# Podhoc

> Podhoc turns notes, PDFs, YouTube videos and articles into AI-generated podcast-style audio episodes. 73 source/output languages, 8 audio styles (Deep Dive, Critique, Didactic, Debate, Feynman Technique, Simplified Explanation, Pedagogical Framework, Alchemist's Formula). **Free to try with 50 welcome credits; recharge from €2.29 — no subscription required.** Optional subscriptions remain for heavy users (Creator €20.99/mo, Pro €72.99/mo with REST API access). Operated by Nexo Apex SL.

> Pricing updated: 2026-05-19. Last updated: 2026-07-28.

Podhoc is a NotebookLM alternative aimed at learners, researchers, students, journalists and anyone with a reading backlog. The platform extracts the key content from a source, restructures it for audio comprehension, and produces a short podcast episode (5 minutes to 2 hours) with multiple natural voices.

## Pricing — quick reference (effective 2026-05-19)

**Free to try:** 50 welcome credits on sign-up (one-time, enough for one 5-minute podcast). No card required. When the welcome credits are gone, recharge — no subscription required.

**Recharge packs (one-time, credits never expire):** All prices Spain-VAT-inclusive.

| Pack       | Credits   | 30-minute podcasts | Notes                                    |
| ---------- | --------- | ------------------ | ---------------------------------------- |
| €2.29      | 100       | 1                  | Smallest top-up                          |
| €4.49      | 200       | 2                  | A short series                           |
| €11.49     | 500       | 5                  | A working week of long-form              |
| **€22.99** | **1,000** | **10**             | **Value anchor — best per-podcast rate** |
| €44.99     | 2,000     | 20                 | A month of heavy use                     |
| €66.99     | 3,000     | 30                 | Bulk rate (matches €22.99 per-credit)    |

**Credit cost per podcast (single source, single voice):** 5-min = 36 credits (floor), 30-min = 100, 60-min = 200, 120-min = 400.

**Optional subscriptions (for heavy users):** Creator €20.99/month or €230.99/year (1,000 credits/month — yearly pays for 11 months, grants 12). Pro €72.99/month or €802.99/year (3,500 credits/month + REST API access + priority + credit rollover — yearly pays for 11 months, grants 12).

**API integrator pricing (Pro tier):** test tokens cost 2.0× direct credit rate; production tokens cost 3.5× direct credit rate. Example: a 30-minute API podcast costs 200 test credits or 350 production credits.

## Product pages

- [Home](https://podhoc.com/): Product overview, feature list, pricing summary, FAQs.
- [Pricing](https://podhoc.com/pricing/): Full recharge pack table, subscriptions, credit consumption per duration, FAQ.
- [Pricing history](https://podhoc.com/pricing-history/): Public log of pricing changes including the 2026-05-12 update.
- [API documentation](https://podhoc.com/api/): REST endpoints, authentication, rate limits, code samples in Python / Node.js / curl.
- [API authentication](https://podhoc.com/api/#authentication): Bearer-token authentication, scopes, test vs production keys.
- [API endpoints](https://podhoc.com/api/#endpoints): `POST /v1/podcasts`, `GET /v1/podcasts/{id}/status`, `GET /v1/podcasts/{id}/download`.
- [API rate limits](https://podhoc.com/api/#rate-limits): Per-tier rate caps and burst allowances.
- [NotebookLM alternative](https://podhoc.com/notebooklm-alternative/): Side-by-side comparison and capability differences.
- [Gemini Notebook vs Podhoc](https://podhoc.com/gemini-notebook-alternative/): Updated comparison reflecting Google's 16 July 2026 rename of NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook — capability differences and an honest two-way breakdown of each product's advantages.
- [Listen to PDF — Convert Any PDF to a Podcast with AI](https://podhoc.com/listen-to-pdf/): PDF-to-podcast hub. Covers academic papers, textbook chapters, contracts and legal documents (text-extractable PDFs).
- [8 AI Podcast Audio Styles](https://podhoc.com/audio-styles/): Hub for the 8 audio styles (Deep Dive, Critique, Didactic, Debate, Feynman Technique, Simplified Explanation, Pedagogical Framework, Alchemist's Formula) with per-style sub-pages.
- [Cross-Language AI Podcasts](https://podhoc.com/cross-language-podcasts/): Hub for generating a podcast in any of 73 languages from a source in any other — covers four most-requested pairings.
- [Turn notes into a podcast](https://podhoc.com/turn-notes-into-podcast/): Notes-to-podcast use case page.
- [Turn articles into podcasts](https://podhoc.com/turn-articles-into-podcasts/): Web-article-to-podcast use case page.
- [AI podcast for students](https://podhoc.com/ai-podcast-for-students/): Student-focused vertical with format selector.
- [AI podcast for researchers](https://podhoc.com/ai-podcast-for-researchers/): Researcher-focused vertical with literature-review workflow.

