Captioner: Quick Add Captions
Animated captions, on device
Free
Captioner adds animated, word-by-word captions to your videos, entirely on your device. Drop in a clip, pick a style, fix any word, and export a new video with the captions burned in. Nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it's free.
WORD BY WORD
Captioner listens to your video with Apple's on-device speech engine and keeps the moment every word is spoken, so the word being said lights up as it's said. Perfect for Reels, Shorts, TikTok and any video watched with the sound off.
FIFTEEN STYLES, ALL YOURS TO CHANGE
Highlight boxes, outlines, karaoke colors, pops, typewriter reveals, boxed subtitles, and single-word styles that show only the spoken word. Every style's font, weight, size, case, colors, outline, shadow and animation can be changed. Use San Francisco in sans serif, rounded, serif or monospaced designs, any font on your device, or a font file you add. Save your own styles and make one the default for every new video.
PUT THEM WHERE YOU WANT
Drag the caption in the preview, or set a vertical position and left, center or right alignment. Vertical 9:16 and widescreen 16:9 videos each remember their own spot.
FIX THE WORDS
Every caption is editable next to the preview. Split a line before any word, merge two, delete one, or rebuild from the original recognition. Punctuation, title case and curse words are simple toggles.
TRANSLATE
Turn the captions into Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and dozens more with Apple's on-device translation, keeping them timed to the original speech.
YOUR VIDEO, UNTOUCHED
Exports keep the original resolution and frame rate, and the audio is copied exactly as it was. H.264 by default, HEVC if you prefer. Already have an SRT or WebVTT file? Use it instead of transcribing.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Speech recognition, translation and rendering all happen on your device. Captioner has no account, no analytics and no tracking.
The first time you caption a language, the system downloads Apple's speech model for it; after that it works offline. Captioner for Mac adds batch queues and watched folders that caption and export videos automatically.
Ratings & Reviews
Caption files and wide screens
• Save the captions as a file: the Captions sheet writes SubRip (.srt), WebVTT (.vtt) or plain text (.txt) into Captioner's folder in Files and opens the share sheet, with the transcription controls applied.
• The Share button after an export now opens the share sheet for the video.
• On iPad and an unfolded iPhone, the editor shows the video on the left and the captions beside it.
The developer, Stephen Robles, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Stephen Robles
- Size
- 3.1 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Stephen Robles