My selection of free tools I use for the making, automation and marketing of podcasts

#1 Audacity - Free, open source, cross-platform audio software Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.Developed by a group of volunteers as open source

#2 Levelator – Free software that will level your sound for when you have more than one speaker and they have sound levels higher or lower. So what is The Levelator®? It's not a compressor, normalizer or limiter, although it contains all three. It's much more than those tools, and it's much simpler to use. The UI is dirt-simple: Drag-and-drop any WAV or AIFF file onto The Leveler's application window, and a few moments later you'll find a new version that just sounds better.Have you ever recorded an interview in which you and your guest ended up at different volumes? How about a panel discussion where some people were close to microphones and others were not?

#3 Zoom – Here you can record the video and sound if you are interviewing someone remotely. Because why wouldn’t you want to have extra content to make a video. This is also a free tool

#4 WordPress – Yes, you can get a WordPress blog to post your show notes that will generate SEO and Google ranking, so eventually you start getting visitors to your site that you can capture emails, or even monetize with ads.

#5 Zappier - Zapier is an American for-profit corporation and a web-based service that allows end users to integrate the web applications they use. Connect the apps you use every day to automate your work and be more productive. 1000+ apps and easy integrations

Today, as you read on the title I'm gonna give you the top 5 free tools for podcasters.

So if you are a podcaster or if you are planning on starting a podcast or even if you’re none of those, but you are just somebody that is curious about podcasting and you want to know how podcasting is done, you're gonna hear the 5 top free tools that you can use while podcasting.

So starting by number one is going to be Audacity. Audacity. Like, how do you have the audacity not to use Audacity? This is a 100% tool in case you wanted to know, I am using it right now to record this. So if you are listening to me, this is being recorded with Audacity.

Audacity, like I said is free and you can use it to record. So you’re gonna download it. It’s going to be installed in your computer. And now you're gonna select your microphone in here. Of course, you can use the built-in microphone if you have in your computer.

That's not going to give you the top quality but you can use anything you have at your disposition right now. All right. And you play around with it even if you don't have a podcast and you plan on starting one.

You can allow you can download this right now and do tests with your built-in microphone. And test it and just see what is up with Audacity.

With Audacity, not only can you record but you can edit your sound. So if you have a bunch of uhm, ahs, ooh, that kind of sounds, you can go back, select these sounds, delete them and make you sound a lot smarter than in reality you are.

You can put effects in there, you can increase the volume, decrease the volume just to make sure that people are going to hear you. And there's a lot you can do. So check out Audacity.

Of course there is no affiliate links for this because it is 100% free. Everything in there is free. There is no upgrades or anything that you need to do.

Okay, let's jump over to tool number two. Tool number two is somewhat of an unknown tool for, I don't know what reason, but even me, I only found out about this probably a month ago.

Now this tool is something that is very needed and appreciated and again 100% free. They have the option that you can buy them a coffee if you want. If you use the tool and you really love it, you can buy them coffee,