Hilite

Hilite is a podcast production platform that puts recording, editing, audio cleanup, publishing and listener analytics in one workspace. It is built for podcasters and creators who record on laptop microphones, USB mics or phones, and it also targets writers, educators, therapists, wellness and meditation hosts, and chambers of commerce who want to turn conversations, lectures or written work into regular episodes.

Production follows four steps: record or upload, enhance the audio, edit and add music, then publish. Remote guests can join a session while each participant records a local track, so every speaker ends up on a separate track. AI transcription turns the audio into a text document, and deleting a word from that text removes it from the recording. A simplified waveform view handles finer adjustments.

The Studio Sound enhancer removes background noise, echo and room reverb, balances levels and normalizes loudness, while voice isolation separates speakers in a mixed recording. Editing tools find filler words such as "um" and "uh", trim silences, cut clips for social media and add chapter markers. On paid plans, AI writes titles, descriptions and show notes from the transcript, and a hosted RSS feed sends episodes to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube and other directories.

A Free plan allows one episode a month with 30 minutes of recording and enhancement, transcripts, text-based editing and one collaborator. Pro and Business raise those limits to 4 and 20 hours and add AI show notes, distribution, analytics and more seats; annual billing saves up to 30%. Paid plans start with a 7-day trial that needs no card. Hilite states that it does not train on user audio and that everything can be exported.