Looking for a BIGVU eye contact alternative?
BIGVU is a teleprompter and video app that's especially popular with real estate agents, coaches and small-business owners who record themselves reading a script. Its AI Eye Contact Fix adjusts your gaze after recording so you look at the lens, and pairing that with a built-in teleprompter is a smart combination: the prompter keeps your eyes close to the camera, and the fix cleans up what's left.
The catch is that eye contact isn't on every plan. Here's what it costs, when BIGVU is the right choice, and when an alternative makes more sense.
What BIGVU's eye contact fix costs
At the time of writing, BIGVU's published plans are Free, Starter at $12 a month or $149 a year, AI Pro at $19 a month or $229 a year, Max at $49 a month or $589 a year, and Super Agent at $239 a month, aimed at real estate teams. AI Eye Contact Fix is included from AI Pro upward — not on Free or Starter.
AI features draw on a monthly allowance of AI credits (3,000 a month on AI Pro), and BIGVU's pricing page doesn't break down how many credits eye contact uses. If you plan to correct a lot of footage, test how far the allowance actually goes before committing to an annual plan.
Where BIGVU is genuinely the better choice
If you record on your phone or laptop with BIGVU's teleprompter, the eye contact fix lives in the same place as the recording: you read the script, open the take and apply the fix. Nothing to export, upload or re-import. For a high-volume recorder who's happy in BIGVU, that convenience is worth the subscription.
BIGVU also bundles things a correction-only tool doesn't: captions, background replacement, branding and templates aimed at agents and coaches. If you'd use those every week, compare the whole bundle rather than eye contact alone.
When an alternative makes more sense
- You only need eye contact. Paying for AI Pro to unlock one feature makes sense only if you use it constantly.
- You don't record in BIGVU. If you shoot on a camera, use a hardware teleprompter or edit in Premiere, Final Cut or Resolve, you'd be importing footage into BIGVU just for the fix.
- Your volume is uneven. A subscription bills in the months you record nothing; listing seasons, launches and course builds come in bursts.
- You're on Starter. Moving up to AI Pro costs another $80 a year on annual billing just to get the eye contact fix.
The alternatives, briefly
- GazeFix — eye contact correction on its own, in the browser. Upload a recorded file, download it corrected, watermark-free at up to 1080p. Pay-per-minute credits that never expire, no subscription, and one free credit on sign-up.
- Captions — a phone-first editor with eye contact and a teleprompter, on a monthly plan with a shared credit pool.
- Descript — eye contact inside a full transcript-based editor; strong if you'd edit there anyway.
- CapCut — free eye contact inside CapCut's editor, a sensible first stop if you already edit there.
Running the numbers
BIGVU AI Pro is $229 a year on annual billing. GazeFix charges one credit per minute of video, rounded up per upload. A real estate agent correcting a three-minute market update every week uses 156 credits a year, which the Pro pack (200 credits, $79) covers. Someone correcting five minutes a week uses 260 credits — about $113 bought as a Pro and a Creator pack.
The lines cross at around twelve to thirteen minutes of corrected video a week. Above that, a BIGVU subscription you'd use for recording anyway is likely the better deal. Below it, or if you don't record in BIGVU, paying per minute costs less — and nothing in a month you don't record.
How to compare them fairly in one afternoon
Feature lists won't tell you which correction looks better on your face, in your lighting, with your glasses. A short, controlled test will, and it costs nothing on either side if you use a trial.
- Use the same take for both. Pick a recording where you were clearly reading — a market update or a scripted intro — so there's real drift to correct.
- Keep it to one minute. That's enough to judge blinks, glances and how the eyes behave when you turn your head, and it fits inside GazeFix's free credit.
- Watch with the sound off. Without the words to follow, your attention goes straight to the eyes, which is where any artefacts show.
- Check the moments you looked away on purpose. Good correction leaves natural look-aways alone; poor correction drags them back to the lens and looks like staring.
- Look at the export, not the preview. Confirm resolution and whether there's a watermark on the file you'd actually post.
- Note the time it took end to end, including any export or upload steps. For a weekly habit, the workflow matters as much as the result.
A workflow that keeps BIGVU's best part
You don't have to give up BIGVU's teleprompter to stop paying for its AI tier. Record with the prompter on the Free or Starter plan, export the take, and correct it separately. You keep the part of BIGVU that does the most for your eye contact — text right next to the lens — and pay for correction only on the videos that need it. Check what your plan's export looks like first — lower tiers may add a watermark or cap resolution.
To compare quality directly, take one of your BIGVU recordings and correct a minute of it with GazeFix's free credit — no card required. Put it next to BIGVU's own fix on the same take and judge the eyes, not the feature list.