Checked 3 October 2026

The Headliner alternative for video podcasts (2026)

Headliner has been the podcaster's audiogram tool for years: it watches your feed and turns each new episode into a video you can share. Its AI video clipping is newer, and free for now. Video podcasters look at Slice when they want more than ten picks from an episode, episodes past two hours, or a hand on every cut.

Our bias: we make Shorts by Slice. Compared from published pricing, limits, features and user reviews, checked 3 October 2026. We did not test Headliner hands-on, and where it is the better choice we say so.

Shorts by Slice turns a long podcast or stream into captioned vertical clips. $14.99 a month. Up to 3 videos free with no card; downloading starts a 3-day trial.

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Slice vs Headliner

	Shorts by Slice	Headliner
Price	$14.99/month or $149/year	Free; $9.99 / $25.99 a month, or $7.99 / $19.99 a month billed yearly
What the entry plan gets	Everything: no cap on videos, up to 1,000 exports a month, no watermark	Basic: no ads, 10 unwatermarked audiograms a month, auto-posting
Longest video	3 hours and 2GB (MP4, MOV or WebM)	Video up to 2 hours and 10GB; audio up to 4 hours
Clips per episode	As many as you make; ask again for different moments	The AI picks up to 10; you can add your own
Audio-only episodes	No: Slice needs video	Yes: audiograms, made automatically from your feed
Watermark	Never, trial included	On free audiograms after the first each month; Pro says "unwatermarked videos"
Link import	YouTube video links, one video per link; or upload a file	YouTube links, Google Drive and Zoom, or upload
Posting	No: you download and post	Auto-posts to social and YouTube on Basic and up
Reviews	No third-party ratings to report yet	App Store 4.8 (4,970), G2 4.5 (6)

Headliner’s figures from its pricing page and review sites, 3 October 2026. Prices in US dollars.

Choose Headliner if…

Your show is audio only. Headliner makes audiograms from audio; Slice needs video.
You want a video made for every new episode automatically, from your podcast feed, with nothing to upload.
You want video clipping free, and you are fine with ads and a free offer that is "for a limited time".
You want clips of the moments YouTube marks as most replayed.

Choose Slice if…

Your video episodes run past 2 hours. Slice takes up to 3 hours in one file.
You want more than ten picks from an episode, and clips that join moments from different parts of it.
You want to tick a dozen clips and export them together, with one email and one zip.
You want vertical exports above 1080p when the recording is 4K, and a hook title on every clip.

Where Slice loses to Headliner

Headliner works from audio alone; Slice needs a video.
Headliner makes audiograms for every new episode automatically and can post them; Slice does neither.
Headliner's video clipping is free for now; Slice is a paid plan after the trial.
Headliner's iPhone app has nearly 5,000 ratings (4.8); Slice has no third-party ratings yet.

Headliner, in short

Best for audio podcasters who want an audiogram made for every new episode automatically, and a free way to pull up to 10 clips from a video.

Pricing, in plain words

Forever Free: ad-supported. "Unlimited, free video clips" while its video tools are free "for a limited time", 1 unwatermarked audiogram a month and unlimited watermarked ones, 1080p for videos up to 10 minutes long, automatic audiograms for 1 podcast.
Basic: $9.99 a month (was $14.99), or $7.99 a month billed yearly. No ads, 10 unwatermarked audiograms a month, auto-posting to social and YouTube, branded templates, your own fonts.
Pro: $25.99 a month (was $29.99), or $19.99 a month billed yearly. Unlimited unwatermarked videos, unlimited transcription, 1080p for videos up to 2 hours long, 4-hour audio files.

Headliner's pricing page as it appeared on 3 October 2026 — Headliner's pricing page, 3 October 2026 (yearly prices shown)

What Headliner’s reviewers say

Site	Rating	Reviews
App Store	4.8 / 5	4,970
G2	4.5 / 5	6

Praise: Easy podcast clips; Useful promotional tool; Templates.

Recurring complaints: App errors, crashes or failed processing (5 of 8); Automations or auto-posting switched off or unreliable (2 of 8); Picture quality or limited customisation (2 of 8); The app lacks features the website has (1 of 8).

Source: App Store 1-2 star reviews of the mobile app, all 8 in its public feed from February 2025 to April 2026 (no Trustpilot reviews exist). Read them on App Store.

“shuts off automation on our podcast episodes by itself”A reviewer on App Store, January 2026

Slice, in short

Best for podcasters and clippers who cut long episodes and streams into lots of clips and export them in one go.

