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SubMagic
✓ verifiedPaid

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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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
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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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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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viralbot
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Low-cost online editor that pairs a main video with auto-generated subtitles and a secondary clip to produce quick vertical social videos.

74 visits/mo3.3K saves
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

Basic: $18/mo (100 videos/mo)
Pro: $25/mo (215 videos/mo)
Business: $39/mo (350 videos/mo)

Free trial available

No public pricing

No public pricing

First video: free
Single video: $0.18
10-video pack: $1.50 ($0.15/video)
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
  • Automatic animated captions
  • Emoji and emphasis effects
  • 100+ languages
  • Auto-resize for multiple platforms
  • Timeline subtitle/timing editor
  • Direct publishing and templates
  • 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
  • Automatic AI subtitle generation
  • Embeds captions into the video
  • Multi-language support
  • Automatic multi-language subtitle generation
  • Automated pairing with a secondary background video clip
  • Regenerate option to swap secondary content
  • 200+ stock footage clips library
  • Simple upload-generate-download workflow
  • No-signup free first video
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
  • Captioning short-form social videos
  • Making captions that boost watch time
  • Repurposing one video for many platforms
  • Building branded caption presets
  • 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
  • Adding captions to short-form videos
  • Making video content accessible
  • Improving video engagement and SEO
  • Social media marketers creating quick split-screen viral videos
  • Creators wanting subtitles without manual editing
  • Users repurposing YouTube links into short vertical clips
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