Spoolfield.ai
Submagic alternative for long videos, compared
Submagic is about making a short video look finished: animated captions with emojis, zooms, sound effects, B-roll and silence removal, edited by changing the text. Spoolfield starts one step earlier, with the long recording. It finds the parts about your topic in a podcast or webinar of up to 3 hours, cuts them into vertical clips with captions that light up word by word, and stops there. Many people would use the two together.
Submagic details are taken from submagic.co as it read on 29 October 2026. Spoolfield and Submagic are separate companies. Work only with videos you own, are licensed to reuse, or have permission to use.
Submagic or Spoolfield: the short version
| Question | Submagic | Spoolfield |
|---|---|---|
| Is there a free plan? | A free trial with no card; no free plan on the pricing page | Yes: 15 credits at sign-up, then 10 each month, no watermark |
| Cheapest plan | Starter, $19 a month or $12 a month yearly, 15 videos a month | Starter, $9.99 a month, 150 credits, about 150 minutes of video work |
| Longest video per plan | 2, 5 or 30 minutes (Starter, Pro, Business) | 3 hours on every plan |
| Highest resolution | 1080p on Starter and Pro, 4K at 60 fps on Business | 720p on Free, 1080p on Starter, 4K on Creator |
| Captions | Animated templates with emojis, colours and fonts, plus a brand kit on Pro | Four word-by-word styles: Pop, Box, Word and Clean |
| Editing | Text-based editor, zooms, sound effects, B-roll, silence and filler-word removal | No editor: you set the parts, shape and caption style before the job runs |
| Translation | Translated subtitles, no voice dubbing | Captions in the language spoken; no translation |
| Publishing | Publishes on a schedule | You download and upload yourself |
| Automation | API as a paid add-on, Zapier, Make and n8n | REST API and an MCP connector for Claude and Cursor, on every plan |
Submagic’s own pages give different language counts (123, 100 and 48+); Spoolfield’s speech recognition covers about 100 spoken languages, with accuracy that varies. Check Submagic’s pricing for today’s plans.
What Submagic does that Spoolfield doesn’t
- Caption animations with emojis, zooms and sound effects that make a clip feel edited.
- Cutting out silences and filler words automatically.
- Adding stock B-roll, and editing a video by editing its words.
- Translating subtitles into other languages.
- Scheduling posts, and a brand kit shared by a team.
What Spoolfield does differently
Starts from the full recording
Bring an episode, a class or a stream of up to 3 hours by link or upload, and get only the parts about your topic.
A free plan that stays free
Ten credits arrive every month on the free plan, so you can keep using it for small jobs without a card.
The words as files
Download what was said as TXT, SRT subtitles or JSON with the time of every word, ready for an editor like Submagic.
From a chat or your code
Connect Claude or Cursor with one web address, or call the REST API, on any plan.
Questions
Does Spoolfield have animated captions?
Yes, in the sense that each word lights up as it’s spoken. There are four styles and three positions. There are no emojis, zooms or sound effects.
Can Spoolfield take out pauses and filler words?
No. Spoolfield ends each clip on a whole sentence, but it doesn’t cut silences or “um”s inside a clip.
Can I use Spoolfield and Submagic together?
Yes. Use Spoolfield to pull the strongest parts out of a long recording, then open those short clips in Submagic for its effects. Both accept uploads.
Start with your longest recording
Sign up with no card and make clips from an episode you already have. The captions and transcripts guide covers the caption styles.