Vidqu
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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 translator and AI dubbing tool with a freemium tier.
Best for creators experimenting with dubbing on a tight budget — fast turnaround on short clips. Pricing: freemium.
What it is
Vidqu is a smaller-shop AI dubbing app aimed at the same TikTok / Shorts creator segment as BlipCut. Differentiates on price more than feature depth.
Watch out for: 100+ language vendor claim. Watermark on free tier. Small company — long-term roadmap less certain than ElevenLabs/Rask.
Install / use
Go to Vidqu vidqu.comWhat people actually do with Vidqu-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 ZapierMake.comAmazon S3SlackGoogle DriveEmergent
Features
| Speaker diarization | No |
| Word-level timestamps | No |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | 100 |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Vidqu vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Vidqu | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Products | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | Not verified | $6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free |
| Speaker identification | Not verified | Named in the summary, key quotes and chapters |
| Word timestamps | Not verified | Yes |
| Streaming | Not verified | No |
| Languages | 100 | 99 |
| Platforms | Web | Web, API, MCP |
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Frequently asked about Vidqu
Is Vidqu free?
Partly. Vidqu has a free tier with paid plans above it — published pricing: freemium. Free-tier limits change more often than this page does; verify on the vendor's pricing page.
Does Vidqu work on Mac, Windows and Linux?
Vidqu 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 Vidqu?
There is nothing to install — Vidqu is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
How many languages does Vidqu support?
Vidqu lists 100 languages. That is the Whisper-family multilingual set, so quality varies by language — English and the large European languages are strongest.
What are the limitations of Vidqu?
100+ language vendor claim. Watermark on free tier. Small company — long-term roadmap less certain than ElevenLabs/Rask.
Who is Vidqu best for?
Creators experimenting with dubbing on a tight budget — fast turnaround on short clips.
Is Vidqu open source?
No. Vidqu 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 Vidqu desktop app?
No — Vidqu is browser-only. There is nothing to install and nothing runs on your machine.
What kind of tool is Vidqu?
In this directory Vidqu is filed under ai dubbing, translation as a product.
What are the alternatives to Vidqu?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/vidqu-alternatives comparing Vidqu with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate Vidqu-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 Vidqu?
Vidqu 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 Vidqu?
$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 Vidqu 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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