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The value stack
13 things have to happen between a finished recording and an audience that knows what you stand for. Every tool below does some of them well. Not one of them gets past 5 — and none of them hands off to the next, so holding the stack together is your job, every week, for as long as you publish.
Nothing here replaces this - including us
Recording and editing
Convia Pro starts at the finished file. It does not record your guest and it does not cut your video. Whatever you use now, keep using it. If you already pay for Descript, connect your own key and the finished edit comes back into Convia Pro when it is done.
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| The job | Castmagic4 of 13 | Jasper5 of 13 | Buffer5 of 13 | Metricool4 of 13 | Planable5 of 13 | PodGlue2 of 13 | Convia ProProfessional |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pull each new episode in on its ownFrom your podcast's public feed, whoever hosts it, without re-uploading the file by hand. | Covers it | Not what it is for | Not checked | Not checked | Not checked | Not checked | Covers it |
| Write a post per platform, not one post copied six timesEach platform gets something written for how people read on it. | Covers it | Covers it | Covers it | Covers it | Covers it | Covers it | Covers it |
| Make the thumbnails and the quote cardsCover images and pull-quote graphics, generated rather than briefed out. | Partly | Covers it | Partly | Partly | Partly | Not checked | Covers it |
| Turn the recording into short vertical clipsConvia Pro does not cut clips. It sends the recording to the clipper you already pay for, brings the candidates back, and you pick the ones worth posting. | Covers it | Does not | Does not | Does not | Partly | Not checked | Partly |
| Publish to all 8 platforms directlyA direct connection to each account, not a relay through another service. | Not checked | Not checked | Covers it | Covers it | Covers it | Partly | Covers it |
| Schedule to the posting times you set oncePer-platform defaults, set once, applied to everything that follows. | Does not | Does not | Covers it | Not checked | Partly | Partly | Covers it |
| Plan a campaign, not a queue of postsA time-bound arc across platforms built around one intent, with the beats it cannot fill surfaced rather than quietly dropped. | Partly | Covers it | Partly | Partly | Covers it | Does not | Covers it |
| See what every platform returned, in one placePost-level numbers pulled back from each platform rather than read one tab at a time. | Does not | Does not | Partly | Covers it | Partly | Does not | Covers it |
| Spot a trend worth riding while it is still a trendAlerts on what is moving in your subject, early enough to record against it. | Does not | Partly | Partly | Partly | Partly | Does not | Covers it |
| Hold one brand kit every output obeysLogo, colours and type, applied to what gets generated rather than fixed afterwards. | Partly | Covers it | Not checked | Not checked | Does not | Partly | Covers it |
| Hand the guest something better than a folder of filesDrafted posts the guest can publish, rather than a link to assets and a hope they work out what to do with them. | Does not | Not what it is for | Does not | Does not | Does not | Covers it | Covers it |
| Run two accounts on the same platformTwo LinkedIn pages, or a personal and a brand account, from one workspace. | Not what it is for | Not what it is for | Covers it | Partly | Covers it | Does not | Covers it |
| Author it from ChatGPT or Claude and have it land scheduledWritten where you already work, arriving as a scheduled campaign rather than a paste. | Covers it | Covers it | Covers it | Covers it | Covers it | Not checked | Covers it |
Every cell about another company was read from that company’s own documentation. Where their own pages left something genuinely unsettled, the cell says not checked rather than guessing — 12 of them do. A count of covers it is out of all 13 jobs and claims nothing about the cells we did not settle. Each tool’s own comparison page is linked from its column, including where it beats us: Castmagic, Jasper, Buffer, Metricool, Planable, PodGlue.
What the grid says
The widest single column reaches 5 of 13. Not because these are weak products — they are good at what they were built for — but because none of them was built for the whole job. The two that reach furthest barely overlap: one writes the content and the other ships it, and neither knows the other exists.
So the gap is not a missing feature. It is the seam between the tools, and the seam is where your week goes.
Convia Pro covers 12 of the 13 on the Professional plan, at $99 a month, for the 6 connected channels that plan allows. Clips it does not cut itself — it hands the recording to the clipper you already pay for and brings the candidates back. Several tools above beat us on individual rows. Those rows are in the grid too.
