Comparison

CaptionAddr vs CapScribe

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
Read full description

CaptionAddr makes clean, frame-aligned single-word captions for videos on iPhone and iPad. Choose one clip, transcribe it on your device, refine any word, style the captions, and export a finished video ready to share. Your video, audio, transcript, caption edits, and export are not uploaded to CaptionAddr or our services. BUILT FOR SHORT-FORM VIDEO • Single-word captions snapped to your video’s frame rate • Local Whisper Small English transcription • Edit, delete, and reorder individual words • 20 caption fonts with size, position, and tinted-background controls • Clean burned-in video exports that work anywhere • No account required • No ads or cross-app tracking FREE • Import, caption, edit, and export videos up to 2 minutes • Full local transcription and caption editor • Clean exports with no required watermark CAPTIONADDR PRO • Everything in Free • Import and export videos up to 30 minutes CaptionAddr Pro Monthly renews monthly unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. A 3-day introductory offer may be available to eligible new subscribers. 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

CapScribe

This app automatically generates editable captions for your videos and audio files directly on your device. You can then customize the appearance and timing of these captions before burning them into your video or exporting them as subtitle files. It offers a one-time purchase to unlock full functionality without subscriptions or watermarks.

Highlights
  • On-device transcription
  • Editable captions
  • Customizable caption styles
  • Batch captioning
  • Offline transcription
  • SRT/VTT export
  • Translation support
Features
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CapScribe turns speech into editable captions and burns them into your video, entirely on your iPhone or iPad. Nothing is uploaded to us. There is no subscription, no credit system, and no watermark: one purchase unlocks the full app. Import a video or audio file, transcribe it on device, fix words and timing, pick a style, and export. Already have captions? Pair a video with an SRT or VTT file and skip transcription. Batch up to 10 videos at once. Because everything runs locally, there is no upload queue and no waiting for a server. After the language pack is downloaded, transcription works in airplane mode. CREATE AND EDIT • Transcribe imported video and audio on your device • Keep multiple local video and audio projects, then search, rename, duplicate, reopen, or delete them • Burn styled captions into the exported video • Choose from eight presets or customize font design, alignment, colors, outline, background, corners, and shadow • Add a clean Pop or Rise entrance to captions, or keep motion off • Reframe output for the original ratio, 9:16, 4:5, 1:1, or 16:9 • Preview at 0.5×–2× speed and loop the current caption while editing • Enter exact timecodes, smart-split a caption, or safely fix empty and overlong captions in one step • Review low-confidence, fast, overlong, and empty captions in one place • Use on-device Automatic Checks to find detectable caption and timing issues, then listen and review names, numbers, original text, and translations before publishing • Reuse an on-device term dictionary for names and commonly misheard words • Undo and redo edits, or find and replace across original text and translations TRANSLATE AND EXPORT • Translate captions with Apple's system Translation framework • Switch between original, translated, and bilingual captions • Batch-caption up to 10 videos at a time • Export original, translated, or bilingual SRT, VTT, and TXT files separately or as one package • Preview the finished video, compare source-to-output resolution, and check expected duration, frame rate, audio, and file size before sharing FREE PREVIEW AND FULL VERSION Try the complete workflow at no charge. For longer media, the free preview processes the first 90 seconds of each video or the first 10 minutes of audio. A one-time, non-consumable in-app purchase removes those free preview limits. There is no subscription or watermark; actual processing capacity depends on your device and media. PRIVACY CapScribe processes your media and transcripts on your iPhone or iPad and does not upload them to the developer. Projects stay in the app's local storage. iOS may download Apple speech or translation language resources when first needed. Purchases are handled by Apple through the App Store. REQUIREMENTS iPhone with iOS 26 or later.

Screenshots

CaptionAddr3 screens
CapScribe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: CapScribe at daily against CaptionAddr's monthly. CapScribe also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). CaptionAddr's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per month and CapScribe sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CapScribe holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CaptionAddr has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CaptionAddr ships an update monthly, CapScribe daily. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
CaptionAddr versus CapScribe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCaptionAddrCapScribe
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (7 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size476 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDYNSELL LLC正平 孙

Customer experience

CaptionAddr

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%

CapScribe

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

CaptionAddr

Subscriptions1
  • CaptionAddr Pro3 Days trial$6.991 Month
1 purchases

CapScribe

One-time1
  • CapScribe Full Version$8.99

Questions

Is CaptionAddr free?
CaptionAddr is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CapScribe free?
CapScribe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, CaptionAddr or CapScribe?
CapScribe is rated higher. CaptionAddr averages 4.6 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while CapScribe averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do CaptionAddr or CapScribe have ads?
Neither CaptionAddr nor CapScribe shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CaptionAddr or CapScribe?
CaptionAddr ships an update monthly, and CapScribe daily. Most recently, CaptionAddr was updated on October 3, 2026 and CapScribe on October 12, 2026.

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