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Rebel Audio is where you make, polish and publish your podcast in one place. Upload or record an episode, and Rebel writes a transcript for you. Then you edit the episode by editing the words: delete a sentence and that bit of audio is gone.

From there you can add a title and show notes (AI can draft them), cut short clips to share, publish to your show's RSS feed, and see who's listening.

Every plan includes the AI helpers. Plans differ in how many hours you can bring in each month, how many shows and team members you get, and whether video is included.

The app is in English and Spanish: pick one under Settings › Profile › App language. This website and the legal documents are in English. To reach listeners in other languages, dubbing makes a copy of an episode in another language (on paid plans).

Use Create, then Create an episode, and pick the show the episode is for. If you don't have a show yet, create an episode anyway and we'll set one up for you (you can rename it any time).

The steps are always the same: 1) add your audio or video, 2) edit by tidying the transcript, 3) add a title and description, 4) publish. Your edits save as you go, so you can stop and come back whenever you like.

Home has a short checklist that walks you through it the first time.

You don't have to make a show first: choose Create, then Create an episode, and upload or record. Rebel sets up the show around your first episode, and you can rename it and change its cover any time.

To set up a show before any episodes, go to Shows and choose Create a show. Give it a name, a description, a category, a language and a cover image. Stuck on any of those? Ask Rebel, the built-in assistant, can suggest a name, write the description, pick a category and even design a cover.

Already have a podcast somewhere else? Use Create, then Import a show, instead, and we'll bring your back catalogue over from its RSS feed.

How many shows you can have depends on your plan: 1 on Free and Creator, 3 on Studio, 10 on Network.

Rebel's AI is called Ask Rebel. It answers questions about the page you're on and what to do next, and it drafts for you: show names, descriptions, episode titles, show notes, blog posts, cover images and the people on an episode. On a form, look for the sparkle buttons. What it fills in is yours to change, and nothing is saved until you press Save.

AI is included on every plan, with monthly fair-use limits that grow with your plan and start again each calendar month. Bigger plans use stronger AI models: Free uses basic models, Creator standard models, and Studio and Network our best models.

Want it to know your style? Add a note about you and your show in Settings › Rebel AI.

Rebel explains itself in a few small ways. Hover over an icon to see its name. Press a ? mark next to a word or a number for a short explanation, often with a link to the full article. The first time you open a feature's page, a card at the top says what the page is for; press Got it and it stays away.

Some pages have a short tour. Open the Help menu at the top of the page and choose Show me around this page. Help for this page opens the articles about that screen, and What you can do lists every feature in one place, with the ones you haven't tried yet.

What you've seen is remembered on your account, not in your browser, so it follows you to any device. To see everything again, go to Settings › Profile and press Show tips again.

Every episode has its own page, with five tabs.

1) Overview: the episode's cover, its number, the next steps and the people on it. Edit details, at the top, changes the title, description and cover that listeners see. 2) Edit: the Transcript, plus Music, Languages (dubbing) and Ad breaks where your account or plan has them. 3) Publish: publish or schedule the episode, see where it is live, find its public page, and take it down. 4) Grow: Clip Lab, Written (a blog post, a newsletter and text for YouTube), Social (posts), and Listener kit and Coach where your account has them. 5) Insights: the episode's numbers.

Open in Transcript Editor, at the top of the page, is where you edit the recording itself.

Home is where you pick up where you left off.

Continue editing shows the episode you changed most recently that isn't published yet, with one line saying what to do next. Open editor takes you back to its transcript. Recently published lists your latest published episodes.

Needs your attention lists only what you have to act on yourself: an upload or recording on this device that stopped, or a scheduled publish that didn't go out. If it says All caught up, there is nothing to do.

Your numbers shows four numbers: listens over the last 7 days across all your shows, how many episodes you have, the hours you recorded in your browser this month, and the plan hours you've used this billing period. A dash means that number isn't available yet. Press the ? beside a number to see what it counts.

On a phone, your shows are listed on Home too, and the bar at the bottom of the screen is how you move around.

Audio: MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG, Opus, AIFF and WMA.

Video: MP4, MOV, M4V, WebM, MKV, AVI, MPEG and TS.

Video needs a paid plan. On Free, upload an audio file instead (or upgrade to work with video). Files that are copy-protected, empty, half-downloaded or have no sound track can't be used, and we'll tell you which problem we spotted before anything uploads.

Up to 4 GB per file. If your file is bigger, we'll say so straight away, before anything is sent. Try exporting a shorter recording or a smaller file.

In-browser recordings have the same 4 GB ceiling, plus a 4-hour limit per take.

Yes. When you add an episode you can pick a file from your device, record in your browser, paste a public link to an audio or video file, or choose a file from Dropbox or Google Drive. For links and cloud files we fetch the file for you, and the editor opens by itself as soon as the sound is ready.

Picking a file that's synced from iCloud or OneDrive? Make sure it's downloaded to your device first, or we won't be able to read it.

First, Rebel pulls the sound out of your file right in your browser (usually under a minute) and sends just the sound ahead. That lets transcription start straight away: the first words appear in the editor while the rest is written up, and Rebel works out who's speaking.

Meanwhile your full original file keeps uploading to your Rebel library. You'll see progress and time left. Keep the tab open until it says your file is safe. Once it arrives we check it and scan it for safety, usually in under a minute.

You can edit and add details the whole time. When everything's in, you're ready to make the final file and publish.

Yes. Choose Record when you add an episode. Allow your microphone (and camera, if you want video), check your level meter, and press Record. You can pause, resume or start a take over.

We save the recording on your device and upload it as you go, and you'll see a live transcript while you talk. When you stop, a fuller transcript with speaker names replaces it, and your cuts carry over.

Recording works in the latest Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. Each take can run up to 4 hours or 4 GB. Video recording needs a paid plan.