Where every cell came from
Each verdict below was read from that company’s own documentation, help centre or pricing page — never from a review site or a comparison roundup, because those are not the company speaking about its own product.
Some verdicts rest on a capability being absent from an otherwise complete feature list rather than on the vendor ruling it out. Those say so. Products change without telling us, so if something here is wrong, we would rather be told than be right by accident — the correction address is at the foot of this page. Last read September 22, 2026.
Castmagic
- Pull each new episode in on its own— Covers it
- Autopilot pulls every new episode the morning it publishes; RSS is listed as an integration on every tier. castmagic.io/features
- Write a post per platform, not one post copied six times— Covers it
- Separate generators per destination - LinkedIn post, X thread, Instagram caption, Reel and TikTok script. castmagic.io/features
- Make the thumbnails and the quote cards— Partly
- Carousels, audiograms and AI image generation on every tier. Thumbnails and cover images are not named on any product page. castmagic.io/features
- Turn the recording into short vertical clips— Covers it
- Clips with word-level captions on a multi-clip timeline, in 9:16, 1:1 and 16:9. castmagic.io/features
- Publish to all 8 platforms directly— Not checked
- Withheld rather than scored. The integrations table names only import and automation destinations and no social network, but the home page says 'publish or export, all from a single dashboard'. The two readings disagree, so we did not settle it. castmagic.io/pricing
- Schedule to the posting times you set once— Does not
- No scheduler, calendar or posting defaults appear in the feature list or the plan table. castmagic.io/pricing
- Plan a campaign, not a queue of posts— Partly
- A campaign builder turns one recording into an asset set, and a strategist produces a weekly plan from your library. Neither is a dated multi-platform arc. castmagic.io/features
- See what every platform returned, in one place— Does not
- No analytics feature appears in the plan table or the feature list. castmagic.io/pricing
- Spot a trend worth riding while it is still a trend— Does not
- The strategist answers from your own library. The nearest external input is a swipe file you fill yourself. castmagic.io/features
- Hold one brand kit every output obeys— Partly
- Brand voice and custom prompts shape drafts, and carousels can be styled. No stored logo, colour or type kit is documented. castmagic.io/features
- Hand the guest something better than a folder of files— Does not
- Public sharing of recordings and Studio output only. 'Asks' collects answers from guests rather than giving them anything to post. castmagic.io/features
- Run two accounts on the same platform— Not what it is for
- Castmagic connects no social accounts, so the question does not arise. Multi-brand work is handled by Spaces. castmagic.io/pricing
- Author it from ChatGPT or Claude and have it land scheduled— Covers it
- An API and a Claude MCP connector that points an assistant at your library. castmagic.io/claude
Jasper
- Pull each new episode in on its own— Not what it is for
- A marketing execution platform with no episode or feed concept. Audio can be uploaded to the knowledge base as source material. jasper.ai
- Write a post per platform, not one post copied six times— Covers it
- Generates post variants and captions tailored to each platform and market. jasper.ai/solutions/campaigns
- Make the thumbnails and the quote cards— Covers it
- Image pipelines produce on-brand imagery; the image API does background removal, cleanup and upscaling. jasper.ai/image/pipelines
- Turn the recording into short vertical clips— Does not
- The vendor defines its multimodal support as text and images. No video generation or clipping. jasper.ai
- Publish to all 8 platforms directly— Not checked
- Withheld rather than scored. None of the sixteen listed integrations is a social network, but the same page's heading says 'publish everywhere'. The two readings disagree, so we did not settle it. jasper.ai/integrations
- Schedule to the posting times you set once— Does not
- Jasper writes a social calendar as content. It holds no send times and connects to no scheduler. jasper.ai/integrations
- Plan a campaign, not a queue of posts— Covers it
- Turns a launch brief into core messaging, campaign themes and channel plans across web, email, social and ads. jasper.ai/solutions/campaigns
- See what every platform returned, in one place— Does not
- The only measurement documented is answer-engine visibility. No social accounts connect, so there are no post-level numbers. jasper.ai/geo
- Spot a trend worth riding while it is still a trend— Partly
