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CaptionCreator
✓ verifiedPaid
AI subtitle/transcription tool (50+ languages) - but the service is shutting down, with new signups and payments disabled.
11K visits/mo
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AutoCaption
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI caption generator that adds animated, styled subtitles and emojis to short videos for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts in 100+ languages.
90K visits/mo3.8K saves
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Video AI by Topaz Labs
✓ verifiedPaid
Desktop and cloud AI software for upscaling, sharpening, denoising, and restoring photos and video at professional quality.
3.0M visits/mo7.0K saves
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Vidu
✓ verifiedFreemium
Fast AI video and image generator known for consistent multi-reference characters, anime motion, and free off-peak generation.
3.3M visits/mo50K saves
Pricing
Credits: $10 for 100 credits (1 credit = 1 min)
Basic: $18/mo (100 videos/mo)
Pro: $25/mo (215 videos/mo)
Business: $39/mo (350 videos/mo)
Free trial available
Free: $0/month
Light: $5/month
Medium: $13/month
Premium: $49/month
Topaz Image Web: $12/mo (introductory, up to 32MP, unlimited cloud rendering)
Astra Standard: $19/mo (introductory, 400 credits/month, 4K video output)
Topaz Studio: $34/mo billed annually (all apps, 300 monthly video cloud credits)
Topaz Studio: $69/mo (all apps, 300 monthly video cloud credits)
Topaz Photo: $39/mo (photo restoration and enhancement models)
Topaz Gigapixel: $29/mo (image upscaling models)
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Auto-transcription to subtitles or text
- ✦Translate audio/video to English subtitles
- ✦50+ language support
- ✦Handles noisy and multilingual audio
- ✦Non-expiring credit-based usage
- ✦SRT and plain-text output
- ✦Automatic animated captions
- ✦Emoji and emphasis effects
- ✦100+ languages
- ✦Auto-resize for multiple platforms
- ✦Timeline subtitle/timing editor
- ✦Direct publishing and templates
- ✦Automatic subtitles generation with AI
- ✦Video resizing for different social media platforms
- ✦Subtitle style customization
- ✦Support for multiple languages
- ✦Video format conversion
- ✦AI image and video upscaling up to 4K/32MP
- ✦Denoising and sharpening models
- ✦Photo restoration and dust/scratch removal
- ✦Face enhancement and recovery
- ✦Background removal and colorization
- ✦Cloud rendering with concurrency limits
- ✦Bundled multi-app Studio subscription
- ✦Text-to-video, image-to-video, and reference-to-video generation
- ✦Multi-reference consistency using up to 7 images
- ✦First and last frame transition control
- ✦Anime art-to-video animation
- ✦Unlimited free generation in off-peak mode
- ✦AI sound effect and AI image generation tools
Use cases
- →Subtitling videos for creators
- →Translating video into English captions
- →Transcribing recordings to text
- →Captioning short-form social videos
- →Making captions that boost watch time
- →Repurposing one video for many platforms
- →Building branded caption presets
- →Adding subtitles to social media videos to increase engagement
- →Creating accessible video content for viewers who watch without sound
- →Translating video subtitles into different languages
- →Quickly generating subtitles for video content without manual transcription
- →Photographers restoring or upscaling old photos
- →Video editors upscaling footage to 4K
- →Studios batch-enhancing large image libraries
- →Creators removing backgrounds or colorizing images
- →Marketers producing branded video ads with consistent characters
- →Anime creators animating static art
- →Creators reusing saved characters/props across multiple videos
- →Users wanting fast, low-cost video generation via off-peak mode
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