VAST vs Captiono
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
VAST
This app serves as a digital hub for creators and brands to showcase their content, including images, videos, live streams, and blogs. Users can curate their own channels, discover and follow other creators, and subscribe to premium content. It aims to connect creators directly with their audiences.
- Create and curate digital channels
- Share images, videos, and audio
- Discover and follow other creators
- Subscribe to premium content
- Direct creator-audience connection
- Live streaming capabilities
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VAST is where creators, publishers and brands bring everything they make into one place — and where fans get closer to it than anywhere else. Build your channel. Organise your work into Chapters and publish images, videos, audio, links and full livestreams. Add Behind-The-Scenes video and audio to any post, so your audience sees how the work actually gets made. Go live from your phone. Start a stream straight from the app, and keep the replay on your channel afterwards. Set your own terms. Offer free posts, paid one-off posts, or membership tiers with the benefits you choose. Your audience subscribes to the tier that fits them. Discover and follow. Explore channels by what you're into, follow the creators you care about, like and comment, and share anything worth passing on. For fans: • Follow channels free and never miss a post • Subscribe for members-only posts, streams and BTS • Buy a single post without committing to a membership • Watch live as it happens, or catch the replay For creators: • Publish images, video, audio, links and livestreams • Broadcast live from the phone in your hand • Build membership tiers with custom benefits • See your subscribers, followers and sales in one place • Curate a Main Square of featured work at the top of your channel All the content people love, in one place, with a direct connection between creators and audiences. The Future is VAST! Privacy Policy: https://vast.app/privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://vast.app/terms/
Captiono
Effortlessly generate automatic video subtitles in any language using AI. This tool also offers video editing and AI-powered sound enhancement, making content creation faster and more accessible.
- AI-powered automatic subtitles
- Subtitle translation in all languages
- AI sound quality enhancement
- Noise removal
- User-friendly interface
- Video editing tools
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Captiono: The Ultimate AI-Powered Automatic Subtitle Tool Captiono is a powerful tool for generating automatic video subtitles using artificial intelligence. With Captiono, you can create synchronized subtitles for any language with just a few taps. Creating subtitles for videos has always been a difficult and time-consuming task. But now, with the Captiono app, you can create subtitles for your videos in less than 20 seconds with a few simple steps and share your videos with subtitles on social media. Why should all videos have subtitles? 1. Social Responsibility for the Disabled and Hearing Impaired: By using subtitles for videos, you can fulfill your social responsibility towards the disabled and hearing impaired. Respecting the disabled, having videos with subtitles is becoming a necessity on social media. 2. Significantly Increase Video Views: Many people watch videos in public places. If your video does not have subtitles, people in these places will skip your video, reducing your watch time, and eventually, your posts on various networks like Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, etc., will drop out of the algorithm, causing your page to suffer a significant drop. Captiono, developed according to the needs of bloggers on social networks, with the slogan: Customized for Every Blogger's Needs! Everything you need for Instagram Reels or Posts, TikTok, YouTube, and YouTube Shorts is included in this app. Without needing technical knowledge in editing and content creation, you can edit your videos. Besides creating subtitles, Captiono is also a powerful video editor. It includes all the essential editing tools a blogger and content creator needs. Captiono also features other AI tools such as noise removal and sound quality enhancement. Using this AI, you can improve your sound quality without buying expensive microphones. Record videos in noisy environments and use this AI capability to enhance your video’s sound and remove noise. Who should use Captiono? * Bloggers and content creators * Journalists from various networks * Singers for sharing music videos and clips * Educational institutions * Marketing and advertising teams Key Features of Captiono: * Create subtitles in all living languages * Real-time subtitle translation for all living languages * Very simple and user-friendly interface * AI features such as sound quality enhancement and noise removal * Customized for bloggers' needs without complexity Captiono is an essential tool for content creation on social media platforms like Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat, and more. With its key features, you can easily make your videos viral and reach millions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: VAST at 100% against Captiono's 52%. VAST also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Captiono's advantage is ratings volume (5.7K vs 2) and chart position (#189 vs unranked). 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
Both are free to download. VAST sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Captiono sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
VAST holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Captiono has 5.7K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of VAST's written reviews are positive against 52% of Captiono's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | VAST | Captiono |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.7 (5.7K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 51.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 5.7K — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #189 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 147 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vast LLC. | ACTUAL FUTURES TECHNOLOGY |
Customer experience
VAST
Captiono
Bugs and requests
VAST
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Captiono
Reported bugs
3 issues- Rendering issues
- Crashes during export
- Freezing during tutorials
Requested features
3 requests- Unlimited time and export options
- Web-based app
- Smaller export file size
In-app purchases
VAST
- Vast - TheBridgeCo Channel$0.991 Month
- VAST - Aure Channel$0.991 Month
- TierOne - Arb$1.991 Month
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- VAST – Coldpress Channel$1.991 Month
- VAST Monthly Tier - 178$7.991 Month
- Live13 - EsatTmls$18.991 Month
- LiveTier25 - EsatTmls$22.991 Month
Captiono
- Monthly$7.991 Month
- CaptionO – 3 Month$11.993 Months
- Special Annual 80% Off$19.991 Year
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- Yearly$47.991 Year









