Submagic app profile
For creators who film their own videos and podcasts: how Submagic's AI caption generator and AI shorts editor compare with VidRush on cost per minute, length limits and editing, for shorts and for long-form YouTube.
Real, licensed footage, narration, music and captions, assembled into a publish-ready video in under an hour.
Submagic
AI caption and short-form editing tool that turns your own footage into captioned clips for social platforms
4.5
· 857 reviews
About
Submagic is an AI video editor built around short-form social video. You upload a video or paste a YouTube link (podcasts, YouTube videos or phone footage), and it adds animated captions, removes silences and bad takes, inserts B-roll and finds key moments. It markets captions in 123 languages with 99% accuracy and 35+ animated caption styles. Magic Clips repurposes one long video into several shorts. It also offers AI avatars for shorts, brand kits, scheduled publishing to social platforms and an API. Its homepage headline is "Edit shorts 10x faster with AI", and its use cases target business owners, media companies, marketing teams, agencies, advertisers and content creators making shorts.
Ideal for
Creators, marketers and agencies who already film their own videos or podcasts and want them captioned, trimmed and cut into shorts for TikTok, Reels and YouTube Shorts.
What it does well
Generates captions in 123 languages, with a vendor-claimed 99% accuracy
35+ animated caption styles that highlight, bounce and fade word by word, plus uploadable brand fonts and colours
Automatically removes silences, bad takes and filler words from your recording
Storyblocks B-roll and audio on the Pro and Business plans
Magic Clips turns one long video into multiple shorts
Exports up to 4K at 60 fps on the Business plan, sized for 9:16, 16:9 or 1:1
Pro + Medium: a finished video with licensed Storyblocks video B-roll and motion graphics
AI Auto Captions: your own recording, captioned and trimmed, which you finish yourself
None on Mini and Pro: all 8 from one brief
You finish footage and visuals, editing, music and sound
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Yes (beta)
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Yes, plus Cartesia
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Up to 3 months, content kept
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Yes, from one photo
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Yes, Editing Style and Script Style
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Blacklist any source, whitelist up to 5
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10% of the original generation
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Roll over, up to half the monthly allotment
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1–6 by plan
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Yes, 6–60 min
Limited: 2, 5 or 30 min per video by plan
Only Business allows videos over 5 minutes, up to 30.
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Yes, Pro and Business
Storyblocks b-rolls & audio on Pro and Business; Starter gets free b-rolls.
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Yes
Removes silences, bad takes and filler words; eye contact correction on paid tiers above Starter.
Yes (beta)
Limited: AI avatars for shorts
Markets AI avatars to create shorts without filming.
Yes
No; edits by text
"Edit by text. Not by timeline."
Yes, 5–50 by plan
Limited: Brand Kit on Pro and up
Brand Kit and custom templates; not described as per-channel profiles.
1–15 by plan
1 user, 3 users or unlimited by plan
Priced per member.
Only when a video completes
On upload: 3 credits per video
AI features cost 1 to 3 credits each; Magic Clips 8 credits each.
In-app chat, 24/7
Priority support on Business only
English, German, Spanish
Captions in 123 languages
Captioning and caption translation; it does not script or narrate videos.
A finished long-form video from your recording
Upload a talking-head recording and VidRush cuts dead air and filler, adds licensed B-roll matched to your words, music, captions, your theme and a thumbnail, and returns a widescreen YouTube video.
6 to 60 minutes per video
Long-form is the design centre, and every plan includes every model and feature. Submagic caps each video at 2, 5 or 30 minutes depending on the plan.
A timeline editor plus chat edits
Refine the result on a full timeline, or ask Rush Agent (beta) for short, targeted changes in plain language. Re-rendering costs 10% of the original generation. Submagic edits by deleting transcript text.
A quote before any credit is spent
The Quote Statement shows format, length, language, model, voice, Brand Profile, title and estimated credits before you commit. Credits are charged only when a video completes; failed generations cost nothing.
Bring your own script or voiceover
Paste a finished script or upload narration as MP3 or WAV, and VidRush builds the video around it, skipping the steps you already covered.
Brand Profiles per channel
Between 5 and 50 Brand Profiles by plan apply your voice, look and sourcing rules to every video. Train one on your own video so it learns how your channel cuts and writes.
