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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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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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AI Subtitle Translator
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI subtitle translator handling 50+ languages and many formats (SRT, VTT, ASS), with batch processing.

64K visits/mo541 saves

Generates detailed AI text descriptions of uploaded videos, useful for filmmakers and marketers needing quick synopses or captions.

29K 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

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 Pack: $12 one-time (200 credits)
Pro: $10/mo (200 credits/mo)
Pro+: $18/mo (400 credits/mo)

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
  • 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
  • Translate subtitles into 50+ languages
  • Supports SRT, VTT, SBV, SUB, ASS, LRC, SMI
  • Auto source-language detection
  • Batch/multi-file processing
  • Free Basic model plus higher-quality Plus model
  • Bundled subtitle converter and SRT cleaner
  • Uploads a video and generates a detailed text description
  • Supports follow-up questions about the video's content
  • Offers multi-language description generation
  • Processes videos quickly with encrypted uploads
  • 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
  • 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
  • Localizing video subtitles
  • Reaching global audiences
  • Bulk subtitle translation
  • Format conversion and cleanup
  • Filmmakers creating synopses and marketing copy from footage
  • Researchers describing user-testing videos for analysis
  • Social media creators generating captions and hashtags from clips
  • 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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