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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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UniScribe
✓ verifiedFreemium

Converts uploaded or linked audio/video into text with AI summaries, mind maps, and multi-format export in 63 languages.

1.4M visits/mo
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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
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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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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
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

Free: $0/month (120 minutes/month, 3 files/day)
Basic: $6/month (1,200 minutes/month, $72/year billed yearly)
Standard: $12/month (3,000 minutes/month, $144/year billed yearly)

No public pricing

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

Free trial available

Credits: $10 for 100 credits (1 credit = 1 min)
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
  • Audio/video-to-text transcription from file upload or YouTube link
  • Support for 63 languages and 11 input file formats
  • Automatic AI summaries and visual mind maps
  • Speaker recognition and translation
  • Export to txt, pdf, docx, srt, csv, and vtt
  • Shareable transcript links
  • Automatic AI subtitle generation
  • Embeds captions into the video
  • Multi-language support
  • Automatic animated captions
  • Emoji and emphasis effects
  • 100+ languages
  • Auto-resize for multiple platforms
  • Timeline subtitle/timing editor
  • Direct publishing and templates
  • 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
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
  • Researchers transcribing interviews
  • Students converting lectures into notes and mind maps
  • Podcasters and creators generating subtitles
  • Professionals needing multilingual meeting transcripts
  • Adding captions to short-form videos
  • Making video content accessible
  • Improving video engagement and SEO
  • Captioning short-form social videos
  • Making captions that boost watch time
  • Repurposing one video for many platforms
  • Building branded caption presets
  • Subtitling videos for creators
  • Translating video into English captions
  • Transcribing recordings to text
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