# Radar

> Radar, from the news startup Particle, is a search engine for podcasts. Instead of scrubbing through hours of audio, you can search across more than 130,000 shows by quote, person, company, or topic and jump straight to the moment something was said. Particle says it transcribes and indexes new episodes constantly, adding roughly 20,000 a day. The appeal is obvious to anyone who has tried to remember which episode a guest said something interesting on. Podcasts have long been a black hole for search because the words live in audio, and Radar turns that audio into text you can actually query. It is priced at 29 dollars a month for individuals, with a 399 dollar business tier that adds seats plus API and Model Context Protocol access so AI agents can pull from the same index. That last part hints at the bigger idea: making the spoken web searchable not just for people but for the assistants increasingly doing research on our behalf. For journalists, researchers, and obsessive listeners, it is a genuinely useful new lens on a medium that has resisted one.

_Section: [New AI Tools](https://www.wortins.com/new-tools) · Source: Particle · Published Thursday, August 27, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Radar, from the news startup Particle, is a search engine for podcasts. Instead of scrubbing through hours of audio, you can search across more than 130,000 shows by quote, person, company, or topic and jump straight to the moment something was said. Particle says it transcribes and indexes new episodes constantly, adding roughly 20,000 a day. The appeal is obvious to anyone who has tried to remember which episode a guest said something interesting on. Podcasts have long been a black hole for search because the words live in audio, and Radar turns that audio into text you can actually query. It is priced at 29 dollars a month for individuals, with a 399 dollar business tier that adds seats plus API and Model Context Protocol access so AI agents can pull from the same index. That last part hints at the bigger idea: making the spoken web searchable not just for people but for the assistants increasingly doing research on our behalf. For journalists, researchers, and obsessive listeners, it is a genuinely useful new lens on a medium that has resisted one.

## Source

[Read the full story at Particle](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/radar-makes-podcasts-searchable-and-usable-by-ai-agents/)

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