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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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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
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Camtasia Online
✓ verifiedFreemium
Screen recording and editing suite (Camtasia, Snagit, Audiate) with AI tools for noise removal, avatars, and scripting.
871K visits/mo
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SubtitleBee
✓ verifiedFreemium
Web app that auto-transcribes, styles, and translates video subtitles into 120+ languages, with watermark-free exports on paid plans.
44K visits/mo1.8K saves
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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
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)
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
Camtasia online: $0
Starter: $39.00/year
Essentials: $179.88/year
Create: $249.00/year
Pro: $599.00/year
Free trial available
Free: $0/mo (10 min auto subtitle video)
Starter: $19/mo (240 min/month, 3 translations per video)
Premium: $49/mo (1050 min/month, 10 translations per video)
Business: $129/mo (3600 min/month, 15 translations per video)
Basic: $18/mo (100 videos/mo)
Pro: $25/mo (215 videos/mo)
Business: $39/mo (350 videos/mo)
Free trial available
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
- ✦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
- ✦Screen recording and multitrack video editing (Camtasia)
- ✦Screenshot capture and annotation with AI redaction (Snagit)
- ✦Text-based video editing driven by transcripts (Audiate)
- ✦AI background noise removal and background blur/removal
- ✦AI script and voice generation for video content
- ✦AI transcription of audio to text
- ✦Automatic subtitle generation from video/audio
- ✦Subtitle translation into 120+ languages
- ✦Font, color, and style customization
- ✦Text overlays and custom logo branding
- ✦Video cropping and resizing for social platforms
- ✦Export in SRT, ASS, VTT, TXT formats
- ✦Automatic animated captions
- ✦Emoji and emphasis effects
- ✦100+ languages
- ✦Auto-resize for multiple platforms
- ✦Timeline subtitle/timing editor
- ✦Direct publishing and templates
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
- →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
- →Corporate trainers producing instructional videos
- →Educators creating course and tutorial content
- →Marketing and product teams making demo and how-to videos
- →Support and documentation teams creating visual guides
- →Captioning social media clips for accessibility
- →Translating video content for international audiences
- →Branding videos with custom logos and overlay text
- →Repurposing long videos for different platform aspect ratios
- →Captioning short-form social videos
- →Making captions that boost watch time
- →Repurposing one video for many platforms
- →Building branded caption presets
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