# Chat Octopus

> AI media copilot. Describe what you want in a chat and get finished media: edited videos, subtitles, thumbnails, transcriptions, voiceovers, and motion graphics. No timelines, no logo on your files.

Chat Octopus is a chat interface backed by professional media tools: video editing, transcription, subtitles, thumbnails, voiceover, and motion graphics. You describe the outcome, it does the work, and you download the finished file.

## Pricing

- [Pricing](https://chatoctopus.com/pricing): credit-based plans. A credit is one unit of the assistant's work, and every charge shows up on a receipt in the chat.
- Free: $0, 30 credits a day, no card needed.
- Starter: $19 a month, 2,000 credits a month.
- Pro: $49 a month, 6,000 credits a month.
- Plan credits last the billing month; top-up credits never expire. Upgrades apply right away, downgrades at the end of the period.

## Guides

- [How to Get the Text Out of an Image Without Retyping It](https://chatoctopus.com/guides/extract-text-from-an-image): Why free converters return a wall of characters, what to say when you send the picture instead, which parts of the result to check, and what to ask after.
- [What B-Roll Is, and How to Get Some When You Only Shot Yourself](https://chatoctopus.com/guides/what-is-b-roll): A-roll is the take carrying the words. B-roll is what the picture cuts to while those words keep running. Four ways to get it from one recording.
- [YouTube Thumbnails: What Makes Someone Stop, and How to Get Four Options Made](https://chatoctopus.com/guides/make-a-youtube-thumbnail): Why a frame grabbed from your video fails at thumbnail size, the four hooks that work, and how to get four finished options back with the reasoning attached.
- [Finding One Moment in Two Hours of Video](https://chatoctopus.com/guides/analyze-a-video-with-ai): Ask footage where something happens and get a time back. How exact those times are, how much video a single pass can read, and where it stops helping.
- [Motion Graphics: What They Are, and How to Describe the One You Want](https://chatoctopus.com/guides/create-motion-graphics): The name bars, title cards and counting numbers in other people's videos. What each one is, when a video needs it, and how to describe one precisely enough.
- [How to Fix Bad Audio: What Comes Out, and What Never Will](https://chatoctopus.com/guides/remove-background-noise-from-audio): A two-minute listening test that tells you whether a bad recording can be rescued, which noises lift off a voice, and which ones are baked into it for good.
- [How to Turn a Recording into Text You Can Actually Use](https://chatoctopus.com/guides/transcribe-audio-to-text): What automatic transcription gets right and wrong, how to ask so the transcript is usable rather than merely accurate, and what to do with the text after.
- [Captions vs Subtitles: What's the Difference and When to Use Each](https://chatoctopus.com/guides/captions-vs-subtitles): Captions vs subtitles: what separates them, the open vs closed distinction that changes your workflow, and how to pick the right one for every platform.
- [Templates: How to Save a Request You Keep Retyping](https://chatoctopus.com/guides/using-templates): A template is a request you already wrote, saved under a name. How to build one out of a message that worked, and what separates the good ones.

## Comparisons

- [Chat Octopus vs Canva for Video](https://chatoctopus.com/compare/canva-alternatives): Chat Octopus turns a long recording into captioned vertical clips from a plain-language brief, and redoes them in a sentence. Canva keeps graphics and decks.
- [Opus Clip Alternative: Chat Octopus vs Opus Clip](https://chatoctopus.com/compare/opus-clip-alternatives): An honest, feature-by-feature look at Chat Octopus as an Opus Clip alternative, including the clipping jobs where Opus Clip is still the sharper tool.
- [Descript Alternative: Chat Octopus vs Descript](https://chatoctopus.com/compare/descript-alternatives): An honest, feature-by-feature look at Chat Octopus as a Descript alternative, including the workflows where Descript is still the better pick.

## Product docs

- [How to Add Subtitles to a Video](https://chatoctopus.com/docs/add-subtitles-to-video): How to add subtitles to a video: upload it, ask for captions in the style you want, and download a subtitled MP4 plus a matching SRT in minutes.
- [How to Summarize a Document](https://chatoctopus.com/docs/summarize-a-document): How to summarize a document with Chat Octopus: upload a PDF, Word file, or plain text and get bullet points, an executive brief, or just the action items.
- [Getting Started with Chat Octopus](https://chatoctopus.com/docs/getting-started): Sign up free, describe what you want made, and download the finished file. What to type in a first request, and how to correct a result you do not like.
- [How Chat Octopus Works, Step by Step](https://chatoctopus.com/docs/using-chat): Hit send and watch the work happen: live progress on every step, a question when your call is needed, and a conversation that remembers the whole project.

