--- title: "Page 2 | Descript Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra" description: "Page 2 - Is Descript the right Transcription solution for you? Explore 183 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice." source_url: "https://www.capterra.com/p/230702/Descript/reviews/?page=2" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" publication_date: "2026-10-19" --- Descript 4.6 (185) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/230702/Descript/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated October 19th, 2026 # Page 2 - Reviews of Descript ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 26-50 of 185 available reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Alan A. President Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Descript - Saves You Time and Money " June 21, 2021 4.0 This has been a huge time saver in that I no longer have to outsource the audio and video editing. Also, using the screen recording feature allows me to communicate what is on my screen. I can edit the ums and ahs out and clean up the recording before I share the video with team members or clients. This saves time in having to type out what a tricky customer service type problem might entail. Pros I really like that as a person with no audio or video editing experience, I can create useable short audio and video content for social media, websites and for sharing information. I no longer have to outsource this editing work to Fivrr. Cons As the product grows and more features are added, it become harder to learn the system if you have no editing background. Review Source Verified Reviewer Founder Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "I was amazed! " July 26, 2023 5.0 I was just testing this platform for the sake of it, but I was amazed! The approach to video editing directly on the transcribed script is very interesting. I thought that removing the silences and filler words was amazing, but finding that it can also replace words by cloning the speaker voice and the AI eye contact effect!... amazing. Pros This siftware can be a game changer, its very quick and precise to transcribe and the approach to edit the videos is quite interesting. Automaticaly removes filler words and silences and you can easily edit the videos and audios just by editing the text! Cons The video editor should be improved. Not being able to zoom out of the canvas makes editing the videos very hard, since the boundaries are out of the work area. Review Source Yann I. Consultant Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "A must-have for every video content creator" May 15, 2021 5.0 Pros I have been using Descript for a while now, and have noticed a new series of features being added to the platform. However, even though those additions have been more than welcome, what I consider the platform's top feature is something that has been at its core for quite some time: Descript's transcription tool. In particular, I was really impressed by the accuracy of the transcription tool's AI. If I had to estimate, I would say that the accuracy of the transcriptions Descript has done for my video content has been around 90%, which is really good. Cons While the transcription tool has been very good and accurate, I feel that its user interface could be improved. In fact, it has happened to me a few times to accidentally delete parts of a video (since Descript can be used for video editing too), while I was trying to edit some of the captions/subtitles that were created by the tool's automated transcription feature. Luckily, I have also noticed this in time but this could have very well have led to a video having missing parts because of this "accident". Review Source R Reviewer Podcast Producer Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Such a fan!" June 17, 2021 5.0 I've recommended it over and over for ease of editing to new podcasters. Pros I love the text editing feature. It makes it so much easier to edit visually which is great and easy. Cons The user interface is different than most standard audio editors so there is a learning curve. Review Source Daze M. Digital Marketing Specialist Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Descript is easy to use and easy on the eyes. " August 22, 2025 5.0 I love descript. I feel it is very innovative in this world of editing and the tools they update with actually make sense to the average editor. I do think simpler terms for their workflow would be helpful and an ai/veo option would be very helpful. Pros The Ui/Ux is very clean and intuitive. A lot of products on the market are very cluttered and confusing but descript isn't. I also like the built in dark mode because if you are editing a lot its easier on the eyes. Cons The way to batch export is redundant. It should be simpler and easier to clip up a long form piece of work and simply export all clips, all audios etc in one simple clip. The delineation between markers, compositions, sequences etc is confusing. Review Source R Reviewer Founder Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Use Riverside.fm" June 24, 2025 2.0 Fine. Customer service does their thing when you try to get your money back because the product just doesn’t quite fit. Go use Riverside.fm for the same thing for cheaper with better quality, better features, more customization, and reel format export. Pros In-line editor works okay. Highlighting to create scenes is a feature I’m glad they have. Export to google docs is a + for speed. Cons \-Classic money capture play. Calling it “seats” might make you think you’re Salesforce, but you’re target market is mainly one man or woman shows trying to learn. Licking people up for a year doesn’t sold your problem of achieving consistently growing ARR, having the best product for your target market does that. -Bait and switch on features for Hobbyist necessitates upgrade to higher price tier level for feature that should be built in. Money trap, then bait and switch. -No export into reel format video; means to do this you have to stretch and lose video quality. Review Source KZ Katja Z. Sr. Learning Partner Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "Great Audio Editor - Beginner Friendly " November 29, 2024 5.0 Descript is a game-changer for anyone looking to streamline their audio and video editing process--especially for beginners. It has great features like automatic transcription, screen recording, and text-based editing. The ability to edit media files as easily as editing a Word document saves significant time and effort. Pros Extremely user friendly. I was able to get started editing audio files immediately. This software is so easy to use and really speeds up the editing process. Cons It's cloud based, so you can't use it without internet access. While it's very easy to use, it lacks some of the features that come with more complex systems (i.e. complex audio processing options, like equalizers and advanced effects) Review Source R Reviewer Sole Proprietor Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "An Amazing Podcast Editing Tool!" September 6, 2023 5.0 Descript has definitely helped me grow my workflow. I'm exporting and transferring files way less. And it has also allowed me to dive into simple video editing for video podcasts and social clips. Pros Really love how easy it is to edit audio and video with text. Searching for specific phrases or moments via text instead of scrolling and trying to find it saves so much time! Cons The audio mixing features are still a bit lacking in my mind, especially if you get into a more complicated composition. But I work around by mixing and exporting audio in Pro Tools and dragging it in for the edit and music! Review Source R Reviewer Technical sales representative Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "The best AI for image/video editing and transcription" June 16, 2023 5.0 My overall experience has been one of the best I have had with AI’s. I just love how Descript works and offers a wide variety of functions that can make my work more bearable and easy. Pros The things that I liked the most about Descript is the transcription tool, because you can edit it easily and to various languages. I also liked the video editing tool, because it has many options for you to edit and decor your video with different and original graphics (it has fun gifs, images, videos, and you can even upload your own multimedia material). Finally, I can say that Descript is very complete and has efficient tools that are really easy to use. Cons There’s nothing I would complain about on the features, tools or functionality of Descript. Review Source Alex C. Lead Video Producer Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Descript has great features for Podcasters, but lacks in areas for Professional Video Editors" June 23, 2023 4.0 Descript has been a daily tool my team and I use for transcription, podcast editing, and audio editing. It's an amazing tool for seamless collaboration with clients and internal teams without constantly having to upload and download files. And an great tool to add basic cuts and B-roll to clips, however it does have its own set of bugs and a learning curve for new users Pros \- Very easy to transcribe audio and manipulate any transcription error- Great collaboration tool with clients and team review, without sending the project file back and forth- Great tool for finding and downloading broll for video- Very easy to add captions to video Cons \- Several bugs throughout (the issues changes throughout each update)- No offline mode solution (You have to upload media files to the cloud every time, large files can a long time- A bit of a learning curve for video editing features Review Source R Reviewer Transcriber Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Descript has made transcription better" May 15, 2022 4.0 Pros The features i liked about Descript are, -it has a automatic speech to text. -you can also change settings to suit what's best for the user - it's friendly user - one can edit videos as well - it has different variety options in one software which makes it accessible - fike documents are kept safe and its a trustworthy software which i would recommend to a beginner who doesn't know and wants to learn how to transcribe - and also there are mini courses so one can understand the software better for which ii think it's a great feature to have. Cons It tends to mulfunction which makes it difficult to use Tye software can sometimes crash due to having more users on the software which i believe it has to be taken into consideration, considering that its a used software all around Review Source R Reviewer Owner Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Excellent for podcast editing" June 25, 2021 5.0 I love Descript and have recommended it to several other podcast editors who now use it too. I use it for a "story edit" of each episode, taking the full audio then chopping and rearranging it, plus taking out filler words etc. You can do compression/EQ/music/bumpers/etc. in Descript but I prefer to export to a full blown DAW for that part. Descript would be great for this stuff if you are editing your own podcast and audio engineering isn't your primary focus. Pros Being able to edit text and have that automatically edit the audio is an amazing time saver. I was skeptical of the quality of edits this would provide, but 95% of the time the cross fades etc. it adds are spot on. For that 5% of the time where it's not quite right, you can easily adjust things using the waveform editor. Cons The transcription service seems to have been primarily trained on white/European-descent speakers. I've edited several episodes with African guests and the transcription is awful. You can still use it to edit the audio OK, with some laughs at the mistakes it made. But, if you want to publish a transcript then you're basically rewriting the whole thing. Review Source R Reviewer Co-founder Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Makes editing a podcast so much easier!" June 25, 2021 5.0 It's been great. We started a podcast with no background in audio production and were doing fine with Audacity, but Descript just changed what we felt we could do, and how much time it takes to do it. I've recommended it to many people already and I expect I'll recommend it to many more. Pros It's very easy to use as a novice. There are lots of functionality buried within that I know I'm not utilizing, but I don't need it to get my job done. I love the ability to edit the audio by editing text and adding music onto my podcast voice files is straightforward. This is by far the easiest editing tool I've tried. Cons There are lots of features that I know exist but that I don't see or that I don't know how or when I should use them. This is on me to learn, but I do wish tools would provide access to mini-tutorials from within the main workspace so that when you are working you could better identify whether that functionality you've never used might help to solve your problem. Review Source R Reviewer Director Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Missing link software - hope it sticks to its strengths!" June 24, 2021 4.0 I love descript (although less than I did since the video editing features were added) Descript solves several problems for me. It helps both me and my clients go through interviews more quickly and accurately - and helps with dialogue choices early on in an edit. The compilations I make in Descript I can recreate easily and quickly in Premiere. And then at the end of my process I can output with subtitles - accurately and easily. If I am making animations then I can get accurately time-stamped voice recordings and generate audiograms which make it easy to time the animations precisely. Pros The product is pretty easy to use straight off the bat but its when you get the transcripts back that things really get interesting. The way the text and audio/video files are linked is totally special. You can change one and the other follows. You can copy and paste text and the media comes along too. Once you've compiled your rough you can export Cons Software feels a bit slower and bloated now due to the addition of the editing features - and a bit more sensitive to handle. I have to be more accurate when I click! Review Source R Reviewer Podcast producer Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Transformative product with lots of bugs to work through" June 21, 2021 5.0 We save tons of time with Descript. It also helps us collaborate as producers (it's so easy to jump into a project and help with a specific subtask). It also helps us collaborate with external stakeholders, like clients or consultants. They can see the progress, provide feedback in a simple way and even write into it if we give them that access. Pros Editing text instead of audio has revolutionized my company's workflow. We make podcasts and it has saved us tons of time to use Descript for highly produced shows. It doesn't really help with weekly shows that require minimal editing and fast turnarounds. But for months-long narrative projects, it is so incredibly easy to edit text linked to audio and then script around that. We then export to Audition or Protools to mix and score. But having this step along the way saves many hours of time and improved collaboration with internal and external people. Cons It's really buggy! Things stop working frequently. Then Descript fixes it. Then there's another bug. I have faith that they'll get to a point where I'm not running into bugs every week or every few days, but it is frustrating for now. Review Source R Reviewer Audio Engineer Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "The future of podcasting is still just over the horizon" May 21, 2021 4.0 Overall, using Descript is a super positive experience. We're able to preview episode scripts with clients which makes the approval process a better experience for them. Our scriptwriters are able to work directly with the audio and transcript at the same time and when they're done, we can export the raw project for cleanup and sound design in an external DAW which is awesome forethought from Descript. With other projects, editing and sound design and exporting can be done entirely in Descript and I'm really happy with the results. Despite its limitations and bugs, I still struggle not to recommend Descript to anyone making a podcast. Whatever you're doing, there is a good chance you will find a place for it in your process, just maybe not as much or as reliably as you would like. Pros Descript is a strong collection of audio tools that just weren't available when I started making podcasts. The ability to organise, collaborate and publish an audio project in the cloud with a friendly interface is great and used to be a huge pain to figure out. Editing audio with the transcript and the waveform at the same time allows you to skip a bunch of technicalities and focus on your creativity. Video capabilities expand the possibilities, and the overall suite of tools make me rethink entirely what podcast editing can or should be in a good way. Cons Stability is the biggest problem I have with this. After working on about a lot of different projects with different collaborators, I'm still coming up against things that make it freeze, make it crash, or break a project (usually salvageable at least), and end up needing to work around issues to keep things rolling. Also, while Descript has a lot of features, in comparison to any long-standing audio software it leaves so much to be desired. There are many missing tools that would add a lot of room for creativity and technical cleanup. Things like audio meters, noise gate, spectrum analysis, filters to automate creatively, ducking, but also the more unexpected effects like reverb, stereo delay, pitch shifting, layered FX, these are all things podcasters of any kind might want to use for effect at some point and many folks I know can't, or don't want to tell their stories without them. This is especially true for video which misses on some basic transformations like rotation for text and images. Review Source R Reviewer Programme Manager Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Fantastic Must Have Software!" June 25, 2021 5.0 Overall the experience is extremely positive, so much so I now use this software daily. The business benefits to me are astounding, allowing me to transcribe, overdub and use the many features on descript to make my life easier, make me more productive and increase my efficiency. Pros Transcription, text search, the ability to use the software effortlessly means this is a crucial piece of software to me both personally and professionally. I love the feature of after transcription, clicking on a word and playing the video from there, such a simple feature but I am sure was very hard to implement from a programming perspective. Cons I think it would be great to see a thumbnail overview of projects currently being worked on, having that option as well as list view would be very helpful to me. Sometimes the software can be buggy in terms of asking something to be transcribed and it says this cannot be completed at this time. The other thing I like least is after you've imported multiple files and transcribed them, the software can re-order them, then the videos and transcription are out of sequence, there is no easy way to re-order them and get them to where you want them to be. Review Source R Reviewer CEO Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "This Ai software is like no other" September 5, 2022 5.0 I love this software it is one of the most realistic Ai text to speech out there in 2022 hands down. You can adjust the spelling of the word if the Ai does not pronounce it correctly and adjust the length of time between words in increments. I've loaded 1,000 words in at a time or more with no problem and it only takes a minute or two to process then it's ready to go, in other words, it is fast. Pros 1) I like the realistic-sounding voices 2) I like the large selection of voices 3) I like the ability to change the pitch and speed of each voice 4) I like the male and female options 5) I like the fact that you can copy and paste large amounts of text at one time to edit 6) Cons 1) The learning curve can be a bit much 2) Not enough tutorials that get right to the point Review Source R Reviewer Founder Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Most amazing audio editing tool I’ve used in 20 years" June 17, 2021 5.0 I love editing audio and video again. I feel like I’m editing a taking Word Document. Simply amazing. Try it and you won’t go back to editing only using a waveform. Pros This is a whole new way to edit audio and video content. I love the fact that there are frequent updates and new features. Simply amazing to edit content. Cons Not much in terms of audio processing. No noise reduction, etc. Review Source R Reviewer Podcaster, teacher, writer Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Language compression for better listening" June 25, 2021 5.0 I am committed to continuing with Descript since it enables an ease of editing I haven’t found anywhere else. Pros My favorite aspect of this software is the ability to delete filler words, shorten pauses between phrases and make my guests sound so much better than they do in the rough interview track. I love being able to edit the audio file by deleting things from the transcribed text and being able to go back and forth between editing in the text and editing in the audio file. The last episode I edited on descript cut 20 minutes off the interview. Then I bring that edited track into garage band to add intro/outro music, etc. ( i know I’m supposed to be able to do all this inside descript but I haven’t taken the time to learn how to do that. Cons Poor transcription of non native speakers. Not knowing how to add in existing transcript and match it with the raw interview track before editing. Review Source R Reviewer Podcast Strategist Used the software for: 3-5 years ### "My go-to transcription and text-based assembly service!" June 18, 2021 4.0 It's a solid product that, as mentioned, will change the way podcasts are made in the future. Pros Descript is changing the way the next generation will make podcasts. And for old dogs like me too! It's a refreshing break from the DAW-focused world we live in today. Cons It's still a bit buggy on my M1 Mac, with frequent crashes/restarts. Always recoverable, but it does make me reticent to more integrate the tool into my workflow. Review Source Blake P. Operations Manager Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Descript: The Megatron of Podcast Software" January 13, 2023 5.0 I can't thank the company enough for creating this software. We're really benefitting from its capacity and feature-load. Pros I don't know where to begin with this software and how it has formatively changed the game for my organization's podcast. It has truly cut our work time in half and opened up that free time to accomplish other tasks. From the auto-transcription to the voice recognition, Descript seamlessly integrates audio into text form which helps us build our scripts for each podcast episode. It's fascinating how powerful it is - and what's more, Descript is constantly updating the software, so new features are always popping up. Cons The cost is definitely hard for our limited nonprofit budget, but otherwise, I don't have any dislikes-- even the mistakes the auto-transcription makes are passable because we're still saving so much time. Review Source Beau R. VP of Marketing Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Game Changer" May 19, 2021 5.0 Overall it's great. As I said earlier, for people who are not experienced with editing software who need to create videos, audio files, podcasts, etc, it's a game changer in terms of ease of use, productivity, and enabling people with not video/audio editing skills. Pros Many startups with new products use the terms disruptive, game changer, etc. But, in the end few actually are. Based on my experience, Descript is one of those products that really is a game changer. They've taken a fundamentally different approach to video and audio editing by applying a universally familiar document editing UX to video and audio editing. This removes much of the complexity of traditional editing software and puts it into a format that's accessible by virtually anyone. The integrated transcription function is really useful and the Overdub feature is very cool for being able to make edits without re-recording and splicing in audio. And the way it's all integrated with the cloud with one click publishing makes the usability very smooth and frictionless. Cons As with any type of new software and when there's a new UX concept, there is a learning curve and things don't always work the way you would expect. Some people experienced with traditional editing software may find the UX a little limiting, but I don't think that's the type of user Descript is targeting with this solution. I've found the learning curve to be very fast at the beginning , so you can be up and running with it and creating content quickly. Once you need to access more advanced features it takes a little bit of time to figure out where the feature is and how to use it, but nothing out of the ordinary. I think it's just that the initial experience of being able to edit video/audio in a word processor is so good that you are then surprised when some of the more advanced features are not quite as intuitive. Review Source HZ Heather Z. Owner Used the software for: 1-3 years ### "Do You Edit? This Software Will Change Your Life!" June 17, 2021 4.0 I LOVE this product. I tell everyone I know with a podcast to use this software. It seriously has changed my life. I'm able to edit much quicker and can cut and paste easily by viewing the text. Pros Taking out filler words takes only a few seconds - this is an amazing feature that can save HOURS of time. Not only does it work for audio, but the video is nearly seamless when using this feature. Cons Due to it being on the cloud, the video is slow to respond when editing. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Producer Used the software for: Less than 1 year ### "Not yet stable enough for professional use" May 20, 2021 4.0 Pros This is could be a game changing piece of software. it combines transcription and audio editing into one. The option to collaborate in the cloud like a google doc opens up many possibilities. But there is one big downside.... Cons It is not yet reliable enough. There have been two occasions in last few months where Descript just stopped working. I lost days' worth of work on broadcast critical projects. The first time an entire project wouldn't open and just hung. That meant all of the work for an entire podcast episode was inaccessible. I contacted tech support and tweeted them. I heard nothing back. After a friday and weekend of panic and frustration, the project did open. Perhaps stupidly, i carried on using Descript. A month or so later a Composition (their name for a document within a project) I was working on just stopped working. The error message just said press reload. But that did nothing. Because it is cloud based I had nothing on my hard drive to try and salvage. it just stopped working. i lost at least 8 hours of work. i contacted tech support and their discord server. Still haven't had a response. I had to do the work all over again. If you work in professional audio, sadly my advice is to stay away from Descript till it gets more reliable. Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.