Castmagic
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveTurns recorded audio and video into transcripts and written content
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Paid
- Paid options from
- $19/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Hobby $19, Starter $48 and Team $139 per month billed annually ($239, $579, $1,669 a year) with 30, 100 and 400 transcribed hours as a library total; monthly billing costs more, extra seats on Team are $19/month, and API access starts on Starter. Business and Scale plans run from $699 and $999 a month.
Use tool ↗About Castmagic
Castmagic ingests podcast episodes, webinars, sales calls and videos — by upload, RSS or link from a dozen platforms — and returns timestamped transcripts plus drafted show notes, newsletters, social posts and clips. Prompts and output templates are editable and can be tuned against a saved brand voice, while separate spaces keep client libraries apart. An MCP connector exposes the whole library to Claude for longer-form work such as ebooks or courses.
- Platforms
- Web · API
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- Pricing page: Hobby $19, Starter $48, Team $139 per month billed annually ($239/$579/$1,669 a year) for 30/100/400 transcribed hours (library total); API access not on Hobby; Business from $699 and Scale $999 a month (15 October 2026)castmagic.io ↗
- Product menu lists speaker-labelled transcription in 60+ languages, 130+ content tools, an on-site Audience Chat chatbot, a REST API and a Claude MCP connector (15 October 2026)castmagic.io ↗
- Terms of Service (updated 31 October 2024) say Castmagic is provided by Magic Studio LLC (15 October 2026)castmagic.io ↗
Is Castmagic legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Dec 18, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
- On the market since
- 2022The vendor's own material, read by us
- Operated by
- Magic Studio LLC, United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Castmagic
Good value if you publish weekly and need one recording turned into five assets; if all you want is an accurate transcript, Whisper or a cheap transcription service does that for a fraction of the price. The value sits entirely in the generated content, not the transcript.
Pros
- Imports from YouTube, TikTok, Zoom, Loom, RSS and more, so you rarely export files by hand
- Editable prompts and reusable templates rather than fixed output formats
- API access from the $48/month tier upward
- Extra transcription hours can be bought without changing plan
Cons
- Hobby tier has no API and caps you at 30 hours, 3 spaces and 3 seats
- Monthly billing costs roughly 30% more than the advertised figures
- Team includes 5 seats and charges +$19/mo for each extra
- The step from Team ($139/mo) to Business (from $699/mo) has nothing in between
Best for
- Weekly podcasters who want show notes, timestamps and social posts without a producer
- Marketing teams recycling webinars and customer interviews into campaign content
- Agencies running several client shows in separate spaces
- Teams that want an LLM pointed at an entire back-catalogue via MCP
Not for
- People who only need transcription
- One-off projects, since the headline prices assume an annual commitment
- Live meeting note-taking, which is not what this is built around
Watch out: The hour allowance is presented as a library total rather than an obvious monthly refill — confirm how it resets before importing a back-catalogue.
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