Talking-head social video
Turn direct-to-camera recordings into paced, captioned clips with B-roll, zooms, graphics, transitions, and cleaned audio.
Independent tool overview
Captions at a glance
Captions is an AI-first video studio that can edit talking-head footage, add styled subtitles, generate actors and digital twins, dub speech, and repurpose longer video for social channels.
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- Product type
- AI-first social video creation and editing
- Best suited to
- Creators and marketers producing frequent talking-head video
- Platforms
- Web/desktop, iOS, and Android, with feature differences
- Free version
- Yes, with basic editing and no generative credits
- Max price
- $24.99 per month on the published iOS pricing page
- Included Max credits
- 500 per month
- Export
- 1080p in the current introductory workflow; higher limits vary by device and plan
- Watermark
- Captions says finished exports do not add its watermark
Overview
What Captions is
Captions is built around outcomes rather than a traditional professional editing timeline. Upload spoken footage and AI Edit can remove pauses, add subtitles, B-roll, music, sound effects, transitions, zooms, and a visual style; natural-language requests and manual controls can then refine the result.
It can also start with no camera footage: Prompt to Video combines a generated script, AI actor or approved digital twin, synthetic voice, generated supporting media, and automatic editing. This makes Captions especially useful for high-volume talking-head, educational, and performance-marketing video, but usage is credit-based and the privacy policy deserves close review before uploading faces, voices, or confidential material.
Use cases
Who Captions is best for
The strongest fit depends on the job you need the product to complete, not the size of its feature list.
Founder and expert content
Produce recurring thought-leadership, educational, real-estate, finance, legal, or coaching videos without a full editing team.
Performance marketing iterations
Generate and test multiple scripts, actors, hooks, product demonstrations, and UGC-style ad variations.
Multilingual localization
Translate captions and dub spoken video into additional languages, with voice and lip-sync tools where supported.
Long-form repurposing
Extract promising moments from a long upload or supported video link and format a batch of shorter social clips.
Camera-free production
Create presenter-led video from a prompt using generated actors or a properly authorized AI Twin.
Capabilities
Core Captions features
AI Edit
Analyze raw footage and apply a selected visual style with cuts, captions, B-roll, transitions, music, zooms, graphics, and sound effects.
Chat-based editing
Request changes in natural language, such as adding relevant B-roll, increasing visual energy, or adjusting an edit.
Automatic captions
Generate subtitles in more than 100 languages and choose from a large library of caption styles on paid plans.
Prompt to Video
Turn an idea into a planned, scripted, actor-led, automatically edited talking video with generated supporting media.
AI actors and AI Twin
Choose generated performers or create an authorized digital version of yourself for repeatable camera-free delivery.
Dubbing and Lipdub
Translate and dub speech into supported languages, with lip synchronization intended to make the localized performance more natural.
AI Shorts
Find potential clips inside longer videos and turn them into platform-ready short-form edits.
Audio repair
Reduce noise, generate voiceover and sound effects, censor selected words, and remove pauses or filler speech where supported.
Eye-contact correction
Adjust a speaker's gaze so teleprompter or off-camera reading appears more direct.
Generative media
Create images, video, B-roll, music, sound effects, and voiceover for insertion into a project.
Manual refinement
Trim, split, merge, reorder, resize, adjust transitions, add overlays, and change captions after the automated edit.
Developer API
Programmatically add captions or generate talking-head video for higher-volume product and workflow integrations.
Process
How the Captions workflow works
Step 1
Define the video claim and audience
Write the single message, viewer, channel, target length, and desired action before recording or generating anything.
Step 2
Choose recorded or generated A-roll
Upload approved footage, select a stock actor, or use an AI Twin created with the subject's informed consent.
Step 3
Review the script first
Correct facts, regulated claims, pronunciation, brand language, and disclosure requirements before spending credits on generation.
Step 4
Apply an edit style deliberately
Choose a restrained style that fits the audience, then set intensity, caption treatment, colors, voice, and supporting media.
Step 5
Generate one test
Produce a short representative version and inspect the actor, lip sync, B-roll relevance, pacing, audio, and credit cost.
Step 6
Refine with prompts and manual edits
Replace weak generated visuals, correct captions, reduce unnecessary effects, and tune cuts rather than accepting the first output.
Step 7
Complete a human review
Have an accountable person verify identity, consent, facts, translations, pronunciation, disclosures, rights, and visual artifacts.
Step 8
Export, label, and archive
Publish in the target format, disclose synthetic media where required, and retain source assets, consent, script versions, and final files.
Cost
Captions pricing and free plan
The public pricing page lists USD iOS plans. Free has no generative credits; Max includes 500 credits; Scale tiers increase the monthly allowance and model access. Web, Android, app-store, tax, and regional offers may differ, so confirm the checkout on the device the team will actually use.
Free
Free
Basic traditional editing and a limited set of media and caption tools without generative AI credits.
- Basic trimming, transitions, and selected media assets
- One caption template on the published comparison
- No monthly AI usage credits
- Useful for testing the editor before subscribing
Max
$24.99 per month
The main creator plan for AI editing, generated footage, actors, twins, clips, and supporting media.
- 500 credits per month
- Curated AI Edit style library and chat-based editing
- Prompt-to-video, digital twins, and custom AI actors
- Long-video clipping plus generated B-roll, images, music, and sound effects
Scale 1x
$69.99 per month
Higher-volume generation with the company's most sophisticated available model tier.
