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Both cover transcription & show notes. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
| Castmagic | Simon Says | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $19 | From $20 |
| Pricing model | Paid subscription | Paid subscription |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Annual only | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | Not stated | Not stated |
| Runs on | Web | Web |
| Covers | Transcription & Show Notes, AI Content Tools, Audio & Podcasting | Transcription & Show Notes, Captions & Subtitles |
| Works with | Podcast | Nothing in particular |
| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
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.
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Transcription built to land in an edit
Simon Says transcribes and translates, then exports into the editing software the footage is already in rather than handing back a text file to retype. The transcript editor pairs with a visual subtitle editor for checking how captions sit on the picture. An assembly mode on the paid tiers lets a rough cut be built by selecting lines of the transcript, which is the feature documentary editors buy it for.
Our note
The break-even is a little over an hour a month, and below that the pay as you go tier is the right answer. Assembly mode is the feature worth paying the subscription for, and it is the one nothing else in this category does properly.
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