Captions
AI video editor with auto-captioning and dubbing
Overview
Captions is a mobile-first AI video editor — auto-generates captions, dubs into 27+ languages, removes backgrounds, edits with text prompts. Popular with creators producing vertical video for TikTok and Reels. Free tier with watermark; subscription for HD and unlimited use.
Use cases
What you can produce with Captions
- Auto-generate animated, styled captions on a talking-head video and customize fonts, colors, and emphasis for TikTok or Reels.
- Dub a video into more than two dozen languages with AI voice cloning and matching lip sync.
- Fix eye contact so you appear to look at the camera even when reading a script off-screen.
- Remove or replace the video background without a green screen from a phone-shot clip.
- Cut filler words, pauses, and bad takes automatically instead of scrubbing the timeline manually.
- Generate a promotional video with an AI avatar presenter from a text script using the Mirage web tools.
- Resize and reframe one recording into vertical, square, and horizontal exports for different platforms.
ASEAN Perspective
Captions in Southeast Asia
ASEAN-region availability and pricing notes coming soon. Drop the editorial team a note via /contact/ if you can supply local context (Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Thailand/Vietnam).
Captions focuses on AI-driven talking-head video: automatic captions, eye-contact correction, AI avatars, multi-language dubbing, and generating video from a script. For solo creators and marketers producing social content, it compresses a lot of production work into a phone or browser, and output quality for short-form is good.
The avatar and generative features are credit-metered, so heavy use gets pricey, and AI-avatar output can still read as synthetic for longer or higher-stakes content. It's an English-first global product with multi-language dubbing but no ASEAN-specific tooling. A solid choice for high-volume short-form creators; less suited to polished long-form or brand-critical video.
What people say
Captions is still alive and growing, but the company behind it changed identity: in September 2025 it rebranded from Captions to Mirage, repositioning as an AI video research lab, with the Captions app continuing as its flagship mobile-first editor. Mirage raised $75 million from General Catalyst in March 2026, bringing total funding to roughly $175 million, so the product has runway - though its center of gravity is shifting toward generative video models and a web-based marketing suite alongside the creator app.
What users consistently praise is the caption engine itself. The animated, customizable caption styles are widely considered best-in-class for TikTok and Reels, clearly better than the native captioning on the platforms, and the AI dubbing into dozens of languages plus eye-contact correction and background removal make it a genuine one-stop shop for talking-head vertical video. For a solo creator filming on a phone, the speed from raw clip to polished short is the core sell.
The complaint pattern is equally consistent. Captions holds a 4-star rating on Trustpilot across roughly 250 reviews, and the negative ones cluster around reliability and billing: audio drifting out of sync after export, failed or very slow exports, features that differ between iOS and desktop, and a credit system users find expensive and opaque - including throttling that can impose long wait times for additional AI projects even on paid plans. Reports of slow or unhelpful customer support recur, particularly around refunds when AI generations glitch but credits are still consumed.
Captions fits short-form solo creators, coaches, and marketers producing talking-head content at volume who value speed over frame-level control. Professional editors needing precise timelines, and anyone intolerant of occasional export bugs, will be happier in a traditional NLE with a captioning plugin.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
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