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The VEED alternative for podcast clips (2026)

VEED is a video editor in the browser that does a great deal: subtitles in over 100 languages, translation, AI voices and avatars, a recorder, stock footage, and a clip maker called Clips. Clips takes a long video, finds highlights, centres the speaker, removes filler words and adds subtitles. Its help centre says the clips are designed to be "mainly a minute or shorter". Podcasters, churches and coaches look at Slice when clips are the main job, every week, and they want longer clips with a real start and end, at one price that is not multiplied by seats.

Our bias: we make Shorts by Slice. Compared from published pricing, limits, features and user reviews, checked 13 November 2026. We did not test VEED hands-on, and where it is the better choice we say so.

By the Slice teamUpdated Prices checked 13 November 2026

Shorts by Slice turns a long podcast or stream into captioned vertical clips. $14.99 a month. Your first video (we search the first hour) and first 2 clips are free, no card. After that, buy clips one at a time or take the plan, which you can cancel any time.

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Which is better, VEED or Slice?

It depends. VEED is best for people and teams who want one browser video editor for everything, with subtitles in many languages, translation, AI voices and avatars, and a clip maker as one tool inside it. Shorts by Slice (ours) is best for podcasters and clippers who cut long episodes and streams, video or audio-only, into lots of clips and export them in one go. As of October 2026, Slice is $14.99 a month. VEED started at Creator £20 a month, or £10 a month billed yearly when we checked on 13 November 2026.

Is VEED free?

Yes, with limits. VEED's free plan is £0, with a watermark on exports, exports up to 10 minutes long at 720p, 1GB uploads and 10 minutes of auto subtitles a month. Clips can be tried once per account. Paid plans start at Creator, £20 a month or £10 a month billed yearly (prices in pounds, as shown from the UK). Its pricing FAQ says the only free trial of a paid plan is "for enterprise customers", with at least 3 users. Checked 13 November 2026.

  • Clips: "Try once (one-time use for an account)", per its help centre; unlimited on Creator, Pro, Studio and Enterprise.
  • Exports up to 10 minutes long, at 720p, with a VEED watermark.
  • Uploads up to 1GB, 2GB of storage, and 10 minutes of auto subtitles a month.
  • No subtitle downloads and no iOS app on the free plan, per its feature table.

Read on from VEED pricing and its feature table and How to use our clips feature, not signed in. On Slice, your first video (we search the first hour) and first 2 clips are free, no card, and nothing is ever watermarked.

Want to know which moments are worth clipping before you choose a tool? Slice’s free podcast clip finder picks the three best from your podcast feed, with timestamps, no account needed.

Slice vs VEED

Shorts by SliceVEED
Price$14.99/month or $149/yearFree; £20 / £35 / £70 per user a month, or £10 / £17 / £34 billed yearly
What the entry plan getsEverything: 6 hours of video and 100 clips a month, no watermarkCreator: Clips, no watermark, 1080p, 5GB of storage, 500 AI credits a month
Clipping limitUp to 6 hours of video and 100 clips a monthUnlimited Clips on paid plans, per its help centre; once on the free plan
Longest file3 hours and 4.5GB (MP4, MOV or WebM)Clips: 1 minute to 3 hours of speech; no upload size limit on paid plans (1GB free)
Clip length30 seconds to 2 minutes 30 seconds, ending where the thought endsYou set a maximum; designed for clips "mainly a minute or shorter"
ShapesVertical, square and widePortrait or landscape
Audio-only episodesYes: upload MP3, M4A, WAV, OGG or FLAC; each clip is drawn with one of 47 templates from the words, your cover and the soundNot stated for Clips, which asks for a video
WatermarkNeverOn free exports; none from Creator
Caption languagesCaptions in the speaker's language; fonts cover Latin scripts and HebrewOver 100 languages; translation into 50+ from Pro
Link importUpload only for now: MP4, MOV or WebM, up to 4.5GBUpload only for Clips: no YouTube link, and not from your VEED library
SeatsOne account, one pricePer user: the price is multiplied by the editors in the workspace
Also in the planCaptions, Reframe, Podshare and MoodboardA full editor, recorder, teleprompter, stock, AI voices, avatars, dubbing

VEED’s figures from its pricing page and review sites, 13 November 2026. Prices in pounds, as the page showed them to us from the UK; its FAQ says it shows your local currency where it can, and US dollars otherwise.

Choose VEED if…

  • You want one editor for every kind of video your team makes, with clips as one part of it.
  • You need subtitles in a language Slice does not draw, such as Arabic, Hindi, Chinese or Korean, or you translate your videos.
  • You want AI voices, avatars, dubbing, eye contact correction or AI b-roll.
  • Your files are bigger than 4.5GB and you do not want to make a smaller copy first.
  • Your clips are a minute or shorter and you like to finish each one by hand.

Choose Slice if…

  • You clip every episode and want one flat price, not per seat: Slice includes 6 hours of video and 100 clips a month.
  • You want clips longer than a minute when the story needs it: Slice cuts 30 seconds to 2 minutes 30 seconds, ending where the speaker finishes the thought.
  • You want to tick a dozen clips and export them together, with one email and one zip.
  • Your show is audio-only: Slice draws each clip in one of 47 templates from the words, your cover and the sound of the voices.
  • You want to try it on a real episode before paying, with no watermark on the free clips.
  • You want clips cut the way an editor would cut them. Slice is built by video editors: every clip starts and ends where the thought does, and on a two-person video the picture switches 0.17s before the next voice, close to the timing we measured in professional podcasts.

