Headliner

I think it's fairly safe to say that when promoting a podcast you are probably going to want to take clips of your episodes and turn them into videos to post on various social networks. It's been done a thousand times over for good reason. However, there aren't always user friendly tools for actually making those clips.

Enter Headliner, a web based app designed to do exactly that - take your audio, pair it with some visuals and output a video. It's startlingly easy to use and surprisingly robust. It even transcribes your audio with absurd accuracy (not 100% but pretty close).

The bonkers part is that it is free. I imagine this is a startup with some capital to burn that will worry about monetization later (they seem to say as much). I'd usually be a little wary of investing time or effort into anything that potentially flimsy but, frankly, it's hard to imagine this not sticking around for a good long time. Adding a subscription layer seems like an inevitable no brainer but, for now, it's just entirely free. Bonus.