Tool review

Gling review: what it cuts, what it costs, and the alternatives

Updated 2026-11-03 · by the mouzeclick team

Gling is a desktop app that transcribes spoken footage and cuts bad takes, silences and filler words. Paid plans hand the edit to Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve as a timeline; it also exports MP4, MP3 and SRT captions. On 3 November 2026 the free plan gave 1 hour a month with a watermark, and Plus cost $20 a month or $10 a month paid annually.

Plans as shown on 3 Nov 2026: Free $0, Plus $20, Pro $40 and Elite $100 a month. The annual toggle shows $10, $20 and $50 a month, paid annually.
Free plan: 1 hour of edited media a month and watermarked exports. It can't export to Premiere, Final Cut or Resolve.
Unused hours don't roll over. Plus allows 10 hours of uploaded footage a month and Pro allows 30.
Multicam and separate-mic edits work only when you export to Resolve or Final Cut Pro. For Premiere, you sync first.
Gling is desktop only, and its pages don't name the operating systems.
We make mouzeclick. It cuts silences inside Premiere Pro on Windows and Mac, and removes retakes on Windows only.

What is Gling AI, and who is it for?

Gling is a desktop app for talking-head and other spoken footage. It transcribes your recording, reads the text and removes unwanted takes and silences, plus filler words such as "um" and "uh". You review the cuts it proposes, then export a file, or a timeline on a paid plan.

A note before the detail: we make mouzeclick, which does two of those jobs, silences and retakes, inside Premiere Pro. Our own product gets one labelled section near the end. Every Gling and Descript fact on this page comes from the makers' own pages, checked on 3 November 2026 and linked under Sources. Where a maker doesn't publish something, we say "Not published".

Cutting is not all Gling does. Gling's pages, including Gling's pricing page, list these tools as well:

a text-based trimmer
captions, with a separate .srt file on export
auto framing, which zooms in and out
YouTube title and chapter generators, and next-video suggestions
multicam editing and B-roll
speech audio enhancement and background noise removal

The app's interface is in English. The speech you upload can be in many languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Chinese, Korean and Japanese.

Everything rests on speech-to-text. Gling's own FAQ says it may not be a good fit for videos without speech.

Gling says it is designed only for desktop, and it emails you the download link. Its pages don't name Windows, macOS or any other system. Confirm which computers it runs on before you build a workflow around it.

How much does Gling cost?

Gling has four plans. On the monthly toggle they cost $0, $20, $40 and $100 a month. On the annual toggle, marked "Save 50%", they show $0, $10, $20 and $50 a month, paid annually. Prices are in dollars, as shown on Gling's pricing page on 3 November 2026.

Plan	Monthly toggle	Annual toggle	Edited media per month	Export
Free	$0	$0	1 hour	MP4 with watermark, and MP3. No export to Premiere, Final Cut or Resolve
Plus	$20 /mon	$10 /mon, paid annually	10 hours, or 300 words of video generated from a link, or a mix	MP4 and MP3 without watermark, plus XML to Premiere, Final Cut Pro and Resolve
Pro	$40 /mon	$20 /mon, paid annually	30 hours, or 900 words, or a mix. Premium support included	As Plus
Elite	$100 /mon	$50 /mon, paid annually	100 hours, or 2,700 words, or a mix. Premium support included	As Plus

What the table doesn't show:

Unused hours don't carry over. Gling's FAQ says hours do not pass from one month to the next. The limit counts the footage you upload.
No card is needed to try it. Gling asks for payment details only when you buy a subscription.
Free exports need a signup and carry a watermark. Editor timelines need a paid desktop plan.
A trial of the paid plans is not published. Only the free plan is described.

Here is what an hour of footage costs, by our arithmetic from those numbers. Plus works out to $2 an hour on monthly billing and $1 an hour paid annually. Pro comes to about $1.33 and $0.67. Elite comes to $1 and $0.50.

Those figures assume you use every hour and generate no video from links. Say you record four 30-minute videos a month. That's 2 hours of uploads, so the free plan's 1 hour doesn't cover it. Plus does, and you lose the 8 hours left over at the end of the month.

What does Gling cut, and can you keep a take it removed?

Gling removes bad takes, silences and filler words, and nothing is final until you export. Gling describes the review step plainly: look over the proposed cuts, listen to the delivery, and restore any take or pause you want to keep.

That review step matters as much as the detection. Cut the breath before a punchline and the joke can fall flat. A restored pause is often the difference between a jumpy edit and a natural one. Our guide to jump cuts in video editing covers when to leave a pause in.

