# CapiCap: Video Captions — Automatic on-device captions

> Automatic on-device captions (iPhone/iPad app by Oleksandr Brazhii.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/capicap-video-captions/id6791143806 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Oleksandr Brazhii](https://appshunter.io/developer/6783735248)
- Category: Photo & Video, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 6 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, Bangla, French (France), German (Germany), Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean and 6 more
- Released: 2026-07-24
- Data updated: 2026-08-30
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/capicap-video-captions/id6791143806/reviews.md

## What is CapiCap?

CapiCap adds subtitles to your videos — automatically, and 100% on your device.

Free forever. No watermarks. No subscriptions. No account. No tracking. Nothing you make ever leaves your device.

Pick a video and CapiCap transcribes it locally using Whisper (the same open speech model that powers professional tools), running entirely on your device's Neural Engine. There is no upload, no server, and no waiting in a queue — no network connection required at all.

HOW IT WORKS
1. Pick a video from your library.
2. CapiCap transcribes it on-device, faster than real time on a recent iPhone or iPad.
3. Fix any words in the built-in editor.
4. Style your captions — fonts, colors, size, position, and pill or band backgrounds.
5. Export a new video with the captions burned in, ready to share.

Prefer a subtitle file? CapiCap also exports a standard .srt you can use anywhere.

WHY CAPICAP
- Private by design. Transcription happens entirely on your device — your videos and words are never uploaded.
- Works offline. No signal, no problem. Everything runs locally.
- iPhone and iPad, one app. On iPad the editor gets room to breathe: a big preview with the whole caption list beside it.
- No watermarks, ever. Your exports are clean.
- Genuinely free. No paywalls, no "pro" upsell, no ads.
- Simple styling that looks good straight out of the box.

A LITTLE SUPPORT
CapiCap is free and always will be. If it saved you some time, there is an optional tip jar with a few capybara-themed tiers — a small thank-you that unlocks nothing. Tips are pure gratitude.

REQUIREMENTS
Requires iOS 17 or later, on iPhone and iPad. CapiCap matches the speech model to your device: iPhone 13 and later, and iPad Air 5 and later, use Whisper Large v3, the most accurate model; older devices use the smaller Whisper Base. It downloads once on first launch. Works best on iPhone 14 Pro or newer and on iPad with an M-series chip, which transcribe faster than real time.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Some grass | $1.99 | one-time |
| A watermelon | $4.99 | one-time |
| A hot spring | $9.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.4.0 — 2026-08-28

New: CapiCap now runs on iPad. The editor uses the room it gets — in landscape the video stage sits beside the full caption list, in portrait you get a tall list to work through — and it supports Split View, Slide Over and Stage Manager, keyboard shortcuts, trackpad hover, and importing videos from Files or by drag and drop. On a Mac with Apple silicon it runs as a resizable window and uses the most accurate speech model.

Also: full-screen playback now opens and closes smoothly while the video is playing, and caption timing is adjusted on the timeline handles, which replace the per-row steppers.

### 1.3.0 — 2026-08-25

New: select several videos at once — long-press a video on the Home screen and tap Select, then delete them all in one go.

New: projects can now name themselves — on devices with Apple Intelligence, CapiCap titles each project from what's said in the video. Transcription is more complete too: passages the speech model occasionally skipped are now caught and re-transcribed. Plus a smoother editor — the video preview glides between inline, keyboard and fullscreen views — and deleting a project no longer shuffles the Home screen.

### 1.1.3 — 2026-08-18

Caption editor polish. Captions now wrap onto multiple lines while you edit them instead of collapsing into one long scrolling line, the list no longer jumps around when you close the keyboard, and splitting a caption right after editing it keeps your edited text.

### 1.1.2 — 2026-08-01

Fixes transcription on older devices. iPhone XS through iPhone 12, and 2018–2020 iPads, could crash mid-transcription or produce garbled captions — they now transcribe correctly, and preparing the speech model takes seconds instead of minutes.

### 1.1.1 — 2026-07-27

Fixes a crash on older devices. iPhone XS through iPhone 12, and 2018–2020 iPads, could crash while preparing the speech model — they now use a smaller model their chip can actually run, so captions work instead of failing.

CapiCap also tells you which model your device uses: see About CapiCap.

## Related topics

[innocaption video](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/innocaption-video) · [video captions free](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/video-captions-free) · [captionkit](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/captionkit)

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