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RecCloud

RecCloud is an all-in-one online AI suite for audio and video work: transcription with speaker labels, subtitles, video translation and dubbing, text-to-speech, clip making and video generation, across 100+ languages, with mobile apps and a documented API.

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Overview

What is RecCloud?

RecCloud is an online suite of AI tools for working with audio and video, published by Shenzhen Wangxu Technology Co., Ltd. The homepage sums the promise up as “AI Audio & Video Processing — Fast. Simple. Done.” The product began life as a screen recorder with cloud video management, complete with playlist collaboration, password-protected share links and embed codes; that older layer is still described on the About page, and it still works.

What the site leads with now is the AI layer, organised into eight families: speech-to-text, video translation, text-to-speech, subtitle generation, watermark removal, video generation, YouTube-to-text and image generation. Roughly two hundred and thirty task-specific pages branch off from there — Thai and Korean transcription, Zoom and medical transcription, film and TikTok translation, a Seedance video generator, and so on.

Transcription is the flagship. RecCloud claims 98%+ accuracy, labels each speaker automatically, and produces summaries and action items you can then interrogate in a chat. Files can be uploaded, recorded live in the browser, or pulled in by pasting a YouTube, Facebook or Instagram link, and transcripts export to Word. The technical ceiling is stated openly: 4 GB for video, 500 MB for audio, five hours per file, and more than thirty accepted formats.

Everything runs on credits. Each function has its own rate — one credit per minute of speech-to-text, twelve per minute of standard video translation, one per two hundred characters of text-to-speech, six per gigabyte downloaded. Three memberships are named: Basic and Pro differ only in credit volume and are limited to personal use, while Business raises the ceilings, unlocks batch processing and permits commercial use. Billing runs weekly or yearly, after a three-day free trial.

Beyond the browser there are iOS and Android apps, Windows and Mac software, and a public API with its own documentation, a free key carrying fifty credits and two queries per second included. Processing covers 100+ languages; the interface itself is available in eight.

What it does

  • Transcribe audio and video into text with automatic speaker identification
  • Generate subtitles in the source language and translate them into others
  • Translate a whole video, subtitles and AI dubbing included
  • Turn written text into natural-sounding synthetic speech
  • Summarise long recordings, including videos pulled in from a YouTube link
  • Cut long videos into short clips with automatic highlight detection
  • Remove watermarks, burned-in subtitles, logos or on-screen text from a video
Audience

When to use RecCloud / When not to

A quick filter to help you decide if RecCloud is the right fit.

When to use RecCloud

  • Video creators and social media managers who need clips, subtitles and dubbing for several platforms at once
  • Educators and course producers who caption lectures and translate them for an international student base
  • Teams running recurring meetings who want speaker-labelled transcripts, summaries and action items without taking notes
  • Localisation and translation professionals handling subtitle files and voice-over across many languages
  • Developers who want transcription, subtitling and video editing behind a documented API with a free starter key

When not to use RecCloud

  • Buyers who need published pricing before signing up, since plan amounts only appear once JavaScript has run
  • Businesses tempted by the Basic or Pro memberships, which are restricted to personal, non-commercial use
  • Organisations that require a Data Processing Agreement, a named subprocessor list or an EU Article 27 representative
  • Public bodies and regulated buyers uncomfortable with Chinese governing law and arbitration in Hong Kong
  • Teams that must guarantee where their footage is stored, as no hosting country or region is declared anywhere
Get started

How to use RecCloud

A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.

  1. Open reccloud.com and choose a tool from the Products or Solutions menu — nothing to install for the web version
  2. Try it before paying: the free tier allows one transcription a day, capped at twenty minutes
  3. Create an account to keep your files in My Space and carry credits and membership across devices
  4. Feed the tool: upload a file, record directly in the browser, or paste a YouTube, Facebook or Instagram link
  5. Check the limits first — 4 GB for video, 500 MB for audio, five hours per file, thirty-plus formats accepted
  6. Switch on speaker identification when the recording has several voices
  7. Let the AI run; credits are debited automatically at the rate published for that function
  8. Review the output in the editor, rename the speaker labels and correct any wording
  9. Copy the text, export the transcript to Word, or download the finished video
  10. For programmatic use, claim the free API key with its fifty credits and work through the API documentation
Quick read