## Blog

Full index (always current, all posts): https://podhoc.com/blog/

All 36 published English posts, newest first:

- [Audio Alternative Formats for Higher Education: Turning Course Content into Listening](https://podhoc.com/blog/university-elearning-audio-partnerships/): Written for university learning-technology, library and disability-service teams: what alternative formats are, where audio genuinely fits the course-content pipeline, the accessibility duties in the US, EU and UK, and what to ask any audio partner.
- [Research Papers to Podcast: A Climate Science Workflow](https://podhoc.com/blog/research-papers-to-podcast/): A worked example: how a lab turns two climate papers and a few science-news pieces into a weekly AI podcast digest the group actually finishes.
- [Introducing Podhoc Digest: Topic-Based Podcast Newsletters](https://podhoc.com/blog/podhoc-digest-topic-podcast-newsletters/): Podhoc Digest turns the topics you care about into a monthly podcast newsletter, built from curator-verified sources.
- [Listen to Your AI Podcasts on a Garmin Watch — Offline, Phone-Free, Mid-Run](https://podhoc.com/blog/listen-to-ai-podcasts-on-garmin-watch/): Podhoc is live on the Garmin Connect IQ Store (Audio Content Provider). Pair your watch with the Podhoc app, sync your AI-generated learning podcasts, and play them offline on runs, commutes and workouts — no phone needed.
- [Podhoc Is Now on iOS and Android: Generate Podcasts on the Go](https://podhoc.com/blog/podhoc-mobile-apps-ios-android-launch/): The Podhoc iOS and Android apps are live on the App Store and Google Play. Generate AI podcasts from your phone, then listen in-app, via Telegram.
- [Lecture Notes to Podcast: The AI Exam-Prep Workflow Students Actually Stick With](https://podhoc.com/blog/lecture-notes-to-podcast-for-exam-prep/): Turn lecture notes into a podcast for exam prep. A repeatable AI workflow students can run the night before a test, then play on the commute, walk or gym.
- [Explore AI Podcasts on Demand: Inside Podhoc's Discover Feature](https://podhoc.com/blog/discover-podhoc-ai-podcasts/): Browse Podhoc Discover for AI podcasts on any topic. Filter by language, length, and subject — or listen to a preview before creating your own.
- [AI Podcast Generator vs. Articles Summarizer: Which Is Better for Consuming Content?](https://podhoc.com/blog/ai-podcast-generator-vs-articles-summarizer/): Head-to-head comparison of the two dominant AI-for-content tool categories, including where NotebookLM sits between them and a decision framework for when to use which.
- [Learn Faster with an AI-First Approach: Why Podcasts for Running Beat Scrolling Your Feed](https://podhoc.com/blog/ai-first-learning-podcasts-for-running/): Weekly system for using AI-generated podcasts during runs, commutes and workouts. Covers AI-first triage, format-by-effort matching, and the attention-economy diagnosis behind it.
- [AI Capabilities in 2025: What Today's AI Technology Actually Does for Content Lovers](https://podhoc.com/blog/ai-capabilities-for-content-2025/): Practical, hype-free guide to the four core AI capabilities for content — summarisation, generation, voice synthesis, personalisation — with NotebookLM comparison, machine-learning primer, and concrete Podhoc workflow.
- [Translate Medical Research into Your Study Language with AI Podcasts](https://podhoc.com/blog/translate-medical-research-podcast/): Turn a German PubMed paper into an English commute podcast, a Danish clinical guideline into an English study summary.
- [Listen to Clinical Guidelines While Commuting: A Clinician's Guide](https://podhoc.com/blog/listen-to-clinical-guidelines-commute/): Turn any NICE, AAFP, Cochrane or national-society clinical guideline into a 25-minute commute podcast — in your study language.
- [How to Turn a YouTube Video into a Podcast for Learning (Not Just Distribution)](https://podhoc.com/blog/youtube-video-to-podcast-learning/): Most YouTube-to-podcast tools target distribution. Learn how to turn a YouTube video into a podcast for learning.
- [How to Turn a Textbook Chapter into Audio for Easier Studying](https://podhoc.com/blog/turn-textbook-chapter-into-audio/): Convert dense textbook chapters into AI-generated audio you can study while commuting, exercising, or walking.
- [Text to Podcast: How to Convert Any Written Content into Audio You'll Actually Learn From](https://podhoc.com/blog/text-to-podcast-guide/): Convert any text into a multi-voice AI podcast. Articles, PDFs, notes, transcripts — pick a pedagogical format, set duration, generate in 2-5 min.
- [Study Notes to Audio: The Complete Guide for Students Who Learn Better by Listening](https://podhoc.com/blog/study-notes-to-audio-guide/): Convert study notes to audio and study by listening. The complete guide to formats, audio styles and bilingual revision for students who retain more.
