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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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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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syncwords.com
✓ verifiedPaid
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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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
Pricing
Free: $0/month
Light: $5/month
Medium: $13/month
Premium: $49/month
No public pricing
Basic: $18/mo (100 videos/mo)
Pro: $25/mo (215 videos/mo)
Business: $39/mo (350 videos/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
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
Core features
- ✦Automatic subtitles generation with AI
- ✦Video resizing for different social media platforms
- ✦Subtitle style customization
- ✦Support for multiple languages
- ✦Video format conversion
- ✦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 animated captions
- ✦Emoji and emphasis effects
- ✦100+ languages
- ✦Auto-resize for multiple platforms
- ✦Timeline subtitle/timing editor
- ✦Direct publishing and templates
- ✦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 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
Use cases
- →Adding subtitles to social media videos to increase engagement
- →Creating accessible video content for viewers who watch without sound
- →Translating video subtitles into different languages
- →Quickly generating subtitles for video content without manual transcription
- →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
- →Captioning short-form social videos
- →Making captions that boost watch time
- →Repurposing one video for many platforms
- →Building branded caption presets
- →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
- →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
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