Checked 3 October 2026

The reap alternative for long podcasts and streams (2026)

reap clips, captions, dubs and schedules, and gives developers an API, a CLI and an MCP server on every paid plan. Podcasters weighing it against Slice usually come down to two numbers: how many hours of episodes a month the plan covers, and how long one episode can be.

Our bias: we make Shorts by Slice. Compared from published pricing, limits, features and user reviews, checked 3 October 2026. We did not test reap 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 reap

	Shorts by Slice	reap
Price	$14.99/month or $149/year	Free; $16.99 / $45 a month, or $9.99 / $29 a month billed yearly
What the entry plan gets	Everything: no cap on videos, up to 1,000 exports a month, no watermark	Creator: 10 hours of source video a month, 1080p, a scheduler, the API
Longest video	3 hours and 2GB (MP4, MOV or WebM)	Up to 180 minutes
Monthly limit	No cap on videos; up to 1,000 exports a month	10 hours (Creator) or 20 hours (Studio) of source video
Watermark	Never, trial included	On the free plan, which exports 720p
Link import	YouTube video links, one video per link; or upload a file	YouTube, Twitch, X and Vimeo links, on every plan
Posting	No: you download and post	TikTok, Reels, Shorts and LinkedIn on Creator; X and Facebook too on Studio
Captions and languages	Captions in the speaker's language; fonts cover Latin scripts and Hebrew	Captions in 100+ languages, AI dubbing in 80+
Reviews	No third-party ratings to report yet	G2 5.0 (11), Trustpilot 3.8 (2)

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

Choose reap if…

You want your clips dubbed or translated into other languages.
You caption in a script Slice's fonts do not cover, such as Arabic, Hindi or Japanese.
You want it to post and schedule for you.
You are building your own pipeline and want an API and a CLI.
Ten hours of episodes a month is plenty, and you will pay yearly: $119.88 a year is less than Slice.

Choose Slice if…

You clip more than 10 hours of episodes a month. A weekly 3-hour show is 12 or 13 hours; on Slice there is no cap on videos.
You want to tick a dozen clips and export them together, with one email and one zip.
You want clips that join moments from different parts of the episode, without rewriting what anyone said.
You pay month to month: $14.99 against $16.99 for Creator.

Where Slice loses to reap

Billed yearly, reap Creator is $119.88 against Slice's $149, if 10 hours a month is enough for you.
reap dubs, posts and schedules, and has an API and a CLI. Slice does none of these, though it does work inside ChatGPT and Claude.
reap captions far more languages and scripts.

reap, in short

Best for creators and developers who want clipping, dubbing and scheduling with an API, CLI and MCP server on every paid plan, at a low yearly price.

Pricing, in plain words

Free: 1 hour a month of clipping and captions, 720p, watermarked, projects kept 7 days, uploads up to 5GB.
Creator: $16.99 a month (shown against a struck-through $24), or $9.99 a month billed yearly ($119.88). 10 hours of source video a month, 1080p with no watermark, 2 hours of dubbing, a scheduler for TikTok, Reels, Shorts and LinkedIn.
Studio: $45 a month (against a struck-through $50), or $29 a month billed yearly ($348). 20 hours a month, 4K, 5 hours of dubbing, up to 3 users, X and Facebook publishing too.
Enterprise: custom.
Hours count the length of the video you put in, however many clips you make from it.

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

What reap’s reviewers say

Site	Rating	Reviews
G2	5.0 / 5	11
Trustpilot	3.8 / 5	2

Too few reviews to read a pattern into, so we have not summed them up or quoted one.

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 reap, 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 Slice cheaper than reap?

Month to month, slightly: $14.99 against $16.99 for Creator. Billed yearly, reap is cheaper: $119.88 a year against $149. The difference is the cap: Creator covers 10 hours of source video a month, and Slice has no cap on videos. Checked 3 October 2026.

How many episodes does reap's Creator plan cover?

Hours count the length of the video you put in, whatever you make from it. Ten hours covers four or five 2-hour episodes a month, or three 3-hour ones with a little left.

How long a video can reap take?

Its clipping-agent page says reap "clips sources up to 180 minutes". Slice takes up to 3 hours and 2GB, so the two are level on length.

What do reap's users say?

Too few have said anything to go on: 2 reviews on Trustpilot (3.8) and 11 on G2 (5.0). We have not quoted any.

How was this compared?

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

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