Captions (Mirage)
Mobile-first AI video editor with auto-captions and talking avatars
Overview
Captions, from AI video lab Mirage, is a mobile app for auto-captioning, editing and generating talking-head video with AI avatars. A free plan covers basics; paid tiers unlock digital twins and higher-end generative models, aimed at short-form creators and marketers.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 12 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete.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
What you can produce with Captions (Mirage)
- Auto-captioning in 100+ languages
- Chat-based AI video editor
- AI "digital twin" avatars for talking-head video
- Custom B-roll, music and sound-effect generation
- Mobile-first capture-to-export workflow
- Usage-based API billed per minute of input video
ASEAN Perspective
Captions (Mirage) 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 earns its following by doing one job — vertical, talking-head video — with real polish: 100+ language auto-captions, a chat-based editor, and digital-twin avatars that look convincing rather than uncanny. The company's 2025 rebrand to Mirage and its 2026 fundraising, including a $75M round from General Catalyst, point to a serious model-building push rather than a captioning app coasting on hype.
The catch is stability. Reviewers report exports that fall out of sync and slow renders, and — more pointedly — one paying annual subscriber found roughly 90% of the avatar library pulled mid-plan when the human creators behind those likenesses didn't renew their contracts. That's a real risk if a workflow depends on a specific avatar. For solo creators doing short-form talking video it's still one of the stronger mobile options; teams needing guaranteed avatar continuity should ask about that before committing to an annual plan.
What people say
Captions — the flagship app of what's now called Mirage — has 253 reviews on Trustpilot, split fairly cleanly between the product and the business behind it. On the product side, reviewers frequently praise how much time it saves on editing, auto-captioning and B-roll insertion for short-form video, and several single out customer support as unusually responsive for a consumer app in this category.
On the technical side, complaints cluster around export reliability: audio drifting out of sync with video after rendering, slow load times, and outright failed exports are recurring threads. Non-English language support also comes up as weaker than the marketing suggests.
The more unusual complaint is about avatar continuity. One reviewer described being two months into an annual plan when roughly 90% of the available AI avatars disappeared, because the underlying agreements with the community creators whose likenesses power those avatars had lapsed and weren't renewed. That's a structural risk specific to how Captions/Mirage sources its avatar library — not a bug, but a licensing dependency worth knowing about before locking into a yearly contract built around a particular avatar look.
Company-wise, this isn't a scrappy indie tool. Captions was founded in 2021 in New York by Gaurav Misra (ex-Snap) and Dwight Churchill (ex-Goldman Sachs), backed early by Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz. In September 2025 the company rebranded to Mirage to signal a shift from creator app to AI video research lab, and in March 2026 it raised $75 million in growth financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund specifically to keep building its own video models rather than relying on third-party generation.
Pricing moved to freemium in January 2025, a direct response to competing with free tools like CapCut and Meta's Edits. The free tier covers basic trimming and one caption template; the real functionality — digital twins, the chat-based AI editor, higher-tier generative models — sits behind the $24.99/month Max plan and scales up sharply from there, topping out at $279.99/month for the Scale 4x tier before Enterprise pricing kicks in.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
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