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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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CaptionCreator
✓ verifiedPaid

AI subtitle/transcription tool (50+ languages) - but the service is shutting down, with new signups and payments disabled.

11K visits/mo
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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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HeyGen
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI video platform for making avatar and spokesperson videos from text, with translation and voice cloning.

11M visits/mo3.7K saves
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Digen AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI video platform that turns text and images into videos with lip-sync, bundling many models plus upscaling and editing tools.

4.6M visits/mo
Pricing

No public pricing

Credits: $10 for 100 credits (1 credit = 1 min)
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)

No public pricing

No public pricing

Core features
  • Automatic AI subtitle generation
  • Embeds captions into the video
  • Multi-language support
  • 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
  • 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
  • Text-to-video with AI avatars
  • Custom and personal avatar creation
  • AI voice cloning
  • Multi-language video translation
  • Template library for common video types
  • Team and API options
  • Text-to-video and image-to-video
  • Lip-sync and talking avatar videos
  • Access to multiple AI video models
  • Video and image upscaling
  • Watermark removal and FPS boost
  • Text-to-speech and sound effects
Use cases
  • Adding captions to short-form videos
  • Making video content accessible
  • Improving video engagement and SEO
  • Subtitling videos for creators
  • Translating video into English captions
  • Transcribing recordings to text
  • 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
  • Create spokesperson marketing videos
  • Localize videos into many languages
  • Produce training and explainer videos
  • Scale social video content
  • Generating short marketing or social videos
  • Creating talking avatar clips
  • Enhancing and upscaling existing videos
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