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.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 3 Sep 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- Auto-captions in 100+ languages
- Basic media library
- 1 caption template
- 500 credits/mo
- Digital twin avatars
- Chat-based AI editor
- Custom B-roll, music & SFX
- 1,400 credits/mo
- Everything in Max
- Most sophisticated model tier
- 2,800 credits/mo
- Everything in Max
- 5,600 credits/mo
- Everything in Max
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.
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 growing, but the company behind it changed identity: in September 2025 it rebranded from Captions to Mirage, an AI video research lab, with the Captions app continuing as its flagship mobile-first editor. This is not a scrappy indie tool — it was founded in 2021 in New York by Gaurav Misra, ex-Snap, and Dwight Churchill, ex-Goldman Sachs, with early backing from Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz. In March 2026 Mirage raised $75 million from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund, taking total funding to roughly $175 million, explicitly to keep building its own video models rather than renting third-party generation.
The animated, customisable styles are widely considered best-in-class for TikTok and Reels and clearly better than the platforms' native captioning, and AI dubbing into dozens of languages, eye-contact correction, background removal and B-roll insertion make it a genuine one-stop shop for talking-head vertical video.
Captions holds a 4-star Trustpilot rating across 253 reviews, and the negatives cluster on reliability and billing: audio drifting out of sync after export, failed or very slow exports, features that differ between iOS and desktop, non-English language support weaker than the marketing suggests, and a credit system users find expensive and opaque — including throttling that imposes long waits for further AI projects even on paid plans. Reviewers split on support: some report slow, unhelpful handling of refunds when generations glitch but credits are still consumed, others single it out as unusually responsive for a consumer app.
One reviewer described being two months into an annual plan when roughly 90% of the available AI avatars vanished, because the agreements with the community creators whose likenesses power them had lapsed.
Pricing moved to freemium in January 2025 against free rivals like CapCut and Meta's Edits: the free tier covers basic trimming and one caption template, while digital twins, the chat-based editor and higher-tier generative models start at $24.99/month Max and scale to $279.99 before Enterprise. It fits short-form creators and marketers producing talking-head content at volume; professional editors needing frame-level control will be happier in a traditional NLE with a captioning plugin.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
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