| Price | Free, every feature | Free tier; some features need a paid Pro plan |
| Watermark | Never added | Not on basic exports; can apply to some templates and effects |
| Account | None needed, open and edit | Account sign-in is part of the workflow (cloud projects) |
| Where media is processed | On your device, nothing uploaded | On your device, plus cloud features that upload to its servers |
| Install | None, runs in your browser | Desktop and mobile apps, or its web editor |
| Works offline | Yes, after your first visit | Account sign-in and a connection are needed for cloud features |
| Project file | Open .gcproj (a ZIP with JSON), yours to keep | Proprietary project format |
| Export up to 4K | Yes (depends on your device) | Yes |
| Auto captions | Free and unlimited: Whisper runs on your device, word-level timing, 99 spoken languages plus auto-detect, 24 animated styles, .srt and .vtt download | Available |
| Edit by editing the transcript | Yes: delete words to ripple-cut the video, one-click filler-word and silence removal, one undo for the whole batch | Available |
| Auto-reframe 9:16 / 1:1 / 4:5 | Free: follows the speaker's face on your device, writes keyframes you can edit, split screen for two speakers | Available |
| Background remove / blur / replace, chroma key | Free, on your device, no upload (person segmentation + green/blue screen key) | Available |
| Auto B-roll from free stock | Free: matches Pexels and Pixabay clips to each sentence of your transcript, one click or pick by hand, credits saved in the project and exportable. Needs a connection to search; your video is never uploaded. Only shown when GrabCast has the provider keys set up | Available |
| Auto sound effects on cuts | Free: quiet whoosh on cuts and a pop on B-roll, from GrabCast's own generated sounds, one toggle | Available |
| Auto chapters | Free: topic chapters from your transcript as timeline markers, plus a YouTube-ready list that already follows its rules (first at 00:00, at least 3, each 10 s or more) | Available |
| Auto thumbnail | Free: 3 frame picks (face, sharpness, light) with a bold title, scored by the same checks as our Thumbnail Legibility Checker, 1280 x 720 JPG or PNG, or continue in Template Studio | Available |
| Studio Sound (noise, echo, loudness) | Free, on your device: noise and echo reduction, voice EQ, loudness to YouTube -14 or podcast -16 LUFS, with the measured before and after shown. No upload | Available |
| Music, auto-duck, beat sync | Free generated music (CC0, no licence strings), ducks under speech, markers on the beat and "snap cuts to beat" in one undo. A small library compared with a big catalogue | Available, with a much larger music library |
| Voice-over and dubbing | Free on-device voices (13 English voices): script to voice-over with word-timed captions; captions in any language translated and dubbed into English, timing fitted (never more than 15 % faster), one MP4 plus .srt per language. Voices for other languages are not available on-device yet | Available, with many more voices and languages |
| Repurpose one video | Free: blog article (Markdown + HTML), X / Threads thread, newsletter, LinkedIn post, carousel PNGs in your brand colours, YouTube description with chapters and tags, SRT / VTT and shorts, written on your device from the transcript with a quality check on every output; drafts go to the GrabCast Scheduler on this device | Long video to shorts; no blog, thread, newsletter or carousel export from the same video |
| Effects, templates, stock, other AI tools | Fewer today: no masks or stickers yet | Far more today |
| Native mobile app | No, works in a phone browser | Yes |