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UniScribe
✓ verifiedFreemium
Converts uploaded or linked audio/video into text with AI summaries, mind maps, and multi-format export in 63 languages.
1.4M visits/mo
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SubMagic
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AI video editor that auto-captions, trims and repurposes raw footage into short-form clips for social platforms.
896K visits/mo5.1K saves
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Kapwing
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Browser-based video editor with AI tools for creating, editing, subtitling, and repurposing content.
5.6M visits/mo
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syncwords.com
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Pay-per-minute platform for live and recorded AI captioning, foreign subtitling, and real-time voice dubbing for broadcasters.
19K visits/mo
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Picsart
✓ verifiedFreemium
Full-featured AI creative platform used by 130M+ creators for photo/video editing, design templates, and 140+ AI models.
17M visits/mo2.6K saves
Pricing
Free: $0/month (120 minutes/month, 3 files/day)
Basic: $6/month (1,200 minutes/month, $72/year billed yearly)
Standard: $12/month (3,000 minutes/month, $144/year billed yearly)
Starter: $19/member/mo (15 videos/mo, max 2 min each)
Starter + Magic Clips: $38/member/mo
Pro: $39/member/mo (40 videos/mo, max 5 min each)
Pro + Magic Clips: $58/member/mo
Free trial available
No public pricing
Human transcription (standard, 3-5 days): $1.95/minute of media
Human transcription (fast, same day): $3.45/minute of media
Automated captions (ASR + sync): $0.50/minute of media
Machine translation, first language: $1.00/minute of media
Machine translation, second language: $0.50/minute of media
Burned-in caption files: $3.00 minimum, $0.50/minute above minimum
Professional human translation: from $6.00/minute of media
Free trial available
Max Starter: $49/month
Max Performance: $149/month
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Audio/video-to-text transcription from file upload or YouTube link
- ✦Support for 63 languages and 11 input file formats
- ✦Automatic AI summaries and visual mind maps
- ✦Speaker recognition and translation
- ✦Export to txt, pdf, docx, srt, csv, and vtt
- ✦Shareable transcript links
- ✦Automatic viral-style captions in 48 languages
- ✦One-click AI auto-editing (cuts, trims, silence removal)
- ✦Magic Clips to extract shorts from long-form videos
- ✦AI actor/avatar video creation without filming
- ✦AI video translation and eye-contact correction
- ✦Scheduled publishing across TikTok, YouTube and Instagram
- ✦Public API for automating the editing workflow
- ✦Browser-based video editor
- ✦AI video generation from prompts
- ✦Auto subtitles and transcription
- ✦Dubbing and translation into 40+ languages
- ✦Repurpose long video into social clips
- ✦Text-to-speech and audio cleanup
- ✦Frame-accurate live AI captioning with broadcast-grade latency
- ✦Real-time subtitle translation into 40+ languages including non-Latin scripts
- ✦AI voice dubbing that preserves speaker emotion and tone
- ✦Delivery via SDI, HLS, SRT and widget-based embeds
- ✦Caption and subtitle editor with smart segmentation and error detection
- ✦Human transcription and translation options alongside automated ones
- ✦Free AI design tools
- ✦Expert-crafted templates
- ✦Built-in asset libraries
- ✦Generative AI tools
Use cases
- →Researchers transcribing interviews
- →Students converting lectures into notes and mind maps
- →Podcasters and creators generating subtitles
- →Professionals needing multilingual meeting transcripts
- →Turning a podcast or long video into multiple short clips
- →Adding on-brand captions to social videos at scale
- →Publishing short-form content across platforms on a schedule
- →Creating videos with AI avatars instead of filming
- →Editing videos without desktop software
- →Creating social-media clips
- →Adding captions and translations
- →Generating videos from text prompts
- →Team and marketing content creation
- →Sports and news broadcasters localizing live feeds for global audiences
- →OTT platforms offering translated content tiers
- →Event organizers adding live multilingual captions to conferences and webinars
- →Social media creators producing trending photo and video content
- →Marketers generating on-brand product ads at scale
- →Small businesses creating merchandise and print-on-demand designs
- →Designers building branded video and motion content
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