FAQ

The free trial gives you 14 days of access to whichever plan you select when you sign up — no credit card required. You can switch plan tiers or upgrade at any time during or after the trial.

The feature lists on our Pricing page will give you an idea of what you can do with our plans. You can also take a look at our Use Cases for examples of how Podbite can help with your specific scenario. If in doubt, start a free trial of our Automate plan and give the full range of our features a whirl. You can switch plan tiers at any time.

You can upgrade or downgrade your plan via Manage account in the user menu, then the Billing tab.

You can cancel your plan via Manage account in the user menu, then the Billing tab.

When you cancel your plan your Podbite account and content remain intact until the end of your current billing period.

After your billing period ends, your profile and playlists will no longer be publicly visible. Your individual bites and any embeds or links to them will continue to work.

You can still access your account settings after cancellation — including billing, data export, and account deletion — by visiting your account page.

You can reactivate your account at any time — your profile and playlists will be restored immediately.

When you delete your account your subscription will be cancelled and your profile, playlists, and personal information will be permanently deleted.

Your bites will remain on Podbite as part of the podcast episodes they were clipped from, but will no longer be associated with your account or username. The captions you wrote are retained — without any link to your identity — to preserve the context of any embeds already placed on third-party websites. Personal comments you have added to bites are permanently deleted.

If you create a new account later, those bites cannot be reclaimed as yours — the association is permanently removed at deletion.

Any embeds or links to your bites on other sites will continue to work, but will no longer show your profile information.

If you wish to request removal of your captions as part of a formal erasure request, contact us at hello@podbite.link and we will respond within 30 days.

You will be notified via email, and payment will be attempted again over the following 15 days. If payment could not be completed in that time, the plan will be cancelled.

You can find your API key via Manage account in the user menu, then the Developers tab.

You can find your API usage for the current period via Manage account in the user menu, then the Developers tab.

Each bite or playlist created via the API counts as one against your monthly allowance. Automate plans include 500 creations per calendar month.

Updates and deletes do not count against your quota. Check your current usage at any time with GET /v1/quota.

Your monthly allowance resets at the start of each calendar month. If you consistently need more, get in touch and we can work something out.

The API is rate-limited to 60 requests per minute per API key. If you exceed this, you'll receive a 429 Too Many Requests response. The limit resets on a rolling 60-second window.

Your monthly creation quota (500 bites and playlists combined per calendar month) is a separate limit. Check your current usage with GET /v1/quota.

Episode resolution rate limit

Episode resolution (GET /v1/episodes/resolve and POST /v1/bites with episode_url) is additionally limited to 10 requests per minute per API key. This limit exists to protect upstream podcast data providers. It resets on a rolling 60-second window.

GET /v1/episodes/resolve also has a daily cap of 10 provider lookups per API key, resetting at midnight UTC. Repeat resolves of episodes Podbite already knows about are free and do not count against this limit.

Pass episode_url in your POST /v1/bites request body:

{
  "episode_url": "https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id123456789?i=987654321",
  "bite": { "caption": "Great quote", "start_time": "01:23.000", "end_time": "01:45.000" }
}

Supported URL formats: Apple Podcasts (podcasts.apple.com) and Podchaser (podchaser.com).

First-encounter latency

The first time you use an episode URL, Podbite fetches metadata from the podcast provider. This adds 1–3 seconds to the request. Subsequent requests for the same episode are fast (the episode is cached).

Two-step pattern for automation workflows

If you are creating many bites from the same episode, or want to separate the lookup from the write, pre-resolve the episode first:

# Step 1 — resolve once
GET /v1/episodes/resolve?url=https://podcasts.apple.com/...
→ { "episode_short_id": "abc123", "episode_title": "...", ... }

# Step 2 — create bites using the short_id (fast, no provider lookup)
POST /v1/bites
{ "episode_short_id": "abc123", "bite": { ... } }

GET /v1/episodes/resolve does not create a bite and does not consume your monthly quota. It counts against the episode resolution rate limit (10/min) and a daily cap of 10 provider lookups per day, resetting at midnight UTC. Repeat resolves of episodes Podbite already knows about are free — the cap only applies when a provider fetch is needed.

Need more? If your workflow needs more than 10 new episodes a day, get in touch — I'd love to hear about what you're building.