vidyo.ai

vidyo.ai is a video-focused AI product founded in 2020 that positions itself as a time-saver for creators, podcasters, and marketing teams. The service ingests long-form videos (YouTube links, uploaded files, or podcast recordings), automatically generates transcripts, and uses those transcripts plus scene-change detection to recommend short clips and timestamps. Its value proposition centers on reducing manual editing time by automating selection, captioning, cropping, and formatting for vertical and square social formats. Vidyo.ai operates as a cloud app with a web dashboard and aims to remove repetitive editing work from creators’ workflows.

Key features include automatic highlight detection and clip suggestion driven by transcripts and speaker timestamps, which surfaces shareable moments and recommended clip lengths. The platform generates automatic closed captions and subtitle files (SRT) synced to each clip and supports easy in-browser caption edits. Vidyo.ai provides multi-aspect export templates (9:16, 1:1, 16:9) plus auto-cropping and repositioning to keep faces and action centered for socials. It also offers bulk-processing options where users can batch-create dozens of clips from a single long video, and direct export/sharing integrations to platforms or download options for local publishing.

Pricing is tiered and begins with a free plan that allows a limited number of exports per month and watermarking; the free tier is intended for testing and very low-volume creators. Paid plans start with a Solo/Creator plan (monthly billed) that increases export limits and removes watermarking while unlocking features like longer source durations and faster processing. A Team plan adds collaborative features, shared project folders, and higher monthly export quotas. The company also offers custom enterprise pricing for large-volume publishers with dedicated support and SSO. Each paid tier raises monthly clip/export allowances and adds priority processing and workspace/team functionality.

Users include individual podcasters who use vidyo.ai to convert hour-long interviews into dozens of short clips for social distribution, and social media managers who repurpose webinar recordings into platform-specific posts. For example, a Podcaster uses it to produce 20 short clips from a 90-minute episode each week, while a Marketing Manager uses it to generate weekly Reel and Short drafts from product demos. Compared with competitors like Descript, vidyo.ai emphasizes automated multi-format clipping and template-based exports, while Descript leans more toward full multitrack editing and overdub capabilities.