Alternatives to Submagic
An AI web app that adds animated captions, b-roll and automatic edits to short-form videos. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Submagic
An AI web app that adds animated captions, b-roll and automatic edits to short-form videos.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Submagic.
Captions
An AI video editor that cuts footage, adds captions and B-roll, and creates AI avatars.
Captions offers freemium AI editing with auto-generated and translated captions, B-roll, prompt-based changes and AI avatars, also as a hosted web service.
OpusClip
A web tool that uses AI to cut long videos into short clips and publish them.
OpusClip is freemium and focuses on cutting long videos into short clips with captions, reframing and B-roll, then publishing directly to several social platforms.
VEED
A browser-based video editor with AI video generation, dubbing, subtitles and brand templates.
VEED is a freemium browser editor with automatic subtitles, dubbing, brand kits and marketing templates, offering a broader editor than a short-form caption tool.
CapCut
Free video editor with templates, effects, and text overlays for social media.
CapCut is freemium on Windows, macOS, Android, iOS and the web with templates, effects and text overlays, though ByteDance ownership raises data-handling concerns for some users.
Gling
An AI video editor for YouTube creators that cuts bad takes, silences and filler words automatically.
Gling is freemium and cuts silences, bad takes and filler words from YouTube talking-head videos, adding AI captions, auto zoom and short clip creation.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Descript
A video and audio editor where you edit recordings by editing their text transcript.
Kapwing
A browser-based collaborative video editor with AI tools for generating and editing video projects.
invideo AI
A browser-based video editor where AI agents cut and edit footage from plain-language instructions.
Subtitle Edit
Creates, retimes, translates and fixes subtitles, with a waveform so you can see where the speech is.
Riverside
A browser-based studio for recording, editing and publishing podcasts, interviews and video.
Cleanvoice
A web-based AI podcast editor that removes filler words, background noise, mouth sounds and silences.