Gling doesn't publish:

its detection thresholds, or whether you can adjust the silence settings
accuracy figures for silence or filler-word detection
export resolution limits
which Premiere Pro versions it supports

If you're used to an audio-level remover, the thresholds are the main unknown. With those tools you set the loudness in decibels and the shortest pause to cut. The audio-level silence remover in mouzeclick Studio starts from −40 dB, cuts pauses from 0.40 s and keeps 0.12 s around speech. Gling publishes no equivalent numbers, so test it on your own voice in the free hour.

Input files. Gling takes audio and video files. It says it currently supports only these codecs: aac, h264, mp3, opus, pcm_s16le, pcm_f32le, pcm_u8, vorbis, vp8, vp9 and av1. Check what your camera or recorder writes before a deadline depends on it.

Sound. Gling lists background noise removal and speech audio enhancement. Descript's equivalent is Studio Sound, which it says removes background noise, echo and hiss and makes the voice clearer.

Does Gling work with Premiere Pro?

Yes, but through an exported timeline on a paid plan, not through a panel. Gling lists "XML to Premiere/Final Cut Pro/Resolve" on its plans. Its FAQ also says the free version can't export to Premiere, Final Cut or Resolve. No Premiere Pro plugin or panel is published.

A Premiere round trip, pieced together from Gling's pages:

Sync first if you need to. If you shot with more than one camera or recorded a separate mic, sync the recordings before you upload. Gling handles multicam and separate-mic edits only when you export to DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro. For Premiere, and for MP4 or MP3 export, it asks you to sync first.
Bring the file into the desktop app. Gling transcribes it and proposes cuts.
Review the cuts. Listen, and restore any take or pause you want to keep.
Export the timeline. On a paid plan, export the timeline for Premiere. Leave the source files where they are, since Gling advises keeping them available.
Export captions separately. Choose the .srt option on export and bring that file into your edit.

For a two-camera podcast headed to Premiere, syncing is your job, done before upload. Gling's multicam editing is kept for Resolve and Final Cut Pro exports. For the full order of a talking-head job, see podcast editing in Premiere Pro, start to finish.

Descript reaches Premiere a different way. Its MCP page lists timeline export as EDL, AAF, SESX, FCPXML, Premiere XML or DaVinci Resolve XML. We cover that route in Descript vs Premiere Pro for talking-head edits.

What are the best alternatives to Gling?

The closest alternatives are Descript, a full editor where you edit by editing text, and tools that cut inside Premiere Pro itself, mouzeclick among them. This table puts the three side by side, as shown on each maker's pages on 3 November 2026.

Tool	Price as shown	Windows / Mac	Free plan or trial	With Premiere Pro
Gling	Plus $20, Pro $40, Elite $100 a month, or $10, $20 and $50 a month paid annually	Desktop only. Operating systems not published	Free plan: 1 hour a month, watermark, no card	XML timeline on paid plans. Plugin not published
Descript	Hobbyist $24 and $16, Creator $35 and $24 per person a month, unlabelled. Business $50 and $65 on a second page	Windows, Mac and a web version	Free plan: 1 media hour a month, no card	Premiere XML among timeline exports through the Descript MCP. Plugin not published
mouzeclick (ours)	$25 a month, $249 a year, or $499 once for one of the first 100 lifetime keys	Silence: Windows and Mac. Retakes and captions: Windows only	3 days, no card	Panels inside Premiere Pro, under Window › Extensions

Descript shows two prices per paid plan without saying which is monthly and which annual, and the order changes between its pages. We list both numbers as shown rather than guess.

Other silence and jump-cut tools have their own pages here:

Descript vs Gling: which is better for talking-head video?

Gling is the narrower tool: it cuts a spoken recording and hands it on to your editor. Descript is a full editor where you change the video by changing its transcript, and it runs on Windows, Mac or the web.

They overlap in three places:

Both detect and remove filler words and silences.
Both give you captions as SRT. Descript lists SRT among the transcript formats on its MCP page.
Both can hand a timeline to Premiere. Descript's in-app menu path, and which of its plans include Premiere XML, are not published.

