Async
Verified Oct 16, 2026 ActiveChat-driven audio and video editor with a voice API
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $19.99/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Essentials is $19.99 a month or $143.90 a year (450 credits), Pro $39.99 or $287.90 (1,200), Teams $84.99 or $599.90 per creator (3,000); Business is quoted. The free tier is lifetime-capped at 10 credits, 1 hour of remote recording and 720p export; monthly credits do not roll over and top-ups expire after two months. The pricing page renders plan prices client-side, so the figures come from the vendor's help centre.
Use tool ↗About Async
Async is the platform previously sold as Podcastle: multitrack remote recording, transcript-based editing, audio cleanup, voice cloning and dubbing, now fronted by a chat interface that carries out edits from written instructions. The February 2026 rebrand folded video editing, AI clips, reframing, subtitles and thumbnails into the same account, and existing Podcastle plans, projects and billing carried over. Usage is metered by monthly AI credits alongside separate caps on recording and transcription hours; a separate developer voice API for text-to-speech, transcription and 3-second voice cloning is billed from a prepaid wallet rather than a subscription.
- Platforms
- Web · API
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026
Verified sources
- Essentials $19.99/month or $143.90/year with 450 credits, Pro $39.99 or $287.90 with 1,200, Teams $84.99 or $599.90 with 3,000; monthly credits do not roll over, top-ups expire after two months (15 October 2026)help.async.com ↗
- Plan line-up Free / Essentials / Pro / Teams / Business with free-tier lifetime caps of 10 AI credits, 1 hour of remote recording, 720p export and 2 GB storage; plan prices are rendered client-side and blank in the static page (15 October 2026)async.com ↗
- Terms name the operator as Podcastle Inc. (DBA Async), governed by Delaware law (15 October 2026)async.com ↗
- Developer API covers text-to-speech over HTTP, streaming and WebSocket, file and real-time speech-to-text, and voice cloning from a 3-second sample, billed from a prepaid wallet with no subscription (15 October 2026)docs.async.com ↗
- podcastle.ai still answers 308 to async.com (15 October 2026)podcastle.ai ↗
Is Async legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Jul 12, 1997 (29 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar GoDaddy.com, LLC, looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Dec 28, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 16, 2026The site answered
- On the market since
- 2020The vendor's own material, read by us
- Operated by
- Podcastle Inc., United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Async
Solid mid-tier pick for solo podcasters and small teams who record remotely and want cleanup, transcription and clip-cutting on one bill. If voice synthesis quality alone is the deciding factor, a dedicated TTS vendor still beats it.
Pros
- real breadth: record, edit, transcribe, dub, clip and publish without leaving the account
- credits reset monthly on paid tiers rather than being one lifetime pool
- the rebrand preserved existing accounts, pricing tiers and billing rather than forcing a migration
- the developer voice API is a shipped product with live docs, not a waitlist page
Cons
- credit accounting makes it hard to predict what a heavy editing month actually costs
- the free tier's 10 lifetime credits barely covers an evaluation
- chat-driven editing is quick for coarse asks and awkward for frame-accurate timeline work
- almost every review, tutorial and directory entry still says Podcastle
Best for
- remote interview recording with separate per-guest tracks
- cutting long episodes down into short social clips
- podcasters who want editing, dubbing and distribution under one subscription
Not for
- broadcast-grade audio post that needs full DAW control
- teams standardised on Adobe or Reaper workflows
Watch out: Every link still pointing at podcastle.ai now 308-redirects to async.com, so expect stale references across your team docs and any saved tutorials.
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