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Rev Pros and Cons: Top 5 Advantages and Disadvantages

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Users find Rev's high accuracy in transcription to be superior to competitors, enhancing their overall experience. (72 mentions)
Users love Rev for its efficient and accurate transcription, enhancing their learning and simplifying the transcription process. (71 mentions)
Users appreciate the time-saving aspect of Rev, noting its quick and reliable transcriptions for meetings. (63 mentions)
Users appreciate the ease of use of Rev, which allows for quick and intuitive transcription and recording. (58 mentions)
Users appreciate the exceptional transcription accuracy of Rev, making it the best choice for their needs. (58 mentions)
Users report AI inaccuracy in transcripts, citing issues like grammatical errors and sync problems in captions. (21 mentions)
Users express frustration with inaccurate transcription, highlighting frequent errors and a lack of contextual understanding. (19 mentions)
Users report notable text recognition issues with Rev, including errors in names, context, and synchronization problems. (16 mentions)
Users find AI limitations in Rev, noting issues with line breaks, crashes, and incomplete transcripts. (13 mentions)
Users face user interface issues with Rev, including upload problems and challenges with organization and formatting. (12 mentions)

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Rev Pros and Cons

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Rachael  B.
RB
Director of Operations
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Rev?

Alyssa is super responsive and makes the experience so much easier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rev?

Inconsistency between transcripts. It goes through flows of being better and worse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Legal Services
UL
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What do you like best about Rev?

REV is incredibly easy to use and offers excellent customer service. The platform is user-friendly, and any time I’ve needed help, their team has been responsive and supportive. Highly recommend! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rev?

So far, I haven’t found anything to dislike. Everything has worked smoothly, and the experience has been consistently positive! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Professional Training & Coaching
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What do you like best about Rev?

I really appreciate how easy it is to use Rev to capture transcriptions for our videos. We use the tool pretty often, and it has been helpful for me to scrape for content repurposing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rev?

It would be great if the exporting were a little easier to figure out. Formatting can be a bit messy. But I haven't seen other tools do it better yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Legal Services
UL
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What do you like best about Rev?

Using Rev is helpful for what I need. It's nice having speech speeds so I can understand what is being said and to correct transcripts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rev?

I wish that Rev could transcribe Spanish speakers. That would be a nice upgrade. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Trey C.
TC
Media Director
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What do you like best about Rev?

Easy to you, quick turnaround time, affordable price and accuracy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rev?

Haven't had any yet. Everything has been great so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Motion Pictures and Film
UM
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What do you like best about Rev?

The things I like the most are the cost and the speed, especially the instant first-draft feature, since it's release. It helps me get my work started. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rev?

Technical errors seem to happen from time-to-time, more than I would maybe anticipate, and additionally the human transcription only seem so-so on utilizing context clues to correctly transcribe something. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Mental Health Care
UM
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What do you like best about Rev?

I enjoy the accuracy of the transcription. It is easy to use and I like that there’s an app and a website. I enjoy that I can change preferences in the download tab. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rev?

The app version doesn’t have the same customizable download options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consulting
UC
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What do you like best about Rev?

rev is reliable, simple, predominantly very good quality, and makes life easier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rev?

perhaps that they have significantly raised the prices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Clive B.
CB
Professor
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What do you like best about Rev?

Accuracy and promptness - always excellent and timely Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rev?

I find the website a little finicky to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consulting
UC
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What do you like best about Rev?

Rev is much more accurate than Zoom transcription, and is really easy to edit in the system before downloading transcripts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rev?

Rev constantly makes speaker attribution mistakes, and has difficulty parsing any overlapping speech, even if it captures all of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.