- [Spaced Repetition + Audio Learning: The Science-Backed Method for Long-Term Retention](https://podhoc.com/blog/spaced-repetition-audio-learning/): Spaced repetition tames the forgetting curve. Audio learning fills dead time. Combine them and retention compounds — here is the system.
- [Podcast from Documents: How to Turn Any File into an Audio Learning Experience](https://podhoc.com/blog/podcast-from-documents/): Convert PDFs, DOCX, TXT files, web articles and YouTube videos into AI podcasts. A guide to building podcasts from documents you have.
- [The Best Passive Learning Tool: How to Learn While Doing Something Else](https://podhoc.com/blog/passive-learning-tool/): Discover how Podhoc turns commutes, gym sessions, and household chores into structured learning time. The passive learning tool busy people actually use.
- [How to Make a Podcast from a PDF for Free (Step-by-Step)](https://podhoc.com/blog/make-podcast-from-pdf-free/): Learn how to make a podcast from a PDF for free. 50 welcome credits at signup, no card required, recharge from €2.29 with no subscription needed.
- [Listen to PDFs While Commuting: Turn Dead Time into a Learning Habit](https://podhoc.com/blog/listen-to-pdf-while-commuting/): Listen to PDF while commuting and reclaim 4-5 hours a week. Convert research papers, lecture notes and reports into pedagogical podcasts.
- [How to Turn a YouTube Video into a Podcast Episode (Complete 2026 Guide)](https://podhoc.com/blog/how-to-turn-youtube-into-podcast-episode/): Convert any YouTube video — lecture, TED talk, tutorial, documentary — into a podcast episode you can listen to on the go. Full step-by-step with two methods.
- [The Feynman Technique Meets Podcast: How Podhoc Uses It to Make Hard Ideas Click](https://podhoc.com/blog/feynman-technique-podcast/): Feynman taught generations to learn by simplifying. Podhoc turns the Feynman technique into a podcast format that makes hard ideas click.
- [How to Create a Podcast from a YouTube Transcript (Step-by-Step Guide)](https://podhoc.com/blog/create-podcast-from-youtube-transcript/): Want to create a podcast from a YouTube transcript? This guide shows the right way — pedagogical restructuring, not flat text-to-speech.
- [Convert a Wikipedia Article to Podcast: Learn Any Topic on the Go](https://podhoc.com/blog/convert-wikipedia-article-to-podcast/): Turn any Wikipedia article into a podcast episode in your own language. Step-by-step Podhoc workflow plus the right audio style for fast topic briefings.
- [The Best App to Learn from PDFs: A 2026 Comparison](https://podhoc.com/blog/best-app-learn-from-pdfs/): Compare the best apps to learn from PDFs in 2026: Podhoc, NotebookLM, Speechify and ElevenLabs. Pedagogy, languages, offline support and free tiers.
- [How to Use the Podhoc Telegram Bot: Generate Podcasts From Chat](https://podhoc.com/blog/telegram-bot-howto/): Step-by-step guide to the Podhoc Telegram bot. Link your account, create podcasts from URLs with /create, manage your wishlist with /add.
- [Daily-Life Applications for the Podhoc Telegram Bot](https://podhoc.com/blog/telegram-bot-daily-applications/): Twelve real-world ways to use the Podhoc Telegram bot in everyday life: commute reading, language learning, fitness rituals, sleep wind-down, study prep.
- [Podhoc API Integration Ideas: 12 Patterns for Programmatic Podcast Generation](https://podhoc.com/blog/api-integration-ideas/): Practical Podhoc API integration patterns: newsletter-to-audio pipelines, learning platforms, internal knowledge tools, research briefings.
- [How to Generate Podcasts with the Podhoc API: A Complete Walkthrough](https://podhoc.com/blog/api-generate-podcasts-howto/): Generate AI podcasts programmatically with the Podhoc REST API. Authentication, the create-poll-download lifecycle, rate limits, credit estimation.
- [What Is an AI Podcast? Definition, How It Works, and How to Make One](https://podhoc.com/blog/what-is-ai-podcast/): Definition, five-stage pipeline, what an AI podcast is not, FAQs.
- [From PDF to Podcast: A Complete Guide to Listening to Documents](https://podhoc.com/blog/pdf-to-podcast-complete-guide/): End-to-end PDF workflow, durations, style selection.
- [Sant Jordi and the Book You Will Finally Read — as a Podcast](https://podhoc.com/blog/sant-jordi-day-of-the-book/): Cultural / seasonal piece on transforming a backlog into audio.
- [5 Ways AI Podcasts Fit into Your Daily Routine](https://podhoc.com/blog/ai-podcasts-daily-routine/): Listening contexts (commute, workout, household, walks, pre-sleep) and format selection per context.
- [How to Turn Your Study Notes into a Podcast with AI](https://podhoc.com/blog/turn-notes-into-podcast-guide/): Student workflow, format-by-goal mapping, listening playlist patterns.
- [Why Audio Learning Works: The Science Behind Listening to Learn](https://podhoc.com/blog/audio-learning-science/): Cognitive-science evidence for retention, comprehension and accessibility benefits of audio learning.

