Those can be stand-alone recordings, call-ins from your listeners, group recordings, songs from Spotify or Apple Music, transitional audio effects from Anchor's library and more. For starters, users can record multiple bits of audio and create a library to build out a finished product. To that end, Anchor 3.0 for iOS and Android is an app for recording first and foremost consuming short broadcasts from your friends is definitely taking a backseat now. Its goal now is to remove all the pain points and costs of making a podcast, from start to finish. The success of that feature has led Anchor to fully re-do its app and mission.

That turned the app into a one-stop shop for amateur podcasting. But the company started seeing more and more people using it to make full-on podcasts, so it added features to push Anchor recordings to Apple Podcasts and Google Play last summer. Anchor started off as a social network for audio - the app let users make quick, impromptu broadcasts to their followers straight from their phone.

Using anchor for podcasts