Switch from Descript to FluxNote: How to Cancel and Export

• Cancelling is the same as downgrading to Free. Your paid plan runs to the end of the billing cycle and the Drive then moves to Free. Descript's Help Center says existing projects remain accessible, while its Terms say that on any termination of your right to use the service Descript deletes all User Content and you are solely responsible for backups. Descript does not reconcile the two, so export what you need.
• Descript allows a plan refund request in the first 48 hours after the invoice date, and Drive owners can request a refund for an Editor seat in the first 7 days after the invoice date, for the additional seat. Top-ups are non-refundable, and there is no prorated refund for unused time.
• Export finished videos at full quality before you downgrade: Free exports are 720p with a Descript watermark. Timeline export to other editors is for Creator and above, and Descript's XML feature chart for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve marks animation, audio effects, scenes, titles, transitions and video effects as not carried over.
• The Descript pages read on 21 Oct 2026 document no export for a voice clone, and a backup file is documented only as something you import back into Descript.
• Deleting the account is a separate step from cancelling. It is irreversible, cancels the plan immediately and does not trigger a refund. If you are eligible under the refund policy, Descript says to contact support before deleting.
• FluxNote does not clip or repurpose existing long videos or podcasts, so if you edit recordings by transcript, keep Descript.

FluxNote publishes this page and sells a competing product, so read it as a guide to leaving Descript, not as a verdict on which tool is better. Every Descript fact below was read from Descript's own pages on 21 Oct 2026, and the last section describes where they come from.

The prices below are the US view in US dollars, and the FluxNote pages read do not mention tax. This guide did not test either product.

It covers what each company publishes.

The two products start from different places.

Descript is built around editing recorded audio and video through its transcript, with AI tools on top such as an AI co-editor called Underlord, Studio Sound, Eye Contact, avatars, generated video, AI voices and dubbing, with AI use metered in AI credits.

FluxNote's pages describe creating a new video from a topic or a script, with AI-written scenes, voiceover, visuals, animated captions, music and an editable timeline, and saved Series that run on a schedule.

FluxNote does not clip or repurpose existing long videos or podcasts.

So the decision depends on what you use Descript for.

If you mostly edit recordings, podcasts or interviews by editing text, the FluxNote pages read on 21 Oct 2026 list nothing equivalent, so for that work the options are staying on Descript or moving to a lower Descript plan.

If you mostly use Descript for its AI generation, such as video clips, avatars or voices, or to make videos from a script, FluxNote's pages list features for that work, and the rest of this guide shows how to move step by step.

At Descript, cancelling a subscription is the same as downgrading to the Free plan. Your account stays, and the Drive moves to Free at the end of the billing cycle. Deleting the account is different and removes all projects, Drives and transcripts. The table shows what each item does.

In the Descript pages read on 21 Oct 2026, nothing says what happens to data above the Free plan's 5 GB cloud storage limit, or how long a Free account's projects are kept.

Its Help Center says projects remain accessible after you cancel, while its Terms of Service, last updated February 25, 2025, say that on any termination of your right to access or use the service Descript will delete all of the User Content stored in connection with it, and that you are solely responsible for making backup copies.

That clause sits in a paragraph that opens with Descript's right to terminate or suspend your account at any time with or without cause.

Descript does not reconcile the two, so export what you need.

Descript's Help Center gives these steps for the web app and the desktop app.

1. 1Log in at web.descript.com or open the desktop app, and open App Settings with Command or Control plus comma.
2. 2If you own several Drives, use the Drive picker in the sidebar to select the right one.
3. 3Go to the Plan tab and click Change plan.
4. 4Choose Downgrade to Free, select a reason for cancelling (it is required), then click Cancel subscription.
5. 5Follow the prompts until you see the cancellation confirmation message.

The paid plan stays active until the end of the billing cycle, after which the Drive moves to Free.

Descript says to make any changes before your next renewal date, and that if you change your mind before the cycle ends you can cancel the pending downgrade or cancellation.

Subscriptions renew automatically each month or year unless cancelled, and payments are taken upfront at the start of the billing cycle.

Five traps to check before you click.