Probably not. Rebel saves your recording on this device as you go. If your mic disconnects, the browser crashes or you lose Wi-Fi, everything recorded up to that moment is kept.

Next time you open Rebel in the same browser you'll see "A recording was interrupted" with a Recover button. Recover it and it carries on uploading.

Tip: don't clear your browser's site data, or Settings › Privacy › Clear local media, until the upload has finished. Until then, this device has the only copy.

Anything new you bring in: browser recordings, file uploads, and imports from a link, Dropbox or Google Drive. We count the length of the file itself.

Editing, making the final file, publishing and AI on episodes you already have never use hours. Moving a show over from its RSS feed is free; transcribing an imported episode counts its length once.

While an upload or recording is still in progress, a little time is set aside on your meter, then settled to the real length. See it all in Settings › Usage.

As soon as your audio reaches us, Rebel's speech-to-text AI listens and writes down every word with its exact timing. Words start landing in the editor within moments, and most episodes are fully transcribed within a few minutes.

Transcripts happen automatically for every upload and recording, and they're included on every plan.

Rebel detects the spoken language on its own, so you don't need to pick one. It handles English and many other widely spoken languages.

If your episode switches between languages a lot, or has heavy crosstalk, expect a few more misheard words.

Open the episode in the Transcript Editor. Click any word to jump there. Select words and press Delete to cut them, or drag across a range. Tap a pause to shorten it, and use Undo (⌘Z / Ctrl+Z) if you change your mind.

Quick tools can remove filler words (ums, uhs) and cut dead air in one go. Restore original brings every cut back.

Cuts save as you go. When you're happy, press Make final file: that's when Rebel builds the finished audio (or video) file with your cuts, ready to publish.

Rebel works out who's talking and labels them Speaker 1, Speaker 2 and so on. Press Edit speakers to give each one a name. You can play a short sample to check who's who.

You can also link a speaker to someone in your show's People, which lists them on the episode. Clear a name to go back to the number.

Yes. In the editor, Hide swear words finds swear words in your transcript. For each word you can keep it, bleep it, mute it or cut it, one at a time or all at once.

You can add your own custom words too (up to 100, each up to 3 words long), and keep a watchlist on your show so they're flagged in every episode.

Yes. Open History in the editor to see every upload, recording, transcript, edit save and final file of the episode, newest first.

Restore makes an older version the current one again, as a new version, so nothing is deleted. If you restore different audio, Rebel offers to re-transcribe it so the words match.

They are three separate steps.

1) Save keeps your edit. It happens by itself as you work, and the Save button just does it right away. Nothing changes for listeners. 2) Make final file builds the finished file from your saved edit: your cuts applied and the volume made even. It runs on our side and takes a few minutes, so you can leave the page. Editing is locked while it runs. 3) Publish sends the final file to your RSS feed and the platforms you pick. If the title or description is missing, you're asked for them first.

Edited again after that? The Make final file button comes back: press it to build a new file from the new edit.

Captions are made with the episode's final file.

1) Open the episode in the Transcript Editor. 2) Open Tools and press Captions. 3) Download them as SRT or VTT, or as transcript data (JSON).

No final file yet? The Captions card says Make final file first. If a final file has no caption files, make the final file again to get them.

Clip Lab turns the best moments of an episode into short videos with captions, to share on social media. You find it in every episode under Grow › Clip Lab. Clips are cut from the episode's final file, so press Make final file in the Transcript Editor first; until then Clip Lab tells you what is missing.

To make a clip: 1. Pick a moment. Rebel suggests moments from the transcript and scores each from 0 to 100, best first. Press Use this moment, or press Suggest moments if there are none yet. You can also drag across the timeline to pick any stretch yourself. 2. Trim it. Drag the two handles on the timeline, or open More and set the first and last word. A clip runs 5 to 90 seconds. 3. Shape it. Make it ready for sets the shape, the longest length and the captions for TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, LinkedIn or X in one click. You can still change the caption style and the format (9:16 vertical, 1:1 square, 16:9 wide) by hand. 4. Check the preview, then press Render clip. Progress shows on the button, and the finished clip appears under Clips. 5. Download the clip, or press Share to make a link and send it.

Under More you will find the finishing touches: Tighten cuts filler words and long pauses, Hook title shows the hook as a title at the start, Cold open starts with a short teaser, and Accent keywords puts key words in your accent colour. The last three are offered only for a suggested moment that has them.

An audio episode renders as an audiogram: your cover image, a moving waveform and the captions. Set your colour, font and logo once under Clip brand in the show's settings.

On Free you can make 3 clips per episode. Each one carries a small Rebel Audio mark and the clip's link, and the mark can't be turned off.

On Creator, Studio and Network, clips are unlimited and carry only the mark, with no link. To turn the mark off, open the show's settings, find Clip brand and switch off Show the Rebel mark on clips. It applies to clips you make from then on; clips you already made keep their look.

Open the clip and press Share. Choose who can see it: Private (only you), Link only (anyone with the link) or Public. Then copy the link.

The link opens the clip's own page, where people can play it, follow along with the words, react, reply with a clip of their own, or jump into the full episode at that moment.

Share also gives you other formats from the same clip (vertical, square, wide and an audiogram) plus ready-to-paste text for YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram Reels, X and LinkedIn. Connected YouTube in Settings › Connections? Post straight to YouTube Shorts.

Dubbing makes a version of your episode in another language, so people can listen in their own language. The dub is spoken by ready-made AI voices from our dubbing provider's library. Rebel does not copy or clone your voice, or the voice of anyone else in the episode. Our dubbing provider, ElevenLabs, may not use your audio to train its AI; it may keep a copy for a limited time under its terms, and we ask it to delete the project as soon as the dub is ready. Each language gets its own podcast feed, separate from your original one, and a feed that carries a dub is tagged as AI-generated for podcast apps.