$14.99 a month or $149 a year, up to 3 videos free with no card, and a 3-day trial when you download. It does not post, schedule or add b-roll. Paste a YouTube link or upload the file.

Three clips ticked on the Slice clips page with an "Export these 3" button above them — Batch export in Slice: tick the clips, then "Export these 3", 30 September 2026

The Shorts by Slice editor with a vertical clip showing the hook title "The starving artist is a load of crap" over the speaker — A clip in Slice's editor with its hook title on, 30 September 2026

Slice on a real episode, start to finish

We did not run Headliner, so we will not guess how it does. Here is what Slice did with a real one. The episode is LinuxGameCast Weekly 430, a three-host video podcast, 1:21:55 long, 1280×720, 531MB, published by LinuxGameCast LLP under CC BY-SA 4.0. We ran it through Slice on 2 October 2026 and read the times back from our own database afterwards.

Upload of the 531MB file: about two minutes.
Three and a half minutes after the upload finished, Slice listed four moments. Most of that was the transcript; the search itself took 39 seconds.
No moment was one unbroken stretch. “The lady with the magic calligraphy books” runs 1:07, joined from 17 passages between 1:20 and 4:05; “I spent two months fighting Netflix over a copyright claim” runs 1:11, from 6 passages.
We picked two. Both were finished 4 minutes later: 1080×1920 MP4s at 30 frames a second: 1:08 and 1:11 long, 70MB and 56MB.

Four suggested clips from an 82-minute episode on the Slice website: The lady with the magic calligraphy books (1m 7s), I spent two months fighting Netflix over a copyright claim (1m 11s), Twitch and YouTube are not your friends (34s) and A $4 Android game slapped on Steam (51s), each with a row of marks showing where it comes from in the episode and a Use this clip button. — What Slice found in LinuxGameCast Weekly 430, an 82-minute episode: four moments, listed 39 seconds after the transcript was ready. The marks on each row show where its passages sit in the episode.

What came out wrong

The framing. The episode is three webcams side by side under the show’s logo. Slice kept the middle camera, cut the logo to “AST 430”, and a line of stream chat shows in the first clip.
The joins. One join dropped a word; another left a stray “have.” between two sentences.
The language. The show swears, and the third moment opens on it, so we skipped that one.

Left, the original 1280×720 stream layout: three webcams and a chat bar. Right, the vertical clip: Slice kept the middle camera and cut the logo in half.

Each of those is a fix in the editor before posting. The full run, with both clips frame by frame, is in Can ChatGPT make clips from my video?.

Or do it inside ChatGPT

If you already work in ChatGPT, you don’t have to open another app. Add Slice to ChatGPT once, attach the video in a chat and type “@Slice turn this video into short clips”. Slice lists the moments it found with their lengths and opening lines; reply with the numbers you want and you get download links for vertical clips with captions and a hook title. Clips need a Slice plan or the free trial, the same as on the website.

Can ChatGPT make clips from my video? has a real run from upload to finished files. The full steps are in how to make podcast clips with ChatGPT, and adding Slice takes a couple of minutes with the setup guide.

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Questions

Is Headliner free?

Its Forever Free plan is ad-supported, and its pricing page says "Headliner video tools are FREE for a limited time!", with "Unlimited, free video clips". Audiograms are free but watermarked after the first each month. Paid plans are $9.99 or $25.99 a month, or $7.99 or $19.99 billed yearly. Checked 3 October 2026.

Can Slice make audiograms?

No. Slice makes clips from video: it finds the moments, frames the speaker and captions them. For an audio-only show, Headliner (or a recorded video version) is the way.

How long a video can Headliner take?

Its file-limits article says video "Up to 10GB with a 2 hour length limitation", and audio up to 4 hours. An older help article says videos up to 4 hours. Slice takes up to 3 hours and 2GB.

What do people complain about with Headliner?

Headliner has no Trustpilot reviews. In the App Store, all 8 of its 1-2 star reviews from February 2025 to April 2026 are about the iPhone app: five describe errors, crashes or failed processing, and two automations or auto-posting switching off. Its App Store rating is 4.8 from 4,970.

How was this compared?

Compared from published pricing, limits, features and user reviews, checked 3 October 2026. Headliner's figures are from its own pricing page, help centre and review pages. We did not test Headliner hands-on. We make Slice.

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Try Shorts by Slice on your next episode. If Headliner fits you better, use it.