Headliner

Headliner is a podcast editing and promotion service that turns audio and video into clips, captions, and episode materials. It suits podcasters and creators building a steady social-content workflow. Its free tools make it approachable, but frequent unwatermarked output and longer projects call for a paid plan.

Overview

Headliner brings clip creation, transcription, audiograms, and podcast promotion into one workflow, with web and mobile apps plus API options. It is a strong fit when the goal is to repurpose episodes and prepare social posts without juggling separate clip and promotion tools. Its clearest constraint is that paid tiers still cap uploads at 10GB, while Basic restricts project length and monthly unwatermarked audiograms.

Key features

• Video clipping: AI clipping can turn a full-length video into 10 or more social-ready clips. AI highlight detection, automatic reframing, social presets, and brand templates help adapt output for short-form sharing. That is useful for creators with recurring episodes, though the plan's source and output limits matter for longer productions.
• Transcription and captions: Transcription supports more than 100 languages, and exports can include automatic captions. Basic's unlimited captions apply to projects up to 10 minutes; Pro extends video output to 2 hours and includes unlimited transcription and captions.
• Podcast promotion: Podcast Promo Pack can produce episode-art options, show notes, chaptered summaries, keywords and tags, references, and quotes. It adds practical release materials beyond clips, making Headliner more compelling for podcasters than for creators seeking only a video editor.
• Sharing and integrations: Headliner describes RSS-based automatic posting to services such as YouTube, and its mobile app supports sharing to Meta, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and more. Enterprise SSO and video APIs are offered alongside free J/S Widget and Eddy API options.
• Privacy and security: 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' uploads are 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

The Forever Free plan costs nothing. It includes unlimited video clips and captioned clips while those tools remain in beta, one unwatermarked audiogram per month, unlimited watermarked audiograms, 1080p videos up to 10 minutes, 10GB uploads, and two hours of transcription per month. That is a useful way to try the workflow, but the single monthly unwatermarked audiogram limits polished recurring promotion.

Basic costs $7.99 a year billed annually, or $9.99 a month billed monthly. Both versions 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 suits a creator with shorter projects and a modest, predictable publishing cadence; it does not remove the short-project ceiling or provide unlimited unwatermarked videos.

Pro costs $19.99 a year billed annually, or $25.99 a month billed monthly. It adds unlimited unwatermarked videos, transcription, and captions, 1080p videos up to two hours, 10GB uploads, audio files up to four hours, and priority support. This is the better fit for frequent publishing or longer episodes, though the 10GB upload allowance remains. The Basic plan describes support as an upgrade benefit; Pro explicitly includes priority support.

Enterprise pricing is custom. Choose it for enterprise SSO or video API needs rather than relying on consumer-plan allowances.

Platforms

Headliner supports Android, iOS, web, and API use. The mobile app broadens sharing options, while API offerings give organizations a route to integrate video workflows.

Who it's for

Headliner is best for podcasters and digital creators who want to turn episodes into captions, clips, audiograms, and supporting promotional materials. It is less suited to users who need generous upload capacity, long projects on a low-cost tier, or a standalone clipping tool without podcast promotion features.

Pros and cons

Pros

• Combines clipping, transcription, captions, and episode promotion, reducing the need to assemble a podcast social workflow from separate tools.
• More than 100 transcription languages and automatic captions support creators publishing for multilingual audiences.
• The free tier includes two hours of monthly transcription and editing, while beta video clips and captions are available without charge.
• Pro supports longer episodes and removes monthly limits on unwatermarked videos, transcription, and captions.

Cons

• Free includes only one unwatermarked audiogram per month, so regular branded promotion pushes creators toward Basic or Pro.
• Basic limits videos to 10 minutes and audio files to two hours, making it a poor match for longer-form editing needs.
• Every listed plan has a 10GB upload allowance, including Pro.
• Free-tier uploads may be used in aggregated or de-identified form to improve systems and features, unlike paid subscribers' uploads.

Alternatives

Podcast Clip Makers is a useful place to compare tools focused on turning episodes into clips; AI Audiogram Makers is more targeted if audiograms are the main need, while AI Video Repurposing Tools covers broader repurposing options.

• Podcli is the better fit for users who want a free, open-source option with no watermark or minute cap, rather than Headliner's bundled promotion workflow.
• ReClipStudio suits creators who prefer a one-time lifetime license and on-device clip detection.
• OpusClip is another freemium clip-making option; its free plan has 60 monthly credits, watermarked clips, no editing, and exports that expire after three days.
• Atlabs AI UGC Avatar Video is an alternative for users focused on UGC avatar video rather than podcast repurposing.
• Choppity offers a free plan with one seat, one hour of AI video analysis, 2GB cloud storage, and three-day project storage.
• ClipEmber is an alternative with a free plan allowing five videos each month.
• Cliperoni offers 250 minutes of source content monthly on its free tier, with a short branded outro on free clips.
• Clipkiln is another alternative for users comparing clip-making tools.

Verdict

Choose Headliner if you publish podcasts and want one service for clips, captions, transcription, and episode promotion, with a free entry point and a Pro tier for regular or longer projects. Look elsewhere if the 10GB upload ceiling or Basic's 10-minute video limit conflicts with your workflow, or if you want a free option without watermarks and minute caps.