Dubbing is on the paid plans (Creator, Studio and Network). You find it in each episode under Edit › Languages.

How to dub an episode: 1. Press Make final file in the Transcript Editor. The dub is made from that final file. 2. In the episode, open Edit › Languages, pick a language under “Dub into…” and press Dub. 3. Check the price and confirm it. Nothing starts before you confirm. 4. The language appears in the list as Queued, then Dubbing. It runs in the background, so you can leave the page. 5. When it says Ready, listen to the preview and press Publish in that language. If the episode isn't published yet, the dub goes live when the episode does.

A published language has its own feed address. Open the show's Settings › Languages to copy it and submit it to podcast apps, once per app. To take a dub down, press Unpublish on its row: the episode leaves that language's feed, the dub is kept so you can publish it again, and your original episode is not touched.

Good to know: an episode can't be dubbed into the language it was recorded in, and episodes longer than four hours can't be dubbed yet. If a dub fails or you cancel it, you are not charged.

Dubbing is billed per minute, per language: $0.59 for every started minute of the episode's final file, in each language. The exact length counts, not a rounded one: a file of exactly 30:00 is 30 minutes, but a file of 30:00.4 is 31. So a 30-minute episode dubbed into two languages is 60 minutes, or $35.40.

It's charged on top of your plan, on your monthly invoice. It never comes out of your hours.

Edit › Languages shows the final file's exact length, the minutes it counts as and the price, and before every dub you see the price and confirm it. Nothing starts until you say yes, and a dub that fails or that you cancel is not charged. Dubbing needs a paid plan (Creator, Studio or Network); it isn't on Free.

Yes. Every account starts with a monthly dubbing spending limit of $50. The owner or an admin can set it anywhere from $1 to $10,000 on the Dubbing card in Settings › Billing. If the card shows a different amount, someone on your account changed it, and the card says so.

We tell you when you get close. If a dub would take you past the limit, it won't start until the limit is raised or your billing period renews.

Every show has an RSS feed: a web address that podcast apps check for new episodes. Publishing adds the episode to that feed and gives it a public web page, where anyone can listen without an account. Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts and other apps that follow your feed get it the next time they check your feed. Each app decides how often it checks.

To publish: 1. Open the episode's Publish tab and press Publish everywhere (the Publish button at the top of the episode does the same). 2. Choose Now, or Schedule for later. 3. Under Publish to, tick the platforms that should get the episode along with your feed. One that isn't ready is greyed out, with the step that fixes it. 4. Press Publish now. A receipt shows what was sent and your feed address.

Before you can publish, the episode needs its final file (Make final file in the Transcript Editor), a title and a description, and your show needs a contact email (Apple and Spotify ask for one).

Once it is out, the Publish tab shows where the episode stands: your feed first, then one row per platform, its public page, and an Activity log of every step the platforms took. Publish everywhere now fills in what is missing: it puts the episode back in the feed if you removed it and sends it to every connected platform that doesn't have it yet. Publish to more platforms lets you pick which ones.

Rebel sends episodes to YouTube and Spotify itself, and it can submit your show to Apple Podcasts for you from Rebel's own Apple account (Submit for me); after that, Apple reads your RSS feed. YouTube is connected once in Settings › Connections; Spotify and Apple Podcasts are set up show by show, on the show's Distribution tab. Other podcast apps, such as Amazon Music, read your RSS feed once you add the feed on their website; the show's Distribution tab lists them under Other podcast apps.

Open your show and go to its Distribution tab. Your RSS feed address is at the top with a copy button, and Copy RSS feed address on the show page copies it too. If it says there is no feed yet, publish an episode first.

That's the address you paste into Apple Podcasts Connect and other podcast apps, such as Amazon Music. If your show has dubbed languages, each one has its own feed for listeners of that language. Give podcast apps the main feed.

On an episode's Publish tab, Open the RSS feed shows the feed itself, so you can check the episode is in it.

Yes. In the Publish dialog choose Schedule for later and pick a date and time. It's shown in your own time zone. The episode goes into your feed, and to the platforms you ticked, at that moment. Until then nothing is public.

Changed your mind? Open the episode, press Publish and choose Now instead.

There are two ways, both under Apple Podcasts on your show's Distribution tab. Check your feed there first; it lists what Apple needs.

Submit for me: Rebel sends your show's feed to Apple from Rebel's own Apple Podcasts Connect account, so you don't need one. You confirm the show has no third-party content, then press Submit for me. Apple's review emails go to Rebel, and the status shows on the Distribution tab. If it says it isn't available yet, submit the show yourself.

I'll submit it myself: copy your show's RSS feed address, sign in to Apple Podcasts Connect, add a new show by feed URL and paste it in. Apple may email your show's contact address during review.

Apple reviews new shows before they appear. After that, every episode you publish on Rebel appears on Apple automatically.

Turn Spotify on from your show's Distribution tab with Create on Spotify. Rebel is a Spotify distribution partner: the show is listed on Rebel Audio's own Spotify account, and Rebel sends each new episode there for you. You don't sign in to Spotify here, and Rebel can't see your personal Spotify account. Spotify needs a contact email on the show before it can be created.

Ads: Rebel takes part in Spotify's Partner Program for these shows, so ads are on, except on a show made for children (a Kids & Family show): Spotify doesn't allow ads there, so Rebel never turns them on. Rebel places ad breaks in your episodes, and you can move them in the app. Spotify decides which shows can have ads, and Spotify alone chooses the ads that play; you can't approve them first, but you can block categories of advertisers on the show's Distribution tab. A show with ads must not be mostly music or other sound without speech, or get plays from bots or paid traffic, and paid promotion in an episode must be clear to listeners. Spotify pays Rebel for the ads in your show. You get 90% of what Spotify's monthly statement reports for your show, after anything Spotify deducts, and Rebel keeps 10%. Rebel records your share of each month when Spotify's statement arrives, and pays it through Stripe once you have set up payouts in the app (Settings › Payouts, where payout setup is open). Until then, your share stays recorded as money Rebel owes you. You can ask us to turn Spotify ads off for a show at any time: write to engineering@rebelaudio.ai.

