What Captions does
Captions is a mobile-first video studio combining traditional editing with AI actors, digital twins, generative footage, voice tools, subtitles, translation, and conversational edits.
Captions is best understood as a mobile video-production toolkit, not merely an automatic subtitle app. It offers a teleprompter, transcript-driven captions, trimming, resizing, transitions, keyframes, eye-contact and audio fixes alongside AI Creator, AI Edit, ads, skits, shorts, actors, twins, B-roll, sound, voice, translation, and lip dubbing. That breadth can move a talking-head or social concept from recording to export without a desktop editor.
The official pricing page reviewed here reflects iOS plans specifically. Max is $24.99 monthly with 500 credits; Scale begins at $69.99 with 1,400, and larger Scale multipliers increase both price and credits. The free version covers basic editing without AI credits. Credit costs vary by generative feature, and unused credits can accumulate only up to the documented cap, so creators should confirm current in-app pricing and estimate a representative workflow.
Digital twins, actors, voice cloning, and lip-synced translation can blur authorship and endorsement. Obtain explicit permission from every represented person and voice owner, keep records, and disclose synthetic or materially altered media where law or context requires it. Automated captions can change names and claims; generated B-roll can create false evidence; translations can change tone. Review source meaning, identity consistency, lip sync, text, music, and cultural suitability before distribution.
How Captions works
Captions records or imports footage and analyzes speech to create timed subtitles and an editable transcript. Its generative tools can build a video from a prompt, create actors or a consented twin, add B-roll, music, effects, voices, translations, and lip dubbing, while traditional controls handle trimming, framing, timing, and export.
Acquire clear, authorized source media
Record with the teleprompter or import existing footage and establish the target aspect ratio. Clear audio improves transcription and editing; uploaded speakers, faces, voices, music, and clips need documented permission for the intended processing and distribution.
Build the speech-led first edit
Captions aligns speech to timed text, enabling subtitles and text-guided cleanup alongside trim, resize, transitions, and keyframes. Correct names, numbers, quotations, and specialist terms before translation or generative features propagate an error.
Add AI actors, edits, and media selectively
AI Creator, Edit, actors, twins, B-roll, images, music, sound, voice, eye-contact, and lip-dub tools can produce or transform elements. Each consumes different credits and may introduce identity, continuity, factual, cultural, or rights problems.
Approve identity, meaning, and delivery
Inspect captions, lip sync, pronunciation, translation, face and voice consistency, generated evidence, music, disclosure, and platform safety rules. Native speakers and represented people should approve consequential versions before publication.
How to set up Captions
Confirm device and plan pricing
Check the live App Store, Google Play, or web route for your platform, credit allowance, export needs, team requirements, and intended commercial usage.
Record or import clean footage
Use clear audio and stable framing, prepare an approved script, and upload only media and likenesses you have rights and consent to process.
Build a first edit
Generate captions, remove weak takes, set aspect ratio and pacing, and correct the transcript before adding generated assets or translation.
Apply AI tools selectively
Use Creator, Edit, actors, B-roll, voice, music, eye contact, or lip dubbing only where each tool improves the approved story and credit cost is justified.
Review and disclose
Check facts, captions, pronunciation, identity, artifacts, licenses, disclosure, cultural fit, and platform safety rules; have native speakers approve translations.
Captions FAQs
Is Captions free?
Yes. The free version includes basic editing tools but no AI usage credits; advanced generative features require a paid plan.
How much is Captions Max?
The official page currently lists the iOS Max plan at $24.99 per month with 500 credits. Other platforms and billing routes may differ.
Do unused Captions credits roll over?
Yes, but only up to two extra months: the pricing FAQ says an account can hold at most three times its monthly allowance.
Can Captions clone a person or voice?
It includes AI Twin, custom actors, and voice-cloning tools. Users need explicit rights and consent and should prevent deceptive impersonation.
Does Captions replace a professional editor?
It can finish many short social videos, but complex color, sound, compositing, rights review, and frame-precise work may still need specialist tools.
Listing reviewed 2026-07-15. Product details and pricing can change; verify important terms on the provider's website.
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