Adobe Podcast vs Craig

Adobe Podcast is a browser-based set of tools for recording, transcribing, editing, and sharing audio. In Studio, users can record participants in their browsers, with each person’s audio saved continuously and kept on a separate track. Studio can also import multitrack audio and video, and lets users edit by deleting words from a transcript. Enhance Speech reduces noise and artifacts, adjusts pitch and volume, and normalizes audio. Studio works only in Google Chrome on desktop; Enhance Speech supports recent Chrome, Safari, Edge, and Firefox on desktop and mobile. The free plan allows audio files up to 30 minutes and 500 MB, with one hour of use per day and two Studio project downloads daily, each up to 30 minutes. Firefly Pro costs $19.99 a month and adds Premium access, video enhancement, bulk uploads, unlimited Studio downloads, and original speaker-separated recordings. A 30-day free trial of Premium features is available.

Craig is a Discord voice-channel recording bot that creates a separate audio track for each speaker. Recordings can be downloaded as FLAC or MPEG-4 AAC, or opened as Audacity projects or Adobe Audition sessions. A browser webapp can capture participants outside Discord and add their audio as tracks in the same recording. Craig records voice only, not livestream sound or video. The free plan allows up to six hours per recording, and recordings expire after seven days. Paid tiers add longer storage and other options: Tier 1 costs $1 a month, Tier 2 costs $4 a month, and Tier 3 costs $8 a month. Supporters can upload recordings automatically to Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, or Box. Tier 3 includes transcripts in WebVTT, SRT, or plain text. Craig marks recording with [RECORDING] in its nickname.