OOONA

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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.

Cloud subtitle authoring and project-management suite used by media-localisation vendors.

Web  ·  subscription · contact sales

TL;DR

Best for subtitling vendors managing freelancer teams, QC and delivery against OTT spec sheets. Pricing: subscription · contact sales.

Category
Products
Pricing
subscription · contact sales
Platforms
Web

What it is

OOONA is a browser-based subtitle authoring suite plus a project-management layer used by media-localisation companies. Supports Netflix, Disney+ and broadcast deliverable specs out of the box.

Best for: Subtitling vendors managing freelancer teams, QC and delivery against OTT spec sheets.
Watch out for: Sold per-seat per-month; mostly used by professional localisation shops, not creators.

Install / use

Go to OOONA ooona.net

What people actually do with OOONA-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 timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supportedNone
HIPAA eligibleNo

OOONA vs Whipscribe

FeatureOOONAWhipscribe
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
PlatformsWebWeb, API, MCP

Alternatives to OOONA

Frequently asked about OOONA

How much does OOONA cost?

OOONA does not publish a self-serve price — it is quoted by the vendor on contact. Expect an enterprise-style agreement rather than a card-and-go signup.

Does OOONA work on Mac, Windows and Linux?

OOONA runs in the browser, so it works on any desktop OS with a modern browser, and on phones and tablets.

How do I get started with OOONA?

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

What are the limitations of OOONA?

Sold per-seat per-month; mostly used by professional localisation shops, not creators.

Who is OOONA best for?

Subtitling vendors managing freelancer teams, QC and delivery against OTT spec sheets.

Is OOONA open source?

No. OOONA 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.

Is there a OOONA desktop app?

No — OOONA is browser-only. There is nothing to install and nothing runs on your machine.

What kind of tool is OOONA?

In this directory OOONA is filed under subtitle authoring as a product.

What are the alternatives to OOONA?

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

Can I automate OOONA-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 OOONA?

OOONA 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 OOONA?

$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 OOONA 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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