- Everything in Max
- 1,400 credits per month
- Intended for users producing more videos each month
Scale 2x
$139.99 per month
A doubled Scale allowance for larger recurring production needs.
- Everything in Max
- 2,800 credits per month
- Same published per-credit ratio as Scale 1x before any tax or store differences
Scale 4x
$279.99 per month
The largest self-serve allowance shown on the public pricing page.
- Everything in Max
- 5,600 credits per month
- Designed for high-output workflows that do not yet require an enterprise agreement
Enterprise
Custom pricing
A negotiated package for organizational volume, seats, support, onboarding, and data requirements.
- Bulk credit discounts and custom seat options
- Dedicated account management and onboarding
- Training data exclusion stated as an enterprise benefit
- Priority training and early feature access
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Assessment
Captions strengths and limitations
Where it stands out
- AI Edit can replace a large amount of repetitive post-production for straightforward spoken video.
- The workflow is approachable for people who do not know a professional editing application.
- Automatic captions, pause removal, denoising, B-roll, and eye-contact correction solve common creator problems in one place.
- Prompt-based changes preserve some control after the first automated edit.
- Generated actors and authorized digital twins enable repeatable camera-free production.
- Dubbing, translated captions, and lip synchronization support multilingual reuse.
- AI Shorts gives existing long-form libraries a second distribution path.
- Published Scale tiers make higher-volume credit planning more predictable than an entirely opaque quote.
What to consider
- The published prices and feature comparison explicitly reflect iOS plans; other platforms and regions may differ.
- The free version includes no generative AI credits.
- Credit consumption varies by action, model, duration, number of actors, and optional edit style, so headline plan prices do not reveal the cost per finished video.
- Unused credits roll over only within the stated cap of up to three times the monthly allowance.
- AI Edit and generated-video duration limits make the product better suited to short-form work than unrestricted long-form post-production.
- Current device documentation shows meaningful differences between iOS and desktop features, formats, duration limits, and resolution.
- Android availability does not guarantee parity with iOS or web for every feature.
- Automated edits can choose irrelevant B-roll, excessive zooms, distracting effects, or a style that undermines the message.
- Captioning, translation, and dubbing can misstate names, numbers, technical language, or regulated claims.
- Generated actors can produce unnatural gestures, identity drift, lip-sync errors, and other artifacts.
- AI Twins, voice cloning, and eye-contact correction require clear consent and should never be used for impersonation or deceptive endorsement.
- The current Mirage privacy policy says it may collect user content, generated transcripts and edits, face- or voice-derived biometric information, and other usage data.
- The privacy policy also lists AI/ML model training among purposes for using collected information; training-data exclusion is specifically advertised as an Enterprise benefit.
- Certain AI features share information with third-party partners, according to the privacy policy.
- Do not upload confidential, privileged, regulated, client, patient, student, or unreleased commercial footage without an appropriate agreement and privacy review.
- The user remains responsible for facts, claims, music, images, likeness rights, disclosures, and the legality of generated outputs.
- A watermark-free export does not establish that every asset or generated element is cleared for the intended commercial use.
- High-volume buyers should test a representative production batch before committing because revision rates can change the effective cost substantially.
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Captions FAQs
What does Captions AI do?
Captions can automatically edit recorded footage, generate styled subtitles, clean audio, correct eye contact, add B-roll and effects, create AI actors or approved digital twins, dub video, and extract short clips from longer content.
Is Captions free?
Yes, but the free version is limited to basic editing and selected assets and includes no monthly generative AI credits. Most advanced generation and one-tap AI workflows require Max or Scale.
How much is Captions Max?
The public pricing page lists Max at $24.99 per month with 500 credits for iOS. Confirm the current price and entitlements in the web, Android, or app-store checkout you will use because offers can differ.
How do Captions credits work?
Generative features deduct credits based on the operation and settings. Max includes 500 monthly credits and the published Scale tiers include 1,400, 2,800, or 5,600. Unused credits can roll over, but the balance is capped at three times the monthly allowance.
Can Captions make a video without recorded footage?
Yes. Prompt to Video can create a script, generated actor performance, voice, supporting media, and automatic edit from an idea. Every factual claim and synthetic performance still needs human review.
Can Captions clone my face and voice?
Captions offers AI Twin and voice-cloning features. Create them only for yourself or a person who has knowingly authorized the specific use, secure the account, and disclose synthetic media where law or platform policy requires it.
Does Captions use customer content to train AI?
The current Mirage privacy policy lists developing and training AI/ML models among its uses of collected information. The pricing page specifically names training-data exclusion as an Enterprise benefit, so organizations that require exclusion should obtain the appropriate written terms rather than assume it.
Is Captions available on desktop and Android?
Yes, Captions documents desktop/web, iOS, and Android access. Features, duration, format, resolution, subscriptions, and manual controls are not identical across devices, so test the intended platform.
Does Captions add a watermark?
Captions states that it does not add a watermark to finished videos. That does not replace the need to verify rights for uploaded media, generated people and voices, music, and other project assets.
Bottom line
Our Captions verdict
Captions is a compelling production shortcut for creators and marketing teams whose work is dominated by short, spoken, caption-heavy video. Max is the sensible trial tier for regular AI use; Scale is primarily a volume decision. The largest caveat is data governance: buyers using real faces, voices, clients, or confidential material should read the current privacy terms and consider an enterprise agreement before treating it as an approved production system.
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