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Start free — five export minutes a month, watermarked. Upgrade when you need the mark gone and more minutes.
Plans
Free
Caption a real video and post it — no card
- Unlimited caption generation & editing
- 5 export minutes a month
- All 40+ caption languages
- All 224 caption styles
- Up to 3 min per video · 720p
- Exports carry the AutoCaption mark
- Behind-the-person styles on export
Creator
For creators posting a few shorts a week
- Unlimited caption generation & editing
- 150 export minutes a month
- No watermark
- 1080p export · up to 2 min 40 s per video
- All 224 styles, including behind-the-person (videos up to 1 min 33 s)
- Custom fonts & saved presets
- 4K export
Pro
For daily publishing, and for 4K
- Unlimited caption generation & editing
- 400 export minutes a month
- No watermark
- 4K export · up to 40 s at 4K
- 1080p up to 2 min 40 s per video
- All 224 styles, including behind-the-person (videos up to 1 min 33 s)
Frequently asked questions
Can I try it for free?
Yes. Create an account and generate, preview and edit unlimited captions for free, in any of the 40+ supported languages. The free plan also exports five minutes of finished video a month, carrying a small AutoCaption mark — a paid plan removes the mark and raises the allowance.
How do I export my captions?
The free plan exports five minutes a month with an AutoCaption mark. Creator and Pro remove the mark and raise the allowance, and a one-time minute pack is there if you would rather not subscribe. You can review the full caption draft before deciding.
Can I cancel anytime?
Absolutely. Cancel anytime from your account settings. Your plan remains active until the end of the billing period.
What languages are supported?
AutoCaption supports 40+ target languages including English, Hindi, Arabic, Spanish, French, German, and many more. AI auto-detects the spoken language.
Caption guides
More caption workflows to review.
Read the guide that matches the video you are preparing, then return to the caption generator when you are ready to upload.
SBV to SRT: Converting the File YouTube Studio Gives You
YouTube exports .sbv, which almost nothing else reads. The four differences from SRT, a worked example, and why the round trip is lossless.
Bilingual Subtitles: Two Languages in One Caption
Two subtitle files never share cue boundaries, so pairing by line number drifts. Match on time overlap, and expect stacked captions to fill the line budget.
ASS and SSA Subtitles: What Converting to SRT Loses
What ASS to SRT conversion discards, and the two faults that corrupt the result: assumed column order, and centisecond timestamps read as milliseconds.
Tanglish Subtitles: Tamil Captions in English Letters
Captioning tools give you Tamil script or garbled English. Romanised Tamil runs 1.5 to 2 times longer per line, has no standard spelling, and needs the ta-Latn tag.
What Language Is a Roman Urdu Subtitle File?
Not Urdu, which implies Nastaliq, and not English. The script subtag has answered this for years: ur-Latn for Roman Urdu, hi-Latn for romanised Hindi.
What Subtitle Format Does YouTube Use? SRT, and 15 More
YouTube accepts SRT, VTT, SBV and thirteen others, and strips styling from all of them. Which one to upload, why ASS is refused, and when a richer format pays off.
Why YouTube Switches Your Captions to Another Language
It is automatic dubbing, on by default since February 2026. Why your captions arrive in a language you did not pick, and what you can and cannot turn off.
What a Caption Needs Beyond the Words
Automatic captions transcribe speech and nothing else. The speaker, the sounds that matter and the tone are a manual pass with settled conventions.
Two Reasons Subtitles Show the Wrong Characters
Garbled letters and stray markup look similar and have nothing in common. How to tell encoding faults from escaping faults, and why SRT and WebVTT disagree.
Right-to-Left Subtitles: What Breaks and What Does Not
Urdu and Arabic subtitle files hold no direction at all. What that means for line breaking, character limits, punctuation and fonts.
Captioning Two Speakers: Voice Spans, Names and Dashes
Automatic captions transcribe words, not speakers. How WebVTT marks who is talking, what SRT can do instead, and what conversion does to both.
Caption Positioning: What WebVTT Can Do and SRT Cannot
Captions covered by platform buttons? SRT has no positioning syntax at all. WebVTT does, and converting to SRT throws it away for good.
Subtitle Character Limits and Why Tools Miscount
Most subtitle tools count code units, not what a reader sees. Kannada measures at double. What grapheme counting fixes, and what it does not.
Hinglish or Devanagari: Which Script for Hindi Subtitles
Roman letters or Devanagari changes who can read your captions, how consistent the spelling is, and the reading speed of every cue. How to choose.
Your Caption File Is Already the Transcript
A shipped SRT has been proofread once already. Strip the timing, pick the right shape for show notes or an article, and keep one source of truth.
How to Translate Subtitles Without Breaking the Timing
Translation keeps every timestamp but changes how much text sits in each cue. What to re-check after translating, and what never to translate.
Subtitle Shows Boxes or Question Marks: Fix Encoding
Garbled subtitle text is almost always the wrong character encoding. How to save as UTF-8, why BOM matters, and the mistake that makes it permanent.
Subtitle Reading Speed: How Fast Is Too Fast
Characters per second explained, the limits Netflix publishes, why short-form video needs shorter lines, and how to bring a fast caption down.
How to Fix Out-of-Sync Subtitles: Offset and Drift
Three faults look identical and need different fixes. Diagnose a constant offset, frame-rate drift, or a few broken cues, then correct the file.
How to Add Urdu Subtitles to a YouTube Video
YouTube's automatic captions do not cover Urdu, so the track has to come from you. Pick Urdu script or Roman Urdu, upload it in YouTube Studio, then review it.
Burned-In or Separate Subtitles: What Platforms Need
Reels and TikTok ignore a subtitle file, YouTube and web players want one. How to decide per destination and keep a single editable source.
How to Add Roman Urdu Captions in CapCut Without Retyping
Stop typing Roman Urdu caption lines one by one. Review a Latin-script SRT first, import it into CapCut Desktop or Web, then style and sync the caption blocks.
AI Video Captioning in 2026: What to Automate and Review
What to automate in an AI caption workflow, five file-level faults we found testing our own subtitle tools against the specs, and what still needs a person.
How to Edit Videos for Social Media: A 2026 Workflow
A step-by-step social media video editing workflow for master cuts, vertical framing, caption review, platform versions, team handoff, and export.
Repurpose YouTube Videos into Shorts with Better Captions
Reuse the long video’s caption file instead of re-transcribing: keep the cues in range, shift them by the clip start offset, then re-wrap for the vertical frame.
Podcast Clip Captions for Reels, TikTok, and Shorts
A caption review workflow for turning podcast clips into readable social videos with speaker names, line breaks, and export checks.
How to Choose a Caption App for Video
A practical checklist for choosing a video caption app: editable drafts, timing review, export formats, and repeatable styles.
Captions vs Subtitles, Open vs Closed: Two Questions
Captions and subtitles differ by what the text contains. Open and closed differ by how it reaches the screen. Neither answers whether it was auto-generated.
What Is a VTT File? SRT vs VTT for Video Captions
A VTT file is a WebVTT caption file for web video. See a sample file, how to open one, why one fails to load, and when to use SRT instead.
Caption Line Breaks for Reels, TikTok, and Shorts
Where to put a caption line break in vertical video: a ranked order of break points, the 32 character limit, and the case where no break works.
UGC Video Captions for Product Demos
A caption review workflow for UGC product demos, with product-term checks, safe-zone placement, mixed-language review, and brand handoff exports.