Spotify for Creators: you can claim the show there to see Spotify's own stats. Paste your show's Spotify link, and Spotify emails a code to the show's contact email. Ads and payments stay with Rebel: you can't set up or change Spotify ads for the show yourself, in Spotify for Creators or anywhere else. If the show already earned money on Spotify before, that ends when Rebel lists it, and the show has to qualify again.

Section 8 of the Terms has the details. The Spotify monetization page explains them in plain words (eligibility, your 90% share, turning ads off, the ad rules, children's shows, clawbacks and leaving), and the Payouts and taxes page covers how you are paid and the tax forms we ask for.

Go to: Spotify monetizationGo to: Payouts and taxes

Yes. Connect your YouTube channel in Settings › Connections, then choose a playlist in your show's Settings › Distribution. Episodes then upload as videos when you publish.

A few things to know: until Google finishes verifying Rebel you'll see an "unverified app" screen when connecting. Videos longer than 15 minutes need a verified YouTube channel. And YouTube limits daily uploads for all Rebel users together, so if the limit is hit your upload waits and resumes on its own. We show you when.

Open the episode's Publish tab. There are three ways to take an episode down, from the narrowest to the widest.

One platform: Unpublish on that platform's row. On YouTube this sets the video to Private, and publishing again shows the same video. On Spotify it deletes the episode there, and publishing again creates it afresh.

Your feed only: Remove from feed. The episode leaves your RSS feed and its public page, and apps that follow the feed (Apple Podcasts and others) drop it the next time they check. Copies placed directly on YouTube or Spotify stay live. Put back in the feed undoes it.

Everything: Unpublish everywhere. The episode leaves the feed, its audio file is made private, and each platform that has it takes it down: Private on YouTube, archived on Apple Podcasts, deleted on Spotify. You choose a reason, which is kept with the episode. To bring it back, publish the episode again.

Every episode row shows a status, so you always know what is left to do.

Draft: the episode exists but has no transcript yet. Transcribing: Rebel is turning the recording into words. Transcribed: the words are in, and you can edit. Making final file: Rebel is building the final file from your edit. Ready to publish: the final file is built, and the episode has a title and a description. Needs details: the file is built, but the title or description is still missing. Scheduled: it publishes by itself at the time you chose. Published: it is in your feed and on your show's public page.

Failed or Final file failed means a step did not finish. Open the episode and try again. "Published · 1 platform failed" means the episode is live in your feed, but a connected platform such as YouTube turned it down. Open the episode's Publish tab to see why and retry.

On a show's Episodes tab, the Needs attention filter collects every episode with one of these problems.

On an episode's Publish tab, the Send to list and every platform row have a label that says where that episode stands there.

In the Send to list: Ready means you can tick it and send. Not set up yet means the show hasn't turned the platform on, or no account is connected; the row's button (Connect or Set up) takes you there. Not for this episode means this episode can't go there (for example a video platform for an audio-only episode). Already has it and On its way mean it is there or being sent. Reads your feed means the platform takes episodes from your RSS feed by itself.

On the platform rows below it. Not ready yet: Not connected means no account is connected; connect it once in Settings › Connections. Not set up yet means the show hasn't turned the platform on; do that on the show's Distribution tab. Connected — create this show's YouTube podcast means your channel is connected but this show has no YouTube podcast yet. Setup needed means one step is missing, such as choosing a YouTube playlist or linking the show on Spotify.

Nothing to send: Follows RSS feed means the platform picks the episode up from your feed by itself. Submit by hand means there is nothing for Rebel to send; you submit your show's feed on the platform's own site once.

Ready and on its way: Not published means the platform is ready but this episode hasn't been sent there, so press Publish on its row. Publishing, Uploading and Processing mean it is on its way. Paused means the upload is waiting, most often for the platform's daily upload limit, and resumes on its own.

Out: Live means listeners can find it; on YouTube the label also says Public, Unlisted or Private. Sent · not confirmed means the platform hasn't confirmed it, so check there.

Taken down or refused: Unpublished means hidden but not deleted, and publishing again brings it back under the same link. Removed means deleted there; publishing again creates it afresh. Failed and Rejected come with the reason and the fix on the same row.

Every published episode gets a public page on Rebel Audio: a web page with a player and the episode's notes that anyone can open, no account needed. Its address is on the episode's Publish tab, under Public page & embed, with a button to copy the link.

The embed player puts that episode's player on your own website or blog. Press Embed on the same card, copy the code, and paste it into your page's HTML where the player should appear.

Both exist while the episode is in your feed. If you remove it from the feed or unpublish it everywhere, the page comes down and the embedded player stops showing the episode; put it back and they return.

Yes, and it's optional. On the episode page press Edit details, then find Episode cover.

1) Upload: a square JPEG, PNG or WebP image, at least 1400 × 1400 px. 2) Make a cover with Rebel: Rebel makes a square cover from the episode's title and description.

Podcast apps that support episode covers show it instead of your show's cover for that episode. It appears there once it has been checked, usually within a minute. An episode without its own cover uses your show's cover.

Every show has an Analytics tab, and every episode an Insights tab. Downloads are counted following the podcast industry's measurement guidelines (IAB Tech Lab) and appear within a few hours of people listening.

Free shows downloads over time. Creator and up adds listener counts (per day, and unique listeners per calendar month), per-episode numbers, how each episode's first week compares with your usual, where people listen (country and app), and retention. Retention comes from Rebel's own web and embed player only, because podcast apps don't report it.