## Tools

- [Chat with a PDF](https://chatoctopus.com/tools/pdf-chat): Ask a PDF for the exact wording and the page it sits on, pull a table off a page, and read a scan. What to ask, and where a long file strains.
- [Analyze Any Video with AI](https://chatoctopus.com/tools/video-analyzer): Upload a video and get a full breakdown: shot-by-shot descriptions, transcript, key moments, and visual summaries. No scrubbing. Free AI video analysis.
- [AI Image Analyzer: See What Is in Any Image](https://chatoctopus.com/tools/image-analyzer): Free AI image analyzer: upload a photo or screenshot and extract text, detect objects, pull color palettes, or get detailed descriptions in seconds.
- [Transcribe Audio to Text](https://chatoctopus.com/tools/audio-transcription): Transcribe audio to text in minutes. Upload an MP3, WAV, or M4A and get a transcript timed to the word. Free AI audio transcription tool.
- [Chat with a Spreadsheet](https://chatoctopus.com/tools/excel-chat): Ask a workbook about any of its sheets, then have every formula recalculated and the broken cells named. Answers in the thread or a new file back.
- [Make Sense of a CSV Export](https://chatoctopus.com/tools/csv-analyzer): Upload a bank, card or app export and ask what is in it: charges that repeat, totals by merchant, a message log counted by month. What happens to the file.
- [Get the Short Version of a Long Document](https://chatoctopus.com/tools/document-summarizer): Upload a Word file, PDF, deck or text and name what the summary is for. Choose the length and shape, get the pages behind it, and see what it left out.
- [Generate Subtitles and Captions for Any Video](https://chatoctopus.com/tools/subtitle-generator): Upload a video and get accurate, timed subtitles in seconds. Auto captions styled how you want: burn them in or export the caption file. Free to start.
- [Create Thumbnails That Get Clicks](https://chatoctopus.com/tools/thumbnail-creator): Make YouTube thumbnails with AI: build one from your footage or a description, refine it in plain English, and download a 1280x720 PNG we never stamp a logo on.
- [Edit Video by Describing What You Want](https://chatoctopus.com/tools/video-editor): Upload footage and describe the edit. Cut, trim, merge, add music, adjust speed, or change what is in the shot: remove an object, restyle a scene, relight it. No timeline, no learning curve. Free AI video editor.
- [Text to Speech That Comes With Captions](https://chatoctopus.com/tools/text-to-speech): Paste a script and get natural voiceover in multiple voices, with matching SRT and VTT captions. Assign a voice per speaker. Free AI text to speech.
- [Turn Anything Into a Vertical Reel](https://chatoctopus.com/tools/reel-maker): Turn an article, a long video, or a set of photos into a vertical reel with burned-in captions. No logo of ours on it. Free AI reel maker, no editor needed.
- [Clean Up a Rough Recording](https://chatoctopus.com/tools/audio-enhancer): Remove background noise, hum and hiss from a recording, level mismatched speakers, and trim dead air. Upload audio or video and get a clean file back.
- [Generate Video From a Text Prompt](https://chatoctopus.com/tools/ai-video-generator): Free AI video generator: make clips from a text prompt or from your own images, then stitch them into one finished video with captions and voiceover. We never stamp a logo on your file.
- [Compress Your Video Under the Limit](https://chatoctopus.com/tools/video-compressor): Compress video to a target size for Discord, email, or upload limits. Change format, resolution, or bitrate, then caption it. Free, and no logo of ours on it.

## Who it's for

- [AI Video Editing for YouTubers](https://chatoctopus.com/for/youtubers): Edit videos, generate subtitles, create thumbnails, and repurpose long-form into Shorts. All through chat. Built for YouTubers who need speed without sacrificing quality.
- [AI Media Production for Marketing Teams](https://chatoctopus.com/for/marketing-teams): Create campaign videos, branded social clips, and multi-format assets through conversation. No editing software, no designer bottleneck. Built for marketing teams that produce more content than their headcount suggests.
- [AI Media Workflows for Agencies](https://chatoctopus.com/for/agencies): Produce rough cuts, subtitles, thumbnails, and polished deliverables for clients through chat. Repeatable workflows, consistent quality, no per-project freelancer costs. Built for agencies that handle production across multiple accounts.
- [AI Audio and Video for Podcasters](https://chatoctopus.com/for/podcasters): Edit audio, generate transcripts, cut highlight clips, and create social-ready video from your podcast. All through chat. Built for podcasters who produce more than just the episode.