If you only need the translation, you do not need a caption editor

Submagic is built around editing: a timeline, animated captions, emoji, b-roll. That is worth paying for if you are producing short-form video every day and you want the captions styled.

It is not worth paying for if the actual problem is that your video is in Korean and your audience reads English. That part — audio in, subtitles out, timing untouched — is a different job.

	Submagic	Framelingo
Main job	Styling and editing captions for shorts	Turning speech in one language into subtitles in another
Cost model	Monthly subscription	Free under 60s, then 1 credit per minute ($1 = 20 credits)
Account needed	Yes	No, for clips under 60 seconds
Output	Styled video, editor project	SRT file, or the video with subtitles burned in
Editing timeline	Yes, that is the product	No — you edit the SRT text, not a timeline

Try it — free under 60 seconds, no account

When this is the better fit

Your footage is already shot and you do not want to re-edit it.
You need the subtitles as a file you can hand to an editor or upload to YouTube.
You translate a few videos a month, not fifty a week.
You want to see the result on your own footage before paying anything.

When Submagic is the better fit

If your real problem is turnarounds on styled shorts — hooks, animated word-by-word captions, keeping a brand look across a hundred videos — use a caption editor.

Neither tool fixes a bad transcript. Names, accents and jargon come out wrong in any automatic pipeline, so read the subtitles once before publishing.