- The research agent identifies emerging trends from public sources as a cited report, rather than a live feed you act on in the moment. jasper.ai/agents/research
- Hold one brand kit every output obeys— Covers it
- Ingests your brand book, flags violations and applies voice and visual guidelines to every output across the team. jasper.ai/visual-guidelines
- Hand the guest something better than a folder of files— Not what it is for
- Podcast guest workflows are outside what the product addresses. jasper.ai
- Run two accounts on the same platform— Not what it is for
- No social accounts connect, so per-platform account counts do not arise. Multiple brand voices are held inside the product instead. jasper.ai/integrations
- Author it from ChatGPT or Claude and have it land scheduled— Covers it
- An official MCP server, with vendor documentation for Claude, Copilot and OpenAI. jasper.ai/mcp
Buffer
- Pull each new episode in on its own— Not checked
- Withheld rather than scored. A Feedly integration brings in curated sources, but Buffer's own page never says RSS or podcast, so reading it as feed ingest is inference rather than documentation. buffer.com/integrations
- Write a post per platform, not one post copied six times— Covers it
- One post, many channels, with the caption, hashtags, link and time customised per platform before each becomes its own queued post. buffer.com/publish
- Make the thumbnails and the quote cards— Partly
- Through Canva and Unsplash, plus choosing a cover frame from your own video. No image generation appears in the integration list or the plan table. buffer.com/integrations
- Turn the recording into short vertical clips— Does not
- Buffer schedules short-form video and picks a cover frame. No clipping or editing feature appears in the publishing features or the integration catalogue. buffer.com/publish
- Publish to all 8 platforms directly— Covers it
- Eleven channels, more than Convia Pro: Facebook pages and groups, Instagram, LinkedIn pages and profiles, X, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Threads, Pinterest, Google Business Profile, Bluesky and Mastodon. buffer.com/pricing
- Schedule to the posting times you set once— Covers it
- A posting schedule per channel, set from best-time data and customisable. buffer.com/publish
- Plan a campaign, not a queue of posts— Partly
- Tags group content by campaign and Insights can be filtered by tag. There is no campaign object carrying a brief, a goal or a date range. buffer.com/pricing
- See what every platform returned, in one place— Partly
- Insights spans channels, but the vendor's own table withholds basic analytics from several channel types and advanced analytics from all but four. buffer.com/pricing
- Spot a trend worth riding while it is still a trend— Partly
- Takeaways and comment insights read your own account data and turn it into next week's ideas. No external trend discovery and no script. buffer.com/mcp
- Hold one brand kit every output obeys— Not checked
- Withheld rather than scored. Branded reports store a logo and AI replies learn your voice, but neither is a kit that governs generated output, and 'does not' may be the fairer reading. buffer.com/pricing
- Hand the guest something better than a folder of files— Does not
- Collaboration covers invited users, permissions and approvals. Nothing hands an outside guest drafted posts to publish themselves. buffer.com/pricing
- Run two accounts on the same platform— Covers it
- A channel is one social account and you pay per channel, so several accounts on one platform work from the cheapest paid tier and on the free plan. buffer.com/pricing
- Author it from ChatGPT or Claude and have it land scheduled— Covers it
- MCP access on every plan including free, working with Claude, ChatGPT and others, creating and scheduling posts into the queue for review. buffer.com/mcp
Metricool
- Pull each new episode in on its own— Not checked
- Withheld rather than scored. Autolists share new items from RSS feeds automatically, but the page names blog, YouTube and news feeds rather than podcast feeds, and it is a vendor blog post rather than documentation. metricool.com/autolists-social-media-management
- Write a post per platform, not one post copied six times— Covers it
- The message is adapted for each network, with platform-specific presets in the planner. metricool.com/planner
- Make the thumbnails and the quote cards— Partly
- Design through Adobe Express, Canva and a stock bank. No image or thumbnail generation is documented. metricool.com/planner
- Turn the recording into short vertical clips— Does not
- The planner's feature grid covers design, presets, hashtags and previews. No clipping from a long recording. metricool.com/planner
- Publish to all 8 platforms directly— Covers it
- Eleven networks, more than Convia Pro: Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, X, Twitch, Google Business Profile, Bluesky, Facebook, Pinterest and LinkedIn. metricool.com/planner
