OpusClip vs Descript

The short answer

Pick OpusClip if you already have long recordings, such as podcasts or streams, and want many short, captioned, vertical clips out of them with little effort. Starter is $15 a month; the free plan watermarks clips and deletes them after three days.

Pick Descript if you want to shape the edit yourself by reading and deleting words, or your recordings are conversations and interviews you cut down with care. Paid plans start at $16 a month billed yearly.

If you film short talking videos in several takes and want them stitched into one finished video, neither is built for that. Krafto makes that first cut from your clips when you ask, for $25 a month with no free plan.

OpusClip: many short clips from one long video

OpusClip takes one long video and turns it into several short, captioned clips for social platforms. Pick it if you have long recordings, such as podcasts or streams, and want many short clips out of them quickly.

Free plan: yes: watermarked, clips expire in 3 days. Paid from $15 a month, on Web. It repurposes one long video; it doesn't assemble an edit from several clips you filmed, and free clips are watermarked and gone in three days.

Descript: podcasts and interviews, edited as text

Descript is a video and audio editor where you edit the transcript to edit the video, with an AI assistant called Underlord that takes plain-language instructions. Pick it if you make podcasts or interviews and like the idea of deleting words on a page to cut the video.

Free plan: yes: 720p with a watermark. Paid from $16 a month, billed yearly, on Web, Windows and Mac. You still work inside an editor and read through a transcript, and the AI help is rationed by monthly credits.

Krafto: describe the edit instead of making it

Krafto works differently from every editor on this page: you upload your clips and say what you want, and it cuts the retakes and pauses, adds captions and hands you a first cut. You change things by asking, and the timeline is still there if you want it. It costs $25 a month. There's no free plan, so it only makes sense if editing is the part you want off your plate.

Where it loses: no free plan or trial, no phone app, and no template library: you film, Krafto cuts, and you check the result in a browser.

Which should you choose?

Choose OpusClip if the job is finding the good moments in an hour of footage and posting them as clips, and you want that done for you.

Choose Descript if you want to choose every word that stays, clean up the audio, and work inside a full editor with a transcript.

Choose Krafto if you film yourself talking, you'd rather describe the edit than make it, and $25 a month with no free plan is acceptable for not editing. No free plan or trial, no phone app, and no template library: you film, Krafto cuts, and you check the result in a browser.