Descript's free plan gives 60 media minutes a month and exports at 720p with a watermark; watermark-free export starts on Hobbyist at $24 a month. Burncaps does only the caption part: animated word-by-word captions burned into your video, made in your browser with the video never uploaded. Free to use: two videos every 30 days with no mark, or $49 once for unlimited videos.
Live preview, rendered on this page by the same engine that burns your video.
Descript lets you cut a video by editing its transcript like a document. For interviews and podcasts, that is a different and often quicker way to edit than a timeline.
Studio Sound, filler-word removal, clip creation and its AI co-editor, Underlord, with AI speech and voice clones on its paid plans.
Screen recording, translation and dubbing into more than 30 languages on Descript's Business plan, and plans that scale to a team of 3 or 5.
Descript's plan table leaves watermark-free video export out of the free plan. Hobbyist adds 1080p watermark-free exports at $24 a month, or $16 a month billed yearly.
Free includes 60 media minutes a month and 100 AI credits once. Descript counts every uploaded or recorded file against media minutes, whether it is transcribed or not.
Descript's own words are that media minutes track "uploaded media files", so your recording goes to Descript to be worked on.
Descript plans read on descript.com/pricing (plan cards, the full plan table and its FAQ) on 14 October 2026, signed out, prices per person in dollars as shown. If Descript's page has changed since, its page is the authority.
| What matters | Burncaps | Descript |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free to use: two videos every 30 days with no mark, or $49 once for unlimited videos | Hobbyist $24 a month, or $16 a month billed yearly; Creator $35, or $24 billed yearly |
| Free plan | Two videos every 30 days, up to ten minutes each, every feature, no mark | 60 media minutes a month, 720p, 100 AI credits once |
| Watermark on free exports | None on the two free videos every 30 days, and none with Pro | Yes, until Hobbyist |
| How you fix the words | Click a word in the script; one click fixes it everywhere | Edit the transcript like a document |
| Where your video is processed | On your device, in your browser | Uploaded to Descript |
| Cost after 12 months | $49 total | $192 on Hobbyist billed yearly |
Descript column as read on its own pages on 14 October 2026 (sources above). Burncaps column from the product as it works today.
Cutting a long conversation by deleting lines of its transcript is what Descript is built for. Burncaps does not edit a whole recording; it captions it, or cuts its best 30 or 60 seconds.
Studio Sound and filler-word removal across a full recording are Descript tools. Burncaps cuts ums, stutters and dead air only in its 30 or 60 second clip; in the whole video it cuts nothing.
Screen recording and AI voices made from your own voice are Descript features with no counterpart in Burncaps.
Drop an MP4 or MOV of up to ten minutes. The speech model runs in your browser, so the video never leaves your device. On a phone, or for a language other than English, you can choose our speech service instead, which gets only the sound.
The transcript opens as a script under the video. Click a word to fix it, and one click fixes it everywhere it was heard. Choose one to six words at a time, the position, the size and the text and highlight colours.
Pick one of 20 animated styles, where each word lights up as it is said, and export one MP4. Or ask for the best 30 or 60 seconds, cut to 9:16 and framed on your face. SRT, VTT, ASS and text files are free without limit for recordings up to ten minutes.
Free to use: two videos every 30 days with no mark, or $49 once for unlimited videos. Pro is not a subscription, and the free videos need no account.
Burncaps is free with every feature for two videos every 30 days with no watermark, and Pro, $49 once, gives unlimited videos with none. It burns animated word-by-word captions into your video in your browser, without uploading the video and without an account.
Yes. As read on descript.com/pricing on 14 October 2026, watermark-free video export is not part of Descript's free plan, which gives 60 media minutes a month at 720p. Watermark-free 1080p export starts on Hobbyist at $24 a month, or $16 a month billed yearly.
In the best 30 or 60 seconds, yes: ums, stutters and dead air are cut, and you can cut or keep any word in the script. In the whole video Burncaps cuts nothing. To remove filler words from a full recording, Descript is the tool.
No. The video opens in your browser and never leaves your device. The sound leaves only if you choose our speech service, and then only the sound, in short pieces, never the picture. The transcript text leaves only for the optional best-moment pick, name check or translation, and ticking Keep everything on this device stops that.
Pro is a single payment of $49, not a subscription, for unlimited videos with no mark. Every video, free or Pro, gets every style and the max-accuracy model; without Pro, two videos are free every 30 days with no mark, and subtitle files are free without limit for videos up to ten minutes.
What it is: a browser tool that burns animated word-by-word captions into a talking video, or cuts it to its best 30 or 60 seconds.
Price: free with every feature, for two videos every 30 days with no mark; Pro, $49 once, gives unlimited videos with no mark. Pro is not a subscription.
Privacy: the video never leaves your browser. The sound leaves only if you choose our speech service.
Files: MP4 or MOV up to ten minutes in; an MP4 with the captions burned in out. SRT, VTT, ASS and text files are free without limit for recordings up to ten minutes. A longer recording, up to 90 minutes on a computer, gives its script and those files: the first ten minutes free, all of it with Pro.
Languages and styles: captions in the language spoken, twelve Indian languages heard on your device, translation into 37 languages, 20 caption styles.
After it listens: correct any word (one click changes it everywhere), add or cut words, one to six words at a time, position, size, text and highlight colours, and names this browser remembers, all free and without listening again.
Made by: Jordan Labs Ltd, UK company no. 17358646.
Against other tools: sixteen caption tools compared, from the vendors' own pages.