Where Slice loses to VEED

  • VEED is a much bigger editor: a timeline, recorder, teleprompter, brand kits, stock and an iOS app. Slice is a clip tool.
  • VEED draws subtitles in over 100 languages and translates them; Slice draws captions in Latin-alphabet languages and Hebrew only.
  • VEED takes files of any size on paid plans; Slice takes up to 4.5GB, so a very large 4K recording needs a smaller copy first.
  • VEED has AI b-roll, AI voices, avatars and dubbing. In Slice you add b-roll yourself, from your own files or free Pixabay stock.

VEED, in short

Best for people and teams who want one browser video editor for everything, with subtitles in many languages, translation, AI voices and avatars, and a clip maker as one tool inside it.

Pricing, in plain words

  • Free: £0. Watermarked exports up to 10 minutes long, 720p, 1GB uploads, 2GB of storage, 10 minutes of auto subtitles a month. Clips and the other AI editing tools can be tried once.
  • Creator: £20 per user a month, or £10 a month billed yearly. No watermark, 1080p, 5GB of storage, no upload size limit, Clips included, 500 credits a month (6,000 a year on yearly billing).
  • Pro: £35 per user a month, or £17 a month billed yearly. Exports up to 4K, 50GB of storage, all subtitle styles, translation into 50+ languages. Its credits differed between visits: 1,500 or 2,500 a month.
  • Studio: £70 per user a month, or £34 a month billed yearly, with 15,000 credits a month. Shown on some visits to the page and not on others.
  • Enterprise: custom. Its FAQ says the only free trial is for enterprise customers, with at least 3 users.
  • Every plan is per seat: the price is multiplied by the number of editors. Credits do not carry over.
VEED's pricing page as it appeared on 13 November 2026
VEED's pricing page, 13 November 2026 (monthly prices in pounds, as shown from the UK, on a visit that showed the Studio plan) Tap to enlarge.

What VEED’s reviewers say

SiteRatingReviews
Trustpilot4.2 / 53,941

Praise: Easy to use, even with no editing experience; Clean interface; A free plan to try it on; Good video and sound quality.

Recurring complaints: Billing: renewals, an annual charge, or a refund refused (8 of 20); Bugs, failed uploads or lost projects (6 of 20); AI-generated videos that missed the brief, and the credits they used (2 of 20); Referral payouts (2 of 20).

Source: Trustpilot 1-2 star reviews, the 20 most recent on 13 November 2026 (21 July to 11 November 2026). None of the 20 was about the Clips tool. A sample, not every review. Read them on Trustpilot.

“Do not assume VEED will email you when a paused subscription starts charging again.”A reviewer on Trustpilot, November 2026

Slice, in short

Best for podcasters and clippers who cut long episodes and streams, video or audio-only, into lots of clips and export them in one go.

$14.99 a month or $149 a year. Your first video (we search the first hour) and first 2 clips are free, no card. It does not post, schedule or add b-roll for you. Upload the file (MP4, MOV or WebM, up to 4.5GB).

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 Tap to enlarge.
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 Tap to enlarge.

Slice on a real episode, start to finish

We did not run VEED, 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. Tap to enlarge.

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 16:9 frame of the stream, three webcams side by side under a LINUXGAMECAST 430 logo, with chat alerts along the bottom. Right: the vertical clip made from it, showing only the middle webcam, with the logo cut to "AST 430".
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. Tap to enlarge.

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 (your first 2 clips on the website are free).

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.

Questions

Is VEED free?

Yes, with limits. VEED's free plan is £0, with a watermark on exports, exports up to 10 minutes long at 720p, 1GB uploads and 10 minutes of auto subtitles a month. Clips can be tried once per account. Paid plans start at Creator, £20 a month or £10 a month billed yearly (prices in pounds, as shown from the UK). Its pricing FAQ says the only free trial of a paid plan is "for enterprise customers", with at least 3 users. Checked 13 November 2026.

Can VEED make clips from a podcast?

Yes. Its Clips tool takes a video with between 1 minute and 3 hours of speech, finds highlights, centres the speaker, removes filler words and silences and adds subtitles. You choose portrait or landscape, a goal, a subtitle style and a maximum length. Its help centre says Clips is designed for clips "mainly a minute or shorter", and suggests trimming longer ones by hand in the editor. Read 13 November 2026.

Can I paste a YouTube link into VEED Clips?

No. Its help centre says: "No, the YouTube import option is not available." You download the video and upload it. Clips also cannot use a video already in your VEED library. Slice is upload only for now too.

How much is VEED per month?

Creator is £20 per user a month, or £10 a month billed yearly; Pro is £35, or £17 billed yearly; Studio, which the page showed on some visits and not others, is £70, or £34 billed yearly. Prices in pounds, as shown from the UK on 13 November 2026. The price is per editor. Slice is $14.99 a month or $149 a year.

Do VEED credits roll over?

No. Its pricing FAQ says: "Credits do not carry over." Credits pay for AI generation (voices, images, AI video); Clips itself is unlimited on paid plans, per its help centre.

What do VEED's bad reviews say?

VEED has 4.2 out of 5 from 3,941 Trustpilot reviews (13 November 2026). In its 20 most recent 1 and 2 star reviews, 8 were about billing: renewals, an annual charge taken at once, or a refund refused; 6 were about bugs, failed uploads or lost projects. None was about Clips. VEED replied to each, and told one reviewer it is "now implementing notifications before a paused subscription starts billing again".

How was this compared?

Compared from published pricing, limits, features and user reviews, checked 13 November 2026. VEED's figures are from its own pricing page, help centre and review pages. We did not test VEED hands-on. We make Slice.

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