Podcastle is now called Async: the name changed in January 2026, and podcastle.ai leads to async.com. Under either name, it is a recording studio with generative tools around it, and its AI Clips turn a video into vertical clips with subtitles. Dailies comes at shorts from another side: it records the call you hold on Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Zoom, in Chrome, and delivers up to eight captioned shorts a few minutes after it ends. The difference is where the conversation happens.
Checked against Async (ex-Podcastle)’s own site on October 1, 2026.
Dailies
For people whose best material is said in client calls on Meet, Teams or Zoom, and who want shorts from them with no studio and no file to upload.
Async (ex-Podcastle)
For creators who want a remote recording studio together with generative tools (AI voices, B-roll, editing by chat) in one product.
| Feature | Dailies | Async (ex-Podcastle) |
|---|---|---|
| Records Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls itself | YesIn Chrome, on the call you were going to hold anyway | NoIt records in its own studio, which guests join by an invite link |
| Records without a bot joining the call | YesFrom your browser | YesNo bot: participants are recorded locally, in its studio |
| Records your webcam on a track of its own | YesYour camera and microphone, apart from the call’s picture | YesSeparate audio and video tracks per guest, recorded locally, up to 4K |
| Picks the passages worth posting by itself | YesUp to eight per call | YesAI Clips generate short videos automatically; how many is not stated |
| Makes vertical 9:16 shorts, reframed on whoever speaks | Yes | YesReframes to 9:16, detects faces and keeps speakers centred |
| Burns in animated captions | YesFifteen styles | PartlySubtitles generated automatically; their styles are not stated |
| Cuts silences, filler words and false starts | Yes | YesBy chat: removes filler, pauses, repeats and bad takes |
| Blurs or replaces the room behind you | Yes | Not stated |
| Blurs your guests and disguises their voice | YesOne switch | Not stated |
| Handles calls in French | YesFrench and English, mixed included | YesFrench among its five transcription languages |
| Writes meeting notes, summaries and action items | NoDailies makes shorts, not minutes | Not stated |
| Works on any video file you upload | NoOnly the calls it records | YesAI Clips take a file from your computer, Google Drive or Dropbox |
| Posts or schedules to social networks for you | NoYou download each short in Full HD and post it yourself | Not stated |
Async, formerly Podcastle, is a chat-based AI creative suite for video and audio production that grew out of a podcast recording and editing tool. Its recording studio runs in Chrome or in its iOS app: it records every participant of an interview locally, with separate audio and video tracks per guest, in up to 4K video and uncompressed 48 kHz WAV audio, for up to ten guests. The host invites guests by a link or by email. Its AI Clips reframe a video to 9:16, detect faces, keep speakers centred and generate subtitles automatically, from a file on your computer, Google Drive or Dropbox. Editing is done by chat: you ask it to remove filler, pauses, repeats and bad takes. Async also generates AI voices, B-roll, music and avatars, and its studio allows screen sharing. Its help centre lists English, Spanish, German, French and Italian for transcription.
Async records interviews in its own studio: the host sends an invite link or an email, and the guest joins there instead of the usual meeting. We found no feature that records a call held on Google Meet, Teams or Zoom on the pages we read. Dailies records those calls from Chrome (the call tab, your microphone and your webcam), with no bot in the call.
Async’s AI Clips page names its sources: a file from your computer, Google Drive or Dropbox. How many clips it makes from a video and which caption styles it offers are not stated on the pages we read. Dailies has no file step: its shorts come from the call it recorded, up to eight per call, each with animated captions in one of fifteen styles and, above it, a line that says the question it answers.
An interview guest agreed to appear. A client on a call often would rather not. Dailies has one switch that blurs your guests and disguises their voice in every short, and it can blur or replace the room behind you. We found neither a background blur nor a way to anonymise a guest on the Async pages we read.
Local recording of up to ten guests in up to 4K, editing by chat, clips from any video you upload, and generated voices, B-roll, music and avatars. Dailies does none of that: it only handles the calls it recorded in Chrome, and you download each short in Full HD to post it yourself.
Yes. Podcastle was renamed Async in January 2026, and podcastle.ai now redirects to async.com. Async is a chat-based AI suite for video and audio production that grew out of that podcast recording and editing tool, and it still includes a recording studio for interviews with guests.
We found no such feature on the Async pages we read. Async records interviews in its own studio, in Chrome or its iOS app, with guests invited by a link or by email. Dailies records the calls you hold in Chrome on Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom.
Yes. Its AI Clips reframe a video to 9:16, detect faces so that speakers stay centred, and generate subtitles automatically, from a file on your computer, Google Drive or Dropbox. The number of clips and the caption styles are not stated on the pages we read.
No. Dailies is neither a studio nor an editor, and it does not work on a video you upload: it makes shorts from the calls you hold in Chrome on Meet, Teams or Zoom. To record and edit a podcast, a studio such as Async is the right kind of tool.
Add Dailies to Chrome, record the call you were going to have anyway, and watch its shorts a few minutes after you hang up.
Add to ChromeWhat this page says of Async (ex-Podcastle) comes from the pages below, published by its maker and read on October 1, 2026. Where its site says nothing, the table says “not stated” rather than “no”. Products change: write to hello@berenger.dev if something here is out of date. Async (ex-Podcastle) is a trademark of its owner, which has no link with Dailies.