If you've connected YouTube with analytics allowed, YouTube views appear too, with a 2–3 day delay.

Rebel counts downloads following the podcast industry's shared measurement guidelines (published by IAB Tech Lab), so your numbers can be compared with other hosts' numbers. Rebel has not gone through IAB Tech Lab's certification.

A download is counted when an app or a browser fetches at least one minute of an episode's audio. The same listener (the same network address and app) fetching the same episode again on the same day is counted once. Known bots, anything that says it is a bot, and apps that only peek at the start of the file are left out. So is an address that makes an unrealistic number of downloads in a day, for that day. A dubbed version of an episode counts as a download of that episode, and a listener who takes both the original and a dub on the same day is counted once. Days run from midnight to midnight UTC, and new downloads appear within a few hours.

A listener is one network address and listening app together. Listeners are counted for a stated time frame: per day (UTC), and unique listeners per calendar month (UTC). Someone who downloads three episodes of your show in a day is one listener that day, and someone who comes back on several days is one listener in that month. The month's number is month to date until the month ends, and says the first day it covers when counting began part-way through a month. Listener counts are never added together: there is no listener count for a week or a custom range. Listener counts are on Creator and up.

Recent listeners is how many listeners fetched audio in the last few minutes. To keep listeners private, Rebel never stores their network address for counting: it is replaced by a hash whose key changes every day, and a second hash whose key changes every month is used only for the monthly count.

First 7 days is an episode's downloads on its publish day and the six days after; it shows a dash until that week is over. "vs. typical first week" compares it with the median (the middle value) of your episodes' first weeks, and reads Not yet until there is something to compare.

The Spotify and YouTube numbers further down the page come from those platforms and are counted their way, so they will not add up to your downloads.

Podcast feeds publish a contact email that anyone can read (spammers included). So each show gets its own Rebel address, ending in @shows.rebelaudio.ai, to publish instead of your personal one.

Mail sent to it is kept in the show's Inbox for 90 days and forwarded to the person who created the show and to the workspace's owners and admins. Editors and viewers can read the Inbox but don't get copies by email, and each person who gets copies can turn their own copies off. Messages that look like spam are held instead of forwarded. Apple and Spotify use this address to confirm the show is yours.

Prefer your own address? Switch it in the show's settings. You can also get a fresh Rebel address once a day; the old one keeps forwarding for a while.

Choose Create, then Import a show, and paste your show's RSS feed address, or search for it by name. You'll see a preview of what we found: episodes, transcripts, chapters.

Next, prove the show is yours (see the next article), choose how many episodes to bring over and how many of the newest to transcribe right away, and start the import. You can watch it episode by episode, and the show stays a draft until everything has landed.

Importing is free. Only transcribing imported episodes counts toward your hours.

To make sure nobody can import a show that isn't theirs. We send a 6-digit code to the owner email listed in the show's RSS feed. Enter it to continue. If you don't see it, check spam, or resend it.

If the feed has no owner email, you'll add a contact email for the show instead and confirm it with a code (no code needed if it's your sign-in email). In that case our team reviews the import by hand before the switch-over guide unlocks.

If a feed is marked as locked by its owner, it can't be imported until they unlock it at the old hosting service.

Once the import finishes, open the cut-over guide on the show's Import status page. It checks that your new feed matches the old one and walks you through each podcast app: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and others.

The key step happens at your old hosting service: ask it to redirect your old feed to your new Rebel feed address (often called a "301 redirect" or "new feed URL"). That way every subscriber follows you over automatically, without re-subscribing.

Before you connect, Rebel shows exactly what it will be allowed to do, and you can see it again afterwards.

YouTube: Rebel reads your channel name and playlists, uploads the episodes and Shorts you choose, adds them to your playlist, and sets videos to Private when you unpublish. It never touches videos it didn't create, never changes channel settings, and never reads or posts comments. Analytics access is optional and read-only.

Google Drive: only the files you pick. Spotify: no sign-in at all, Rebel delivers as a partner. Apple: no sign-in, Apple reads your public feed. If you choose Submit for me, Rebel sends your feed address to Apple from Rebel's own Apple account.

Disconnect any time in Settings › Connections. Future publishes there stop, and episodes already live stay live.

Rebel reaches each platform a different way, so each one has its own words.

YouTube needs a sign-in. In Settings › Connections it reads Not connected until you connect your channel, then Connected. A connected channel does nothing until a show uses it: open the show's Distribution tab, turn YouTube on and choose a playlist. Until then the show's YouTube row reads Not set up yet; after, it reads On.

Spotify needs no sign-in. Rebel is a Spotify distribution partner and delivers the show for you, so its card reads "Not on a show yet" or "Live on 1 show" rather than Connected. Turn it on from a show's Distribution tab with Create on Spotify.

Apple Podcasts needs no sign-in either: it follows your show's RSS feed. In Settings › Connections its card reads "Nothing to connect" until a show is on Apple, then "Being set up" or "Live on 1 show". On a show's Distribution tab it reads Not set up yet until you submit the feed, Marked as sent once you say you did, and Live once Apple lists the show.

Other podcast apps, such as Amazon Music, also follow the RSS feed. Add your feed on the app's own website, then press I sent my feed under Other podcast apps on the show's Distribution tab.

On an episode's Publish tab, "Follows RSS feed" means the platform picks the episode up from your feed by itself, and "Submit by hand" means there is nothing for Rebel to send: you do it on the platform's site.

Ask Rebel is the assistant in the sidebar (the sparkle button on a phone). It knows which page you're on and the basics of your account (your shows and episodes, your plan, what's connected), so it can explain the screen in front of you, tell you what to do next, and take you to the right page. Before it moves you it says where, and you can press Stay here.

