Podsift

Podsift is a free service that uses AI to summarize podcast episodes and deliver the summaries by email. After verifying an email address, users pick from a catalog of more than 90 podcasts, and Podsift transcribes and condenses each new episode into a summary that is sent to the subscriber's inbox as soon as it becomes available. Past summaries remain accessible so users can browse or revisit earlier episodes without listening to the original audio. Setup is limited to three steps: verifying an email address, selecting podcasts of interest, and then receiving automatic summaries whenever a chosen show releases a new episode. The site covers more than 250 shows across categories like business and technology, and reports a subscriber base described as thousands of daily readers along with a following of over 117,000 on social media. The service is entirely free, with no paid tier mentioned on the site. Podsift is built for podcast listeners who want to stay current on multiple shows without dedicating hours to full episodes. One limitation is that summaries are only available for podcasts already in Podsift's catalog, so listeners cannot request a summary for a show that is not among the more than 250 currently supported.