Headliner

Overview

Headliner is a podcast production and promotion tool for creators who want to turn episodes into clips, captions, and promotional materials. It is strongest for podcasters building a repeatable social-content workflow; its plan limits make the free and Basic tiers less suited to frequent, longer-form editing.

AI clipping, transcription, and the Podcast Promo Pack cover both repurposing and episode promotion. The breadth is useful, but the right plan depends on how many unwatermarked audiograms and how much transcription you need each month.

Key features

• Video clipping: Headliner can make 10 or more social-ready clips from a full-length video, with AI highlight detection, automatic reframing, captioning, brand templates, and social platform presets. This is a practical starting point for creators who need several short assets from one source, though Basic limits video output to 10 minutes.
• Transcription and captions: Transcription supports more than 100 languages, and exports can include automatic captions. Basic allows unlimited captions only for projects up to 10 minutes; Pro removes that cap and allows audio files up to four hours.
• Podcast promotion: Podcast Promo Pack can produce episode-art options, show notes, chaptered summaries, keywords and tags, references, and quotes. It is useful for creators who want promotional copy alongside their clips rather than only a video editor.
• Sharing and integrations: Headliner describes RSS-based automatic posting of exports to services such as YouTube. Its mobile app supports podcast sharing to Meta, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and more. Enterprise SSO and video APIs are offered, alongside free J/S Widget and Eddy API options.
• Security and privacy: Headliner says it encrypts data in transit and at rest, uses access controls, and conducts regular security reviews. It says 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 its systems and features. It also says it does not sell personal information to third parties.

Pricing

Headliner has a free tier and paid plans billed monthly or annually. The annual prices are shown as billed annually; the monthly options cost more per month.

• Forever Free — free: Includes unlimited video clips and captioned clips, one unwatermarked audiogram per month, unlimited watermarked audiograms, 1080p videos up to 10 minutes, 10GB uploads, and two hours of transcription per month. Video clipping and captioning are free to use on any account while those tools are in beta. This tier suits occasional creators, but the transcription allowance and one unwatermarked audiogram constrain regular publishing.
• Basic (annual) — $7.99 a year, billed annually; Basic (monthly) — $9.99 a month, billed monthly: Both 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 is the step up for creators who need more unwatermarked audiograms than the free tier allows. It does not increase the 10-minute video limit, and the plan description does not include a larger transcription allowance.
• Pro (annual) — $19.99 a year, billed annually; Pro (monthly) — $25.99 a month, billed monthly: Includes unlimited unwatermarked videos, transcription, and captions, 1080p videos up to two hours, 10GB uploads, audio files up to four hours, and priority support. Pro fits frequent publishers and those working with longer episodes; the main upgrade is substantially more room for unwatermarked output and long projects.

The Basic plan page describes support as a benefit of upgrading, while Pro explicitly includes priority support. Enterprise SSO and video APIs are available for enterprise use.

Platforms

Headliner is available on Android, iOS, and the web, and offers API options. The mobile app adds sharing from a phone, while the web and API offerings serve creators and organizations building broader workflows.

Who it's for

Headliner is a good fit for podcasters who want one service for short-form video, captions, transcription, and episode promotion. The free plan can serve occasional use, and Pro is the clearer fit for regular publishing or long source files. It is less compelling for creators whose work rarely needs promotional materials or whose projects can stay within the free and Basic limits.

Pros and cons

• Pro: Combines clip creation, multilingual transcription, captions, and episode-promotion materials, reducing the need to split those tasks across separate tools.
• Pro: The free tier allows unlimited video clips and captioned clips, with video clipping and captioning free during beta.
• Con: Free includes only one unwatermarked audiogram per month and two hours of monthly transcription, limiting polished or transcription-heavy use.
• Con: Basic keeps video output at 10 minutes and audio files at two hours, so longer projects call for Pro.
• Con: Free-tier uploads may be used in aggregated or de-identified form to improve systems and features; paid subscribers’ uploads are excluded from model training.

Alternatives

Browse Podcast Clip Makers for more options focused on podcast clips, AI Video Repurposing Tools for repurposing workflows, or AI Audiogram Makers for audiogram tools.

• Podcli is a free, open-source option with no watermark or minute cap; consider it if those limits matter more than Headliner’s podcast promotion features.
• ReClipStudio offers a 99.00 USD one-time Creator lifetime license with watermark-free exports and on-device clip detection; consider it if a one-time license and those capabilities suit your needs.
• Atlabs AI UGC Avatar Video is an alternative for avatar-video creation.
• ngram is an alternative for AI explainer-video creation.
• OpusClip is another freemium option for podcast and video clips.
• ClipEmber is another freemium clip-making option.
• Cliperoni offers a free tier with 250 minutes of source content monthly, 5GB storage, and one member; consider it if those monthly allowances fit your workflow.
• Clipkiln is another free-tier option for clip creation.

Verdict

Choose Headliner if you are a podcaster who wants clips and captions alongside episode-promotion materials, especially if Pro’s longer-project limits match your publishing routine. Look elsewhere if a single monthly unwatermarked audiogram or two hours of free transcription is too restrictive, or if your main need is a narrower clip-making workflow.