7 Best Submagic Alternatives (Free & Paid)

Submagic is an online tool that lets you add dynamic captions, trending transitions, emojis, text-based editing, B-roll, and much more.

In this blog post, I will share the best submagic alternative both free and paid. Free alternatives do not add any watermark and paid solutions offer more features.

1. Capcut: Best Submagic Free Alternative

Capcut is a video editing tool developed for TikTok users by ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok. Subtitles are just one of the features of Capcut.

Capcut recently added dynamic captions templates.

Capcut also offers text-based video editing and so many other AI features that Submagic is not offering for example

1. Text to Speech
2. AI avatar
3. Voice Clone
4. Auto Re-frame

Capcut does not add any watermark in the free plan. Its paid plan has some premium assets that are not available for free plan.

The downside of capcut is transcription accuracy.

Overall, the free plan provides more value compared to Submagic.

Pricing

Free	Capcut Pro -$9/month
Export Unlimited Videos	Export Unlimited Videos
Transcribe Unlimited Videos	Transcribe Unlimited Videos
	Premium-quality effects, Filters, and transitions
5 GB Cloud Space	100 GB Cloud Space

Pros

• Available Across Platform
• Complete Video Editor
• Free & Unlimited
• More customization options
• Pre-made Animations
• Support only 22 languages

Cons

• Speech-to-text accuracy could be better
• Bugs while applying templates.
• No Emoji
• Add Long lines, you end up wasting time splitting your captions

How to Add Captions

Here is the tutorial for new users that how you can use to add subtitles.

2. Veed Captions: Mobile App Alternative

Veed is a cloud-based video editor that recently developed a mobile app for iPhone users. The Veed captions app can add captions and remove background noise, but it does not support adding a B-roll and other features.

Previously, this app was free and did not have any watermarks. However, the Veed team recently started adding watermarks to the free plan.

This app offers more subtitle templates than Submagic and provides more customization options as well.

Veed cloud-based video editor is also offering these subtitle templates. However, it is more expensive. (Plan starts at $25/month)

Veed Cloud Video Editor provides more features but is expensive. The mobile app is focused on captions however it is affordable.

Pricing

Here is the pricing information of the mobile app.

Free	Veed Pro $6.99/month or $3.99/month
Watermarked Videos	No watermark
720P Videos	Up to 4k Resolution
All Templates	All Subtitle Templates
Unlimited Usage	Unlimited Usage

Pros

• Mobile app
• More Subtitle templates
• Translate Subtitles
• Clean Audio

Cons

• No B-roll, transitions, sound effects
• No Emoji
• No Background Music

3. Captions AI

Captions AI has become very popular in a short period of time. This app includes all the AI features that are useful for content creators.

It can add captions to your videos and features AI eye contact, which adjusts your gaze to appear as though you are looking directly at the camera, no matter where you actually look.

It also offers a one-click option to remove filler words such as “umm,” “oh,” and “ah.”

Captions AI includes speech enhancement to remove background noise.

The captions app was initially launched for iPhone users. Now, it is available for Android, web, and Mac platforms.

Overall, this app offers many more features than Submagic. However, I have noticed that most of its templates are similar to each other, focused on highlighting the spoken word.

Pricing

Free	Captions Pro -$9.99/month or $89/month
Try all features	Unlimited Exports
No export	All features
	No video limit
	3 Day free trial

Pros

• More AI features such as (AI eye contact, speech enhancement, AI trim, etc)
• Affordable
• Available Cross-platform

Cons

• Similar Type Caption templates
• Transcription editor could be a better

4. ListenMonster: Free Submagic Alternative

ListenMonster is a transcription provider tool. Basically, you can generate subtitle files in TXT, SRT, or VTT formats.

However, you can’t export videos with captions. ListeMonster would soon launch features like

Listen Monster free users can generate 2 hours of transcription for free every month.

Currently, we are working on these features

1. Background noise reduction
2. Export Video with Captions
3. Smart Subtitle Editor (Customize the Number of words per subtitle)

Stay tuned we will launch it soon

5. Filmora with Speech-To-Text Add-On

Wondershare Filmora is a popular video editor. It is developed especially for content creators like YouTubers

The Wondershare team keeps continuously adding new features to make this video editor better every day.

