A Vizard review from a competitor, which is said before anything else
It does the same job as us — long video in, vertical clips out — and meters it the same way. This is what it does well, what it includes that we do not, and the two details on the free tier worth knowing first.
A direct competitor, and the closest one on this site
Vizard and InTheClips do the same job: a long recording goes in, short vertical clips come out. That makes this the one review here where the two products are genuine substitutes, and where anything flattering we say about ourselves should be read accordingly.
There is no affiliate link and nothing on this page earns us anything. The structural claims are checkable on their site in about two minutes; the adjectives are worth less, ours included.
A long video goes in, finished vertical clips come back
The pitch is the same as ours and the delivery is not. You give it a recording, it reads through and produces short clips reframed to vertical with captions burnt in, ready to review. What arrives is video — clips you watch, adjust and export — rather than a list of proposals to approve. For a lot of people that is exactly the right shape, because it is the shortest path between an hour of footage and something posted.
It has a real editor behind it, and we do not. The clips land in a workspace where you can change the layout, the captions and the framing by hand. That is a genuine capability and it is the main thing this product has that ours does not — we render five fixed shapes and offer no canvas at all.
And it publishes, which is a line we have not crossed. Connected social accounts and scheduled posts are part of the paid plans, six accounts on one tier and twenty on the next, with a shared workspace, a brand kit and team seats above that. Nothing here posts anything anywhere, on any plan, and there is no plan to add it.
A credit is a minute of video going in — which is the same idea as ours
Both products meter the input, not the output. Their credit is a minute of video uploaded. Ours is a minute of source analysed. That is an unusually clean comparison for this category, where most tools meter something else entirely, and it means you can convert both into the same number: hours of your own recordings per month.
Where they diverge is what happens to exports. On our side a clip past the batch each plan includes costs three credits out of the same balance — one number to watch, and the reasoning for it is on our pricing page. Read theirs on their own page, on the day you decide; the annual discount they were promoting when this was checked makes a headline number a poor thing to copy anywhere.
The free tier has a clock on it, and that is the detail people miss. When this page was checked, the free plan kept projects for three days, exported at 720p and carried a watermark. Three days is not a trial you can come back to at the weekend — it is a trial you have to finish in one sitting. Worth knowing before you upload an hour-long episode on a Friday.
Where the two differ
Sentences rather than ticks, and a date on the table. Several of these rows go against us and they are here for that reason.
| What differs | InTheClips | Vizard |
|---|---|---|
| What arrives first | A ranked candidate list: four scores, timecodes, the transcript and one line of reasoning per passage. Rendering is a second, separate decision you make. | Finished clips, produced from the recording and reviewed as video in its own editor. |
| How the whole recording is covered | Thirty-minute windows scored in parallel with three minutes of overlap, then one judge ranking the pooled finalists — so the back half of a long file is ranked against the front half rather than in isolation. | Its own selection, described on its site. |
| Editing a clip afterwards | The words, and the boundaries. A misheard word can be corrected and the next render carries it. There is no layout editor, no canvas and no logo layer — this is a real gap and not a design position. | A full editor: layout, captions, framing, brand kit on the higher tiers. |
| Publishing | Nothing. The MP4 waits in your library and the upload stays yours, on every plan. | Connected accounts and scheduled posts, six or twenty depending on the tier. |
| Team | One account. No seats, no shared workspace, no roles. A team of six sharing review notes is a need this product has no answer to. | A shared workspace with invited members on the business tier. |
| What is metered | One credit balance: a minute analysed costs one, a clip past the included batch costs three. Downloading the transcript costs nothing at all. | Credits too, where one is a minute of video uploaded. Read the numbers on their page rather than in a table like this one. |
Four of those six rows are places where a reader might reasonably choose them. That is what a comparison written by an interested party has to look like to be worth reading at all. Their column is from Vizard’s own public description of the product, read on ; ours is from the code that runs this one.
Four things worth checking, on any tool in this category
None of these is about Vizard in particular. They are what decides whether a subscription still looks sensible a year later.
Put the same recording through two of them
The only test that means anything. Take an episode you know well and see which passages each one finds — you already know which moments were the good ones, and that makes you the judge.
Check how long your projects are kept
Retention differs wildly across this category and it is rarely on the front page. Three days, ninety days, or only while you are subscribing are three very different products.
Convert every price into hours of your own footage
Credits, minutes, exports, seats — the units are all different on purpose. One number makes them comparable: how many hours of what you actually record does this buy in a month?
Find out what a cancellation does to the clips
Ask before you need to know. Whether the work you already made survives the subscription ending is the question that decides how expensive leaving is.
Questions people ask first
Is Vizard good?
For getting from a long recording to something posted quickly, yes — that is the path it is built for, it has a real editor behind it, and it will publish for you. Whether it is right for you depends mostly on whether you want to review clips or review candidates, which is the difference this page is about.
How do Vizard credits work?
A credit is a minute of video going in, so an hour-long episode costs sixty of them whatever comes out the other end. That is the same shape as our own meter, which makes the two unusually easy to compare: convert both into hours of your own recordings per month.
Does the free plan keep my work?
When this page was checked, the free plan kept projects for three days and exported at 720p with a watermark. Three days means finishing in one sitting rather than coming back to it, which is worth knowing before you upload something long.
What does this product have that Vizard does not?
One thing, and it is the order of operations: every passage worth cutting arrives as a proposal with four scores, its timecodes and the sentences it came from, before anything is rendered. If you want to see why a moment was chosen and decide for yourself, that is the difference. If you want finished clips to review as video, they are doing that more directly than we are.
What does Vizard have that this does not?
An editor, publishing, team seats, a brand kit and a shared workspace. None of those exist here on any plan. If any of them is load-bearing for how you work, this is the wrong tool and the honest answer is to say so on the page rather than in a support ticket later.
Nearby
The alternatives page argues a case; this one was a description. Both are about the same overlap.
Vizard alternative
For someone who wants to read why a moment was picked, not just receive the clips.
Opus Clip review
What it does well, what its own users complain about, and who it suits.
2Short.ai review
A logo on every export and a free plan that renews — what it does that we do not.
AI video clipping tool
The category term, answered with the difference: candidates and reasons first, cuts only after you approve.