Verbato and Castmagic, side by side
Castmagic turns audio and video into content to publish: show notes, posts, newsletters, clips. Verbato transcribes a recording and writes the documents you define from it, for podcasters and for five professions.
Which one fits
Castmagic fits if you publish. It turns episodes and videos into show notes, social posts, newsletters, blog articles and captioned clips, pulls each new episode from your feed, translates the transcript, and gives a team shared spaces with approvals.
Verbato fits if you want the documents of your work as well as of your show: show notes, chapters and posts for a podcast, and the notes, reports and letters of a doctor, therapist, veterinarian, lawyer or researcher, in the language of the recording, with the word-for-word transcript beside each one. Verbato makes no clips or video.
Side by side
| Castmagic | Verbato | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | An “AI-powered content operating system” that turns video and audio into more content. | Transcribes a recording and writes the documents you define from it. |
| Who it is for | Agencies, content and media teams, podcast networks and studios, business marketing teams, podcasters, YouTubers and coaches. | Doctors and radiologists, therapists, veterinarians, lawyers, researchers and podcasters. |
| How the recording gets in | Upload; a link from YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, TikTok and many other platforms; a podcast feed, with each new episode pulled in; Zoom, Loom and Google Drive; an iOS app; Zapier and an API. | Upload a file, paste a link (Spotify, YouTube and more), record in your browser, or send a voice note by Telegram or a recording by email. |
| Languages | Many languages, detected automatically, and translation of the transcript. | 80+ languages. The document is written in the language of the recording; its section names are in English or Spanish. |
| What it writes | Show notes, summaries, newsletters, blog articles, LinkedIn and X posts, captions, YouTube descriptions, quotes, chapters and email sequences; carousels, captioned vertical clips and audiograms. | For a podcast, the show notes, the chapter timestamps, key quotes, episode titles, the summary, posts for X, LinkedIn and Instagram, the YouTube description, a blog or newsletter draft; and the documents of a profession, or the ones you define. |
| Speakers | Labelled and timestamped, detected automatically, and renamed in the editor. | Told apart on the paid plans. |
| Getting it out | TXT, SRT, VTT, PDF, DOCX and CSV, with speakers and timestamps on or off; Zapier and an API. | The transcript as plain text, Word, PDF, SRT, VTT or JSON; each document as Word, PDF, Markdown or plain text. |
| Transcription by a person | Not offered on its pages. | Not offered. |
| How it charges | Plans set an allowance of transcription hours, billed monthly or yearly; seats past those included and extra hours are paid for; large teams by quote. | By the hour of audio. The free plan has 2 hours of audio a month, with files up to 40 minutes. Documents, corrections and exports are not counted. |
Recording patients or clients? Read what Verbato does with sensitive recordings.
Sources
Castmagic's own pages, read on 28 October 2026: