Edpuzzle

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The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free: a recording up to 20 minutes transcribes in full, a longer one is previewed, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, and credits never expire.

Video-lesson platform with caption support and embedded quizzes.

Web, iOS, Android  ·  subscription

TL;DR

Best for k-12 teachers turning YouTube videos into quiz-augmented lessons with caption support. Pricing: subscription.

Category
Products
Pricing
subscription
Platforms
Web, iOS, Android

What it is

Edpuzzle lets K-12 teachers turn videos into interactive lessons with embedded quizzes and notes. Caption tracks ride along from the source video; Edpuzzle itself doesn't generate transcripts.

Best for: K-12 teachers turning YouTube videos into quiz-augmented lessons with caption support.
Watch out for: Captions come from source video (e.g. YouTube); Edpuzzle does not transcribe.

What people actually do with Edpuzzle-style transcription

The tool is the means. These are the jobs — each one priced at published rates, each one wired up on its own page.

Wire it into Google DriveYouTubeAmazon S3n8nZapierMake.com

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supportedNone
HIPAA eligibleNo

Edpuzzle vs Whipscribe

FeatureEdpuzzleWhipscribe
CategoryProductsTranscription APIs
PricingNot verified$6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free
Speaker identificationNot verifiedNamed in the summary, key quotes and chapters
Word timestampsNot verifiedYes
StreamingNot verifiedNo
Languages—99
PlatformsWeb, iOS, AndroidWeb, API, MCP

Alternatives to Edpuzzle

Frequently asked about Edpuzzle

How much does Edpuzzle cost?

Edpuzzle is a paid product. Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.

Does Edpuzzle work on Mac, Windows and Linux?

Edpuzzle runs on Web, iOS and Android.

How do I get started with Edpuzzle?

There is nothing to install — Edpuzzle is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.

What are the limitations of Edpuzzle?

Captions come from source video (e.g. YouTube); Edpuzzle does not transcribe.

Who is Edpuzzle best for?

K-12 teachers turning YouTube videos into quiz-augmented lessons with caption support.

Is Edpuzzle open source?

No. Edpuzzle is a proprietary product. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.

What kind of tool is Edpuzzle?

In this directory Edpuzzle is filed under lms as a product.

What are the alternatives to Edpuzzle?

There is a side-by-side page at /tools/edpuzzle-alternatives comparing Edpuzzle with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.

Can I automate Edpuzzle-style transcription without running it myself?

Yes. If what you want is transcripts rather than the tool itself, Whipscribe does the same job as a hosted API: submit a file or URL, poll a job id, pull the result as txt, json, srt, vtt or docx. $0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. The automation recipes on this site show it wired to Drive folders, Zoom recordings, S3 buckets and no-code platforms.

How is Whipscribe different from Edpuzzle?

Edpuzzle is another vendor's product; Whipscribe is a per-minute transcription service. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and every job returns five formats plus an AI summary, quotes and topics. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.

What does transcription cost if I use Whipscribe instead of Edpuzzle?

$0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum: a 3-hour recording is about $2.16, a thousand-hour archive is about $720 once. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, so you can see what your recording holds before paying anything.

Where is the Edpuzzle category heading?

Three things are moving across the whole speech-to-text market right now: summaries, action items and speaker insights generated on top of the transcript rather than sold separately; private, secured deployment where the audio never leaves a boundary you control; and agent access — transcription exposed as a tool that Claude, Cursor or a workflow runner can call directly. Whipscribe ships all three today: per-job insights, our own servers, and an MCP server.

Whipscribe is a hosted transcription service. If you want transcripts without running infrastructure, paste a URL or drop a file in the form below — you'll have a transcript in seconds.

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