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Unusually wide scope for a single subscription, from transcription and subtitling to dubbing, editing and generation
  • 100+ processing languages, with speaker identification and automatic summaries included in transcription
  • Content can be pulled straight from a YouTube, Facebook or Instagram link, with no prior download
  • A permanent free tier — one transcription a day, up to twenty minutes — plus a three-day trial on paid plans
  • Refunds within fourteen days on annual memberships and three on weekly, with credits deducted pro rata
  • ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27701 certifications displayed, and API files deleted 60 to 75 minutes after processing
  • Web, iOS, Android, Windows and Mac, with one membership covering every device, plus a documented API

Cons

  • Plan prices are absent from the page source: the pricing table only fills in once JavaScript has run
  • The site contradicts itself on refunds — seven days on the pricing and student pages, fourteen on the refund policy
  • Commercial use is reserved for the Business membership; Basic and Pro are personal-use only
  • Credits included in a membership are voided when it expires and cannot be restored
  • No Data Processing Agreement, no subprocessor list, no EU Article 27 representative and no declared hosting country
  • Support offers no email address at all — only a ticket form and a live chat
  • The privacy policy reads older than the terms: no effective date, no version number, and a 2024 copyright line
Pricing

Pricing & Plans

RecCloud operates on a freemium basis. A permanent free tier is available and allows one transcription per day, capped at twenty minutes, and a three-day free trial is offered on the paid memberships. Beyond that, access is sold as memberships — Basic, Pro and Business, billed weekly or annually — together with credit packs that may be purchased separately. No entry price can be quoted here: the pricing page renders its amounts through JavaScript, so no plan figure and no currency appears in the page source, on the API pricing page or on the student discount page. The site itself notes that prices are subject to change and should be checked on the official pricing page.

Basic — entry membership
  • a limited credit allowance
  • all other benefits shared with Pro
  • restricted to personal non-commercial use
Plan 3
  • Business — higher credit ceilings
  • batch processing
  • and the right to use generated audio and video commercially
Pay as you go — Credits
  • additional credit packs sold separately to existing members
  • valid for one year from purchase
Plan 5
  • API plans — separate credit-based tiers with 2 QPS included and higher throughput negotiated with sales
  • a new key comes with 50 free credits
Plan 6
  • Every membership is billed either weekly (7 days) or annually (365 days)
  • no amount is published in the page source
Special offers — Student discount of up to 30% on the annual Basic and Pro plans, verified through StudentBeans with a student card, enrolment letter, academic transcript or .edu address, usually within one to two working days · Three-day free trial on the paid memberships, with an option at checkout to skip the trial and save $10 · Fifty free credits granted with every new API key · Student codes can be reused across orders, one per order, but cannot be combined with other promotions; an annual plan bought at the student rate keeps that price for the full year, even after graduation · Custom software and bulk purchases are negotiated directly with the sales team through the contact form
Prices and plans listed above may evolve. Always check the official pricing page before subscribing.
Trust & Privacy

Data, GDPR & hosting

A consolidated view of how RecCloud handles your data.

GDPR overview

GDPR compliance is claimed in plain terms: the privacy policy states that RecCloud operates in accordance with the Regulation, and the pricing pages display ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27701 and GDPR badges. Concrete provisions do exist — access and portability, rectification, deletion of individual files, full account deletion, marketing unsubscribe, withdrawal of consent and instructions covering data after death — with a Data Protection Office reachable through the contact form and a fifteen working day response commitment. The address privacy@wangxutech.com is published in the terms. Three things are missing, and the site is silent on all of them: no Data Processing Agreement, no named EU representative under Article 27, and no transfer mechanism cited for data sent outside the European Union. The publisher is established in China and the contract is governed by Chinese law.

Who owns the data?