On a show or an episode it can also draft for you: a name, a description, show notes, a blog post, a cover image, the people on an episode. What it fills into a form is not saved until you press Save, and you can discard it.

What you type is sent to Rebel's AI service (Amazon Bedrock) only to write the reply. When that service can't answer, a backup service answers instead (OpenRouter, which uses a model from Anthropic or OpenAI). The conversation is saved with your account, where it is part of your data export, and each message is deleted automatically about 180 days after it was written. Nothing you type is published, and Rebel does not use it to train AI.

Rebel also remembers facts, preferences and decisions you state in your messages, so it doesn't ask twice. This is on by default. In Settings › Rebel AI › What Rebel remembers you can see each item, forget it, or switch memory off.

Ask Rebel is included on every plan and never uses hours. To shape how it writes, add a note about you and your show in Settings › Rebel AI.

They are the three AI modes at the top of Ask Rebel. Fast gives quicker replies. Balanced is the default and the best fit for forms, notes and crew. Best gives the strongest answers. Click one, or press 1, 2 or 3 when you're not typing in a field, and Rebel keeps your choice.

Your plan decides which modes you can use: Free has Fast, Creator adds Balanced, and Studio and Network add Best. A mode your plan doesn't include shows a lock and offers the upgrade.

No mode costs extra, and none of them uses hours. AI is included on every plan with a monthly fair-use limit that grows with your plan, and a message counts the same in every mode. If you reach the limit Rebel tells you, and it starts again at the beginning of the next calendar month.

Settings › Usage shows your AI use this month and its limits.

Rebel writes four kinds of text from an episode's transcript: a blog post, social posts, a YouTube upload and a newsletter. It works from what was said in the episode. It is included in every plan and uses none of your hours.

How to use it: 1. Open the episode and go to Grow › Written (blog post, YouTube, newsletter) or Grow › Social (social posts). The episode needs a transcript. 2. Pick Blog, Social, YouTube or Newsletter. 3. Leave Tone on Default, or choose Casual or Professional. 4. Press Generate. You can read along as it is written. Long episodes can take a few minutes, and you can leave the page while it works. 5. Press Copy all, or the copy button beside a single post or field, and paste it where it goes. Download .md saves everything as a Markdown file: plain text that keeps the headings.

What you get. Blog: one article with a title and section headings. Social: posts for X (a thread), Threads, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube Shorts, each written for that platform, with a character counter on every post. YouTube: a title, a description with chapter timestamps, and search tags. Newsletter: a subject line, preview text and the email body. On a finished piece you can also add a picture to a post.

Your latest version of each kind is kept with the episode, so it is there when you come back. New version writes another one; the arrows beside the version number step back to an earlier one. Each kind can be written up to 11 times for one episode in a calendar month.

Read it before you post. It is written by AI from your transcript, so check names, numbers and quotes.

Free, $0: 1 show, 1 hour a month, 1,000 downloads, 1 team member, audio only, 3 clips per episode, always with the Rebel mark and a clip link. Creator, $29/month: 1 show, 5 hours, 25,000 downloads, 2 team members, 720p video to YouTube, unlimited clips with no link, Rebel mark optional, full analytics.

Studio, $79/month: 3 shows, 12 hours, 150,000 downloads, 5 team members, full-quality video, more team roles, our best AI models. Network, $249/month: 10 shows, 40 hours, 1,000,000 downloads, 20 team members, everything in Studio.

AI writing, cover images and Ask Rebel are included on every plan; dubbing is charged per minute on top (see the add-ons). Prices are in US dollars. Paid plans are monthly only, with no trial. Free is a plan, not a trial: it has no end date and needs no card. We can change the Free plan; the Terms explain how.

Go to Settings › Billing and press Change plan. Your first purchase opens a secure Stripe checkout. Stripe handles your card, and Rebel never sees the number.

Moving up starts right away: you pay the difference for the rest of this billing period, then the new price each month. Moving down starts when the current period ends, and nothing is charged now.

Only the workspace's owner or an admin can change the plan.

In Settings › Billing press Manage billing. That opens your Stripe billing portal, where you can update your payment method, download invoices and cancel.

If you cancel, your plan stays until the end of the billing period, and you keep everything in it until then.

You'll see a notice in Settings › Billing with the date to fix it by. Press Update payment method to add a working card, and you keep your plan.

If no payment goes through in time, your paid plan is paused and you're on Free limits until it does. You also can't buy add-ons while a payment is overdue.

New recordings, uploads and imports pause until your hours reset at the start of your next billing period. Everything else keeps working: editing, making the final file, publishing, clips and AI.

To keep going now, buy extra hours ($6 an hour, lasting until the end of the billing period) or move up a plan. We'll warn you when you're running low, and your meter in Settings › Usage shows exactly where you stand.

Extra hours: $6 per hour, paid once, lasting until the end of the billing period. Buy them in Settings › Billing › Add-ons, paid through Stripe. Add-ons are never taken out of your plan.

Extra shows: $19 a month each on Creator and up, billed with your plan. Add or remove them in Settings › Billing › Add-ons, or straight from the show-limit notice when you create a show.

Dubbing: $0.59 for every started minute of the episode's final file, per language, on your monthly invoice. You don't buy it ahead: you see the price and confirm it before each dub. It is on the paid plans (Creator and up), in each episode under Edit › Languages.

Going over your downloads never stops listeners. We'll let you know, and you can move up to a plan with more downloads.

Hours is the meter for what you've brought in this billing period: recordings, uploads and imports. Used is what has been measured. In progress is time set aside while an upload, recording or import is still running; it is settled to the real length when it finishes. Left is what you can still bring in, and This period is your plan's hours plus any extra hours you bought.

Downloads counts the downloads of your episodes this billing period, across every show. Going over your plan's downloads never stops listeners.

