Comparison
Gling vs Takehound: rough cut, B-roll and price
Pick Gling to get bad takes, silences and filler words out of a YouTube talk at a low price. Pick Takehound if you also want your own footage placed over the talk, with a reason for each change.
I'm Kyle. I built Takehound, so I have a stake. I did not test Gling for this page. Each fact about it is from Gling's own pages, read 2026-11-05, linked under Sources.
Side by side
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| Topic | Gling | Takehound mine |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | YouTube creators, in its own words, starting from raw spoken footage: a talking head, a tutorial or a recorded explanation. | People who talk to camera in long videos and are not editors: talks, lessons and coaching videos. |
| The talking head | It finds bad takes, silences and filler words and cuts them, with pace and padding you can set. It also frames your face with auto zoom and suggests titles and chapters. | One press cuts long pauses, filler words and repeated takes while you watch. It also takes a room's hum off your voice and grades the picture. |
| B-roll comes from | Stock from Pexels, AI-generated B-roll on a paid plan, or a file you upload and place. An automatic enhancement can add B-roll too. Matching your own footage to your words: not found on its pages. | Only your own clips, photos, slides and screen recordings. No stock, nothing generated. Where none of it fits, the line stays on you. |
| Reasons | Show cuts lets you look at what it removed and bring it back with Uncut. A written reason for each cut: not found on its pages. | A reason in plain words for each change, in a feed. Not proof, so watch each one, and undo what you don't want. |
| Words on screen | Captions on every plan, and subtitles as an .srt file. | Your key lines as titles, lists and tables, and captions over the whole video in one press. Only words you said. |
| You get back | An MP4 or MP3, and on a paid plan, from its desktop app, a timeline for Premiere (XML), Final Cut or DaVinci Resolve (FCPXML), or a CapCut project. | An MP4 from the browser, or a timeline (FCPXML) that opens in DaVinci Resolve. Final Cut has not opened one. Not Premiere. |
| Where it runs | A browser, or its app for Mac and Windows, which a timeline export needs. | Chrome on a laptop or desktop. Nothing to install. Not made for a phone. |
| Price | One hour a month free, with a watermark. Plus from $10 a month billed yearly, or $20 monthly. See Prices. | 4,350 free credits once, no card, enough for a first video of up to 30 minutes. Then plans from $50 a month for 6,250 credits. A first pass uses 90 credits a minute of recording; exports are free. |
Not found on its pages“Not found on its pages” means it was not found on 2026-11-05, not that Gling can't do it.
Prices, read 2026-11-05
Gling's plans as its pricing page showed them on 2026-11-05, in dollars, and Takehound's as its own pricing page has them today.
Gling
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| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly, a month | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | 1 hour of AI edited media a month, export with a watermark, no timeline export |
| Plus | $20 | $10 | 10 hours a month, no watermark, timeline export |
| Pro | $40 | $20 | 30 hours a month, premium support |
| Elite | $100 | $50 | 100 hours a month, premium support |
Hours are of the recordings you upload. Unused hours do not carry over to the next month, its pricing page says.
Takehound mine
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| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 4,350 free credits once, no card | Every feature, and credits for a first pass and your notes on it |
| Monthly plans | $50, $100 and $250 a month | 6,250 to 37,500 credits a month, 125 to 150 credits for each dollar. Unused credits roll over and stay after you cancel |
| What it uses | A first pass uses 90 credits a minute of recording, so a 15-minute talk with two rounds of notes uses about 1,550 credits. Exports, timelines and editing by hand are free | A job that fails on our side uses nothing |
Where Gling wins
- Price per hour of recording: Plus gives 10 hours a month for $10 billed yearly. Takehound uses credits for each minute of recording.
- A timeline for Premiere and a CapCut project, which Takehound does not export, and multicam timelines for DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut.
- YouTube tools in the same app: titles, chapters and ideas for your next video.
- A free hour every month, with no card.
- 24 spoken languages, by the list on its pricing page.
Which one to pick
Pick Gling if
- You want the bad takes and pauses out, and you place your own B-roll or use none.
- You want a lower price per hour of recording than Takehound.
- You finish in Premiere or CapCut, or cut multicam.
- You want titles and chapters for YouTube from the same app.
Pick Takehound if
- You talk to camera in long videos, and you are not an editor.
- You want B-roll only from your own footage, and a gap where none of it fits.
- You want a reason for each change, and an editor that learns how you cut.
- You finish in the browser or DaVinci Resolve, or hand the timeline to your editor.
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Sources
Gling's home page, pricing page, auto video editor page and help pages on what Gling is, a first video, B-roll, stock rights, zoom and framing, silence cuts, web or desktop, Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut and CapCut exports, read 2026-11-05.
The tool I built
Where Takehound fits
Takehound is an AI video editor in Chrome on a laptop or desktop, for long talk-to-camera videos.
What Hound does
Its agent is Hound, and on a talk he watches and listens to the cut he makes. One press makes a first pass on your recording: he cuts long pauses, filler words and repeated takes, places your own clips where he matches them to what you say, working from written descriptions of stills from each clip, and puts key lines on screen, with a reason for each change. B-roll is only your own footage, and a line none of it fits stays on you. Steer him in plain words, and he writes down how you cut for your next video. Then export an MP4, or a timeline (FCPXML) that opens in DaVinci Resolve.
4,350 free credits once, no card. See privacy.
See how Takehound worksQuestions
Is Takehound a Gling alternative?
Yes, if you want more than the rough cut. Gling cuts bad takes, silences and filler words. Takehound cuts those too, then places your own footage and your key lines on screen, with a reason for each change. Gling exports to Premiere and Takehound does not. (Gling's home page and pricing page, read 2026-11-05.)
Does Gling add B-roll from my own footage?
You can upload your own file and place it. Its search for stock uses Pexels, it can generate a clip, and an automatic enhancement can add B-roll. Matching your own footage to what you say was not found on its pages. (Gling's help pages on B-roll and stock rights, read 2026-11-05.)
Which is cheaper, Gling or Takehound?
Gling, per hour of recording: Plus is $10 a month billed yearly, or $20 monthly, for 10 hours. Takehound: 4,350 free credits once, no card, enough for a first video of up to 30 minutes, then plans from $50 a month for 6,250 credits. A first pass uses 90 credits a minute of recording, so a 15-minute talk with two rounds of notes uses about 1,550 credits. (Gling's pricing page, read 2026-11-05.)
Does Gling export to DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut?
Yes, from its desktop app on a paid plan: FCPXML for both, and XML for Premiere. Takehound exports an FCPXML timeline that opens in DaVinci Resolve, from the browser, and not for Premiere. Final Cut has not opened one. (Gling's help pages on DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut exports, read 2026-11-05.)
More guides
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- Descript alternative with B-roll from your own footage
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- How to edit a talking head video with B-roll
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