exact figures for the paid tiers — estimates we found across aggregators clustered roughly in the $12–$25/month range for Storyteller (billed annually) and roughly $24–$85/month for Pro and Teams depending on seat count and monthly vs. annual billing. Treat any specific number you see on a third-party “pricing” page, including ours, as an estimate to confirm on Async’s own checkout page before you pay — this is a genuine case where we’d rather tell you the numbers are soft than print a fake-precise figure.
What we can confirm with confidence, because it’s structural rather than a moving price tag:
- Basic (free) — unlimited audio recording, up to 3 hours of video recording, multi-track editing, basic podcast hosting, and support for up to 10 remote recording participants. Exports carry a Podcastle/Async watermark.
- Storyteller — removes the watermark, raises AI voice/text-to-speech character allowance well past the free tier, adds more hosting/storage headroom.
- Pro — adds Revoice (Async’s voice-conversion/AI dubbing feature) and the largest self-serve text-to-speech allowance (around 1,000,000 characters/month per the vendor’s own tier comparison), plus a meaningful dubbing/lip-sync credit allotment (around 300 minutes).
- Teams — Pro’s features extended across a multi-seat workspace for shared shows.
- Business — custom pricing, sales-assisted, for organizations with compliance/volume needs beyond Teams.
Annual billing carries a real, vendor-stated discount — the live pricing page advertises roughly 40% off versus paying monthly, which is the single biggest lever on your actual cost if you’re committing to a show for more than a couple of months.
Podcastle cost: the honest range
If you just want a number to plan around: expect $0 for a genuinely usable (if watermarked and voice-limited) free plan, and somewhere in the $10–$30/month range per seat for the Storyteller/Pro tier most solo and small-team podcasters actually land on, dropping meaningfully with annual billing. Teams-level multi-seat plans run higher, and Business is quote-only. If exact-to-the-cent budgeting matters for your show, get the live quote from Async’s checkout flow rather than trusting any static comparison page (again, including this one) — the vendor’s own site is loading these numbers dynamically as of this writing, which is unusual enough to flag rather than paper over.
Is Podcastle free? What the free plan actually includes
Yes — and it’s not a crippled trial. The Basic plan is a standing free tier, not a time-limited trial: unlimited audio recording, up to 3 hours of video recording per project, multi-track editing, basic hosting, and room for up to 10 remote guests on a recording. That’s a real, usable podcast production toolkit at $0.
The catches are the ones you’d expect from a freemium editor: exports carry a visible Podcastle/Async watermark until you upgrade, and video/storage ceilings will eventually push an active show to a paid tier. For AI voice specifically, see the next section — the free plan’s allowance is real but small.
Podcastle AI free: how much AI voice do you actually get at $0?
This is the crux of this whole guide, so it’s worth being precise. On the free Basic plan, Async’s own tier comparison caps text-to-speech generation at roughly 10,000–12,000 characters — vendor-published figures we saw were not perfectly consistent between the marketing copy and the tier-comparison table, so treat it as “around 10-12K characters,” enough for maybe one short episode intro or a handful of test clips, not an ongoing production workflow. Revoice — Async’s flagship AI voice-conversion feature, which lets you swap in a synthetic voice or clean up a rough take — is gated to the Pro plan and above on the current pricing page, not available at all on Basic or Storyteller. Voice cloning shows up as an iOS-app feature in Async’s current materials rather than a universally available web feature across every tier.
In plain terms: the free plan gives you enough AI voice to try the feature once, not enough to run a show on, and the most capable voice tool (Revoice) isn’t in the free plan at all.
Podcastle promo code and discount code: what we actually found
We looked for a live, working Podcastle/Async promo code or discount code as of August 2026 and did not find a standing, vendor-issued coupon program advertised on the official pricing page. The one confirmed, vendor-stated discount mechanism is the ~40% annual-billing discount described above — that’s a real, built-in price break, not a limited-time code. Plenty of third-party sites publish “Podcastle promo code” or “Podcastle discount code” listicles; we can’t verify those codes are live, vendor-honored, or even current, since none of them showed up as an option in Async’s own checkout flow at time of writing. If a specific code matters to your purchase decision, test it at checkout before assuming it will apply, and don’t pay a third-party site for something Async itself doesn’t list.
