Descript feels like just typing a doc. Just type, copy, and poof. The video or audio changes in front of you. It is so wonderfully stupid easy, you might even end up with an addiction.
You get auto transcripts in seconds. You cut out all the “ums,” add some captions, perhaps green screen, and voila, maybe a few taps of the finger.
You also have Underlord, their AI assistant, suggesting edits, claiming what clips could go viral, and inserting layouts or b roll as well for you.
Think of them as an anticipating, customer support style editor that never sleeps.
You get a polished, nearly studio quality product without all the gear. Noises are erased, voices are smoothed out, even eye contact can be AI adjusted.
Translation happens just like captions do, you are already typing, right?
Want in person recording? Descript’s Rooms feature allows you to record up to 10 individuals in 4K, with auto backups and separate tracks for each guest.
Even on the fly, it can create and hot switch automatic multi cam layouts and reactions the macro planning is done for you by AI.
Pricing Discussion (Just text, no images)
You can begin your tool journey free! No card needed, just 1 transcribing hour, monthly, 720p exports with watermark and some basic AI to mess around with.
The hobbyist is around $12-16 a month (billed yearly), gives you about 10 hours of transcriptions, 1080p, no watermark, limited AI actions in a month.
The creator is around $24 a month (billed yearly), gives you 30 hours of transcriptions, unlimited AI tools, 4K export resolution, tons of free AI voice minutes.
The business plan is around $40-50 a month per person, adds 40 hours of transcriptions, advanced AI, team collaboration tools and priority support.
The enterprise plan is custom price, and includes security features, SSO, SLAs, etc.
Pros
Edit video/audio by simply editing text quick and natural.
AI does the “boring” work fills, noise, captions, green screen stuff, multicam edits.
Remote high quality recording, autosave, ensures reliability.
Plans offer full team collaboration down to free, without going overboard.
Cons
Free plan is limited. One hour of transcript and watermarking is not enough for someone who wants to do heavy lifting.
Some users commented that it is still a little bit beta ish and has multi glitches.
Traffic and followers
The actual monthly visitors to Descript are not public. But, with over 6 million creators and teams on the platform, it’s clearly getting a lot of action.
On social, their Instagram has about 17K followers, and Facebook has about 12K, so we can round down and say their total followers across social is around 29,000.
Final thoughts
Using Descript makes it feel like you’ve cheated the system in a great way. You don’t have to learn a big video editor, you can just type.
Then AI comes in and makes you slick vids or pods automatically.
If free is enough to test, Hobbyist is good for recreational creators, Creator plan is great for regular editing, Business plan is good for teams, and Enterprise plan is for those who are heavy lifters.
If you want to save time, get a cleaner end product, look good, and not have to fight with traditional editing, then Descript is really nice.
