What is Async?
Async, formerly known as Podcastle, is an AI creative suite for producing video and audio content through a chat-based workflow. Creators can upload recordings, describe the edits they want, and review the resulting timeline before exporting. The platform combines recording, editing, media generation, enhancement, subtitles, and content repurposing in one web-based workspace.
Async supports formats such as podcasts, interviews, social clips, advertisements, explainers, travel videos, and wedding videos. It is designed to handle both uploaded footage and AI-generated media, while retaining manual editing controls for reviewing or adjusting the result.
Key Features
- Chat-based video editing: Users can request rough cuts, shorter versions, pacing changes, and other edits by describing the desired result in chat.
- Automated cleanup: Async can remove filler words, pauses, repeated sections, failed takes, background noise, and awkward moments from recordings.
- AI media generation: The suite can create video scenes, images, B-roll, voices, music, and sound effects using supported generation models.
- Captions and audio tools: Users can generate synchronized subtitles, adjust caption formatting, enhance speech, reduce noise, and remove silence.
- Content repurposing: Async identifies useful moments in longer recordings and turns them into clips for TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, or ads.
- Reusable styles and templates: Editing preferences can be saved as skills, while templates provide starting points for reels, quote videos, lookbooks, and brand introductions.
Use Cases
- Convert long interviews or podcast recordings into edited episodes and short promotional clips.
- Prepare social videos with captions, music, B-roll, and platform-specific framing.
- Clean recorded speech and reduce distracting noise before publishing.
- Generate supporting visuals, voices, music, or sound effects without leaving the editor.
- Create repeatable video styles for a creator, brand, or production team.
Pricing
Async has a free plan with limited lifetime AI credits and upload time. Paid plans listed on the pricing page include Essentials at $11.99 per month, Pro at $23.99 per month, and Teams at $49.99 per creator per month. A Business plan is available with custom pricing, credits, storage, recording allowances, management features, support, and security options. The page also offers free trials and optional credit top-ups. Billing details and current monthly or yearly discounts should be confirmed on the official pricing page.
Who Is It For?
Async is intended for solo creators, podcasters, video producers, small businesses, creative teams, and larger organizations that regularly produce video or audio content. Its chat interface can help people without extensive editing experience, while timeline controls, reusable skills, brand tools, and team features support more structured production workflows.
