Descript

If you can edit text, you can make videos, podcast, & clips

4.4•41 reviews•

1.7K followers

If you can edit text, you can make videos, podcast, & clips

4.4•41 reviews•

1.7K followers

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If you can write in a doc or make a slide deck, you can make video in Descript. With its text-based editing, automated design, and AI superpowers, anyone can create video that looks and sounds great—no special skills required. Professionals and teams all over the world use Descript to make marketing videos, product demos, educational videos, webinars, podcasts—you name it. Descript is an all-in-one tool that makes it fast for anyone to record, edit, and share good video.

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The community submitted 41 reviews to tell us what they like about Descript, what Descript can do better, and more.

4.4

Based on 41 reviews

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Reviewers mostly praise Descript for making podcast and video editing much faster through transcript-based editing, strong transcription and captions, filler-word removal, and easy repurposing of long recordings into shorter clips. It seems especially useful for podcasters and small teams working on deadlines, though some say it is less suited to precise, advanced edits. The main complaints are recurring bugs, sluggish performance on longer files, crashes in Overdub and gap editing, outdated documentation, and weak support. One maker of Flowershow also calls it beginner-friendly for demo videos.

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Pros

text-based editing (8)

video and audio editing (6)

filler word removal (4)

user-friendly interface (4)

AI superpowers (2)

fast performance (2)

transcription cleanup (2)

Cons

limited advanced editing (3)

unreasonable support (3)

deceptive promotion (2)

deprecated features (2)

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•1 review

STandard recording and video editing is very strong. The ability to edit word by word is game changing. However... new users should know that they have removed Quick Recording (a Loom-type feature) from the app, though they still advertise it as being a feature of the application. When questioned about it, they said because older versions still have Quick Recording, they want to leave up all the support materials. This is fine, except the promotional 'video' for Quick Recording makes it seem like this is still a current feature. As it was the reason I wanted to move to Descript from Loom, I thought this was completely misleading. Instead, I am trapped in a "I won't answer your question directly" support loop. I was also refused a refund, despite only registering a couple of days ago. I am knocking 3 stars off for deceptive promotion of a deprecated feature, and for unreasonable support. It isn't hard to refund a customer's money if you have the will to do so and want to take some responsibility for your actions. Clearly, they have chosen to do neither.

What's great

video and audio editing (6)text-based editing (8)

What needs improvement

deceptive promotion (2)unreasonable support (3)deprecated features (2)

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23 views1yr ago

•1 review

Descript transcript and caption are perfect. However ‘overdub’ massive bugs, voice clone quality is weak- voice too fast. Overdubbing long scripts crashes the app. Bulk gap editing is buggy. Adding ‘studio sound’ buggy too. Worse support takes several days to get a reckon overdub issues, and takes several iterations before they understand anything. They resort to a video even for tge simplest issues with overdub - seems they don’t really know much about overdub. Documentation is out of sync, outdated. Frustrating to use.

What's great

transcription cleanup (2)

What needs improvement

unreasonable support (3)deprecated features (2)

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22 views3yr ago

•5 reviews

Previously, I had used the Adobe suite for video/audio editing. Switching to Descript was the best decision I've ever made for productivity gains. Descript's app is powerful yet extremely intuitive all at once. While full-time content creators may still require the Adobe suite for more advanced effects/editing, Descript does 99.9% of things businesses need to produce short-form content for social or long-form YouTube Videos/Podcasts in a far smarter & faster way.

What's great

fast performance (2)user-friendly interface (4)video and audio editing (6)

What needs improvement

limited advanced editing (3)

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23 views2yr ago

•3 reviews

I was looking for a tool to edit my podcast in and the edit-audio-like-a-doc feature blew my mind. It made editing & tightening my recording much easier than I expected + I love the one-click removal of filler words. I am now curious to give their video editing tools a try.

What's great

text-based editing (8)filler word removal (4)

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6 views3yr ago

•10 reviews

Our team uses Descript to clean up our podcast episodes. I personally love the ability to edit audio by editing text. It saves a ton of time. It can get a little buggy with longer files, but overall it’s a solid tool for content creators.

What's great

text-based editing (8)

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4 views1yr ago

•11 reviews

I have had a love/hate relationship with Descript for a long time. 😃 Heck, I even stopped using it for a while. I recently jumped back in and made a point of learning how to use it properly. Now, the more I learn about it, the more I love it. I am learning more and more how that is true of everything I use. Before giving up on something, be sure that you took the time to learn how to play to its strengths.

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4 views3yr ago

•8 reviews

Great concept; however, doesn't allow you to create a sample without charging. It claims you have three projects, but in reality, you don't get to try this out without being charged which is very, very frustrating. I would like to try before I buy- that's only reasonable. There's no customer support.

What needs improvement

deceptive promotion (2)unreasonable support (3)

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4 views7yr ago

•6 reviews

I have a podcast that I host weekly and turn all that material into shorter content and Descript makes this process 10X faster. The filler word removal is #1 for me but there are so many other cool features that can be utilized. I can't wait to use them all!

What's great

fast performance (2)filler word removal (4)content repurposing (1)

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4 views3yr ago

•5 reviews

Descript is one of the most useful tools I've ever run across, a total difference-maker for any podcaster or amateur video editor. They've continually added AI tooling - and I'd be lost in producing our podcast without them.

What's great

AI superpowers (2)

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4 views3yr ago

•2 reviews

It is really great because I can cut my video by cutting out text. And I can add subtitles, layers, animation, music. It's just the perfect tool for me.

What's great

video and audio editing (6)text-based editing (8)

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3 views3yr ago