Captions
4.3
Captions produces and edits vertical video on a phone: subtitles, dubbing into other languages, AI presenters and eye-contact correction, in one app. It targets creators and social teams producing short-form on a daily cadence.
- Commercial use OK
- Free tier
- Pricing
- $24.99/mo
- Free tier
- Free tier
- Commercial use
- Permitted
- Japanese UI
- Not confirmed
- Enterprise contract
- Not confirmed
What it is good for
- Short-form social video produced without a desktop editor
- Subtitling and dubbing a clip into several languages
- Talking-head content where retakes are expensive
- Teams publishing daily rather than weekly
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Whole workflow on a phone, no desktop step
- Subtitles and dubbing built in
- AI presenters for content without filming
- Free tier to evaluate
Trade-offs
- Subscription is steep for occasional use
- Subtitle accuracy outside English needs checking
- Heavily styled output looks like the tool
Editors' review
The whole short-form workflow without a desktop
Short-form video dies on handoffs: shoot on a phone, transfer, edit on a desktop, export, upload. Captions keeps the loop on the device, which is what makes a daily cadence sustainable for one person.
Dubbing is the feature with the clearest return. One clip reaching several language audiences changes the economics of making it at all.
Two warnings. Subtitle accuracy outside English needs a correction pass before publishing — proper nouns especially. And the preset styling is recognisable, so leaning on it makes your output look like everyone else's.
Verdict
Right-sized for daily short-form by a small team. Restrain the styling.
Compiled from official documentation and public sources, with our own editorial judgement. We do not publish figures we cannot source.