This period also shows how much was transcribed. It can be more than your hours used: it counts every transcript Rebel writes, including the live words you see while you record or upload and any episode you transcribe again. Only Hours used counts toward your plan.

AI usage, below it, shows what Rebel's AI did this month and its limits. AI is included in your plan and never uses hours. AI limits follow the calendar month and start again on the 1st, while hours follow your billing period, whose dates are shown at the top of the page.

Storage is the size of your files plus the older versions kept for version history. It is measured nightly and included in your plan.

Hours activity lists every change to your hours, newest first: a minus is time you used, a plus is hours added or given back. Owners and admins see it.

Payouts are not open yet. We tell you in the app and by email when payouts open for your account, and then ask you to set them up. Until then, your share of each month's Spotify earnings stays recorded as money Rebel owes you.

Once payouts open, you choose your country (it can't be changed later) and set them up in the app through Stripe (a Stripe Express account). We pay you once your tax form is on file. Each month we send your share in US dollars, minus any tax we must withhold, to that account, and Stripe pays it to your bank. The minimum payout is $10; a smaller amount is added to the next month.

Taxes: in the US you give your W-9 details to Stripe during setup and get a Form 1099-MISC for each year we pay you $10 or more in royalties; if your W-9 has no taxpayer ID yet, or the IRS says it is wrong, we must hold back 24%. Outside the US you email a Form W-8BEN (or W-8BEN-E for a company) to engineering@rebelaudio.ai; the part of your earnings from US listeners may be withheld at 30% or a lower treaty rate (until Spotify tells us where your listeners are, we withhold on your whole share), and we file a Form 1042-S. This isn't tax advice: ask your tax adviser.

The Payouts and taxes page has the details and the treaty rates.

Go to: Payouts and taxesGo to: Spotify monetization

Each plan has room for a number of team members: Free 1, Creator 2, Studio 5, Network 20. Everyone on the workspace counts, including you.

When the plan is full, new invites can't go through. Remove someone or upgrade first.

Owner: everything, including deleting the account. Admin: everything an Editor can, plus managing members and billing.

Editor: upload episodes, edit shows and make clips. Viewer: read-only access to shows, episodes and analytics.

On Free and Creator, a workspace has its owner and Editors. Admin and Viewer roles come with Studio and Network. A workspace always needs at least one owner.

Go to Settings › Team, enter their email under Invite someone, pick a role, and press Send invite. They get an email with a link to join. You'll see the invite under Waiting to join, where you can cancel it.

Only owners and admins can invite. Once someone has joined, you can change their role from the members list. Removing someone takes their access away straight away; nothing they made is deleted, and their place on your plan frees up.

A workspace is the account your shows, plan and hours belong to. You always have your own personal workspace. When someone invites you to theirs, you can switch between them with the Workspace picker in Settings › Team.

To leave someone else's workspace, use Leave this workspace on the same page. You'll lose access to its shows, and an owner or admin can invite you back. Your personal workspace can't be left.

Go to Settings › Privacy and press Request my data. We gather everything in your account: profile, shows and episodes, audio, video and artwork, AI chats, analytics, billing and more. You don't need to keep the page open.

We'll let you know when it's ready. Download it from the same page within 7 days. Each download link works for 15 minutes, so come back for a fresh one if it expires.

Go to Settings › Privacy, scroll to Delete account, and follow the steps. You'll type DELETE MY ACCOUNT and confirm it's you.

Two things come first. Delete or move out every show you own: Rebel won't delete an account that still owns a show, and lists them for you. And if you're the only admin of a workspace that has other members, make someone else an admin, or remove the other members. To take a show to another hosting service first, see "How do I move my show away from Rebel?". If you'd rather we delete the account and its shows for you, write to engineering@rebelaudio.ai and we'll do it after checking it's you.

If Rebel owes you Spotify earnings, deleting a show or your account doesn't cancel them. The easiest way to be paid is through the payouts set up in your account, so receive your money before you delete your account if you can. For a month that Spotify finalised after the show was deleted, write to engineering@rebelaudio.ai within 12 months and we pay your share.

Deletion starts 7 days after you confirm. After that, your account and everything left in it is erased, and it can't be undone.

YouTube and Google Drive don't wait the 7 days: they're disconnected the moment you confirm, and the YouTube info we keep is deleted. Videos already on your channel stay there. A data export still in progress is cancelled, so download it before you delete.

Yes, within the 7 days. Just sign in again before the date we showed you. You'll see a banner saying your account is scheduled for deletion. Press Keep my account and everything stays as it was, except YouTube and Google Drive: those were disconnected when you confirmed, so reconnect them in Settings › Connections.

Once the 7 days are up, deletion can't be undone.

In Settings › Notifications, turn email and in-app alerts on or off for each type: processing finished, new episode, milestones, plan changes, reminders and team activity. The weekly digest is off until you turn it on, and marketing email is off unless you turn it on.

Important account and billing emails always come through, so you never miss a security or payment notice. You can also let your browser show desktop alerts.

All your in-app alerts are in Notifications.

Analytics cookies and session recordings start only after you turn analytics on (in the cookie banner or in Settings › Privacy), and stop when you turn it off. Before that, or if you say no, we may still count visits without cookies or any ID on your device: which pages are viewed, where the visit came from, a few clicks on our website, and what happens on a shared clip's page. The Cookie Policy explains how. Necessary cookies (the ones that keep you signed in) are always on. Google's "Sign in with Google" prompt appears only on our sign-in pages; in the EEA, the UK, Switzerland and Brazil it appears only after you turn analytics on. We never sell or share your data for advertising.

Your show's contact email is kept private by default too: feeds publish the show's own Rebel address, not yours.

Go to Settings › Profile. Add an email address and confirm it with the 6-digit code we send, then make it your primary (sign-in) address.

