Simon Says
AI transcription, translation, and subtitles built for video editors and podcasters.
About
Simon Says turns audio and video into transcripts, translations, and burned-in subtitles with exports that drop straight into Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Avid, and Pro Tools. It handles dozens of codecs and containers, transcribes in 100+ languages with per-word timecodes and speaker identification, translates into 100+ languages, and includes a visual subtitle editor plus an assembly editor that lets you edit video by rearranging text. Web, macOS, and iPhone apps are joined by an air-gapped on-premises version for companies that cannot let audio touch the cloud.
Pricing is refreshingly concrete: pay as you go at $0.25/minute, or subscribe from $24/month (Creator, billed annually) up to $149/month (Studio), with extra transcription as cheap as $4/hour on the top tier. Custom dictionaries improve domain accuracy, and collaboration features include guest invites and version history. The company claims industry-leading accuracy, which, like every ASR claim, depends heavily on source audio quality, so treat it as provider-reported and clean up transcripts before translation.
What it can do
- AI transcription in 100+ languages with per-word timecodes
- Translation into 100+ languages
- Visual subtitle editor with burn-in export
- Direct export to Premiere, FCPX, Resolve, Avid, Pro Tools, SRT
- Assembly editor: reorder video by rearranging text
- Air-gapped on-premises version for offline workflows
Setup
- Sign up at simonsaysai.com and upload an audio or video file.
- Pay per minute or pick a subscription tier for included hours.
- Edit the transcript and subtitles in the visual editor.
- Export to your NLE, subtitle format, or Word/Excel.
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Trust score — 7/10
Scored 7/10 (TIER metrics, metrics-v1). Evidence: live product with public per-minute and tiered pricing, long press history (Larry Jordan reviews since 2012), and documented integrations with every major NLE; GDPR/CCPA compliance stated. Strengths: concrete pricing, deep editor integrations, offline option. Docked for: (1) accuracy claims are provider-reported and source-audio dependent; (2) no hands-on test of transcription quality here. License: proprietary (SaaS, usage + tiers).
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 6.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 7.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 3.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 6.0/10
- · Public per-minute ($0.25/min) and tiered pricing ($24-$149/mo); long press history since 2012.
- · Documented exports to every major NLE (Premiere, FCPX, Resolve, Avid, Pro Tools).
- · Accuracy claims are provider-reported and source-audio dependent.
- · Air-gapped on-premises version available.
Sources
Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.