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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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SubMagic
✓ verifiedPaid
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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Wan AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Alibaba's Wan AI platform for generating video and images from text or reference images, part of the Tongyi generative AI family.
3.1M visits/mo49K saves
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HeyGen
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI video platform for making avatar and spokesperson videos from text, with translation and voice cloning.
11M visits/mo3.7K saves
Pricing
Credits: $10 for 100 credits (1 credit = 1 min)
Free: $0/month
Light: $5/month
Medium: $13/month
Premium: $49/month
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
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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 subtitles generation with AI
- ✦Video resizing for different social media platforms
- ✦Subtitle style customization
- ✦Support for multiple languages
- ✦Video format conversion
- ✦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
- ✦Text-to-video generation
- ✦Image-to-video generation
- ✦Text-to-image and image editing
- ✦Open-source model releases for developers
- ✦Part of Alibaba's broader Tongyi AI ecosystem
- ✦Text-to-video with AI avatars
- ✦Custom and personal avatar creation
- ✦AI voice cloning
- ✦Multi-language video translation
- ✦Template library for common video types
- ✦Team and API options
Use cases
- →Subtitling videos for creators
- →Translating video into English captions
- →Transcribing recordings to text
- →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
- →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
- →Content creators generating short AI video clips
- →Developers building on open-source Wan model weights
- →Marketers producing quick visual content
- →Researchers experimenting with video diffusion models
- →Create spokesperson marketing videos
- →Localize videos into many languages
- →Produce training and explainer videos
- →Scale social video content
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