Captions vs Crayo Comparison 2026
Both cover short-form & clipping. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
At a glance
- Crayo starts cheaper, at $13.
- Neither has a free tier.
Side by side
Captions | Crayo | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $24.99 | From $13 |
| Pricing model | Paid subscription | Paid subscription |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Not stated |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | None | None |
| Runs on (they differ) | iOS | Web |
| Covers | Video Editing, Short-Form & Clipping |
Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
Captions
AI editing for talking-head video on iPhone
Captions edits the kind of video where somebody talks to the camera. It cuts the pauses, animates the subtitles and can generate the B-roll, music and sound effects that go around what you actually shot. The AI actor feature produces footage of a presenter from a script, either an invented one or a twin of you. Its pricing covers the iOS plans and the page says so rather than leaving you to find out.
Our note
This is the strongest of the phone-first AI editors and the least useful if you already own a desktop workflow. Treat the credit allowance rather than the monthly price as the real limit.
Only on this side
- Covers video editing
- Works with Facebook
Crayo
Short videos assembled from a prompt
Crayo builds short-form videos from a script or an idea, generating the voiceover, the captions and the background footage in one pass rather than asking for source material first. Every plan includes every tool and the tiers differ only in how much gets made. Credits, export minutes, voiceover minutes and image counts are metered separately. Anybody clipping an existing long video is better served by a tool built for that, because this generates rather than cuts.
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