Captions is a video editing app built around automatic captions, with AI tools for cleanup, dubbing, voice cloning and generated footage. It runs in the browser and on phones. What decides whether it suits you is how much AI work you plan to do, because every paid plan is a monthly allowance of credits and the free plan covers the basic tools.
What is Captions?
Captions is an AI video editing and generation app. The company behind it has rebranded as Mirage, and Captions remains the name of the product. The operating companies are NOCAP, Inc., which trades as Captions, and Mirage US LLC, and the team builds the app in New York City.
Captions runs as a web app and as an iPhone app that also works on iPad. On Android there is Captions Lite, a reduced app for manual editing. There is no downloadable app for Windows or Mac: the older desktop app has moved to the web, and the web app's interface is in English.
Editing video with Captions
Captions has a timeline with shots, overlays and separate music and audio tracks, and you trim each one by dragging its handles. Its AI trim removes pauses and filler words for you. Captions come in more than 100 languages, with caption templates and styling you can customize.
The cleanup tools each have their own name. Denoise removes background noise, echo, wind and crowd sounds. Cutout removes and replaces the background behind a video or an overlay, and Eye Contact redirects your gaze toward the camera.
For voice, you can generate an AI voiceover with models from ElevenLabs, Cartesia, PlayHT and OpenAI, import your own audio, or create a voice clone by reading a one-minute script. Dubbing translates speech into more than 30 languages, and you can edit the dubbed captions and adjust the volume. Lipdub syncs lip and face movement to the translated audio, also in more than 30 languages.
Captions also generates footage. You can create AI images and b-roll with models from Luma, Google, OpenAI and others, along with AI actors, avatars and video from a prompt. The media panel has stock images, GIFs and stickers, plus music and sound effect libraries.
Clips turns long podcasts, streams, webinars or gameplay into short social clips. The AI finds, cuts, reframes and ranks the best moments, from a source of up to 3 hours or 10 GB. Clips, AI Edit, chat editing and video generation all need a paid plan.
The Mirage API and Enterprise
Mirage sells the Mirage API for video captioning, generation and more, with its own pricing.
Enterprise plans are custom, and they include training data exclusion.
Captions pricing: what each plan gives
The Free plan gives you 60 to 200 credits once, not every month. It includes one caption template, Eclipse, and the basic tools: captions, camera, trim, zoom, sounds, media, voiceover, transitions and resize. Free exports carry no watermark.
The paid plans on the iPhone and web apps are priced by the month:
- Basic: $9.99 a month with 200 credits a month, project creation and exports with no watermark.
- Max: $24.99 a month with 500 credits a month.
- Frontier: $69.99 a month with 1,400 credits a month.
- Frontier 2x: $139.99 a month with 2,800 credits a month.
- Frontier 4x: $279.99 a month with 5,600 credits a month.
- Lite: $4.99 a month, for the Android app.
- Enterprise: custom pricing.
Credits renew each month on your subscription date. Unused credits roll over, up to three times your monthly allowance. Yearly plans are also sold at a discount.
You own the rights to what you put in and what you make. Output from third-party AI models is also subject to those model owners' terms.
Privacy and security
Captions trains on your data. Its privacy policy uses your information to provide the service "including to train our artificial intelligence/machine learning models", and its terms license your input and output to improve the service and develop new products. Training data exclusion comes with Enterprise plans.
Mirage is SOC 2 compliant, with its security and operational controls independently audited. The privacy policy has additional disclosures for people in the UK and the European Economic Area. Support is by email, and in-app messages are answered around the clock, though that is not live chat.
Who Captions suits
Captions suits creators who record and edit on a phone or in the browser and want captions, cleanup and dubbing in one place. Eye Contact, Denoise and filler word removal fit talking-head videos, and Clips fits anyone cutting long podcasts or streams into short posts. The range of plans lets you buy more credits as your AI use grows.
It suits less well if you edit on a Windows or Mac app, since there is no downloadable desktop version. It also suits less well if you do not want your footage used to train models, because training data exclusion comes with Enterprise plans. On Android, Captions Lite is a reduced app for manual editing.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does Captions cost?
Captions has a free plan with 60 to 200 one-time credits. Paid plans are Basic at $9.99 a month, Max at $24.99, Frontier at $69.99, Frontier 2x at $139.99 and Frontier 4x at $279.99, with Captions Lite on Android at $4.99 a month and custom Enterprise pricing.
Does the free plan add a watermark?
No. Free exports carry no watermark. The free plan covers basic editing, and AI Edit, chat editing, clips and video generation need a paid plan.
Is there a Captions app for Windows or Mac?
No. There is no downloadable Captions app for Windows or Mac, and the older desktop app has moved to the web. You can use the web app in a browser, the iPhone app or Captions Lite on Android.
Does Captions train AI on my videos?
Yes. Its privacy policy includes using your information to train its AI and machine learning models. Enterprise plans include training data exclusion.