Filmora does not have a transcription feature by default. You to purchase their speech-to-text add-on for subtitles.

Then using Filmora Subtitle Burn you can customize subtitles as you like. However creating Alex Harmozi, and Ali Abdaal-like templates is not possible with one click. It would consume a lot of time.

Filmora also adds long subtitles so you would be wasting time diving into short subtitles.

The true advantage of Filmora is having complete control over subtitles. You can create your truly unique subtitle using customization that other tools don’t allow.

Pricing

This Speech to Text and Filmora both are not free. Filmora will cost you $79 a time payment, and you will get updates for a certain period of time, after that you have to pay a small amount for updates.

The Speech to Text offers the first 30 minutes for free, after that it is available on a pay-as-you-go model.

Pros

• All Video editing features
• Create Customize templates
• Better and more transitions

Cons

• More expensive
• Require Powerful computer
• Basic Subtitle templates

6. Descript

Descript is the first software to introduce text-based video editing. Still today it is the most advanced version of text-based video editing.

Descript has overdub which lets you correct speech mistakes by typing. It clones your voice thus you can update the content or add new words.

Descript recently added caption templates (17 templates). It offers Unique templates for example Modern Yellow form which adds an audio waveform under the captions.

Descript also offers Speech enhancement, background remover, and AI eye contact.

The downside of Descript is lower accuracy and only 23 languages. Descript also lets you add a B-roll by selecting the text. It also comes with a pre-build stock library.

Pricing

Descript has a free plan however your results would be a watermark as you can see in the above screenshot.

Here are their paid plans.

Creator – $15/month	Pro- $30/month	Business – $50/month
10 transcription hours / month	30 transcription hours/month	40 transcription hours/month
Export 4k, watermark-free	Export 4k, watermark-free	Export 4k, watermark-free
	Custom font upload	Custom font upload
60 min Studio Sound	Unlimited Studio Sound	Unlimited Studio Sound
Voice Clone (Limited word vocabulary)	Voice Clone (Unlimited vocabulary)	Voice Clone (Unlimited vocabulary)

Pros

1. AI Features: Speech enhancement, Eye Contact, Background remover
2. Correct Speech mistakes by typing
3. Unique Caption Tempaltes
4. Generate a Small Clip From Long Form Video

Cons

1. 23 Languages only
2. Lower accuracy

7. Kapwing

Kapwing is another cloud-based video editor, where AI subtitles are just one of its features. It offers 10 minutes free each month.

Their pre-made templates are amazing. Just like traditional subtitle tools, it adds a lot of words in each fragment which is good for YouTube videos but not for Reels or TikTok videos.

However you can break them, just move your cursor there and hit enter. Kapwing works best with computers so it might not be a good fit for phone users. You get all the necessary features for subtitles that any content creator might need while making great videos.

You are also getting stock footage which is great for making videos from scratch. Kapwing will watermark your results.

However, it is in the bottom right corner but in a big size smaller than the submagic. Kapwing paid plans are starting at $24/month. If you switch to an annual plan it will cost you $16/month which is $192 per year.

8. Opus Pro

Opus Pro is one of the best tools for social media content creators. Opus Pro is known for making short-form content from longer content.

Basically it would first transcribe and then create multiple short-form clips. It would also auto-reframe (Meaning adjust clip position size to fit size)

Recently, the Opus pro team added a video caption feature. Thus you can upload your content and add captions for free without any watermark.

Opus Pro offers various templates including famous creators Alex hormozi, Mr beat, and Ali abdaal styles.

It can also add B-rolls automatically, remove filler words, predict virality scores, and much more.

Pricing

Opus Pro offers a free trial (with watermarks) to explore its features. Paid plans begin at $9/month, with priority processing for paid subscribers.

Final Words

Short content is new so it requires new tools. Adding captions to your content will definitely make it more engaging.

I have provided all kinds of submagic alternatives from FREE to feature-rich. There is no best tool it all depends upon your requirements.

ListenMonster which is free & unlimited is loved by many content creators. At the same time, other tools have their own target audience.