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THE ROUNDUP

The Best Podcast Tools, Honestly

There are a hundred ways to make a podcast and most of them will quietly torpedo your release schedule. These five won't.

1

Descript

The closest thing to a magic wand for podcast editing.

If you make podcasts and don't use Descript yet, you're working too hard. Period.

9.2 / 10
$$ · Podcasters who hate the timeline
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2

Riverside

Remote recording that doesn't sound like a Zoom call.

Riverside solved the one problem that mattered: remote interviews used to sound like remote interviews. Now they sound like the same room.

8.6 / 10
$$ · Remote podcast and video interviews
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3

Adobe Podcast

Free voice cleanup that punches absurdly above its weight.

Adobe Podcast's Enhance Speech is the cheat code of the year. Drag in a phone recording, get back something that sounds like it was tracked in a treated room. It's genuinely shocking the first time.

8.3 / 10
FREE · Quick voice cleanup
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4

Auphonic

Loudness, leveling, and silence-trim, set-and-forget.

Auphonic is the boring-good utility your podcast feed has been missing. Drop in your final mix, get back something that meets every platform's loudness target without you knowing what LUFS stands for.

8.1 / 10
$ · Mastering podcast episodes
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5

Captions

AI dubbing and talking-head magic for solo creators.

Captions is the app for the creator who films themselves on a phone, talking, and wants it to look like more than that. Eye-contact correction alone might be worth the price.

7.6 / 10
$$ · Solo talking-head video
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