Where Podcastle’s AI voice tools stop being enough — and when ElevenLabs is worth adding
Podcastle/Async’s AI voice tools (Revoice, its text-to-speech engine) are a genuinely convenient feature bolted onto a recording-and-editing suite — not a dedicated voice engine built and optimized as its core product the way ElevenLabs is. That difference shows up in three concrete places once you push past “good enough for one show”:
- Cloning fidelity. ElevenLabs’ Instant and Professional voice cloning are built for closely matching a specific voice across long-form content; Async’s cloning is currently scoped to its iOS app rather than offered as a full cross-platform feature, and Revoice’s design goal is style/character conversion for editing convenience, not maximum-fidelity clone accuracy.
- Multilingual quality and control. ElevenLabs’ text-to-speech and dubbing stack covers a wide language set with fine-grained per-language voice control; Podcastle’s dubbing is a bundled convenience feature inside its editor, aimed at getting one episode dubbed, not at running a multilingual content pipeline.
- API access. ElevenLabs is API-first — every plan from Starter up includes real API access for building voice into another product or workflow. Podcastle/Async’s AI voice tools are designed to be used inside its own editor, not consumed as a standalone API for external tooling.
If any of those three is the actual thing you need — a voice that has to sound convincingly like one specific person, real multilingual reach, or programmatic access — you’ll likely end up pairing Podcastle with ElevenLabs (or another dedicated voice-AI tool) rather than relying on Revoice alone.
Compare ElevenLabs’ voice plans →
The honest tradeoff: when you should NOT add ElevenLabs
Here’s the other half of that honesty, stated plainly: if you just want an all-in-one podcast studio and Podcastle/Async’s bundled AI voice already sounds fine for your show, don’t add ElevenLabs. For most solo and small-team podcasters, the workflow is record → edit → light AI touch-up → publish, all inside one subscription you’re already paying for. Layering a second, separate voice-AI subscription on top of that — even ElevenLabs’ $6/month Starter plan — is real duplicate spend if you never hit Podcastle’s ceilings above:
- Your show doesn’t need a specific cloned voice — Revoice’s built-in conversion is enough.
- You publish in one language and don’t need dubbing quality beyond “understandable.”
- You’re not building a separate product or automation that needs voice generation via API — you just want the audio in your feed.
In that case, the second subscription is the actual waste, not the smart upgrade. Keep the money and stay on Podcastle/Async.
Podcastle vs. ElevenLabs: the short version
| Need | Podcastle/Async alone | Add ElevenLabs |
|---|---|---|
| Record + edit + host in one app | Yes, this is its core job | Not what it does |
| Quick AI voice touch-up for one show | Usually enough (Pro tier) | Overkill |
| High-fidelity voice cloning | Limited (iOS-scoped) | Purpose-built (Instant + Professional cloning) |
| Multilingual dubbing at scale | Bundled convenience feature | Broader language coverage, finer control |
| Voice via API for another product | Not designed for this | API access from the Starter plan up |
See our related breakdown of a similar all-in-one editor’s AI voice limits in Descript pricing, and our dedicated look at whether ElevenLabs’ free plan is enough on its own if you’re leaning toward the dedicated-voice-tool side of this decision.
FAQ
What are Podcastle’s plans called now?
Podcastle rebranded to Async in February 2026. The tier names on the current pricing page are Basic (free), Storyteller, Pro, Teams, and Business (custom) — the vendor states existing pricing tiers and billing carried over unchanged through the rename.
Is Podcastle actually free to use?
Yes, the Basic plan is a standing free tier (not a trial): unlimited audio recording, up to 3 hours of video per project, multi-track editing, basic hosting, and up to 10 remote participants, with a watermark on exports and a small AI-voice character allowance.
Does Podcastle have a free AI voice feature?
A limited one. The free plan includes roughly 10,000–12,000 characters of text-to-speech, but Revoice (the more capable AI voice-conversion tool) requires the Pro plan or higher.
Is there a working Podcastle promo code?
We didn’t find a vendor-issued promo/discount code advertised on the official pricing page as of August 2026 — the confirmed discount mechanism is roughly 40% off for annual billing, built into the pricing page itself rather than a separate code.
Should I use Podcastle and ElevenLabs together?
Only if you need cloning fidelity, multilingual quality, or API access that Podcastle’s bundled AI voice tools don’t cover. If Podcastle’s built-in AI voice already sounds fine for your show, adding ElevenLabs is duplicate spend, not an upgrade.
