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Paperpal
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI academic writing assistant for researchers and students, with grammar, paraphrasing, citations and plagiarism/AI checks.
1.5M visits/mo16K saves
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SubMagic
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AI video editor that auto-captions, trims and repurposes raw footage into short-form clips for social platforms.
896K visits/mo5.1K saves
Pricing
Starter: $15
Growth: $49
Unlimited: $129
No public pricing
Starter: $19/member/mo (15 videos/mo, max 2 min each)
Starter + Magic Clips: $38/member/mo
Pro: $39/member/mo (40 videos/mo, max 5 min each)
Pro + Magic Clips: $58/member/mo
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Accurate and well-timed captions
- ✦Customizable font size and color
- ✦Multilingual support
- ✦Auto B-Rolls
- ✦AI Hook Title Generation
- ✦Logo & Cover Image Boost
- ✦academic grammar checker
- ✦AI writing and paraphrasing
- ✦research search and citation across 250M+ articles
- ✦chat with PDFs
- ✦plagiarism checker
- ✦AI content detector
- ✦submission-readiness checks
- ✦plugins for Word, Docs and Overleaf
- ✦Automatic viral-style captions in 48 languages
- ✦One-click AI auto-editing (cuts, trims, silence removal)
- ✦Magic Clips to extract shorts from long-form videos
- ✦AI actor/avatar video creation without filming
- ✦AI video translation and eye-contact correction
- ✦Scheduled publishing across TikTok, YouTube and Instagram
- ✦Public API for automating the editing workflow
Use cases
- →Boost video engagement by adding captions
- →Increase average views by making videos more accessible
- →Improve SEO by including captions in videos
- →writing and polishing research manuscripts
- →checking grammar and academic tone
- →generating citations
- →summarizing papers
- →preparing journal submissions
- →Turning a podcast or long video into multiple short clips
- →Adding on-brand captions to social videos at scale
- →Publishing short-form content across platforms on a schedule
- →Creating videos with AI avatars instead of filming
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