Captions
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveMobile-first AI video editor that cuts, captions, dubs and drops b-roll into talking-head footage
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $24.99/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Free covers basic trimming, transitions and one caption template; Max is $24.99/month for 500 credits, and the Frontier tiers (formerly Scale) run $69.99, $139.99 and $279.99/month for 1,400 to 5,600 credits, with Enterprise on quote. The table is labelled as iOS plan pricing, and unused credits roll over up to three times the monthly allowance.
Use tool ↗About Captions
Captions takes a raw talking-head recording and returns an edited short. It removes dead air and filler, styles burned-in subtitles from a large preset library, inserts b-roll over the cuts, adds music, translates and dubs into other languages, and can correct eye contact so a script read off-screen looks like direct address. A second half of the product generates AI avatars and ad creative from a written script instead of footage. It runs on iPhone, Android, the web and desktop. Plans are credit-based: trimming, transitions and basic media stay free, while every generative action spends credits. It is built by NOCAP, Inc., a New York company founded in 2021 and backed by Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, a16z and Sequoia.
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- Max $24.99/month with 500 credits; Frontier $69.99, Frontier 2x $139.99 and Frontier 4x $279.99/month with 1,400 to 5,600 credits; Enterprise custom; 'Features and prices reflect iOS plans only' (15 October 2026)captions.ai ↗
- Unused credits roll over, with the balance capped at 3x the monthly allowance; a free version with basic tools exists (15 October 2026)captions.ai ↗
- Footer reads NOCAP, Inc. d/b/a Captions; AI Edit styles, AI avatars and twins, auto-captions and translated subtitles on the homepage (15 October 2026)captions.ai ↗
Is Captions legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Dec 16, 2017 (8 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar NameCheap, Inc., looked up Sep 12, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Dec 25, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
- On the market since
- 2021The vendor's own material, read by us
- Operated by
- NOCAP, Inc., United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Captions
Captions is the strongest of the phone-first short-video editors, and the caption styling plus eye-contact correction are the two features people actually keep it for. The AI edit pass genuinely removes an hour of manual cutting from a weekly-video habit. The pricing is the problem: it is credit-metered, the published table is labelled iOS-only, and the entry tier's 500 credits disappear fast once you use the generative features it exists to sell.
Pros
- Automatic scene cutting, caption burn-in, b-roll insertion and music in one pass over raw footage
- Over 100 caption styles and support for 100+ languages, including dubbing
- Eye-contact correction handles the single most obvious tell in scripted creator video
- Runs on iOS, Android, web and desktop with the same account
- Free tier still gives trimming, transitions and library media, so the app is usable before paying
Cons
- Everything generative is credit-metered, so the monthly price understates real cost at volume
- The pricing page states it reflects iOS plans only, which leaves web and Android buyers guessing
- Credit rollover is capped at 3x the monthly allowance, so banking credits for a big project does not work
Best for
- Creators shooting talking-head shorts on a phone and publishing several a week
- Getting a script read off-screen to look like direct-to-camera delivery
- Producing the same clip in several languages with dubbing and translated captions
Not for
- Multi-camera or long-form edits that need a real NLE timeline
- Teams that want a programmatic pipeline — there is no documented public API on the site
Watch out: The $24.99 Max tier buys 500 credits — enough for light use, but a single long avatar or AI-edit render can eat a visible slice of that. Price the work, not the plan.
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