QuickCaptions: Video Subtitles

Shoot a clip or pick one you already have, and QuickCaptions writes the captions and burns them into the picture. One pass, on your iPhone, no account. Recognition happens on the device. The video never leaves your phone, there is no sign-up, and the app collects nothing about you. It goes online exactly once, on the first launch, to fetch the recognition model; after that it works with the network off. WHAT IT DOES Takes one clip, from the camera or from your library, and starts listening on its own. Recognition begins by itself, with nothing to press first. Writes the spoken words as captions and burns them into the frame. Burned-in captions survive every share, upload and re-encode, because they are part of the picture rather than a separate track a player may or may not show. Understands 25 European languages and works out on its own which one is being spoken: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian. The app itself speaks the same 25. Lets you correct any line before you export. Speech recognition mishears names, places and jargon, and a caption you cannot fix is worse than no caption at all. Takes the pauses out when you want that: the dead air between sentences goes, and the clip gets tighter without you cutting anything by hand. Hands the finished video to the usual share sheet, ready for a message, a post or a cloud drive. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO It does not open a subtitle file you already have, and it does not give you an .srt back. It listens to your video and returns your video, captioned. It is not a full production suite. It does the one job. FIRST LAUNCH The recognition model is a few hundred megabytes and downloads once, before your first clip. That wait is not a broken install. It is what buys you speech recognition that never talks to a server afterwards. FAQ Can I add subtitles to a video on my iPhone? Yes. Pick a clip from your library and the captions are written and burned in on the phone. How do I add subtitles to an already recorded video? The same way as a fresh one. Anything in your library goes through the same single pass. What does it mean to burn subtitles into video? It means the text is drawn into the frames themselves, so it plays back anywhere, on any app or site, without a separate subtitle track to switch on. Can I transcribe a video on my iPhone without the internet? Recognition runs entirely on the device once the model is downloaded, so airplane mode is fine. How do I remove silence from a video automatically? Ask for it and the gaps between speech are cut out of the export. Can I edit subtitle files? No. QuickCaptions can fix the text it recognized, but it neither imports nor exports subtitle files. Which languages does it recognize? The 25 European languages listed above, detected automatically, with the interface translated into every one of them.