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Describe Image

One upload becomes alt text, OCR, SEO copy, social captions and a generation prompt.

4.0 Productivity
4.0 Very good 4.0
Makes alt text something that actually gets done Generated alt text says what is in the image, not why it is on the page
Reviewed by Challenging Voice Editorial · Updated Aug 2026 How we rate
PricingFrom $8/mo
Free planNo
CompanyDescribe Image
PlatformsWeb
CategoryProductivity
Last reviewedAug 2026

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Overview

Describe Image reads pictures and short video and emits whichever text you need from them. Modes cover detailed description, WCAG-compliant alt text, OCR from documents, receipts and screenshots, keyword-rich SEO titles and descriptions, generation prompts for Midjourney, DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, platform-specific captions for Instagram, X, LinkedIn and TikTok, timestamped scene breakdowns for video, and invoice parsing into JSON. Uploads run to 15MB.

Alt text is the mode that justifies the whole product, because it is the accessibility task everyone agrees on and nobody does. Every content team knows images need alternative text, and every large site is full of images without it, for the simple reason that writing it is dull and there are four hundred of them. WCAG-compliant output at upload time is the difference between a policy and a practice.

Pricing is annual: Basic $95.99 for 9,600 credits, Pro $185.99 for 20,400 and Studio $459.99 for 55,200, with monthly and one-time packs at higher per-credit rates. No company is named beyond a support address. Generated alt text describes what is in a picture rather than why it is on the page, which is what alt text is actually for; 15MB rules out large video; and one image consuming several modes consumes several credits.

Key features

  • WCAG-compliant alt text generation
  • OCR from documents, receipts and screenshots
  • SEO titles and descriptions from an image
  • Prompts for Midjourney, DALL-E and Stable Diffusion
  • Timestamped video scene breakdowns and invoice-to-JSON parsing

Screenshots & demo

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Pricing

Describe Image is a paid tool, with plans that start at $8/mo.

  • Pricing modelPaid
  • Starting priceFrom $8/mo
  • Free planNo
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Is Describe Image expensive?

Describe Image starts at $8, which is 20% below the Productivity median of $10 a month across the 196 priced tools we list in that category.

The cheapest paid option in Productivity starts at $0.29 and the most expensive at $165.

70% of Productivity tools in the directory offer a free tier, which this one does not.

Compared against every priced listing in Productivity, recalculated as the catalogue changes. Method and the full market breakdown are in our AI tool pricing study.

Pros & cons

Pros

  • Makes alt text something that actually gets done
  • Eight output modes from one upload
  • Full pricing published across three tiers

Cons

  • Generated alt text says what is in the image, not why it is on the page
  • No company named beyond a support address
  • Several modes on one image consume several credits

How it compares

ToolRatingFreeFromBest known for
Describe Image (this tool)4.0No$8/moWCAG-compliant alt text generation
DocuGenie3.8YesFreeHandwriting OCR and image-to-text extraction
YTSummary3.5YesFreeChatGPT-powered video summarization
Lido3.9No—Data extraction from PDFs into spreadsheets

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ChaiBar

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Frequently asked questions

What is Describe Image?
Describe Image reads pictures and short video and emits whichever text you need from them.
Is Describe Image free?
Describe Image does not offer a free plan; paid pricing starts at $8 per month.
How much does Describe Image cost?
Describe Image starts at $8 per month. See the pricing plans above for full details.
What are the best Describe Image alternatives?
The closest matches in the directory are DocuGenie, YTSummary, and Lido, compared side by side above.

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