Submagic alternatives, compared honestly

Captions

For a preset edit style on a short clip, mostly from your phone, when caption styles are still the point.

Captions is an AI video editor and generator. It applies preset edit styles to a clip, makes AI actors and digital twins, and takes changes in chat.

Choose Captions if:

• You edit on your phone and want a preset style in a few taps.
• You want an AI actor or a digital twin of yourself.
• Your videos are short and one of its preset styles is what you want.

Paid plans from $24.99 a month. Free plan with the basic tools, captions in 100 or more languages, one caption template, and no AI credits. Clypmint vs Captions, in full.

OpusClip

When the job is finding clips in a long recording, not finishing a short one you already have.

OpusClip takes one long video and finds the short clips inside it, then adds captions, scores them for virality, and reframes them vertical.

Choose OpusClip if:

• Your job is volume: forty clips a week from long recordings, posted the same day.
• A cropped clip with captions is enough. You do not need it to look designed.
• You want the lowest possible monthly price and a free tier.

Paid plans from $15 a month. Free plan. 60 credits a month, a watermark on every clip, no editing, and clips stop being exportable after 3 days. Clypmint vs OpusClip, in full.

Vizard

When you want many clips from a long video, and a yearly plan buys a lot of minutes.

Vizard turns long videos into short social clips with captions and reframing, and schedules them to your accounts.

Choose Vizard if:

• You want a lot of clips for very little money and you pay yearly.
• Scheduling to social accounts from the same tool matters to you.
• You are fine with a caption template. You do not need motion design.

Paid plans from $29 a month. Free plan. 60 credits a month, one credit per minute of video, 720p export, a 10-minute export cap, and 3 days of storage. The watermark comes off on a paid plan. Clypmint vs Vizard, in full.

Klap

When you want to pay per clip that comes out, with dubbing if you post in other languages.

Klap makes short vertical clips from long videos and posts them to your social accounts. It charges by the clip, not by the minute.

Choose Klap if:

• You post a lot of clips and want to pay per clip.
• You need dubbing into several languages on the same clip.
• You connect many social accounts.

Paid plans from $14 a month, billed yearly. No free plan on the pricing page. Third-party reviews describe a one-video trial, but the page itself does not state one. Clypmint vs Klap, in full.

Descript

When you would rather edit the long take yourself, by editing the transcript.

Descript is a video and podcast editor where you edit the transcript and the video follows. Its Underlord AI cuts, cleans audio, and makes clips.

Choose Descript if:

• You want to do the editing yourself, quickly, with your hands on it.
• You record podcasts and need audio tools as much as video tools.
• You need screen recording and remote recording in the same app.

Paid plans from $24 a month. Free plan with 60 minutes of media a month, 100 one-time AI credits, and 720p export with a watermark. Clypmint vs Descript, in full.

Clypmint, the one we make

When the clip, and the video it came from, have to look edited by a designer. Fewer clips, no free plan, and it edits rather than generates.

Clypmint is an AI video editor for footage you already shot. You upload a raw talking-head take and pick a creator's editing style. Clypmint returns a finished edit with captions, cuts, and explainer screens. Then you change it in chat, or on the timeline.

Choose Clypmint over Submagic if:

• Your video is longer than the cap on your plan. Clypmint edits a 15-minute take on its first paid plan.
• You want graphics designed for the edit, not a caption template on top of it.
• You want to change the edit in a sentence instead of re-exporting for another credit.