• Each Drive has its own separately billed plan, and cancelling one does not cancel the others. If you own several Drives, repeat the steps for each.
• Descript support can only process cancellation requests that come from the Drive owner's email address.
• Removing an Editor frees a seat but you are still billed for it until you manually reduce your seat count.
• At this time Descript does not send invoices by email, and only the Drive owner can view them, so download any you need.
• Descript lists credit card and Link by Stripe, says checkout may also offer Apple Pay, Google Pay, Cash App, Amazon Pay and local methods depending on your location and currency, and offers invoice billing to Enterprise plans only. The Help Center pages read do not describe App Store or Google Play subscriptions, so if you pay another way, ask support.

Descript's refund policy is short. It covers plan and Editor seat purchases, and eligibility depends on the type of purchase and when you ask.

The policy gives one 48-hour window for plans and no separate rule for annual plans. To ask, submit a request to Descript's Support team from the email address associated with your Descript account.

If you have already submitted a request, you may need to reply to the thread confirming you would like a refund. Because the 48 hours run from the invoice date, check the date of your last invoice first.

Two related rules.

If you upgrade, or switch from monthly to annual billing, the change applies immediately and Descript prorates the remaining time on your old plan and credits it toward the new one, which is a credit and not a refund.

And if you are eligible for a refund and plan to delete the account, Descript tells you to contact support before deleting it.

Descript lets you export your content as a video, audio, GIF, text or subtitle file.

Video exports are MP4 or GIF, with resolution options of 480p, 720p, 1080p or 4K that are limited by your plan and by your aspect ratio and video settings.

Descript's pricing page lists 720p for Free, 1080p for Hobbyist and 4K for Creator and Business.

Audio exports are .m4a, .wav or .mp3, subtitles are .srt or .vtt, and transcripts export as .docx, .txt, .rtf, .md or .html.

On the Free plan, video is limited to 720p and carries a Descript watermark in the bottom-right corner, and Descript says existing exports must be republished or exported again after you upgrade.

So export your finished videos at full quality while the paid plan is still running.

If you want to keep editing elsewhere, use timeline export.

Descript says it is available on Creator, Business and Enterprise plans (its help article says to compare plans to see which export formats are included) and exports your timeline to Premiere (XML), Premiere (.prproj), DaVinci Resolve (XML), Final Cut Pro (FCPXML), Reaper (EDL), Audition (SESX) or Pro Tools and Logic (AAF), with a folder holding a copy of your media files.

Premiere (.prproj) is in beta and is not on every account yet.

Not everything carries over.

Descript's XML feature chart for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve marks animation, audio effects, scenes, titles, transitions and video effects as not carried over, and the article says most timeline formats do not support sequences or avatars.

If you made avatar videos, Descript says XML and AAF timeline exports do not include avatar layers, so export the composition as a video (its example is MP4) and import that file into your other editor.

Some things have no documented way out.

In the Descript pages read on 21 Oct 2026, backups are described as files you import back into Descript, and nothing says a backup opens in another tool.

The pages document no export for a voice clone, only sharing, renaming and permanent deletion.

They do not describe a one-click export of a whole Drive, though Descript does document a batch export that creates one file per composition in a project, and its pricing page lists batch file export as included on Creator and Business and not on Free or Hobbyist.

Keep your source recordings, scripts and brand assets in your own folders.

On the account itself, Descript says deleting it is irreversible: you lose all projects, Drives and transcripts, and it tells you to download transcripts and invoices first.

If you delete a single project instead, Descript says it moves to the Drive Trash, where it can be recovered for up to 30 days and is then deleted automatically.

And the backup point above matters: Descript's Terms say you are solely responsible for making backup copies of any User Content.

These are the plan prices each company showed on 21 Oct 2026, in US dollars. Descript prices are per Editor seat per month, and Descript says payments are taken upfront. Descript may add sales tax depending on your location, while FluxNote's pages say USD and do not mention tax. FluxNote's public pricing page opens on quarterly billing.

Descript, per Editor per month:

Descript also lists an Enterprise plan with custom pricing; its card says Talk to sales.

FluxNote, per month:

FluxNote's pricing page says its Free plan includes one finished video a month at 720p and 100 Image Studio credits, with no card.

FluxNote also lists, on quarterly billing, Basic at $7 a month, Rise at $14, Pro at $28, Max at $70 and Ultra at $140.

Descript's yearly plans work out to 12 times the per-month figure, so Hobbyist is $192 a year, by our arithmetic.

