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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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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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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
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Zeemo
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI video-captioning and short-form video tool for creators, generating subtitles, translations, and AI-made clips to grow social views.
434K visits/mo6.3K saves
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Maestra
✓ verifiedFreemium
Web platform for AI transcription, subtitling, translation and dubbing across 125+ languages, aimed at video creators and teams.
1.5M 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)
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)
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
Free: $0/mo (120 credits/year)
Pro: $8/mo billed annually (3,600 credits/year)
Expert: $13.39/mo billed annually (7,200-115,200 credits/year)
Business: $16.07/mo billed annually (7,200-115,200 credits/year)
Pay As You Go: $12 (60 credits)
Lite: $23/mo (180 min)
Basic: $39/mo (360 min)
Premium: $79/mo (900 min)
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 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
- ✦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
- ✦Automatic AI captions in 95+ languages
- ✦Video translation into 124+ languages
- ✦AI video and idea-to-video generation
- ✦Video downloader/converter utilities for YouTube and TikTok
- ✦Watermark removal and video upscaling to 4K
- ✦Custom caption templates and fonts
- ✦Automatic transcription with speakers and timestamps
- ✦Subtitle generation, translation and editing
- ✦AI dubbing with voice cloning and lip sync
- ✦Real-time transcription, translation and captioning
- ✦Text-to-speech voiceovers in 125+ languages
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
- →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
- →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
- →Social creators wanting fast, accurate captions
- →Multilingual audiences needing translated video content
- →Educators and media companies transcribing interviews
- →Marketers producing short-form video at scale
- →Subtitle and translate videos for global audiences
- →Transcribe meetings, interviews and media files
- →Dub audio and video into other languages
- →Caption live events and streams
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