Perfect captions, fast.
MalcolmCC™ turns your video into accurate, perfectly timed WebVTT captions in minutes — built for instructional creators who need every word to land exactly right. Have an approved script? Your exact words become the captions, word-for-word — not a machine transcript you have to fix.
First 15 mins free · full editor · real VTT export · no credit card
How it works
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Add your media
Upload straight from your browser — multi-gigabyte files are fine, and an interrupted upload resumes where it left off. Already hosting it online? Point MalcolmCC™ at the URL instead — nothing to re-upload, and your proprietary media stays where it lives.
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Get timed captions in minutes
Speech recognition times every word against the audio and cuts clean, readable cues. Have a script? Add it and your approved text is used word-for-word, bold and italics included.
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Polish, then export
Review and quickly polish in an editor built for exactly this job — drag cue edges on the timeline, split and combine, undo anything. Free silence detection in the timeline helps with quick and accurate placement. Then export WebVTT.
Why MalcolmCC™
Increasing the quality of captions across the internet by helping the people who create them — that’s the mission.
Fast and hassle-free
Upload a video, get accurately timed captions in minutes, review and polish, export. No blank-timeline authoring, no format wrangling, no busywork between you and done.
Smart transcriptions
AI speech recognition paired with custom alignment algorithms precisely times every word and cuts natural, readable cues — whether you use our transcription or supply your own script. About the WebVTT output →
Use your own script
Have approved copy? It becomes the captions word-for-word. We still transcribe your audio to time each line precisely, but the words stay exactly yours — bold and italics included, not a machine transcript you have to fix. No script? The built-in transcriber will draft one for you. How script-based captions work →
Remote media
Already host your videos? Point MalcolmCC™ at the file’s URL instead of uploading — captions are timed against your hosted media directly. When your media is already online that’s a huge time saver, and your videos stay in your possession: nothing re-uploaded, handed over, or stored on our side.
Silence detection
Quiet stretches are detected automatically and drawn on the timeline, so cues land against real pauses — no scrubbing back and forth to find where a pause starts.
Your whole team, included
Share a project as an editor, who can change the captions, or a viewer, who can read and export but not edit. Invite by email — they don’t need an account yet — and see who else has the project open while you work. Included on every plan, no per-seat charge, no cap.
Pricing
Based on minutes of source media, counted once when a file is transcribed. Re-cuts, edits, and re-exports are free.
Free to start,
then pay as you go
$6 / hour of media
- First 15 minutes free, all features
- No card needed to start
- Pay as you go — 0 cost for 0 use
- 90-day media retention
Standard
- 5 hours of media per month
- Extra hours $6
- Unlimited media retention
- $240/yr — two months free
Pro
- 25 hours of media per month
- Extra hours $3
- Unlimited media retention
- $990/yr — two months free
Cancel anytime — subscriptions stop renewing at the end of the billing period. Payments are handled securely by Stripe; we never store your card details. See our billing & refund terms, or email support@malcolmcc.com with any billing question.
How we compare
The short version: the most capable, at the lowest rate in the field.
Cost
| MalcolmCC™ | Rev | Sonix | Happy Scribe | Descript | |
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| Pay as you go | $6/hr · $0 upfront | $15/hr · prepaid | $10/hr · prepaid | $12/hr · prepaid credits | — |
| Entry subscription | $24/mo · 5 hrs of media | $29.99/mo | from $25/mo | $17/mo · 2 hrs | $24/mo · billed annually |
Features
| MalcolmCC™ | Rev | Sonix | Happy Scribe | Descript | |
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| Bring your own script | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| AI transcription | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Caption editor with timing control | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Silence detection | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| Remote media | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| Team access (editor / viewer) | ✓ ∞ seats | per seat | per seat | per seat | per seat |
| All features on every plan | ✓ | varies by plan | varies by plan | varies by plan | varies by plan |
“—” means not offered, or not listed in their published plans and features. See how we compare to Rev →