They differ in five:

Price. Gling Plus is $20 a month, or $10 a month paid annually, for 10 hours. Descript's Hobbyist plan shows $24 and $16 per person a month, unlabelled, for 10 media hours. Paid annually, Gling Plus is below both Descript figures.
Free plan. Gling's free plan gives 1 hour a month with watermarked exports and no editor export. Descript's gives 1 media hour a month at 720p, but its pages disagree on the rest. The video-editor page says watermark-free with 100 credits a month. The captions page says 100 credits one time, with a watermark.
Bad takes. Gling names bad-take removal outright. The Descript pages we checked name filler words and silences, not takes.
Platforms. Descript states Windows, Mac and web. Gling says desktop and names no system.
Scope. Descript adds Underlord, a built-in co-editor that can write, edit, design and generate visuals or voiceovers under your direction. It also offers subtitles in 30+ languages and 4k export on Creator. Business adds translation and dubbing in 30+ languages. Gling adds YouTube title and chapter generators and auto framing.

Pick Gling if

you finish in Premiere, Final Cut Pro or Resolve and only want the rough cut done
you restart lines often and want bad takes found for you
you pay annually and 10 hours a month covers your raw footage

Pick Descript if

you want to edit and publish without a second editor
you move between a Mac, a Windows PC and a browser
you need translation and dubbing, or noise and echo cleanup with Studio Sound

Where is Gling the better pick?

Gling beats a Premiere panel when you don't edit in Premiere, or when you want a finished file without opening an editor at all. These are the cases where it is the better choice over mouzeclick:

You edit in Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve. Gling exports timelines to both on its paid plans. mouzeclick has no Final Cut or Resolve panel. Its mouse app works in those editors, but its silence and retake tools live in Premiere Pro.
You shoot multicam for Resolve or Final Cut. That is the one case where Gling handles several cameras and separate mics itself.
You want an MP4 or MP3 straight out. Gling exports media files directly. mouzeclick works on a Premiere sequence, so you still export from Premiere.
You're on a Mac and want bad takes removed. mouzeclick's Retakes is Windows only. Gling doesn't name its systems, so confirm Mac support before you pay.
You want help packaging a YouTube video. Gling's title and chapter generators and next-video suggestions have no counterpart in mouzeclick. The nearest is mouzemark, which turns your markers into YouTube chapters in Premiere Pro.
You upload under an hour a month. Gling's free plan costs nothing. You pay for it with a watermark and no timeline export.

Where mouzeclick fits (we make it)

mouzeclick does the two jobs Gling is best known for, silences and bad takes, inside Premiere Pro on the sequence you already have. There is no export and re-import. The silence tool runs on Windows and Mac. Retakes and captions are Windows only.

Silence (Windows and Mac)

In mouzeclick Studio's Silence tab, Analyse reads the sound on your computer, draws the waveform and marks each pause. It needs no Python and uploads nothing. The defaults cut anything quieter than −40 dB, from pauses of 0.40 s, and keep 0.12 s around speech.

Untick a pause to keep it, much as you restore one in Gling. Remove then cuts on every track, leaves a music bed alone and keeps a copy of the sequence. It works on audio levels, so it finds silence, not bad takes.

Retakes (Windows only)

Retakes reads the transcript and strikes through every restarted sentence, keeping the last take. Speech that Whisper skipped is listened to again. "Words said twice" and "um and uh" are optional, and both start off.

One press removes everything and keeps a copy, and captions made afterwards still line up. Because it keeps the last take, it suits editors who restart a line until it's right. The full walkthrough is on the Premiere Pro retake remover page.

Captions (Windows only)

Captions are written on your computer by Whisper, in 47 languages plus automatic detection. They land as Premiere's own caption track, or styled on the video in 289 looks in 27 families. See auto captions in Premiere Pro, word by word.

Multicam and synced recordings

On Windows, the Premiere Pro mouzeclick workspace has a Cut desk with AutoCamera. It cuts 2 to 8 camera angles to whoever is talking, measured from each speaker's mic. Off-air angles are disabled, never deleted.

On both systems, Studio's Timeline tab handles synced recordings in three steps. Spread lays them out, Premiere's own Clip › Synchronize lines them up, and Close synced trims the overhangs.

What it doesn't do

mouzeclick doesn't export to Final Cut or Resolve, render an MP4 on its own, generate B-roll or write YouTube titles. It also needs an internet connection while it runs, because the licence and profiles live in your account.

Price and Mac install

It costs $25 a month, $249 a year, or $499 once for one of the first 100 lifetime keys, with everything in one plan. See mouzeclick pricing. The trial is 3 days with no card, and every Premiere Pro and After Effects tool works fully.

On a Mac, follow the four-step Mac install. You get Studio's Silence, Timeline and Guides tabs. Captions, Retakes and the workspaces are Windows only.

Gling, Descript or a Premiere panel: how do you choose?

