Comparison

Snipster vs Captioner

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Snipster

Features
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Turn any photo into a whole pack of stickers. Pick a photo — a lunch with a view, your dog, last weekend's trip — and Snipster redraws it as a set of bold, die-cut stickers, each cut out cleanly with its own white border. One photo becomes a whole pack. STICK THEM ANYWHERE • Send them from the sticker drawer in Messages • Drag a sticker straight into any chat or app • Copy one and paste it wherever you're typing • Share a sticker on its own, or the whole pack as one card SMART SUGGESTIONS Not sure which photo to use? Snipster looks through your library on your device and suggests the ones that would make great stickers: pets, people, food and the things you love. It skips the ones that wouldn't, like screenshots and wide landscapes. YOUR COLLECTION Every pack is saved in your library, named for you and ready to reuse. Favourite the best ones and flip through them any time. NO SIGN-UP Start making stickers the moment you open the app. There's no email and no password. You can sign in with Apple if you want your plan on another device. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Suggestions are worked out on your device. A photo only leaves your phone when you ask for a pack, and only that photo. FREE AND PLUS Snipster is free to try, with a few packs each month. Snipster Plus is an optional subscription with a much bigger monthly allowance. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel them in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://snipster.app/privacy

About

Captioner

This app adds animated, word-by-word captions to your videos directly on your device. Choose from numerous styles, customize fonts and colors, and edit text for perfect synchronization. It supports on-device translation and preserves your original video quality.

Highlights
  • Word-by-word animated captions
  • Fifteen customizable caption styles
  • On-device speech recognition and translation
  • Editable caption text
  • Preserves original video resolution and frame rate
  • Private by design, no account needed
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Snipster4 screens
Captioner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Captioner at none against Snipster's 2. Captioner also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 2 weeks). Snipster's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Snipster sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Captioner asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Snipster ships an update every 2 weeks, Captioner daily. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Snipster versus Captioner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSnipsterCaptioner
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoao PozzobonStephen Robles

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Snipster

Subscriptions2
  • Snipster Plus Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Snipster Plus Annual$79.991 Year
None

Captioner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Snipster free?
Snipster is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Captioner free?
Captioner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Snipster or Captioner have ads?
Neither Snipster nor Captioner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Snipster or Captioner?
Snipster ships an update every 2 weeks, and Captioner daily. Most recently, Snipster was updated on October 30, 2026 and Captioner on November 1, 2026.

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