Trint

Collaborative transcription and story workflow built for newsrooms

As of 31 August 2026, Trint starts at $52/month. Trint transcribes interviews and lets several journalists edit and mark up the same transcript at once, then push clips straight into a story. Softwr lists it under Content Creation. Trint is made by Trint Ltd, available on Web, iOS, Android.

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Overview

What Trint does

Trint is a transcription and editorial workflow tool. It transcribes audio and video, then presents an editor where the text is bound to the media, so clicking a word plays that moment and correcting the text corrects the timing. Journalists highlight passages, add comments, build story outlines from selected quotes, and export to subtitle formats or straight into Adobe Premiere Pro. Workspaces let a desk share transcripts, so an interview transcribed by one reporter is searchable by the whole team. The distinguishing point is that it was built for and sold to journalism, and the workflow reflects it: verification against the audio, shared vocabulary lists so names and places transcribe correctly across a newsroom, and story-building from highlighted quotes rather than a raw transcript dump. Founded by a former Reuters video journalist, its reference customers are news organisations, and the collaborative editing model assumes several people working the same material to a deadline. General transcription tools give you a file; Trint gives a desk a shared working surface. The pricing is where buyers get caught. The entry plan is around 80 US dollars per seat per month billed monthly, falling to roughly 52 billed annually, and it is capped at seven files per month with no rollover. Seven files is a fortnight of work for a working reporter, so in practice the useful plan is the one above it at roughly 100 per seat monthly or 60 annually with unlimited files. Enterprise adds single sign-on, SCIM provisioning, audit logs, custom retention and API access, and is quoted. For a newsroom that is a real per-journalist cost, and organisations that let every reporter have a seat should compare it against a lower-cost tool plus a shared editing process.

What people use it for

A newsroom where three reporters and a producer work the same long interview to a deadline and need to see each other's highlights rather than passing files around.
A video desk cutting a package from an interview, pushing selected transcript segments straight into Premiere Pro instead of scrubbing a timeline for quotes.
An investigations team building a searchable archive of interviews so a name mentioned two years ago surfaces when it becomes relevant.
A broadcaster producing subtitles in several languages from the same source transcript with speaker labels preserved.

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Trint.

The Starter plan caps at seven files a month with no rollover, which a working journalist exhausts in a fortnight, so the advertised entry price is not the price most buyers will actually pay.
It is priced per seat at professional software levels, so giving every reporter in a mid-sized newsroom a licence is a substantial annual line item compared with a general transcription tool.
Transcription accuracy on poor field audio, crowded rooms, phone lines and heavy accents still requires correction, and the correction time is the real cost rather than the subscription.
Single sign-on, SCIM, audit logs and API access are gated to a quoted Enterprise tier, so any organisation with an identity policy cannot use the published pricing at all.
The tooling is optimised for editorial workflow rather than raw volume, so a team that mainly needs a lot of cheap transcripts and no collaboration is paying for a surface it will not use.

Cross-shopped

What people choose instead of Trint

Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.

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Rev
Rev: If you need human-verified transcripts at a published per-minute rate rather than collaborative editing of machine output.
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Descript
Descript: If you want to edit the finished audio or video by editing the transcript, not just produce a transcript and quotes.
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Otter.ai
Otter.ai: If the requirement is meeting capture and searchable notes rather than editorial workflow at broadcast quality.

Pricing

What Trint costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Starter

$52 /mo

Billed annually; around 80 USD if billed monthly
7 files per month, no rollover
Single user
Transcript editor and exports

Advanced

$60 /mo

Billed annually; around 100 USD if billed monthly
Unlimited files
Collaborative workspaces and shared permissions
Custom vocabulary and story building

Enterprise

On request

SAML single sign-on and SCIM provisioning
Audit logs and custom data retention
Full API access
Quoted per organisation

Capabilities

Features

Bound transcript editor
Text and media locked together so clicking a word plays that moment and edits preserve timing
Collaborative workspaces
Multiple journalists editing, commenting on and searching the same transcript
Story builder
Assemble a piece from highlighted quotes across several transcripts
Custom vocabulary
Shared term lists so names, places and jargon transcribe correctly across a newsroom
Adobe Premiere Pro panel
Push selected transcript segments directly into a video edit
Subtitle export
Burned-in and sidecar caption formats with speaker labels
Translation
Transcript translation into a set of supported languages
Enterprise controls
SAML single sign-on, SCIM provisioning, audit logs and custom data retention

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.

What is the file limit on the entry plan?

Seven files per month with no rollover. Most working journalists need the Advanced plan with unlimited files.

Does it integrate with a video edit?

Yes, through an Adobe Premiere Pro panel that pushes selected transcript segments into the timeline.

Do I need Enterprise for single sign-on?

Yes. SAML, SCIM, audit logs and API access are all on the quoted Enterprise tier.

How accurate is it?

Good on clean studio and conference audio, noticeably weaker on noisy field recordings, phone lines and strong accents, where correction time dominates.

Is annual billing much cheaper?

Yes, roughly a third off. Starter falls from around 80 to 52 US dollars and Advanced from around 100 to 60 per seat per month.