The 6 Best Apps to Automatically Add Captions to Your Social Media Videos
Adding closed captions improves accessibility and increases overall engagement with your videos. While TikTok and Instagram allow users to create automatic closed captions for uploaded videos, these built-in options aren’t always the most accurate or the most convenient if you’re posting a video to multiple platforms.
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CapCut is one of thebest apps for Instagram and TikTok content creatorsbecause it’s a one-stop shop. Everything you need to edit your video from start to finish is available through CapCut. In addition to automatically adding captions to your videos, you can clip unwanted parts of your video, play background music, remove the background, and much more.
Creating short-form videos in Capcutis quick and easy with the app’s auto-caption feature because it saves you the time of manually typing out every word you said. After you upload a video to start a new project, selectTextfrom the bottom toolbar, and then tapAuto Captions.
From here, you’ll be able to decide whether you want to pull automatic captions from the video or from a voiceover. Once your closed captions have been created, you can edit any errors and customize the font, color, size, and style of your text.
Download:CapCut forAndroid|iOS(Free, subscription available)
If you’re still learninghow to use TikTok as a beginner, one of the best ways to boost engagement is to auto-caption your videos with an app like Zeemo. You can upload a video you’ve already filmed on your smartphone and Zeemo can add captions in 16 different languages.
No app will be 100% accurate unless you’re enunciating every word. But after Zeemo has automatically captioned your videos to the best of its ability, you’ll be able to edit the captions for accuracy and style. it’s possible to batch edit the captions to see a full view of all the captioned lines and easily rearrange and fix whatever you need to.
Plus, if you ever upload a short video and don’t want to mess with auto-captioning, you can manually type in your own captions. There are over 30 font styles to choose from, and countless sizes and colors to play around with.
Download:Zeemo forAndroid|iOS(Free, subscription available)
3. AutoCap
Once you’ve recorded and uploaded a video to AutoCap, there’s so much you can do with it. You can, of course, have AutoCap add captions to your video automatically. After the automatic captions are formed, you can edit any incorrect words or rearrange the words to appear in different lines throughout the video.
Then, you may alter the look of your captions. There are seven unique font styles, a font size slider, 20 font colors, and even a few animation styles to play around with. You can also add a timer to your video and customize its color, which is super helpful for videos on TikTok that don’t naturally come with a timer. The one thing you can’t edit without paying for a subscription is the green AutoCap watermark on every video.
Plus, if you ever need any help figuring out how to use AutoCap, there’s a handy book icon in the top right corner. Tapping on this icon opens a pop-up window with video instructions for the most common tasks within AutoCap.
Download:AutoCap forAndroid|iOS(Free, subscription available)
4. MixCaptions
Because people often scroll through social media at work or school, videos are often watched on mute. And if you want toincrease your chance of going viral on TikTok, adding captions to your video with an app like MixCaptions will help you reach more people.
Simply upload your video, tell MixCaptions which language to detect in the video, and it’ll automatically create captions for your video. With the free version, you’ll only be able to caption up to 180 seconds of uploaded video and your video will have the MixCaptions watermark.
Or you can spring for the $2.99/week subscription to automatically transcribe videos up to 10 minutes long without a MixCaptions watermark. You can even create your own custom watermark if you want. You’ll also be able to edit any incorrect captions and customize the font style, size, and color of text before officially saving and sharing your video.
Download:MixCaptions forAndroid|iOS(Free, in-app purchases available)
5. Teleprompter & Video Captions
This app by BigVu can add automatic subtitles to any video you upload—with a proprietary watermark—but it’s capable of so much more. With its built-in AI Magic Writer tool, the app helps you write scripts for social media posts. So instead of sitting around for hours coming up with exactly what you want to say, you can plug an idea into this app and let the AI run with it.
When you open the AI Magic Writer tool, there are four unique options to choose from:Pitch My Business or Personal Profile,Video Sales Letter,Script with Tips, orNews to Share. By selecting one of these four options, it helps the AI figure out what the tone of your script should be.
After you choose an option, you’ll be able to tell the AI exactly what you want to talk about as well as your name so it can be included in the script. As an example, you could chooseScript with Tips, and then type something like “how to grow your business on social media.” A script automatically populates for you to read through the app’s teleprompter feature while recording your video.
If you don’t always need AI-written scripts, you’re able to upload any of your already filmed videos and instruct the app to provide captions. You can customize the look of your captions and edit any words if the app misunderstands you or your film subject.
Whichever way you use this app, it’ll certainly help you on your way tostanding out on Instagram.
Download:Teleprompter & Video Captions forAndroid|iOS(Free, subscription available)
6. Voicella
The Voicella app is a simple option for Android users if you don’t want to pay an ongoing subscription fee. You can pay for more video time if you typically film longer videos that need to be captioned or you can watch in-app ads for free credits.
Using the purple plus sign on Voicella’s home screen, you can either upload a video and add captions or translate from one language to another and then add captions. There are over 90 available languages in the app, some with an offline translation database and others with an experimental online database.
Once your video is uploaded and the captions have been automatically detected, you may make any edits, if necessary. You can tap on the individual lines of text to move words up or down to a different line. If you don’t like the look of the original text, you can change the text design, font, color, and alignment. Then it’s time to save, share, andget noticed on Instagram.
Download:Voicella forAndroid(Free, in-app purchases available)
Make Using Social Media Even Easier
Navigating social media isn’t always the easiest task, but you can make it easier on yourself with apps like this. You can upload a video to Instagram or TikTok and hope for the best with auto-caption features, or you can simply upload it to one of these apps and have minimal edits to deal with.
Then you can get back to simply loving social media and interacting with your newly gained followers!
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