Under the terms of service, rights in the material you upload stay with you, and RecCloud states that the rights and interests generated through your use of its AI services also belong to you — provided the input is lawful and you genuinely hold the rights to it, with a carve-out for anything your own jurisdiction prohibits. Everything on the platform side remains with the publisher: the software, interfaces, trademarks and the names RecCloud, reccloud.com, wangxutech.com and wangxu. Uploaded files are described as accessible to their owner alone, and no one else. Backing up your own material is your responsibility, and account deletion is irreversible.

Reuse rights

The end user keeps commercial freedom over what the tools produce, but only on the Business membership: Basic and Pro are explicitly limited to personal, non-commercial use, so files generated there may not be monetised. On Business, generated audio and video may be used for profit and business purposes without asking further permission. The publisher claims no licence to publish or resell customer content. On its own side it processes account, usage and device data to run and improve the service, shares it with payment, analytics, fraud-prevention, email and hosting providers, and names fifteen third-party tracking tools that receive usage data and store it on their own servers. Transfers outside the European Union are announced, without a named transfer mechanism.

Data retention & training

Retention summary
Account information is kept for as long as the account exists or as long as it is needed to run the service. Deleting an account starts deletion immediately, though the policy warns of lag on servers and backups, and allows retention where legal obligations, disputes or enforcement of the agreement require it. Anything else is kept until you ask for it to be removed. Two specific rules apply to AI work: for free users and lapsed memberships, AI usage data including audio and video records is stored for one week and then permanently and irreversibly deleted, while the account itself survives; through the API, files are permanently deleted within sixty to seventy-five minutes of processing. No retention period is published for the files of paying users. Account deletion is irreversible, and backing up your own material remains your responsibility.
Trains on customer data
Unclear
GDPR contact

Hosting summary

RecCloud does not say where its data lives. No hosting country and no region appear anywhere on the site. The privacy policy goes as far as admitting that collected information may sit on servers leased from third-party providers, none of them named, and that personal data may be transferred to recipients outside the European Union where protection may be weaker — with a commitment to handle it securely, but no transfer mechanism cited. The API pages confirm only that everything is on cloud servers and that an internet connection is required, with no offline mode. The About page describes a distributed storage system with cross-region backups, encryption, HTTPS and CDN acceleration, which says something about architecture and nothing about jurisdiction. What can be established from outside is the corporate seat: the publisher is Shenzhen Wangxu Technology Co., Ltd., based in Shenzhen, and the terms are governed by the law of the People's Republic of China with arbitration in Hong Kong. The IP address the domain resolves to belongs to a Cloudflare anycast node and indicates nothing about where files are actually stored.

Watch-outs

Things to keep in mind

Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting RecCloud.

  • Automatic transcripts read as authoritative even when they are not: the 98% accuracy claim is the vendor's own, measured on clear audio, and errors in names, figures or technical terms survive into documents people then act on
  • Recording meetings, lectures and client calls raises consent questions the tool does not handle for you; in many jurisdictions everyone present must be told first
  • Leaning on automatic summaries erodes the habit of listening and note-taking, and quietly hands a model the judgement of what mattered in a conversation
  • Sensitive material — patient consultations, court recordings, HR interviews — can be uploaded in seconds, yet no hosting country is declared, no Data Processing Agreement is offered and no sector certification such as HIPAA is published
  • Voice cloning and AI dubbing make it trivial to put words in someone's mouth; the terms forbid infringing content, but enforcement falls entirely on the user
  • Watermark, logo and subtitle removal has obvious legitimate uses and equally obvious infringing ones — the responsibility, and the liability, are yours
  • The credit system encourages a use-it-or-lose-it rhythm, since membership credits are voided at expiry, which can push people into processing they do not really need
Setup

Setup & Integrations

Technical difficulty

Very low for the web tools. Nothing to install, and the site advertises no learning curve: pick a tool, upload a file or paste a link, wait, then edit and export. An account is needed to keep files, credits and a membership, and native apps exist for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android. The only thing worth understanding before paying is the credit system, since each function bills at its own rate. Developers face a slightly longer path: claim a free key, size your queries per second, and work through the API documentation.

