What is Captions?
Captions is an AI video editing app for iOS, Android and the web that turns raw footage into finished social videos. You pick a style and it cuts scenes, adds B-roll, music and animated captions in over 100 languages. Creators and marketers also use it to make AI avatar and digital twin videos.
Editing a talking-head clip usually means hours of trimming pauses, syncing subtitles and hunting for B-roll. This app treats the whole edit as one step: AI Edit applies a chosen style to your footage, and a chat-based editor lets you change details by typing instead of scrubbing a timeline. It also generates new footage with AI actors, so you can make ads without filming.
Main Features
- AI Edit cuts scenes, adds zooms, B-roll, music and transitions to a full video in one pass.
- Generates captions in 100+ languages with more than 100 caption styles on paid plans.
- Removes pauses, filler words and other interruptions automatically.
- Creates an AI twin of you or uses stock digital avatars to present scripts.
- Chat-based editor applies changes from plain-language prompts.
- Clips turns a long video into a batch of short, post-ready clips.
- AI Translate and AI Lipdub dub a video into another language with matched lip movement.
- Built-in teleprompter, resizing, AI denoise and voice cloning for recording and cleanup.
How to Get Started with Captions
- Sign up in your browser at captions.ai or download the app from the App Store or Google Play.
- Record with the teleprompter or upload existing vertical or horizontal footage.
- Choose an AI Edit style and let the app cut, caption and add B-roll to the video.
- Adjust details with the chat editor, then export and post to your social channels.
Captions Pricing
The app is free to download with basic editing and one caption template but no AI credits. Max costs $24.99 per month with 500 credits and Frontier $69.99 per month with 1,400 credits (iOS prices), and Enterprise is custom.
Who Should Use It?
- Creators posting short-form video to TikTok, Reels and YouTube Shorts.
- Marketers producing video ads with AI actors instead of shoots.
- Podcasters cutting long episodes into captioned clips.
- Small businesses making product and tutorial videos without an editor.
- Teams localizing videos into other languages with dubbing and lip sync.
Captions Alternatives
- Descript AI: better for long-form edits by editing the transcript
- Opus Clip: focused on auto-clipping long videos into shorts
- Submagic AI: narrower tool centered on styled short-form captions
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Captions free?
You can download it and use trimming, the teleprompter and one caption template without paying. AI features such as AI Edit, avatars and dubbing run on credits, which start with the $24.99 per month Max plan on iOS.
Does Captions work on desktop?
Yes. You can sign up and edit in a web browser on your computer, and the same account works in the iPhone and Android apps. Former Mirage Studio users now reach their projects through Captions online.
Can Captions make videos without filming?
Yes. You can create an AI twin of yourself or pick a digital avatar, give it a script and generate a presenter video, then change outfits, backgrounds or product inserts with prompts.