Do not compare credit totals. Each product defines its own credits.

Descript says Underlord requests have no fixed price per action and its Usage tab shows what each run cost, while for AI features you apply by hand Descript says the cost scales with the size of the job and the model you pick, and the same input costs the same each time. Its AI credit top-ups, for Creator and Business only, cost $0.05 to $0.10 per credit and expire after 12 months.

Compare the credit cost of the AI feature you use inside each product before you generate, then run one real project on both. FluxNote's plans are on its pricing page.

This table sets what Descript's pages describe against what FluxNote's pages list. It records what is published, not how well anything works, and it does not claim FluxNote matches Descript item for item. "Not listed" means not named on the FluxNote pricing, app pricing, models, features and free-tools pages read on 21 Oct 2026.

Around the clip, FluxNote's pages list 25 caption styles, 30+ video templates, saved Series that repeat a format, and social publishing, with the full voice and template libraries on paid plans.

If those are what you do after the clip, they are the parts of FluxNote's pages to check.

FluxNote's free tools include an audio trimmer, and the FluxNote pages read on 21 Oct 2026 do not describe editing recordings by transcript.

If you rely on one model or a cloned voice, test it before you cancel. FluxNote's app catalogue can list more models than its pricing pages name, and model access depends on the plan.

Your Descript plan stays active until the end of the billing cycle after you cancel, so one way to test a move is to overlap the two.

1. 1Export every finished video you need at full quality, export timelines if you want to keep editing elsewhere, download transcripts and invoices, and keep your source recordings in your own folders.
2. 2If your latest plan invoice is less than 48 hours old and you want a refund, ask for it. Otherwise cancel before the next renewal date and keep the confirmation.
3. 3Open a FluxNote free account. FluxNote's pricing page says it includes one finished video a month at 720p, 100 credits to try Image Studio and preview access to UGC Studio, needs no card, and is for personal and evaluation use. Free does not include the premium video models, which come with Rise and above.
4. 4Rebuild one real video from a script you already have, not a demo. Compare the result with the Descript original on what you care about, such as pacing, captions and voice.
5. 5If it works, pick a paid plan. FluxNote's pricing page says Rise and above include premium video models and paid plans include commercial usage rights for social posts, paid ads and client work. It also says you can cancel any time in Dashboard, then Billing, and the plan stays active until the end of the current billing period.

Start on the free plan. Leaving another tool as well? See the guides for leaving VEED and Higgsfield.

Descript facts were read on 21 Oct 2026 from descript.com (the pricing page, Terms of Service, privacy policy and product pages), from Descript's Help Center articles on cancelling, billing, refunds, exports, accounts, credits and AI tools, and from its public changelog.

FluxNote facts come from fluxnote.io and app.fluxnote.io on the same day and from FluxNote's own fact sheet.

Each Descript number and policy sentence was checked against the page it comes from on that date, and the main pages are listed below.

Descript's pages can change, so check the live page before you act.

Five things were not verified.

Descript's pricing page prints only per-month figures, so the yearly total is our arithmetic, and whether tax is added at US checkout was not seen.

What happens to project data above the Free storage limit after cancelling is not stated on the pages read, and the Help Center and the Terms differ.

Per-generation credit costs for the current image and video models are not given on the pages read, no page read gives a per-plan list of models (the changelog names only the default video model by plan), and for avatar models the changelog gives only dated February 2026 figures (about 67 and 138 credits a minute for Kling v2 and v2 Pro).

In the Descript pages read, no one-click export of a whole Drive, and no way to take voice clones, layout packs or Underlord skills to another tool, is documented.

And the Help Center pages read do not describe App Store or Google Play billing.

Sources for the points above:

• Descript Pricing
• Descript: Downgrade or cancel a subscription
• Descript: Timeline exports
• Descript: Refund policy
• Generative image and video models in Descript
• Delete your Descript account
• Descript: Export a video or GIF locally
• Descript: Terms of Service
• Descript: Changelog
• Descript: Track and understand your media minutes and AI credits
• Descript: Top ups: Buy additional media minutes and AI credits
• Descript: Manage and update your payment method
• Descript: Troubleshooting avatars
• Descript: Why has my account been charged?
• How billing works in Descript
• Descript: Invoice history

FluxNote's own pages read the same day: pricing, features, models and free tools, and the app pricing page.