## Discover catalogue (user-generated podcasts)

The Podhoc app hosts thousands of publicly-shared AI-generated podcasts. Crawler-friendly indexes are published on the app subdomain and updated on every publish:

- [App catalogue index (app.podhoc.com/llms.txt)](https://app.podhoc.com/llms.txt): Bulleted index of every publicly-shared podcast on the platform with title, canonical URL and short description. Each entry links to the canonical share page, which serves the full transcript and metadata server-side (SSR via og-render) — that's where AI crawlers fetch per-podcast content. Publicly accessible, no login required.
- [App sitemap (app.podhoc.com/sitemap.xml)](https://app.podhoc.com/sitemap.xml): Machine-readable index of every share URL `app.podhoc.com/discover/p/<slug>`.
- [App robots policy (app.podhoc.com/robots.txt)](https://app.podhoc.com/robots.txt): Crawler allowance — `/discover/*` allowed; the rest of the SPA is auth-walled and disallowed.

## Optional

- [Pricing snippet (plain text)](https://podhoc.com/pricing-snippet.txt): Minimal quotable pricing block for AI citation.
- [English sitemap](https://podhoc.com/sitemap.xml): Machine-readable index of all English pages.
- [Spanish sitemap](https://podhoc.com/es/sitemap.xml): Machine-readable index of all Spanish (`/es/`) pages.
- [Catalan sitemap](https://podhoc.com/ca/sitemap.xml): Machine-readable index of all Catalan (`/ca/`) pages.
- [Arabic sitemap](https://podhoc.com/ar/sitemap.xml): Machine-readable index of all Arabic (`/ar/`, RTL) pages.
- [German sitemap](https://podhoc.com/de/sitemap.xml): Machine-readable index of all German (`/de/`) pages.
- [French sitemap](https://podhoc.com/fr/sitemap.xml): Machine-readable index of all French (`/fr/`) pages.
- [Italian sitemap](https://podhoc.com/it/sitemap.xml): Machine-readable index of all Italian (`/it/`) pages.
- [Russian sitemap](https://podhoc.com/ru/sitemap.xml): Machine-readable index of all Russian (`/ru/`) pages.
- [Content license (RSL 1.0)](https://podhoc.com/license.xml): Machine-readable AI-usage license terms for this marketing site — free with attribution for search, AI retrieval/grounding, AI training and AI indexing; unlisted usages reserved. Also referenced from robots.txt (`License:` directive).
- [Customer service](mailto:hi@podhoc.com): Email contact for product questions; CET business hours, 24h response target.
- [Privacy policy](https://podhoc.com/privacy/): Data residency (EU / Frankfurt), retention, deletion rights.
- [Terms of service](https://podhoc.com/terms/): Operator (Nexo Apex SL), acceptable use, refund policy.
- [Cookie policy](https://podhoc.com/cookies/): Strictly-necessary, analytics and language-preference cookies.
- [Source organisation](https://github.com/nexoapex): Public profile of the operator (Nexo Apex SL).