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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.
| Podsqueeze | Simon Says | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $8.99 | From $20 |
| Pricing model | Paid subscription | Paid subscription |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | 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, Audio & Podcasting, Short-Form & Clipping | Transcription & Show Notes, Captions & Subtitles |
| Works with | YouTube, 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 |
Show notes and clips from one upload
Podsqueeze takes an episode and returns everything that gets written after it: show notes, chapters, a summary, social posts, and audiograms or video clips cut from the audio. It will stand up a website for the podcast as well. Plans are counted in minutes of audio a month, and the cheapest holds two hours, which is four half-hour episodes.
Our note
Against Castmagic the difference is the clips: Podsqueeze cuts video and audiograms from the same upload where Castmagic is text first. If the plan is to post to social from every episode, that is what decides it.
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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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