Deployment

Web appDesktop appMobile appIOS appAndroid appAPI

Integrations

YouTube Facebook Instagram TikTok

Supported languages

EnglishFrenchGermanSpanishPortugueseJapaneseChineseKoreanThai
Company

Behind RecCloud

Company name
Shenzhen Wangxu Technology Co., Ltd.
Founded
08/04/2013
Country of origin
🇨🇳 China
Headquarters
Room 1101, 11th Floor, Lafont Plaza Office Building, No. 2163 Nanhai Avenue, Nanshan District, Shenzhen
UBO
INFORMATION_NOT_FOUND
UBO country
INFORMATION_NOT_FOUND
Domain registrar country
🇺🇸 United States
Legal contact

Social

Official links

Resources

All the official URLs gathered for verification and reference.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Is there a free version of RecCloud?
Yes. A permanent free tier gives you one transcription per day, capped at twenty minutes. The paid memberships also open with a three-day free trial, and a new API key comes with fifty credits at no charge.
How much does a subscription cost?
The amounts are not published in the page source. The pricing page loads them through JavaScript, so you have to open it in a browser to see them. The site also warns that prices may change and should be checked there.
How do credits work?
Every function has a published rate: one credit per minute of speech-to-text, twelve per minute of standard video translation, one per two hundred characters of text-to-speech, six credits per gigabyte downloaded. Credits included in a membership expire with it; credits bought separately last one year.
What file sizes and formats are accepted?
Up to 4 GB for video and 500 MB for audio, with a maximum of five hours per file, across more than thirty formats including MP3, MP4, MOV, WAV, WEBM and M4A.
How many languages does it handle?
RecCloud claims more than one hundred processing languages and dialects for transcription, subtitling and translation. The interface itself is available in eight, with Simplified Chinese served from a separate domain.
Can I use the results commercially?
Only on the Business membership. Basic and Pro are explicitly limited to personal, non-commercial use, so audio and video produced under them may not be monetised.
How long are my files kept?
Through the API, files are permanently deleted within sixty to seventy-five minutes of processing. For free users and expired memberships, AI usage data including audio and video records is kept for one week, then irreversibly deleted. No retention period is published for paying users' files.
Is RecCloud GDPR compliant?
The site claims full compliance and displays ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27701 certifications, with a published list of data subject rights. It stops short of offering a Data Processing Agreement, naming an EU Article 27 representative or citing a transfer mechanism for data sent outside the European Union.
How do I get support?
Through the ticket form on the contact page or the live chat. No support email address is published anywhere on the site; the only address it does publish is privacy@wangxutech.com, in the terms.
Is there a discount for students?
Yes, up to 30% off the annual Basic and Pro plans. Status is verified through StudentBeans using a student card, enrolment letter, academic transcript or .edu address, usually within one to two working days.
Conclusion

Should you pick RecCloud?

RecCloud covers more ground than almost any single audio and video subscription on the market. One account brings transcription with speaker labels, subtitle generation and translation, full video dubbing, text-to-speech, video and image generation, an automatic clip maker, watermark and subtitle removal, vocal separation, screen recording and browser-based editing — across more than a hundred processing languages, on the web, on mobile, on desktop and through a documented API. For creators, educators, localisation teams and anyone who processes recordings in volume, that breadth is the real argument: it replaces a shelf of separate tools.

The reservations are just as concrete. Price is the first: nothing appears in the page source, so a buyer cannot compare tiers without opening the site in a browser, and the platform contradicts itself on how long the refund window lasts — seven days on the pricing and student pages, fourteen on the refund policy. Commercial use is gated behind the Business membership, which is easy to miss when subscribing to Basic or Pro. Credits bundled into a membership vanish when it lapses.

On governance the picture is mixed. ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27701 certifications are displayed, GDPR compliance is claimed, a genuine list of data subject rights is published, and API files are deleted within seventy-five minutes of processing. But there is no Data Processing Agreement, no named subprocessor list, no EU Article 27 representative and no declared hosting country, and the contract runs under Chinese law with arbitration in Hong Kong. The privacy policy also reads older than the terms, which were revised in July 2026.

The tool is plainly active and maintained. Try the free tier first, and if the output matters commercially, read the plan restrictions before you pay.