Podscan
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveSearches and tracks brand or topic mentions across millions of podcast transcripts.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Paid
- Paid options from
- $100/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
$100/month is the Premium API plan with 2,000 requests/day; lower-cost plans may exist but weren't confirmed since the pricing page returned a blocked-access error.
Use tool ↗About Podscan
Podscan is a podcast monitoring platform built by bootstrapped founder Arvid Kahl: it transcribes and indexes a large volume of podcast episodes so marketers, PR teams, and researchers can search for brand mentions, track competitors, and pull demographic and sentiment data through a dashboard or REST API. It also offers a real-time firehose API for streaming new transcript data as episodes publish. This review could not load the vendor's site directly — it returned a bot-blocking error on every attempt — so the details here rely on the founder's own public writing and third-party coverage rather than a first-party site visit.
- Platforms
- Web · API
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- Founder identity, bootstrapped funding from Calm Company Fund, and ongoing operationthebootstrappedfounder.com ↗
- Premium API plan priced at $100/month, $1,000/year, with tiered request limitspodscan.fm ↗
Is Podscan 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
- Jan 11, 2024 (2 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar NameCheap, Inc., looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Jan 6, 2027Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- Podscan, CanadaOur research, card verified Sep 1, 2026
Pros & cons of Podscan
Podscan fills a specific gap — treating podcast audio as searchable, monitorable text the way social listening tools treat Twitter or news. It's a real, funded, actively developed business run by a founder who writes openly about its growth, which gives more confidence than a typical unverified listing, but this review could not get past the site's bot protection to confirm current pricing or feature details first-hand.
Pros
- REST API and a real-time firehose API for streaming transcript data
- Publicly documented growth and funding history from the founder
- Positioned specifically for brand monitoring, not general podcast search
Cons
- Site blocked automated access during this review, so pricing could not be confirmed first-hand
- No permanent free tier — only a time-limited trial
- Value depends on how well the index actually covers a given niche of podcasts
Best for
- PR and marketing teams tracking brand mentions across podcasts
- Researchers who need programmatic access to podcast transcript data
- Agencies monitoring competitor mentions across the podcast landscape
Not for
- Individual podcast listeners looking for a discovery or player app
- Teams with no budget for a paid monitoring subscription
Watch out: Confirm current plan limits directly before subscribing, since this record relies on secondary sources for pricing.
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