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Pika 2.2
✓ verifiedFreemium
A generative video platform that turns text or images into short AI videos, with playful visual effects and a video-focused chat agent.
2.2M visits/mo
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Nero Software
✓ verifiedPaid
Long-running Windows multimedia suite for disc burning, video editing, backup, and AI media enhancement.
1.6M visits/mo9.7K saves
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Video AI by Topaz Labs
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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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AVCLabs
✓ verifiedFreemium
Suite of AI tools for upscaling, enhancing, blurring, and editing video and photos, aimed at creators and restorers.
183K visits/mo3.7K saves
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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
Pricing
Basic: $0/month (80 monthly video credits, 480p only, watermark on Turbo/Pro credits)
Standard: $8/month billed yearly (700 monthly video credits, all resolutions)
Pro: $28/month billed yearly (2300 monthly video credits, faster generation)
Fancy: $76/month billed yearly (6000 monthly video credits, fastest generation)
Nero Platinum Suite 2026: $44.95 (discounted from $59.95)
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
Free trial available
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)
Core features
- ✦Text-to-video and image-to-video generation
- ✦Pikaffects for stylized transformations of photos into video
- ✦Pika Agent conversational creative assistant
- ✦Pikascenes, Pikadditions and Pikaswaps for scene editing
- ✦Pika MCP to add creative tools to other AI agents
- ✦Commercial usage rights and watermark-free downloads on paid plans
- ✦Nero Burning ROM disc burning
- ✦Nero Video editing
- ✦AI image and video upscaling
- ✦Media management (MediaHome)
- ✦Backup and duplicate management
- ✦Web-based AI tools
- ✦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
- ✦Video upscaling to HD/4K/8K
- ✦Facial detail restoration
- ✦Automatic face, object and license plate blurring
- ✦Watermark and object removal
- ✦Image colorization and denoising
- ✦Video stabilization
- ✦AVCLabs Media MCP server for AI agents
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Producing short social-media-ready video clips from text ideas
- →Turning a single photo into a reality-bending video effect
- →Automating creative content workflows through an AI agent
- →Adding video generation capability to existing AI agent setups via MCP
- →Burning CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray
- →Editing home videos
- →Upscaling photos and video
- →Backing up and organizing media
- →Photographers restoring or upscaling old photos
- →Video editors upscaling footage to 4K
- →Studios batch-enhancing large image libraries
- →Creators removing backgrounds or colorizing images
- →Improving low-resolution video quality
- →Blurring faces and plates for privacy
- →Restoring and colorizing old photos and footage
- →Removing watermarks and unwanted objects
- →Researchers transcribing interviews
- →Students converting lectures into notes and mind maps
- →Podcasters and creators generating subtitles
- →Professionals needing multilingual meeting transcripts
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