Licensed footage with sourcing controls
On the Pro model, Storyblocks clips are licensed in perpetuity and your channel is whitelisted for you. Choose commercial stock, CC and public-domain only, or web crawling, with a blacklist and whitelist.
Pros
Animated captions in 123 languages, with 35+ styles and your own brand fonts and colours
Magic Clips cuts one long video into several shorts for TikTok, Reels and YouTube Shorts
Removes silences, bad takes and filler words from your recording automatically
Schedules and publishes clips to social platforms from the editor
Exports in 9:16, 16:9 or 1:1, up to 4K at 60 fps on Business
Cons
Caps each video at 2 minutes on Starter, 5 on Pro and 30 on Business
No timeline editor; you edit by deleting text from the transcript
Edits footage you upload or link rather than producing a video from a brief
Each upload costs 3 credits and each AI feature 1 to 3 more, so using more features means fewer videos a month
Starter exports only 1080p at 30 fps, and pricing is per member, so each extra seat multiplies the cost
Reviewers report unexpected upgrade charges, and an independent review finds B-roll defaults to generic visuals on technical or financial topics
USE CASES
Faceless, talking-head or with an AI presenter: give VidRush a brief, a script or a recording and get the finished long-form video back.
Faceless documentary and explainer channels
Give VidRush a topic prompt and get back a narrated documentary or explainer with sourced footage, motion graphics, music, captions and a thumbnail.
See how it works
Talking-head videos
Upload a recording of yourself talking to camera and get back an edited video with dead air and filler cut, B-roll, captions and your theme.
See how it works
AI presenter videos without filming
Pick a VidRush presenter or build one from a single photo of yourself, write a prompt, and get a full edit with the avatar on screen and B-roll around it.
See how it works
Avatar-hosted videos with Persona I
Give VidRush your script and an avatar, and get a video where the host and every visual are generated to match each line of the script.
See how it works
Your own script
Paste a finished script and VidRush narrates it, matches visuals to your words, and assembles the video, keeping your text as the source of truth.
See how it works
Your own voiceover
Upload your narration as MP3 or WAV and VidRush builds the video around it, with subtitles, pacing and B-roll matched to what you say.
See how it works
It helped me monetize a channel in 1 month.
“So far, the vidrush videos went viral much faster and more often than the ones my editors did. AND, I created those videos in 1-2 hours, with minimal input on my end. Maybe I changed 1 or 2 scenes. The videos turn out very good.”
RomyB
· VidRush customer
From zero to 3 monetized channels in 5 months
“In that short time I managed to monetize three YouTube channels. That's something I never would have pulled off so fast with a traditional setup. What used to take my team roughly four days to coordinate, scripting, editing, voiceover, finding the right footage, I can now get done in under 30 minutes.”
Arez A.
· VidRush customer
“My editors have been in panic mode since I started using vidrush. It makes great videos in a few hours and also create thumbnail for it. The editing is better than 70% of my editors.”
Osas King
· VidRush customer
Saves a Huge Amount of Time and Delivers Real Quality
“I especially want to highlight the custom script feature, which lets you personalize content nicely, as well as the rendering quality, which is consistently solid.”
RK
· VidRush customer
Vidrush is for you if you want good quality videos fast
“With a few prompts or even your own custom script, you can get a video done in around a couple hours, versus possibly days with a normal video editor.”
Pic Jr
· VidRush customer
Vidrush is Lifechanging
“Vidrush is insane, I've gotten multiple bangers and made my money back so early that every video afterwards is just playing with house money (one vid hit 1.3M views early on and I barely knew what I was doing back then).”
Gabby
· VidRush customer
Is Submagic good for long-form YouTube videos?
Which is the better AI shorts editor, Submagic or VidRush?
How much does Submagic cost per minute compared with VidRush?
Does Submagic have a timeline editor?
Can VidRush edit my talking-head recording like Submagic does?
Can I use VidRush to repurpose into shorts?
Why choose VidRush over Submagic for long-form YouTube?
VidRush vs Submagic
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$1.93 to $2.72 per finished minute. A freelance editor runs $50 to $150 a video and takes days.
