How we verify free-plan limits
This site makes one kind of claim: what a tool's free plan or free trial includes, according to the vendor. Here's how each claim is produced.
Selection
- A tool must use AI for a podcast job (recording, cleanup, transcription, editing or promotion), or be a free tool with free AI add-ons.
- It must have a free plan or free trial stated on its official website. Without that, it isn't listed.
- Candidates come from public discussion and the tools that appear repeatedly for podcast-production searches. Community posts tell us what people ask about. They are never a source for facts.
- Payment, affiliate status or vendor requests don't decide inclusion or order. Tables are alphabetical.
Verification
- We open the vendor's official pricing or plans page.
- For comparison tables, we read the value in the Free column for each row. Where that cell is only an unlabeled icon, we make no claim.
- We record the URL, the access time (UTC) and a short quote for every claim in our internal research log. The public list is on the sources page.
- We use the vendor's own words for limits ("one-off", "lifetime", "Limited") rather than paraphrasing them into something more generous.
- Every tool entry shows its source link and the date it was last verified.
Analysis such as "can a weekly show stay free?" is our arithmetic on those published limits. It is labelled as such and is not a usage test. We don't publish ratings, scores or reviews of sound quality.
Tools considered but not listed (as of 2026-10-22)
- Castmagic: its official pricing page showed paid plans but no free plan or free trial, so we couldn't verify free access.
- Alitu: its pricing page showed a bot-verification challenge to our checker. We don't bypass access controls, so we couldn't verify it.
- Krisp: it has a verified 7-day trial, but the product is positioned for meetings and calls rather than podcast production.
What we don't do
- We don't invent or estimate limits, prices, rankings, ratings, reviews or user counts.
- We don't copy vendor marketing copy beyond short quotations needed to state a limit accurately.
- We don't track visitors. The site uses no analytics, cookies or third-party scripts.
Update schedule
Planned: a weekly link check, a monthly re-verification of every free-plan limit, and a quarterly content review. When a limit changes, we update the entry and its verified date. Reader reports go through our corrections process.