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A video caption generator built around the finished clip.

Generate captions from speech, make them readable on the real footage, and export a video ready for feeds, lessons, podcasts, or presentations. No watermark, on any plan.

Drop a video here

MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV · up to 500 MB · 10 minutes

No signup. No watermark. Guest projects stay editable for 24 hours, or 7 days once you sign in.

What matters

Captions are part of the composition

Font, contrast, position, line length, and timing all affect whether captions help. Work on those choices while the video is visible, not in a detached text box.

Generation
Automatic
Text
Editable
Styles
Preset + custom
Preview
On the footage

How it works

  1. 01

    Upload a talking clip

    MP4, MOV, WebM, or MKV, straight from the browser to storage. The file is not re-encoded on the way in, so nothing is lost before you have seen it captioned.

  2. 02

    Create the captions

    Speech becomes editable, timed text with a start and end for every word, not just every line. Word-level timing is what makes active-word and karaoke styles possible later.

  3. 03

    Choose the visual voice

    Apply a preset, then adjust type, colour, emphasis, size, and placement against your own footage. Drag the caption block where it belongs for this particular shot.

  4. 04

    Export for the destination

    Download the captioned MP4 when the captions must be burned in, or SRT, VTT, or TXT when the platform draws them itself.

Built for the correction after generation.

Creator-ready styles

Start from restrained, high-contrast, karaoke, and active-word treatments instead of plain defaults. Every preset is a real style with its own timing behaviour. All of them can be previewed on your clip; Podcast Lower Third and Documentary export on Free, and the rest need Starter.

Caption editing in context

Correct a misheard word and judge its placement without leaving the video workspace. Editing text never resets the timing you already have.

Word-level timing

Each word carries its own start and end, so a caption can emphasise the word being spoken rather than flashing a whole line at once.

Position you control

Move and resize the caption block directly on the frame. Keyboard adjustment is available too, so placement is not a pointer-only feature.

Subtitle files, not just video

SRT, VTT, and TXT downloads are free on every plan, including the free one. Useful when the destination handles caption display itself.

Useful beyond social video

The same workflow supports course clips, podcast excerpts, explainers, and accessible presentations, not only vertical feed video.

Why not just use the platform's own captions?

Auto-captions inside a social app are free and immediate, and for plenty of clips they are enough. These are the cases where they are not.

They stay on that platform

Captions generated inside an app usually live in that app. The same clip posted elsewhere arrives bare, and you caption it again. A burned-in MP4 travels with the captions already in the picture.

You cannot fix a misheard word

Most in-app captioning offers no correction step, or buries it. Names, jargon, and brand words are exactly what a speech model gets wrong, and exactly what your audience notices.

The style is theirs, not yours

Platform captions look like the platform. Type, colour, emphasis, and placement are set here, so the clip carries your look rather than the app's default.

One visual result across destinations

A burned-in MP4 keeps the reviewed type, colour and placement wherever the file is posted. Nothing here adds a watermark on any plan, including Free.

What the free plan actually allows.

Accepted files
MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV
Free video projects
3 per month
Free video length
Up to 10 minutes
Free upload size
Up to 500 MB
Free resolution
1080P
Free retention
7 days
Free styles to export
Podcast Lower Third, Documentary
Starter MP4 exports
200 per month
Starter length and size
120 minutes, 5 GB
Starter resolution
4K
Watermark
None, on any plan
Starter price
$7 a month, or $60 a year

When this is the wrong tool.

Three cases where something else will serve you better. Worth knowing before you upload.

  • You need a script the bundled fonts cannot render

    Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai characters are blocked for burned-in export because the current font set cannot draw them reliably. Do not choose this workflow for those scripts until font and rendering QA is complete.

  • You want post captions and hashtags

    This generates timed captions drawn on the video. It does not write the description that sits beside the post.

  • You are captioning a feature-length film

    The ceiling is 120 minutes and 5 GB on any plan, and Free stops at 10 minutes. Longer than that wants a desktop editing suite, not a browser tool.

Questions before upload

Is this a social-media caption writing tool?+

No. This page generates timed on-video captions from spoken audio rather than writing post descriptions or hashtags.

Can I change how generated captions look?+

Yes. Use presets and adjust typography, colour, emphasis, position, and other style settings while the footage plays behind them.

Can captions highlight the current word?+

Yes. Every word carries its own start and end time, so styles can emphasise speech as it happens rather than a line at a time.

What if a word is transcribed wrongly?+

Open the script panel and correct it, or double-click the word on the video. The surrounding timing is preserved, so a correction does not desynchronise the rest of the caption.

Do I need an account to try it?+

No. Upload, transcribe, style, and preview all work without signing in. An account is required only at download, once you have already seen the result.

Is there a watermark on the free plan?+

No. Nothing adds a watermark on any plan. Free is limited by volume: 3 distinct video projects a month, where revising and downloading the same project again uses the same slot. Every style can be previewed; Podcast Lower Third and Documentary export on Free.

Can I use the captions outside the exported video?+

Yes. SRT, VTT, and TXT downloads keep the caption text separate, and those are free on every plan.

How long is my video kept?+

Seven days on the free plan and ninety on Starter, after which the source file and its project are deleted. Guest uploads are removed after one day.

Follow the subtitle workflow →See word-by-word captions →Start with the free plan →Use the free subtitle tools →Caption a video podcast clip →

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