A wildly innovative text-based editor that really speeds up the video creation process and delivers great looking output.
November 06, 2025

A wildly innovative text-based editor that really speeds up the video creation process and delivers great looking output.

Anirudh Kaushik | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Descript

We are a marketing and media production house that uses Descript to transcribe videos use , cut and trim long footage design and package audio & video assets including collaterals for social media. In particular, we work on long form content such as podcasts & video series and Descript is useful at it is a powerful text based editor.

Pros

  • Video Transcription
  • Video Editing
  • Video Trimming
  • Audio Clean Up
  • Clip Creation

Cons

  • Needs an API
  • The interface can be simplified further
  • Cloud collaboration to be easier
  • Better integration with other design software
  • Reduced Turnaround Time
  • Increased Video Output
  • Increased training costs
It's pretty user friendly, has a easy-moderate learning curve. However during updates they do change the features in different panes / sections that make them harder to find. The text editor is near perfect, some of the other tools such as colour, templates, audio etc. are arranged in a slighlty less intuitive manner
Descript is in an entire new category of it's own, it has a very specific use case of text based video editing and has a whole suite of features for this format. But it does not stack up to other editors in terms of timeline based edits, which is needed regardless of how powerful the text video editing is.

Do you think Descript delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Descript's feature set?

Yes

Did Descript live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Descript go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Descript again?

Yes

If you have a long video or audio file, and you need to shorten it using a transcript or AI, if you need to trim specific filler words, or small sentences easily, if you need to find and replace specific sections of a video and narrate over( overdub) etc. then Descript is for you.
However it's not as powerful and feature rich and gives as much control as other timeline based editors

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