Comparison

CaptionAddr vs Sound Off Captions

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

Head to head
About

CaptionAddr

Create professional video captions directly on your iPhone. This app offers local transcription, frame-level editing, and extensive customization options for fonts, styles, and timing. Export polished videos ready for social media without needing desktop software or cloud uploads.

Highlights
  • Local video transcription
  • Frame-perfect caption timing
  • Customizable caption appearance
  • Burn-in caption export
  • No desktop software required
  • Pro version for longer videos and premium fonts
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Add captions and subtitles to any video in one tap. CaptionAddr turns English speech into word-by-word captions timed to the frame, then exports a finished video with the captions burned in, ready for Reels, Shorts and Stories. Everything happens on your iPhone or iPad. Your video, audio, transcript, caption edits, and export are never uploaded to CaptionAddr or our services. No account, no ads, no watermark. Free for clips up to 2 minutes. Pro captions videos up to 30 minutes. WHY CREATORS USE IT • Most people watch with the sound off. Captions keep them watching. • Single-word captions snapped to your video's frame rate, the punchy style made for short-form video • Accurate on-device transcription powered by Whisper • Transcribes English speech (more languages are not supported yet) • Fix any word: edit, delete, or reorder individual captions • 20 caption fonts with size, position, and tinted-background controls • Clean burned-in exports that work in any app • Works offline once installed FREE • Caption, edit, and export videos up to 2 minutes • The full transcription and caption editor • Clean exports with no watermark CAPTIONADDR PRO • Everything in Free • Videos up to 30 minutes • Monthly or annual plan, with a free trial for eligible new subscribers CaptionAddr Pro is available as a monthly or an annual subscription and renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Eligible new subscribers can start with a free trial: 7 days on the annual plan, 3 days on the monthly plan. The App Store shows final local pricing and eligibility before purchase. Privacy Policy: https://captionaddr.com/privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Service Terms: https://captionaddr.com/terms/

About

Sound Off Captions

Features
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Sound Off adds stylish, animated captions to vertical video, entirely on your iPhone. Open a clip from Photos, and Sound Off transcribes the audio on the device, picks a caption style with you, and writes the finished captioned video back to Photos - ready to post to TikTok, Reels, YouTube Shorts, or anywhere else you share to. Twelve caption styles, including word-by-word animation and full-paragraph captions. No account, no upload, no subscription. WHAT YOU GET • On-device transcription. Sound Off uses Apple's on-device speech model. Your videos, audio, and transcripts stay on the iPhone. • Twelve animated caption styles. Word-by-word styles like Pop Yellow, Karaoke, Classic, and Bounce Bold animate each word as it's spoken. New paragraph styles Reader and Editorial show the whole sentence on screen, with the spoken word highlighted, for talking-head and podcast clips. • Word-level editing. Tap any word to fix a transcription mistake, split or merge phrases, mark where a paragraph ends, or emphasise a word. • Native iPhone export. Save the finished captioned video to Photos in seconds, or send it straight through the share sheet. ON-DEVICE, BY DESIGN Sound Off has no account, no sign-in, and no analytics SDK. We don't track you, and we can't see your videos. The "Data Not Collected" label on this listing is the whole story. ONE-TIME PURCHASE Sound Off is free to try. Free exports carry a small watermark. A one-time unlock removes the watermark and opens the full caption style catalogue. The same purchase works on every iPhone signed into your Apple ID. REQUIREMENTS iPhone 12 or newer, running iOS 26 or later. Vertical, portrait video up to 90 seconds. English and Spanish audio (more languages coming). SUPPORT Email support@soundoffcaptions.app or visit soundoffcaptions.app/support.html

Screenshots

CaptionAddr4 screens
Sound Off Captions4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: CaptionAddr at 17.0 against Sound Off Captions's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. CaptionAddr sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Sound Off Captions sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
CaptionAddr versus Sound Off Captions: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCaptionAddrSound Off Captions
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size476 MB81 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDYNSELL LLCJoylord Systems Ltd

In-app purchases

2 purchases

CaptionAddr

Subscriptions2
  • CaptionAddr Pro3 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • CaptionAddr Pro (Annual)7 Days trial$39.991 Year
1 purchases

Sound Off Captions

One-time1
  • Pro Unlock$14.99

Questions

Is CaptionAddr free?
CaptionAddr is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sound Off Captions free?
Sound Off Captions is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do CaptionAddr or Sound Off Captions have ads?
Neither CaptionAddr nor Sound Off Captions shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CaptionAddr or Sound Off Captions?
CaptionAddr ships an update weekly, and Sound Off Captions weekly. Most recently, CaptionAddr was updated on October 25, 2026 and Sound Off Captions on October 4, 2026.

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