Fill in the episode once and get show notes laid out for Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube — each with its own timestamp format and a live count against that platform's limit. Nothing you type leaves your browser.
Lead with what a listener gets — the first lines are what shows before 'more'.
Rewritten per platform below. Check them against YouTube's rules in the YouTube Chapters Checker.
Apple Podcasts Connect's description field takes up to 10,000 characters, but Apple's own guidance says descriptions can feature up to 4,000 — so 4,000 is the safe target.
Ana Ruiz went from zero to a sold-out first collection in two years — without paid ads. We talk about the posts that brought her first customers, how she prices, and what she'd do differently. Guest: Ana Ruiz — ceramic artist based in Seville https://example.com/ana Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:15 The first sale 00:14:40 Posts that brought customers 00:31:05 Pricing without guessing 00:47:20 What she'd do differently Links: • Ana's shop: https://example.com/ana/work New episodes every Tuesday — follow the show so you don't miss one.
Do this automatically from your episode audio
Upload the episode's audio in Spotlight's Episode mode and CAPTD writes an episode description for Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube for you — with chapters, key takeaways, the resources mentioned and a guest bio from the recording.
Episode mode is part of the Spotlight workspace on CAPTD's paid plans — see pricing.
Open Episode modeTurns one set of episode details — summary, guest, timestamps, links and a call to action — into plain-text show notes for Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube. Each version writes the timestamps the way that platform documents them and counts the characters against that platform's limit as you type.
The bar under each tab is measured against that platform's own number: 4,000 characters for Apple Podcasts and 5,000 for a YouTube description. Spotify publishes no maximum, so its bar shows the first 250 characters — the part Spotify says listeners see before expanding — and dims the rest. Timestamps are written 00:00:00 for Apple (which asks for the first chapter at 00:00:00) and 00:00 for Spotify and YouTube, as their own help pages write them.
Show notes are the episode description listeners see in their podcast app or under the video: a short summary, who's on the episode, timestamps for the main sections, the links that came up, and what to do next.
Every platform reads them a little differently. Apple Podcasts and Spotify both turn timestamps in the description into chapters when there are at least three, starting at the very beginning; YouTube does the same for a video under its own rules. Each has its own limit on length, and Spotify shows only the opening lines until a listener taps for more.
Writing notes three times — once per platform, each with different timestamp shapes and limits — is the chore that gets skipped. Good notes help a listener decide to press play, let them jump to the part they want, and put your guest's links where people can find them.
Spotify publishes no maximum length for an episode description; the 250-character figure is what its podcast SEO guide says listeners see before expanding.