Simon Says vs Trint Comparison 2026
Simon Says exports a transcript straight into Premiere or Resolve and builds a rough cut from the lines you select, for $20 a month with two hours included, or $15 a month paid yearly. Trint transcribes at newsroom scale with live transcription from a phone and several people editing one file at once, for $79 a seat a month, the same rate annually since $948 a year works out to no discount at all. Trint costs about four times as much for scale and collaboration a solo editor rarely needs.
At a glance
- Simon Says starts cheaper, at $20.
- Neither has a free tier.
Side by side
Simon Says | Trint | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $20 | From $79 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Paid subscription | Free trial, then paid |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export |
Simon Says
Transcription built to land in an edit
Simon Says transcribes and translates, then exports into the editing software the footage is already in rather than handing back a text file to retype. The transcript editor pairs with a visual subtitle editor for checking how captions sit on the picture. An assembly mode on the paid tiers lets a rough cut be built by selecting lines of the transcript, which is the feature documentary editors buy it for.
Our note
The break-even is a little over an hour a month, and below that the pay as you go tier is the right answer. Assembly mode is the feature worth paying the subscription for, and it is the one nothing else in this category does properly.
Trint
Transcription built for newsrooms
Trint transcribes and translates at newsroom scale, with live transcription from a phone, shared drives for a team and an editor that keeps text locked to audio while several people work in the same file. It is the dearest thing in this category by a distance. What that buys is unlimited volume under a fair-use cap, 50 languages in and 70 out.
Why people weigh these two
- Trint instead of Simon Says
- Trint is built for newsrooms at $79, the closest match for transcription that has to survive an edit.
- Simon Says instead of Trint
- Simon Says exports a transcript that drops straight into an editing timeline, from $20, built for one editor rather than several people in the same file.
Which one should you pick
Pick Simon Says if you are one editor who wants the transcript to become the edit: assembly mode and direct export into the timeline are the reason to pay $20 a month, or $15 annually, rather than transcribe elsewhere and retype.
Pick Trint if several people transcribe or edit the same file, live, every day, like a newsroom or a production team. $79 a seat a month buys unlimited volume under a fair-use cap, but archival projects and bulk volume work are excluded by name, so read that footnote before assuming unlimited means unlimited.
Common questions
- Which one is cheaper?
- Simon Says by a wide margin: $20 a month, or $15 annually, against Trint's $79 a seat a month, about four times more.
- Does Simon Says support live transcription like Trint?
- No, that is not in its feature list. Trint's live transcription from a phone or desktop app is a named feature, with an hour a month included.
- Can several people work in the same transcript at once?
- Trint's Team plan adds shared drives and live collaboration for two to five people. Simon Says does not list multi-person collaboration as a feature.
- Does Trint's unlimited transcription really mean unlimited?
- No. It is unlimited under a fair-use cap, and archival projects, continuous live transcription and bulk volume work are excluded by name. Simon Says has no such cap, since it bills by the hour or a monthly credit instead.
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