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The Wavve alternative for podcast clips (2026)

Wavve was one of the first tools to turn podcast audio into a shareable waveform video. In May 2025 it was bought by Disctopia, a podcast host, and its plans now cap both the minutes you upload and the videos you export each month. Podcasters look at Slice when they want the moments found across a whole episode, clips without a monthly export count, or looks beyond the waveform.

Our bias: we make Shorts by Slice. Compared from Wavve's own pricing and product pages, checked 6 October 2026. We did not test Wavve hands-on, and where it is the better choice we say so.

By the Slice teamChecked 6 October 2026

Shorts by Slice turns a long podcast or stream into captioned vertical clips. $14.99 a month. Your first 3 clips are free, no card. Then a 3-day free trial for the rest.

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Slice vs Wavve

	Shorts by Slice	Wavve
Price	$14.99/month or $149/year	Starter $7.99, Pro $19.99, Agency $98.99 a month (shown reduced from $9.99, $24.99, $129.99)
Monthly limits	No cap on episodes; up to 1,000 exports a month	Starter: 70 upload minutes and 18 exported videos; Pro: 210 and 33
Audio-only episodes	Yes: upload MP3, M4A, WAV, OGG or FLAC; each clip is drawn with one of 16 templates from the words, your cover and the sound	Yes: Wavveforms, templates and captions
Finding the moments	Reads the whole episode and lists the moments that stand on their own	"AI hot spot identification"
Longest file	3 hours and 4GB (MP4, MOV or WebM)	Not stated on the pricing page
Watermark	Never, trial included	Not stated on the pricing page
Posting	No: you download and post	A social media scheduler on every plan
Team	One person per account	2 extra members on Pro, 4 on Agency
Owner	Slice (us)	Disctopia, since May 2025

Wavve’s figures from its pricing page and its own site, 6 October 2026. Prices in US dollars.

Choose Wavve if…

You want a scheduler in the same tool that makes the video.
You host with Disctopia, which said Wavve's features would be built into its platform.
A few short waveform videos a month is all you need, and 18 exports covers it.

Choose Slice if…

You make many clips from every episode: Slice has no monthly export count below 1,000.
You want long episodes read end to end, with the moments listed for you, including ones joined from different parts.
You want more than a waveform: 16 templates drawn from the words, your cover and your hosts' photos, and video clips when you have video.

Where Slice loses to Wavve

Wavve schedules posts; Slice does not post anything.
Wavve has team seats on Pro; a Slice account is one person's.

Wavve, in short

Best for podcasters who want classic waveform videos and a social scheduler in one place, and whose monthly upload fits a minutes budget.

Pricing, in plain words

Starter: $7.99 a month, shown reduced from $9.99. 70 upload minutes and 18 exported videos a month, SRT and transcript downloads, AI hot spot identification, a social media scheduler, Wavveforms, templates, captions.
Pro: $19.99 a month, shown reduced from $24.99. 210 upload minutes, 33 exported videos and 2 extra team members.
Agency: $98.99 a month, shown reduced from $129.99. 410 upload minutes, 78 exported videos and 4 extra team members.

Wavve's pricing page as it appeared on 6 October 2026 — Wavve's pricing page, 6 October 2026 (not signed in) Tap to enlarge.

Reviews

We did not read Wavve's reviews for this page, so there are no ratings or complaints to report.

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 3 clips are free, no card, then a 3-day free trial for the rest. 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 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 Wavve, 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 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 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 Wavve still available?

Yes. Its site was up when we read it on 6 October 2026, and it describes itself as "a subsidiary of Disctopia". Disctopia announced the acquisition on 19 May 2025 and said Wavve's audiogram and video features would be available inside Disctopia.

How much does Wavve cost?

Its pricing page showed Starter at $7.99 a month (reduced from $9.99), Pro at $19.99 (from $24.99) and Agency at $98.99 (from $129.99) on 6 October 2026. Starter includes 70 upload minutes and 18 exported videos a month.

Does Slice make waveform videos like Wavve?

Yes, among others. Upload an audio file and Slice's default template puts your cover art, big captions and a waveform that moves with the voice on every clip; 15 other templates give different looks. Slice finds the moments for you; it does not schedule posts.

Is there a free Wavve alternative?

Headliner's free plan includes 1 unwatermarked audiogram a month. On Slice your first 3 clips are free with no card, then a 3-day free trial, and nothing is ever watermarked.

How was this compared?

Compared from Wavve's own pricing and product pages, read in a browser on 6 October 2026, not signed in. We did not read its reviews and did not test Wavve hands-on. We make Slice.

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