Captions Review: Features, Pricing & Alternatives

What is Captions?

Captions is an AI video editing app built for people who talk to the camera. You record or upload a clip, and it adds styled captions and cuts out pauses. AI Edit can also add zooms, B-roll, music and transitions for you. It started as a mobile app and now also runs on the web and desktop.

The company was founded in 2021 by former Snap employees Gaurav Misra and Dwight Churchill and is based in New York. In September 2025 it renamed itself Mirage to focus on building its own video models, but kept Captions as the name of the app. The Mirage Studio avatar product launched in June 2025 and has since been merged into Captions.

In March 2026 Mirage raised $75 million in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund to keep building models for the app. Captions says it has 20 million users. What sets it apart is its focus on short videos where a person is speaking, with tools that polish delivery, translation and pacing.

Key features of Captions

• AI EditTurns raw footage into an edited video with zooms, B-roll, music and transitions, in several design styles.
• Auto captionsAccurate captions in more than 100 animated styles, with translation into 100+ languages.
• AI dubbing and lip syncTranslates your voice into other languages and matches your lip movements to the new audio.
• Eye ContactCorrects your gaze so you appear to look into the lens while reading notes or a script.
• AI avatars and digital twinsCreate videos with AI actors or a digital twin of yourself, without recording new footage.
• Chat editor and clipsDirect edits with text prompts, remove background noise and cut long videos into short clips.

Who is Captions best for?

• Short-form creators who record talking videos on their phone for TikTok, Reels and Shorts.
• Founders and coaches building a personal brand with frequent direct-to-camera videos.
• Marketers making UGC-style ads with AI actors and localised versions.
• Multilingual creators who want to reach new audiences with dubbed versions of their videos.

Popular ways to use Captions

• Daily shorts: record on your phone and let AI Edit add captions, zooms and music.
• Scripted videos: read from notes and fix your gaze with Eye Contact.
• Localisation: dub a video into other languages with lip sync.
• UGC ads: generate ad variations with AI actors for testing.
• Podcast clips: cut long recordings into short captioned clips.

Captions pricing (October 2026)

Prices shown are monthly prices from the Captions website. Prices in the mobile app stores may differ by platform and region, so check before subscribing.

Captions pros and cons

How to get started with Captions

1. Download the Captions app or sign up at captions.ai.
2. Record a talking video or upload existing footage.
3. Generate captions and choose a style.
4. Apply AI Edit, Eye Contact or noise removal as needed.
5. Export in vertical format and post, or dub it into another language.

Tips to get better results from Captions

• Record in good light with clear audio, because the AI tools work best on clean footage.
• Try a few AI Edit styles before settling on one for your channel.
• Review auto captions for names and brand terms before you export.
• Only create a digital twin or dub content where you have consent from the person shown.

Captions vs alternatives

Captions is closest to CapCut, which is cheaper and offers more manual editing, and to VEED, which is stronger for browser-based team work. Captions stands out for polishing talking-head videos and for its eye-contact and lip-sync tools.

For avatar-led business videos, HeyGen offers more presenter options, and Descript is better for long-form podcasts. OpusClip is the specialist for turning long videos into shorts. See all best AI video generators.

Our verdict: is Captions worth it?

Captions FAQs

Pricing and features change often. Details on this page were last reviewed in October 2026. Always confirm current plans on the official Captions website.