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8 tools that solve a similar problem. Compare what each costs and what it covers.
Long videos cut into shorts, priced per clip
Klap starts from a long video and cuts the shorts for you, priced per clip from $14, where Captions edits what you shot on the phone.
Works with YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Podcast
Free vertical video editor from the makers of TikTok
CapCut covers the same phone-first vertical editing by hand and free to start, where Captions charges $24.99 to have the AI cut pauses and animate subtitles for you.
Works with YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
A prompt in, a narrated video out
invideo AI also makes the video for you, turning a prompt into a narrated piece at $17, closest to Captions' AI actor side rather than its editing side.
Works with YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
Cuts the silences and scores what is left
Wisecut automates the same tedium, cutting the silences and scoring what is left, at $23.25 with no free tier.
Works with YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
Browser video editing with subtitles
Kapwing edits social video with subtitles in the browser, free tier included and paid from $24, for people who would rather work on a bigger screen.
Works with YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Twitch
Apple's editor, bought once or monthly
Final Cut Pro is the desktop timeline with exact frame control, Apple's editor bought once or monthly from $12.99, the opposite of phone-first AI editing.
Browser video editing with subtitles that hold up
VEED does subtitle-led editing in the browser instead of on the phone, with a free tier and paid from $12.
Works with YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
Edit video and podcasts by editing the transcript
Descript edits talking-head video by editing the transcript, with a free tier and paid from $19, a desktop way to skip the timeline that Captions skips on the phone.
Works with YouTube, Podcast
