Captions vs Gling

Captions is an AI video platform for creating and editing videos from footage or prompts. AI Edit can apply cuts, captions, music, and formatting to uploaded material. The service offers automatic transcription, more than 100 caption styles, and translation into over 100 languages. Users can dub videos into more than 30 languages with a cloned version of their voice. Prompt to Video creates talking-head videos from scripts using built-in actors or an AI Twin. The platform is aimed at creators, marketers, and developers making materials such as ads, listing videos, and podcast clips. Its Mirage API generates content from scripts, image references, or actor IDs and uses credit-based billing. The free plan costs nothing and includes no AI usage credits, one caption template, and basic editing tools. Max costs $24.99 a month and includes 500 monthly credits; Frontier plans provide higher credit allowances. Unused credits can roll over for up to two extra months, capped at three times the monthly allowance. Captions is available on Android, iOS, and web, with an API offering.

Gling is desktop software for Windows and macOS that uses AI to edit video and audio. It can remove bad takes and retakes, detect silences and filler words, and create captions that export as SRT subtitles. Users can export MP4 or MP3 files and work with video or audio files for voiceover integration. Gling integrates with Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and Adobe Premiere. The Free plan includes 1 hour of AI edited media per month; exports are unlimited but carry a watermark, and Premium support is not included. Plus costs $20 a month and includes 10 hours of AI edited media or 300 words of generated video from link, or a combination, per month. Pro costs $40 a month for 30 hours or 900 words, and Elite costs $100 a month for 100 hours or 2700 words; both include Premium support. Annual plans are listed from $10 a month, with annual billing advertised as saving 50%. Paid plans offer exports without a watermark. Gling has no mobile app.