VidCap: Captions For Videos 4+

Does great work! Needs some style.

Tested this app to work in airplane mode and it works like a charm. Would love some more functions.

You touch the text to move it up or down on screen under the style option but that’s about it. You can’t put the text in any square where ever you want. So the current style works more like a closed captioning add and not something that compliments the visual style or spacing. Still 4 stars!

Developer Response ,

Hi Joey! Thank you for your feedback.
VidCap is under active development, send us a wishlist at support@fadel.io and we’ll make it happen!

Extraordinary

This app is extraordinarily good at what it does. Whatever text-to-speech engine it's using is phenomenal at capturing natural speech and punctuating it correctly. It has terrific display options that allow you to choose font, screen position, and style of the subtitles with a great deal of flexibility. When the text-to-speech engine does get something wrong, which it does shockingly rarely if the audio is clear, there's a simple, easy-to-use UI for fixing the errors and adjusting the timeline. I don't need an app like this very often, but in my limited testing it's been exceptionally good. If I needed it more frequently, such as for professional use, the subscription prices are a steal.

Developer Response ,

Dang, this is the kind of review a developer strives for. Thank you thank you thank you 😍

Improvements needed

I decided to take a three day trial to check how good it is and if it’s true to what it claims. The first thing I noticed was the app is slow, especially on the Mac. There is an option of local transcription, but that is not very smooth and the transcription keeps getting stuck. The accuracy of transcription is not as good as you would expect. There are several places where the transcript escapes text or does not transcribe correctly. There are options of manual correction but I think there are other models in the market the transcribe much better. Finally, the trial is limited to just three days, which is somewhat limited. The developer has been launching some improvements in the past, but I think there is some way to go before this becomes a polished app. For now, I decided not to subscribe.