Start with where the edit ends up, then what needs cutting, then which computer you use. Five questions settle most cases:

Where do you finish the edit? In Final Cut Pro or Resolve, use Gling. In Premiere Pro, use Gling's paid XML export or a panel that cuts inside Premiere. If you want no second editor at all, use Descript or Gling's MP4 export.
What needs cutting? If it's only pauses, any of the three tools works, including an audio-level remover. For restarted sentences, use Gling, or Retakes on Windows. For filler words, Gling and Descript both remove them. mouzeclick's "um and uh" option sits in Retakes, which is Windows only.
Which computer? Descript states Windows, Mac and web. Gling doesn't name its systems. mouzeclick's Silence runs on both systems, but Retakes doesn't run on a Mac.
How many hours a month? Count your raw footage, not the finished length, and match it to a plan. Gling's hours don't roll over, so buy for your usual month, not your busiest.
Test on your own voice. Gling's free hour, Descript's free plan and mouzeclick's 3-day trial all need no card. Run the same 10-minute recording through each and compare the cuts you had to restore.

Cut silences and retakes inside Premiere Pro, free for 3 days. One plan with everything included, $25 a month, or $249 for a year.

See the price

Questions people ask

Is Gling AI free to use?

Yes. Gling has a free plan at $0 with 1 hour of edited media a month. Exports carry a watermark, you must sign up to export, and the free version can't export a timeline to Premiere, Final Cut or Resolve. Premium support is not included, and no credit card is asked for until you buy a subscription. A trial of the paid plans is not published.

What does Gling AI cost per month?

As shown on 3 November 2026, on monthly billing Plus is $20, Pro $40 and Elite $100 a month. Paid annually, the same plans show $10, $20 and $50 a month, a toggle Gling labels "Save 50%". Plus covers 10 hours of edited media a month, Pro 30 and Elite 100. Each plan can instead cover a set number of words of video generated from a link. Prices are shown in dollars.

Do unused Gling hours roll over to the next month?

No. Gling's FAQ says unused hours do not pass from one month to the next. Plus is limited to 10 hours of uploaded footage a month and Pro to 30. Count raw footage, not the finished edit. A weekly two-hour podcast is about 8 to 9 hours of uploads a month, close to the Plus limit before any retakes are counted.

Is there a Gling plugin for Premiere Pro?

No plugin or panel is published. Gling works with Premiere Pro by exporting an XML timeline, and only on a paid plan. It advises keeping your source files available. Supported Premiere Pro versions are not published. To cut inside Premiere on the sequence you already have, you need a panel, such as mouzeclick Studio's Silence tab, which we make.

Can Gling edit a multicam podcast for Premiere Pro?

Not as multicam. Gling supports several cameras and separate mics only when you export to DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro. For Premiere, and for MP4 or MP3 export, it asks you to sync the recordings before uploading. If you cut multicam in Premiere on Windows, mouzeclick's AutoCamera in the Premiere Pro workspace cuts 2 to 8 angles to whoever is talking.

Does Gling run on Mac and Windows?

Gling says it is designed only for desktop and emails you the download link, but its pages don't name the operating systems. Check the download before you commit to a plan. Descript states Mac, Windows and a web version. mouzeclick's silence tool runs in Premiere Pro on Windows and Mac. Its Retakes and captions are Windows only.

Is Descript or Gling cheaper?

On annual billing, Gling Plus at $10 a month is below both figures Descript shows for Hobbyist, $24 and $16 per person a month. Both plans include 10 hours a month. On monthly billing Gling Plus is $20. Descript doesn't label which of its two figures is monthly, so a direct comparison isn't possible from its page. Both offer a free plan with 1 hour a month.

What video files and languages does Gling accept?

Gling accepts audio and video files in these codecs: aac, h264, mp3, opus, pcm_s16le, pcm_f32le, pcm_u8, vorbis, vp8, vp9 and av1. It says those are the only ones supported at the moment. The speech can be in many languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Chinese, Korean and Japanese, though the app's interface is in English.

Can mouzeclick remove bad takes in Premiere Pro on a Mac?

No. Retakes, which strikes through restarted sentences and keeps the last take, is Windows only, and so are captions. On a Mac, mouzeclick Studio's Silence tab still cuts pauses by audio level inside Premiere Pro, and the Timeline and Guides tabs work too. For bad-take removal on a Mac, Gling names that job, but confirm its system support first.

Sources

Checked on 2026-11-03. Prices and features change: each link goes to the maker's own page.