Async is a conversational video editor: you describe the edit you want and it performs it, rather than asking you to learn a timeline interface. Its own framing is making videos like you have a team, which is aimed squarely at people who need finished video regularly and do not have an editor.
The product is the successor to Podcastle, which began as an audio-first podcasting suite before the company rebranded and moved its emphasis to video. Anyone arriving from older reviews or links should expect a different product from the one Podcastle was; podcastle.ai now redirects here.
Describing an edit in words removes the part that stops most people, which is not taste but tool proficiency. Cutting pauses, tightening a rough take or restructuring a section are easy to articulate and tedious to execute manually. Conversational editing is still less precise than a timeline for frame-exact work, so treat it as a fast route to a good cut rather than a replacement for a finishing editor.
Async starts at $15, which is right at the Video median of $15.95 a month across the 144 priced tools we list in that category.
The cheapest paid option in Video starts at $0.5 and the most expensive at $295.
64% of Video tools in the directory offer a free tier, and this is one of them.
Compared against every priced listing in Video, recalculated as the catalogue changes. Method and the full market breakdown are in our AI tool pricing study.
"Make a video about" anything – script-to-video generation across Veo, Seedance, Kling and Hailuo, with chat commands like "make this conversation shorter" for edits.
Browser-based AI video editor from Microsoft with templates, auto-captions, and text-to-video generation.
Turn one long video into clips, summaries, blogs, chapters and subtitles – one click, 98%+ transcription accuracy, 120+ languages. The editor lets you cut a clip by selecting text in the transcript.
Transforms an existing video from a written description – slow motion, golden hour, particles, cinematic – with the full toolset in a mobile app.