You can change your password there too (you'll be signed out on other devices), or set one if you signed up with Google. You can also connect or disconnect Google sign-in.

Rebel keeps the original file of each episode in this browser, so you can preview your cuts and so an upload can finish after you reload the page. It is stored on this device only; another device or browser has its own.

See how much space it uses in Settings › Privacy, under Storage on this device. Clear local media removes those files from this browser. It never deletes an episode, a transcript or an edit from your account.

Take care while something is still uploading: clearing stops an upload from this device (you'll need to add the file again), and a recording that hasn't finished uploading is lost. Rebel warns you first when that is the case.

If this device runs out of room, keep the tab open until your uploads finish, then clear the originals that are done.

You can leave whenever you like. Do these steps in this order.

1. Download your files. In Settings › Privacy, press Request my data. You get everything in your account, including audio, video and artwork. Download it within 7 days. 2. Put your own email address on the show. Your feed names the show's contact email as its owner, and podcast apps and new hosting services use it to check that the show is yours. If the show uses a Rebel address, switch to your own address in the show's settings. A Rebel address belongs to Rebel, and it goes back to Rebel when you switch it off. 3. Set up the show at your new hosting service and get its new RSS feed address. 4. Send podcast apps to the new feed. Open the show's Settings › Move or delete the show. Under "Moving your show to another hosting service?", enter the new RSS feed address and confirm. Podcast apps then use the new address and move your listeners there, usually within a day. Only the show's owner can do this, and you can't undo it in the app. 5. Keep the show published on Rebel for a few weeks, so every podcast app sees the move. Then you can delete it. If you need help, or want to stop the move, write to engineering@rebelaudio.ai.

Apple Podcasts: if Rebel submitted your show from its own Apple account, ask us and we move the listing to your own Apple account.

Spotify: a show Rebel sent to Spotify is listed on Rebel Audio's Spotify account. After you leave, we still pay you your share of what Spotify pays us for the months the show earned money through us.

Don't delete the show first. When a show is deleted, its Rebel feed is emptied, so podcast apps can't get its episodes from Rebel any more.

Yes. Where you are the controller of personal data we process for you (the people in your recordings, the guests and crew you name on your show, the mail your show receives), our Data Processing Addendum forms part of the Terms and governs how we process that data for you. You don't need to sign or accept anything separately: it applies automatically.

It covers the details of the processing, our duties as your processor (instructions, confidentiality, security, breach notice within 72 hours, deletion, audits), our subprocessors, international transfers (the EU Standard Contractual Clauses and the UK Addendum) and US state privacy laws. Its list of subprocessors is the live Subprocessors page.

Read it on the Data Processing Addendum page, linked in the footer of our website. Questions: write to engineering@rebelaudio.ai.

Go to: Data Processing Addendum

Check the Uploads panel in the sidebar. It shows each file's progress and what it's waiting for.

Offline? Uploads pause and carry on by themselves when you're back. Waiting? Files upload one at a time, so it's in the queue. Needs its file? This browser lost its copy, so press Re-attach and pick the same file again. Your transcript and edits are kept.

Keep the tab open until it says your file is safe, and don't clear your browser data mid-upload. If it still won't move after a reload, use Report a bug in Help.

We check every file before it uploads and tell you why if it can't be used. Common reasons: it's still downloading (or the download stopped), it's stored only in iCloud or OneDrive and needs downloading to this device first, it's copy-protected, it has no sound track, it's damaged, or it's over 4 GB.

Most of these are fixed by re-exporting or re-downloading the full file. On Free, video files are refused because video needs a paid plan, so use an audio file instead.

Speakers mixed up? Use Edit speakers to name them. Listening to a sample helps you tell who's who.

Misheard words don't change your audio: listeners hear exactly what you said. The editor is built for cutting, so typing over a single word isn't part of it yet. If you restored an earlier version and the words don't match the audio, choose Re-transcribe in History.

If a transcript looks badly wrong (wrong language, big gaps), send us a bug report from Help with the episode name.

Check the basics first: the episode needs a title and a description, it needs its final file (press Make final file in the Transcript Editor), and your show needs a contact email.

If the feed worked but a platform didn't, open the episode's Publish tab. A platform that failed shows what went wrong and the fix on its row: Retry, Go to Connections (the account needs reconnecting), Edit episode, or Verify on YouTube for a video longer than 15 minutes. If the platform's daily upload limit is used up, the row says Paused and the upload resumes on its own.

If a row says Not connected, Not set up for this show or Setup needed, nothing failed: that platform isn't ready to take episodes yet, and the row links to where you finish it. The Activity list at the bottom of the tab shows each step with its time, which is the first thing to check when a platform seems stuck.

Make final file builds your finished file with all your cuts. Audio is quick; long, high-quality video can take a while, sometimes 15 minutes or more for a long episode.

If it fails: "still scanning" means try again in a few minutes. "Original file is incomplete" means the upload never finished, so upload the full file again, then make the final file. On Free, a video episode can't get a final file because video needs a paid plan. Anything else, press Try again, and if it keeps failing, report it from Help.

Use the same method you signed up with: your email (with a code or your password), or Continue with Google. If you've forgotten your password, use the reset option on the sign-in screen.

"Your session has expired" just means sign in again. If you don't get a code email, check spam and make sure you're using your primary address.

Still locked out? Write to engineering@rebelaudio.ai from the address on your account and we'll help.

Open Help and choose Talk to us to ask a question, or Report a bug if something isn't working. Say what you were trying to do, what happened instead, any error message (copied exactly, with its reference code), and which show or episode. It helps us help you faster.

Prefer email? Write to engineering@rebelaudio.ai.

Every request you send from Help is listed under Help › My requests, with its status and our replies. We also email you whenever we reply, so you don't have to keep checking.