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Captionic
✓ verifiedFree
Free AI tool that auto-generates subtitles and embeds them into short videos, with multi-language support.
4.6K visits/mo
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Banva
✓ verifiedFreemium
Browser-based AI tool that generates, styles and burns subtitles and transcribes audio across 90+ languages.
15K visits/mo
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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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AI Video by Media.io
✓ verifiedFreemium
Media.io offers free online AI tools for generating and editing video, images, and audio, plus viral content workflows.
5.4M visits/mo6.5K saves
Pricing
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Free: $0/month
Light: $5/month
Medium: $13/month
Premium: $49/month
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Core features
- ✦Automatic AI subtitle generation
- ✦Embeds captions into the video
- ✦Multi-language support
- ✦Automatic subtitles generation with AI
- ✦Video resizing for different social media platforms
- ✦Subtitle style customization
- ✦Support for multiple languages
- ✦Video format conversion
- ✦AI subtitle generation from video or audio
- ✦Translation across 90+ languages
- ✦Caption styling with fonts, animations and presets
- ✦Export as SRT, VTT, TXT or JSON
- ✦Burn subtitles directly into video
- ✦Fast parallel processing of long files
- ✦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
- ✦AI video generation (text and image to video)
- ✦AI image creation and enhancement
- ✦AI audio tools
- ✦AI ad and story video generators
- ✦Viral content studio
- ✦Video enhancer and effects
Use cases
- →Adding captions to short-form videos
- →Making video content accessible
- →Improving video engagement and SEO
- →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
- →Adding captions to marketing and social videos
- →Transcribing recordings and podcasts to text
- →Translating subtitles to reach global audiences
- →Styling on-brand captions for short-form content
- →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
- →Creating social and marketing videos
- →Generating AI images
- →Editing and enhancing media
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