What is an audiogram?

A short video built from podcast audio, usually combining a still image or cover art, an animated waveform, and burned-in captions. It exists because most social platforms will not distribute a bare audio file, so the video wrapper is what makes a podcast clip shareable.

Do I need to pay for an audiogram tool?

Not to test whether clips work for your show, since Headliner and Audiogram both publish free tiers that produce a usable file. Upgrade when the monthly export limit rather than the output quality is what is stopping you, which for a weekly show is usually within two months.

Are captions necessary on a podcast clip?

Yes. Social video autoplays muted by default across the major feeds, so a clip without burned-in captions is a silent moving image to most of the people who scroll past it. Every tool on this list generates captions, and all of them need a human read-through afterwards for names and jargon.

Best audiogram video creators for podcasters

The best audiogram video creators for podcasters are Headliner for its free tier, Wavve for predictable monthly export budgets, Audiogram for waveform-led promos, OpusClip for picking the moments out of a long episode, and Descript if you would rather edit and clip in one tool. Choose on export limits, because that is the constraint you will hit in month two.

Pick the platform before the tool. Every product below can make a competent square video with captions, so the choice between them will not decide whether anyone sees it. Our notes on what is worth repurposing cover how to rank the outputs.

How we selected these audiogram video creators

We read each provider's current published pricing and product pages, then judged them on the things that decide whether a weekly show keeps using the tool after the first month.

Export ceiling: How many watermark-free videos you get per month, stated as a number and not as "unlimited" with an asterisk.
Input length: Whether it accepts a two-hour episode file, since most podcast episodes are not short.
Captions: Automatic captions with editable text, because the transcript will get your guest's name wrong.
Aspect ratios: Square, vertical and landscape from one project, so one clip serves three feeds.
Free tier honesty: Whether the free plan produces something publishable or just a watermarked demo.

Browse the audiogram video creators directory for the wider category. One warning from compiling this list: several tools that once served this category no longer resolve at all, so check that a product still exists before you build a workflow on it.

Quick comparison

Tool	Entry price	Free tier	Export limit on the paid entry plan	Best for
Headliner	$9.99/mo, $7.99 annual	Yes, 1 unwatermarked per month	10 unwatermarked audiograms per month	Testing clips without paying
Wavve	$7.99/mo	No	18 exported videos, 70 upload minutes	Knowing your monthly ceiling exactly
Audiogram	$19/mo	Yes, 2 videos per month	Up to 15 videos per month	Waveform-first promo clips
OpusClip	$15/mo	Yes, with watermarked captions	Watermark-free exports, 30-day storage	Finding clips in a long episode
Descript	$16/mo Hobbyist	Yes, 60 media minutes, 720p	10 media hours per month, 1080p	Editing and clipping in one tool

1. Headliner

Best for: finding out whether clips work for your show before you spend anything.

Headliner's published pricing lists a Forever Free plan with one unwatermarked audiogram per month, unlimited watermarked audiograms, and unlimited free video clips. The free tier runs at 1080p for videos up to 10 minutes, accepts two-hour audio files, and will auto-create audiograms for one podcast.

That free allowance is the most useful on this list, because one publishable clip a month for free is a real test, not a demo. The Basic plan at $9.99 a month, or $7.99 billed annually, raises that to 10 unwatermarked audiograms and removes the ads. Pro at $25.99 a month, or $19.99 annually, lifts the video length ceiling to two hours and the audio input to four hours, which matters for anyone clipping full episodes rather than moments.

Skip it if you need heavy visual control. The templates are quick and the brand customisation on paid tiers is adequate, but this is a tool built around speed.

2. Wavve

Best for: a fixed monthly budget you can plan production against.

Wavve's pricing page states its limits in two dimensions at once, upload minutes and exported videos. Starter at $7.99 a month gives 70 upload minutes and 18 exported videos. Pro at $19.99 gives 210 upload minutes, 33 exports and two extra team members. The Agency tier at $98.99 gives 410 upload minutes, 78 exports and four extra members.

Upload minutes bind before export counts on a long-form show. A weekly 90-minute episode consumes 70 of Starter's 70 monthly upload minutes on its first upload, so the 18 available exports are unreachable at that episode length and a show like that starts at Pro.

Every tier includes SRT and transcript downloads, AI hot spot identification, auto-resizing, captions and a social scheduler, so the feature set does not gate behind the price. The page does not publish resolution or watermark detail, which is worth confirming on a trial before you commit.

3. Audiogram

Best for: clips where an animated waveform is the visual.

Audiogram publishes a free plan with two videos a month and captions up to 60 seconds, a Pro plan at $19 a month with up to 15 videos and captions up to five minutes, and an Elite plan at $29 a month with up to 30 videos, HD output, a brand library and custom fonts.

A 60-second caption cap on the free plan makes that tier short-promo only, and even Pro tops out at five minutes, so this is a tool for moments rather than full episodes.

Skip it if you want a talking-head video version of your show. Waveform-led promos are what it does well.

4. OpusClip

Best for: getting a long episode down to the parts worth posting.

OpusClip inverts the usual workflow. Instead of you choosing a moment and building a clip around it, it reads the episode and proposes the clips. Its Starter plan at $15 a month gives watermark-free exports at the highest available resolution, 29-day media storage, a 30-day export window, and clipping modes that work on spoken words, visual objects, sound, emotion and genre. Pro at $29 adds topic search, prompt-to-clip, bulk export, 100GB of storage, B-roll, dubbing and up to four users.

The free plan is a genuine trial and not a working tier, since media expires after three days and caption templates carry a watermark.

Its suggestions need reviewing. An automated system picks moments that look clippable by pattern, which is not the same as the two minutes that actually explain your show to a stranger. Treat the output as a shortlist.

5. Descript

Best for: editing the episode and cutting the clips without changing tools.

Descript's pricing runs a free plan at 60 media minutes a month with 720p exports and a watermark, Hobbyist at $16 a month with 10 media hours and watermark-free 1080p, Creator at $24 a month with 30 media hours and 4K, and Business at $50 a month with 40 media hours and five seats.

The case for Descript is consolidation. You edit the episode by editing its transcript, then cut clips from the same project, which removes the export-and-reimport step every other tool on this list requires. For a show already editing in Descript, the clip workflow is close to free.

Watch the media hours. A weekly 90-minute episode plus re-edits will eat into 10 hours quickly, so Hobbyist suits a fortnightly or short-form show more comfortably than a long weekly one.

Choosing one and moving on

If you have never posted a clip, start on Headliner's free tier and publish eight clips before you form an opinion. If you already know clips work and the bottleneck is deciding what to cut, OpusClip removes that step. If you edit in Descript, the answer is Descript.

Then measure it properly. Views on the platform tell you about the platform, and the number that matters is whether unique listeners on the show moved in the weeks after you started. Our social clips guide covers the hooks and captions that decide whether a clip lands, and audiograms for podcasters covers the format itself.

Podder reports unique listeners and per-episode download curves from the prefix, which is how you find out whether the clips brought anyone to the actual show. Start on the Analytics plan and install the prefix before your next clip run.