Sharpy vs Gling: two AI editors for YouTubers, compared

Gling's details here were checked on 6 October 2026, against its website and pricing page. The sources are listed at the end, and prices and features can change.

How are Sharpy and Gling different?

	Gling	Sharpy
What it does	Cuts bad takes, silences and filler words, then gives you an edit to refine	Edits the whole piece: structure, takes, cuts, B-roll, captions, music and a checked render
How you work with it	Review and refine the AI edit in a transcript	Read the edit decision list and overrule anything in plain language
Choosing between takes	Removes bad takes and retakes	Scores each take on the script, fluency, clarity, sound, framing and open eyes, and says why the others lost
Where it runs	Desktop apps for Mac and Windows, and a web app; you upload your raw recording	A Mac app; every model runs on the Mac
Monthly limits	Hours of footage: 1 on Free, 10 on Plus, 30 on Pro, 100 on Elite	None
Price	Free; Plus $10 a month billed yearly; Pro $20; Elite $50	$20 a month or $200 a year at launch
Exports	MP4, MP3 and SRT; XML timelines for Premiere, Final Cut Pro and Resolve on paid plans	ProRes, H.264 and HEVC, SRT and WebVTT, chapters; FCPXML, CMX 3600 EDL and OpenTimelineIO
For YouTube	Titles, chapters and ideas for the next video	Chapters written to YouTube's rules, and the title, description and tags in the file

How do they edit?

Gling makes the first pass and you finish it. It transcribes your recording, removes the bad takes and retakes, the silences and the filler words, and shows the result as a transcript you can adjust. It adds AI captions, automatic zooms, noise removal and speech enhancement, and on paid plans AI B-roll and multicam editing. Then you render the video in Gling, or send the timeline to your own editor as XML. Gling says videos without speech may not be the best fit.

Sharpy makes the whole edit. It studies a reference for the kind of video you want, builds the structure, goes through every word, pause and shot, and plans every beat. It picks the best take of each line, cuts stumbles and restarts, brings dead air down to the speaker's own rhythm, adds licensed music and free-licence B-roll, captions and chapters, and renders and checks the result. Every decision is in the edit decision list with its reason, so reviewing takes minutes. How Sharpy decides where to cut shows one take, decision by decision.

A YouTuber in a grey hoodie reviews a rough cut at a desk at night, the sofa shoot on the monitor above a timeline chopped into many short clips. — A rough cut: the bad takes, silences and filler words gone, and the finishing still to do.

Where does your footage go?

Gling works from uploads. Its own site tells you to upload your raw recording, and its plans are counted in hours of footage uploaded to Gling.

Sharpy works on your Mac. Its models download once, and from then on your footage, transcripts and projects stay on the machine. Editing with AI without uploading your footage covers why that matters.

What does each cost?

Gling plan	Billed yearly	Billed monthly	Footage each month
Free	$0	$0	1 hour, watermarked exports, no XML
Plus	$10 a month	$20 a month	10 hours
Pro	$20 a month	$40 a month	30 hours
Elite	$50 a month	$100 a month	100 hours

Unused hours do not roll over, and yearly plans keep the same monthly limits. Sharpy is one plan with everything included: $20 a month or $200 a year at launch, with no hours to count, because nothing runs on our servers.

Which should you choose?

Choose Gling if you work on Windows or in a browser, you want a quick rough cut to finish in Premiere, Final Cut or Resolve, or you record a few hours a month and the free or Plus plan covers it.

Choose Sharpy if you work on a Mac with Apple silicon, you want the finished video rather than a rough cut, you want to see why every cut was made, your footage has to stay on your machine, or you record more than a plan's hours allow.

Frequently asked questions

Is Sharpy a Gling alternative?

Yes, for YouTubers on a Mac. Both remove bad takes, silences and filler words; Sharpy goes on to structure the video, add B-roll, music, captions and chapters, and render it, all on your Mac.

How does each choose the best take?

Gling says it removes the bad takes and retakes so the best version stays, without publishing how it decides. Sharpy scores every take on how closely it follows your script, how fluent and clear it is, how it sounds, how it is framed and whether your eyes are open, and records why each losing take lost.

Can either send an edit to Premiere or Final Cut?

Yes. Gling exports XML timelines for Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve on its paid plans. Sharpy exports FCPXML for Final Cut Pro, a CMX 3600 EDL that Premiere and Resolve import, and OpenTimelineIO.

Which is cheaper?

For a few hours a month, Gling: its Plus plan is $10 a month billed yearly for 10 hours. At $20 a month, Gling's Pro plan billed yearly includes 30 hours, while Sharpy at $20 a month has no limit on hours at all.

Which languages do they support?

Gling lists 24 spoken languages. Sharpy transcribes with two engines on your Mac, and for 25 European languages both engines vote on every word.

Sources

Checked on 6 October 2026.