Captions

Captions is an AI video creation and editing workspace for turning recorded footage or an idea into a shareable video. Its product pages cover AI editing styles, a chat-based editor, 100+ language captions, generative media, digital twins, AI actors, translation, and traditional timeline controls. Feature availability and limits depend on the plan and platform.

✨ Key Features

• AI Edit styles — Upload footage, choose a style, and let Captions apply cuts, B-roll, transitions, music, zooms, and other production details.
• Prompt-based editing — Use natural-language instructions in the chat-based editor to request changes such as B-roll, zooms, sound effects, or other refinements.
• Automatic captions and transcripts — Generate captions in 100+ languages, customize their appearance, and download a transcript where supported.
• Traditional video editing — Trim, zoom, add transitions and sound effects, use keyframes, resize videos, and continue editing manually.
• AI video generation — Generate new video footage and scenes with AI tools such as AI Creator, AI Ads, AI Skits, and AI Twin where the plan supports them.
• AI creative assets — Generate or add images, B-roll, music, sounds, and voiceovers to a project.
• Digital twins and AI actors — Create digital twins or custom AI actors for expressive video and marketing production workflows.
• Translation and lip dubbing — Translate videos and use AI Lipdub to adapt the visible speech to another language where available.
• Social-ready export — Prepare output for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, YouTube Shorts, and LinkedIn.

💳 Pricing

• Free — US$0. Includes a limited feature set, basic editing such as trimming and transitions, some media-library assets, and no monthly AI credits on the current comparison table.
• Max — US$24.99/month on the reviewed iOS pricing page. Includes 500 credits/month, AI editing and generation features, AI actors or digital twins, a chat-based editor, and generative images, video, music, sounds, and voiceovers.
• Frontier — US$69.99/month on the reviewed iOS pricing page. Includes 1,400 credits/month and higher usage tiers, with access to the most sophisticated generative AI models listed by Captions.
• Frontier 2x — US$139.99/month on the reviewed iOS pricing page and 2,800 credits/month.
• Frontier 4x — US$279.99/month on the reviewed iOS pricing page and 5,600 credits/month.
• Enterprise — Custom pricing. Includes custom seats, bulk credit discounts, dedicated account management, training-data exclusion, onboarding/training, and early access to beta and new features.

Pricing note — The current public pricing page says the displayed prices and features reflect iOS plans only. Prices also vary by region, payment method, subscription length, and platform; confirm the checkout screen before subscribing. AI credits refresh monthly, and unused credits can roll over subject to the documented cap.

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🎯 Use Cases

• Talking-head social videos — Upload a recording, remove pauses and noise, add captions and B-roll, then export for Shorts, Reels, TikTok, or LinkedIn.
• UGC and product ads — Generate ad variants with AI actors, custom scripts, voices, and visual styles for product testing.
• Multilingual publishing — Translate a finished video and review captions, voice, and lip-sync before publishing in another market.
• Educational tutorials — Produce captioned lessons or explainers from a recording, script, or AI-generated starting point.
• Creator repurposing — Turn a longer recording into multiple post-ready clips and adapt each one to a target platform.
• Brand content production — Apply consistent caption styles, logos, colors, and editing patterns across a recurring content series.