Castmagic vs Poppy AI Comparison 2026
Castmagic prices plainly: $19 a month billed yearly for 30 hours of podcast repurposing into show notes, clips and social posts. Poppy AI publishes no price at all; its credit tiers, Basic, Creator and Power User, are quoted only on a sales call, backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee and a further promise to refund the first 90 days if revenue does not grow. One is a fixed subscription built for a podcast specifically. The other is a general canvas for any source material, priced only after a conversation.
Turn an episode into a week of posts
A visual canvas that turns research into scripts
At a glance
- Neither has a free tier.
- Castmagic bills annually only, so there is no month to try it for.
Side by side
Castmagic | Poppy AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $19 | Not listed |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Paid subscription | Contact sales |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing (they differ) | Annual only | Quote only |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export |
Castmagic
Turn an episode into a week of posts
Castmagic takes a recorded episode and returns show notes, timestamps, clips, a newsletter and social posts from the same upload, which is the repurposing job most podcasters do by hand on a Monday. Custom prompts let you fix the house style once. Hours are a library total rather than monthly, so a long back catalogue eats a plan on import.
Only on this side
- Covers transcription & show notes
- Covers audio & podcasting
- Works with Podcast
- Works with Twitch
Poppy AI
A visual canvas that turns research into scripts
Poppy AI is a whiteboard you drop videos, documents, images and voice notes onto, and then ask questions of everything on it at once. It runs several models behind that canvas, so the work of transcribing a video and pasting it into a chat window disappears. It is aimed at people repurposing a lot of source material rather than writing from a blank page.
Our note
Why people weigh these two
- Poppy AI instead of Castmagic
- Poppy AI is a visual canvas for turning research into scripts rather than a podcast into posts, priced by contacting sales with no free tier.
- Castmagic instead of Poppy AI
- Castmagic turns one episode into a week of posts at $19, the same research to scripts move for audio.
Which one should you pick
Castmagic is the safer buy for a podcaster who wants a known monthly cost and a tool built specifically for the format: show notes, timestamps, a newsletter and clips from one upload, without a sales call first.
Poppy AI is worth booking the call for if the real job is mining a large back catalogue of video, documents and voice notes across more than one AI model on a single canvas, not just podcast episodes. Ask for the price in writing before the call, and judge it on what a month of your actual workload costs in credits, since there is no free tier or trial to test that first.
Common questions
- Which one publishes an actual price?
- Castmagic does: $19 a month billed yearly for the Hobby plan. Poppy AI names only credit allowances per tier and asks you to book a call to learn the price.
- Can I try either for free first?
- No, neither has a free tier. Castmagic has no free plan at all, and Poppy AI has no free tier or trial either, only a 30-day money-back guarantee after paying.
- Which one works with source material beyond podcast audio?
- Poppy AI. Its canvas takes video, documents, images and voice notes together and lets you question all of them at once, where Castmagic is built specifically around a recorded episode.
- Which is better for a straightforward weekly podcast?
- Castmagic. It is purpose-built for that exact workflow, with a fixed, published price, rather than a general tool priced after a sales conversation.
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