- Schedule to the posting times you set once— Not checked
- Withheld rather than scored. Ideal times per network and platform presets are documented, and autolists fix days and times, but no page documents a saved per-platform default schedule as such. metricool.com/planner
- Plan a campaign, not a queue of posts— Partly
- Campaign dashboards group content already published and analyse it together. They are reporting rather than a plan with an intent. metricool.com/campaign-dashboards
- See what every platform returned, in one place— Covers it
- Per-post metrics across every connected network. Free keeps 30 days, and complete X analytics needs a higher tier or an add-on. metricool.com/pricing
- Spot a trend worth riding while it is still a trend— Partly
- Ideas drawn from your own top posts and from tracked competitors and hashtags, rather than an external trend feed turned into a script. metricool.com/metricool-mcp-claude
- Hold one brand kit every output obeys— Not checked
- Withheld rather than scored. A tone setting and customisable AI instructions exist, but our reading of the tier detail came from a truncated page and we could not confirm it directly. metricool.com/pricing
- Hand the guest something better than a folder of files— Does not
- External people are collaborators and approvers. Nothing hands a guest drafted posts to publish from their own accounts. metricool.com/pricing
- Run two accounts on the same platform— Partly
- Stated by the vendor: one profile per network under each brand, so two accounts on one platform means two brands, which the free plan does not allow. metricool.com
- Author it from ChatGPT or Claude and have it land scheduled— Covers it
- An official MCP server with twenty-plus tools including scheduling and analytics, documented for Claude, ChatGPT and others. metricool.com/metricool-mcp-claude
Planable
- Pull each new episode in on its own— Not checked
- Withheld rather than scored. No Planable page we read mentions RSS in either direction, and none enumerates content sources exhaustively enough for that silence to mean anything. planable.io/features
- Write a post per platform, not one post copied six times— Covers it
- Create once across platforms, then tweak each one, with a separate composer for every supported network. planable.io/features
- Make the thumbnails and the quote cards— Partly
- A built-in media editor, Canva, and custom thumbnails for reels and video. Its own AI does captions and rewrites rather than images. planable.io/features
- Turn the recording into short vertical clips— Partly
- Trimming a single upload is documented for several networks, along with custom reel thumbnails. That is not cutting several clips out of a long recording. planable.io/features
- Publish to all 8 platforms directly— Covers it
- Nine platforms: YouTube, X, Instagram, Threads, Facebook Pages, TikTok, Pinterest, LinkedIn profiles and pages, and Google Business Profiles. planable.io/features
- Schedule to the posting times you set once— Partly
- Preferred time slots are set per calendar or workspace rather than per platform. planable.io/features
- Plan a campaign, not a queue of posts— Covers it
- A campaign holds the brief, the assets, the posts and the analytics together in the calendar, with a timeline for spotting gaps and overlaps. planable.io/campaigns
- See what every platform returned, in one place— Partly
- Post-level metrics, audience insights and competitor analytics exist, but only as a separately priced add-on rather than part of the plan. planable.io/pricing
- Spot a trend worth riding while it is still a trend— Partly
- Keyword and competitor monitoring with sentiment, as a separately priced add-on, capped at a few keywords and thirty days. Turning a topic into a script stays manual. planable.io/social-listening
- Hold one brand kit every output obeys— Does not
- Templates, labels and a workspace media library, plus AI that rewrites to match your style. No stored kit that generated output obeys. planable.io/features
- Hand the guest something better than a folder of files— Does not
- An outside person can view and comment on a post without an account, for approval. There is no documented way for a guest to publish. planable.io/features
- Run two accounts on the same platform— Covers it
- Stated by the vendor: you can connect multiple pages from the same platform, available from the cheapest tier. planable.io/pricing
- Author it from ChatGPT or Claude and have it land scheduled— Covers it
- An MCP connector on all three tiers, connecting an assistant to create and manage content across workspaces. planable.io/mcp-ecosystem
PodGlue
- Pull each new episode in on its own— Not checked
