Descript vs Synthesia

Descript and Synthesia both serve the video-creative space, but they target different segments of the market and solve fundamentally different problems. Descript positions as a growth-tier solution, while Synthesia aims at the enterprise segment.

Descript: Edit video and audio by editing text — Descript turns transcription into a production tool, removing filler words and mistakes without a timeline editor.

Synthesia: Enterprise-grade AI video generation that replaces expensive production workflows with scalable, personalized video at speed.

In our 9-dimension evaluation, Descript scores 76/100 and Synthesia scores 7.8/100. Descript pulls ahead with stronger scores across strategic fit, reliability, and ROI dimensions.

Descript's key advantage: Edit video and audio by editing text — Descript turns transcription into a production tool, removing

Synthesia's key advantage: Photorealistic avatars with natural lip-sync and gesture reduce uncanny valley effect; 100+ avatar options support diverse representation and use cases.

Our take on Descript: Changed how we think about editing. If you can edit a Google Doc, you can edit video in Descript.

Our take on Synthesia: The enterprise standard for AI video. If you need compliance, custom avatars, and scale, start here.

Choose Descript if your team focuses on growth teams, video & creative workflows. Choose Synthesia if you prioritize b2b saas companies producing frequent product demos and feature announcements, enterprise teams managing multilingual, localized video campaigns at scale.

Watch out: Descript — Newer entry — full review in progress. Synthesia — Synthetic avatars, while convincing, lack authentic human presence; unsuitable for brand storytelling or emotional narratives requiring genuine human .