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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

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

CaptionCreator

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AI subtitle/transcription tool (50+ languages) - but the service is shutting down, with new signups and payments disabled.

11K visits/mo

Captionic

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Free AI tool that auto-generates subtitles and embeds them into short videos, with multi-language support.

4.6K visits/mo

SyncSketch

✓ verifiedFreemium

Cloud review tool letting VFX, animation and game teams annotate and give timestamped feedback on video and media frames.

1.0M visits/mo

Pricing

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

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

Credits: $10 for 100 credits (1 credit = 1 min)

No public pricing

Core features

✦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

✦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

✦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 AI subtitle generation
✦Embeds captions into the video
✦Multi-language support

✦Frame-accurate video and media annotation
✦Real-time collaborative review sessions
✦Free sign-up option
✦Enterprise support options

Use cases

→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

→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

→Subtitling videos for creators
→Translating video into English captions
→Transcribing recordings to text

→Adding captions to short-form videos
→Making video content accessible
→Improving video engagement and SEO

→VFX studios reviewing shots remotely with clients
→Game studios collecting feedback on in-progress assets
→Animation teams running distributed review sessions

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