- Withheld rather than scored. RSS appears under import and capture, but no page says the sync pulls each new episode on its own, and the home page's first step is pasting a transcript. podglue.com/integrations
- Write a post per platform, not one post copied six times— Covers it
- Writes copy native to LinkedIn, X, Instagram and your newsletter. podglue.com
- Make the thumbnails and the quote cards— Not checked
- Withheld rather than scored. The features page promises a cover generator in three aspect ratios; the dedicated thumbnail page says it produces prompts and art direction to paste into your own image tool. The vendor's two pages disagree. podglue.com/features
- Turn the recording into short vertical clips— Not checked
- Withheld rather than scored. Audiograms and quote graphics are the documented video outputs and no page documents clip cutting, but the pricing page lists video clips among what PodGlue replaces. podglue.com/features
- Publish to all 8 platforms directly— Partly
- Six destinations rather than eight: LinkedIn personal feed, X, Threads, a Facebook Page, Instagram business or creator, and WordPress. podglue.com/integrations
- Schedule to the posting times you set once— Partly
- A per-platform choice exists - link in the post body or in the first comment - and there is a publishing queue, but no page documents posting defaults set once per platform. podglue.com/integrations/linkedin
- Plan a campaign, not a queue of posts— Does not
- The unit of planning is the episode, with a six-stage lifecycle and launch checklists, rather than a dated multi-platform arc. podglue.com/podcast-workflow-automation
- See what every platform returned, in one place— Does not
- Apple Podcasts rating and review trends only. No post-level numbers from the platforms it publishes to. podglue.com/features
- Spot a trend worth riding while it is still a trend— Does not
- Everything is grounded in your own transcripts and archive. podglue.com/features
- Hold one brand kit every output obeys— Partly
- A voice profile and a banned-word pass. No logo, colour or type kit that generated output obeys. podglue.com/ai-voice-profile
- Hand the guest something better than a folder of files— Covers it
- A white-labelled guest portal with quote graphics, audiograms and share-ready copy. podglue.com/features
- Run two accounts on the same platform— Does not
- Stated by the vendor under what it will not do: connect more than one LinkedIn account per workspace. Multiple brands take multiple workspaces. podglue.com/integrations/linkedin
- Author it from ChatGPT or Claude and have it land scheduled— Not checked
- Withheld rather than scored. We found no MCP connector, assistant integration or public API on any PodGlue page, but no page enumerates integrations exhaustively enough for that absence to settle it. podglue.com/integrations
Convia Pro does not replace this either
The agency
Choosing which guests are worth the hour. Shaping an argument across a season. Working the relationship after the episode airs. That is judgement, and software does not have any. What Convia Pro replaces is the part of a retainer spent moving files between six tools — which is why some agencies now run their clients’ shows on Convia Pro rather than against it.
Frequently asked questions
No, and nothing on this page does. Convia Pro starts at the finished file. Whatever you record and cut with today - Riverside, Zoom, Descript, a human editor - you keep. Connect your own Descript key and the finished edit comes back into Convia Pro when it is done.
Convia Pro covers 12 of the 13 jobs outright on the Professional plan, at $99 a month. Clips come from a clipper you already pay for rather than from us, which is deliberate: you keep the tool you already like and we connect to it. Several of the tools here beat us on individual rows, and the grid shows that rather than hiding it.
Every cell was read from that company's own documentation, help centre or pricing page, and dated. Review sites and comparison roundups were not used. Where a vendor's own pages disagreed with each other, or the wording was genuinely ambiguous, the cell is marked not checked rather than guessed at - because a blank or a guess reads as a failing mark.
No. Prices change and we would be wrong within a month, so every comparison page links to the vendor's own pricing page instead. The costs on this page are what our founder personally paid for his own stack over a named period, not a claim about what anyone charges today.
One bill, one login, one voice across every output.
If you recognise your own stack in the grid above, the individual comparisons go through these tools one at a time, honestly, including where they beat us.
Capabilities on this page were last checked against each vendor’s own documentation on September 22, 2026.
We aim to highlight others fairly and accurately. If we made a mistake, email us at contact@conviapro.com.