Overview

Headliner brings podcast editing and promotion into a single workflow for creators who want to turn episodes into social video and supporting material. It suits podcasters who need clips, captions, and promotional assets; the best fit depends on how much unwatermarked output and transcription you need.

Its appeal is the mix of repurposing and episode promotion, with mobile, web, and API options. The main trade-off is that the free and Basic plans impose meaningful monthly or project limits, while the free tier’s content-use terms differ from paid plans.

Key features

Video clipping: Headliner can produce 10 or more social-ready clips from a full-length video, with AI clipping, highlight detection, automatic reframing, captions, brand templates, and social presets. That makes one source useful across multiple social formats, although the plan’s video-duration cap still matters: Free and Basic support 1080p videos up to 10 minutes, while Pro raises that to two hours.
Transcription and captions: Transcription supports more than 100 languages, and exports can include automatic captions. Basic allows unlimited captions for projects up to 10 minutes, while Pro includes unlimited transcription and captions and permits audio files up to four hours. This favors Pro for longer episodes or frequent work; Basic is better suited to shorter projects.
Podcast promotion: The Podcast Promo Pack offers episode-art options, show notes, summaries with chapters, keywords and tags, references, and quotes. It gives podcasters a broader set of promotional materials than clips alone, especially when preparing episode releases.
Sharing and integrations: Headliner describes RSS-based automatic posting of exports to services such as YouTube. Its mobile app supports sharing to Meta, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and more. Enterprise users can access SSO and video APIs, while free J/S Widget and Eddy API options are also offered.
Security and data use: Headliner says it encrypts data in transit and at rest, uses access controls, and conducts regular security reviews. It says it does not sell personal information. Paid subscribers’ uploaded content is not used to train machine-learning models; free-tier content may be used in aggregated or de-identified form to improve systems and features.

Pricing

Headliner is freemium. The Forever Free plan costs 0.00 USD per free, billed “It's FREE!” It includes unlimited video clips and captioned clips, one unwatermarked audiogram per month, unlimited watermarked audiograms, 1080p videos up to 10 minutes, 10GB uploads, and two hours of transcription per month. The free plan is a useful way to make clips, but the single monthly unwatermarked audiogram and transcription cap constrain regular publishing. Video clipping and captioning are free to use on any account while those tools are in beta.

Basic (annual) costs 7.99 USD per year, billed annually; Basic (monthly) costs 9.99 USD per month, billed monthly. Both include 10 unwatermarked audiograms per month, unlimited captions for projects up to 10 minutes, 1080p videos up to 10 minutes, 10GB uploads, and audio files up to two hours. Basic is the step up for creators who need more unwatermarked audiograms than Free allows, but it retains the 10-minute video and caption-project limits and does not include Pro’s unlimited transcription.

Pro (annual) costs 19.99 USD per year, billed annually; Pro (monthly) costs 25.99 USD per month, billed monthly. Both include unlimited unwatermarked videos, transcription, and captions, 1080p videos up to two hours, 10GB uploads, audio files up to four hours, and priority support. Pro is the better fit for frequent production and longer source material; the 10GB upload allowance remains the same as on lower tiers. Enterprise API and SSO offerings use custom pricing.

Platforms

Headliner is available on Android, iOS, and the web, with API options for integration. That combination suits creators who want to share from a mobile app as well as teams building video workflows into other systems.

Who it's for

Headliner is strongest for podcasters and digital creators who want clips, transcription, captions, and episode-promotion materials in one service. Free works for occasional short projects and watermarked output; Basic suits shorter, recurring production that needs more unwatermarked audiograms. Pro is the more appropriate choice for longer audio, higher transcription volume, or regular unwatermarked video production. Creators who need a different clip workflow or tighter free-plan allowances should compare alternatives.

Pros and cons

Pro: Clips, captions, transcription, and a substantial podcast promotion pack cover several parts of an episode-release workflow.
Pro: More than 100 transcription languages and mobile sharing across major social destinations broaden its use beyond desktop editing.
Pro: Pro supports source audio up to four hours and 1080p video up to two hours, making it the tier for longer episodes.
Con: Free permits only one unwatermarked audiogram monthly and caps transcription at two hours per month, limiting polished recurring output.
Con: Basic’s 10-minute video and caption-project caps make it a poor fit for longer edits, even though its audio files can run up to two hours.
Con: Free-tier uploads may be used in aggregated or de-identified form to improve systems, unlike paid subscribers’ content, which is not used to train machine-learning models.

Alternatives

OpusClip is worth comparing if a free tier with 60 monthly credits and up to 1080p clips matters more than Headliner’s podcast-promotion tools; its free clips carry a watermark, have no editing, and stop being exportable after three days.

Vizard is another freemium option, with a free plan that includes 60 credits monthly, one social account, 60-minute uploads, 1GB upload size, 720p exports up to 10 minutes, and three-day storage. Consider it when those free-plan parameters suit your workflow better than Headliner’s.

Video To Reel and ClipForge are additional freemium alternatives with free plans.

Atlabs AI UGC Avatar Video has a free tier limited to one video up to 25 seconds, so it is a different option for creators whose needs fit that narrow allowance.

ClipEmber offers five free videos each month, file-upload ingest, a full editor, and manual download; it may suit creators who want those editor and download provisions.

Cliperoni offers 250 minutes of source content monthly, 5GB cloud storage, and one member on its free plan, with a short outro on free clips.

Clipkiln is another freemium alternative.

Browse more options in Podcast Clip Makers, AI Video Repurposing Tools, and AI Audiogram Makers.

Verdict

Choose Headliner if you are a podcaster who wants to turn episodes into clips and captions while preparing supporting promotional material in the same workflow. Pro is the strongest fit for long episodes or frequent unwatermarked output; look elsewhere if Basic’s short video and caption limits or the free tier’s content-use terms do not suit your publishing needs.

	Headliner	Recast Studio
Free plan	Yes	No
Free trial	No	No
Paid from	$0.67/mo	$14/mo
Open source	No	No
Platforms	Android, api, iOS, Web	Web
Free plan	Yes	No
Paid from	7.99 /mo	14 /mo
Max clip length	—	15 min
Caption languages	—	20 languages
Aspect ratios	—	all
Custom artwork	—	Yes
Brand kit	—	Yes

Headliner vs Recast Studio

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