Creator
$19/month
Billed monthly
For solo creators posting every week
500 credits every month
- Up to 250 AI images
- Up to 50 Studio exports, plus the first export of each project
- Up to 1.5 hours of AI voiceover
- Roll over up to 1,000 credits
Add captions to video.
Every word on screen as it's said.
Add your video to Studio and Auto captions writes each spoken word onto the timeline at the moment it is said. Fix any word, pick a style, and export with the captions burned in.
Free: caption it in an app on your phone or computer, or let YouTube do it. Studio is the paid route, for word-by-word styles burned into the video.
- iPhone or Android
- In Edits, Instagram's free video app, open a project and tap Captions. Pick the spoken language and a style, tap Generate Captions, then Next and Download to save it to your camera roll.
- Any computer
- In Clipchamp's free plan (the Windows app, or Edge or Chrome), drag the video onto the timeline, open the Captions tab, pick the language and click Transcribe media. Fix words in the transcript, then export. Download captions saves an SRT file.
- On YouTube
- Upload the video and YouTube adds automatic captions on its own. To fix them, open YouTube Studio, choose Subtitles and the video, then Duplicate and edit. Viewers turn these on or off.
Steps from each maker's help page: Instagram Edits, Microsoft Clipchamp, YouTube.
Add captions to a video
Studio runs in a desktop browser, on plans from $19 a month. Auto captions costs nothing extra, and each project's first export is included. It takes up to 45 minutes of audio per run, and Studio exports the video itself, not an SRT or VTT file.
How to add captions to a video.Four steps in Studio.
Add your video
Open Studio on a computer and add your video or audio file. It lands on the timeline.
Press Auto captions
Open the Captions tab and press Auto captions. Each word lands on the timeline at the moment it is said.
Read it through
Play the video and fix what needs fixing. Edit a word, split or merge a caption, or drag it to change when it shows.
Pick a style and export
Choose one of 31 styles, set how many words show at a time, and export. The captions are part of the video.
Timed to the word,not to the sentence.
Auto captions gives every word its own start and end. That is what lets a style light up the word being said. This is the sentence from the top of the page, as Auto captions timed it.
0.00 s of 5.95 s
- 1.18 s pause
31 caption styles.Try six on a real clip.
Each style here is drawn from its Studio preset: the font, the colors, the outline and how many words show at once. Pick one to hear the line in it.
Words at a time
Dynamic: Heavy capitals, three words at a time, the spoken word in pink.
We tested the hard words.Every word heard. Three worth an edit.
A bike mechanic's tip, with numbers, units and an Irish name. Auto captions heard all 17 words. This is what it wrote:
Tyres to 80 psi, stem bolts to five Newton meters. If the Presta valve sticks, ask Shiban
Tyressaid “tires”
The British spelling. Right as written, unless you write for a US audience.
Right as written
80 psi,said “eighty PSI”
The number came back as digits and the unit in lower case.
Worth an edit
five Newton meters.said “five newton meters”
This number stayed a word, so the line mixes 80 and five. Newton came back capitalized.
Worth an edit
Presta valvesaid “presta valve”
Capitalized, the way the valve name is usually written.
Right as written
Shibansaid “Siobhan”
The name came back as Shiban, spelled the way it sounds in the clip.
Worth an edit
Every word was there. The name came back the way it sounded, and the numbers were not written the same way. Read the captions through before you export, and check names, numbers and units against the way you write them.
Not in English?Same line, four languages.
Auto captions works out the language from the audio. There is no language to pick. We filmed a ramen cook's line in four languages and captioned each one. Every word came back as it was said.
English, as Auto captions wrote it
We open at nine on Saturday. Come early, the ramen sells out fast
It writes what was said, the way it was said: the hour came back as a word in all four. It does not translate.
Open or closed captions?Sceneform burns them in.
Open captions are part of the picture. Closed captions are a separate file that the player shows when the viewer asks for it.
What Sceneform makes
Open captions
- Burned into the picture.
- Styled any way you like.
- Show on every app and player.
- Always on. The viewer can't hide them.
Not in Sceneform
Closed captions
- A separate SRT or VTT file.
- Shown in the player's own font.
- Only on platforms that take caption files.
- The viewer turns them on or off.
Simple pricing that scales with you.
Pick the plan for how much you post. Every model on every plan. Unused credits roll over. Cancel anytime.
Pro
Most popular$49/month
Billed monthly
For creators posting daily across channels
1,300 credits every month
- Up to 650 AI images
- Up to 130 Studio exports, plus the first export of each project
- Up to 4 hours of AI voiceover
- Roll over up to 2,600 credits
Studio
$99/month
Billed monthly
For brands and production teams
2,700 credits every month
- Up to 1,350 AI images
- Up to 270 Studio exports, plus the first export of each project
- Up to 9 hours of AI voiceover
- Roll over up to 5,400 credits
Scale
$199/month
Billed monthly
For agencies running always-on content
5,500 credits every month
- Up to 2,750 AI images
- Up to 550 Studio exports, plus the first export of each project
- Up to 18 hours of AI voiceover
- Roll over up to 11,000 credits
Every plan includesEvery model, 90+ and countingReusable AI personasSceneform Studio editorCommercial usage rights
Want checkout, comparison tables, or a custom volume? See the full pricing page
Before you caption your video
Open Studio on a computer and add your video. In the Captions tab, press Auto captions, and each spoken word lands on the timeline where it is said. Read it through, fix any word, pick a style, and export the video with the captions in it.
Plans start at $19 a month, and every plan includes Studio. For free captions, use Edits on a phone, Clipchamp's free plan on a computer, or YouTube's automatic captions, as shown at the top of this page.
Auto captions uses no credits. The first export of each project is free, and each export after it costs 10 credits. The $19 Creator plan has 500 credits a month. Every paid plan includes commercial use and exports without a watermark.
In the tests on this page, Auto captions caught every spoken word. Where it slips is names and formatting: it wrote the name Siobhan the way it sounded, and one number came back as digits and another as a word. Read the captions through before you export, and check names, numbers and brand terms.
Yes. Edit any word, delete a caption, split or merge captions, and drag or resize them on the timeline to change when they show.
Auto captions works out the language from the audio, so there is no language to pick. We tested English, Spanish, French and German. It writes the captions in the language that is spoken and does not translate them.
Yes. Pick a style that highlights the spoken word, such as Dynamic or Prominence, and set Words at a time to 1, 2 or 3. Then place the captions where the app's buttons won't cover them.
No. Sceneform burns the captions into the exported video, which are open captions. It does not export SRT or VTT files. Clipchamp's free plan saves an SRT file with Download captions, and YouTube makes closed captions of its own when you upload.
Not in Sceneform. Studio runs on a computer or a tablet, and on a phone it asks you to switch to a larger screen. On a phone, Edits, Instagram's free video app, generates captions and saves the video to your camera roll.
Auto captions runs on up to 45 minutes of selected audio at a time. Pick the tracks that hold the speech, and leave music tracks out.
Your video has something to say.Put it on screen.
Add captions to a video
Plans from $19 a month. Commercial use included.