If the only reason you open CapCut is the auto captions, you are carrying a full editing app, an account and an upload for a one-minute job. Burncaps does that one job in your browser: free, no install, no account, and your footage never leaves your device.
Try it freeLive preview, rendered on this page by the same engine that burns your video.
| What matters | Burncaps | CapCut |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A single-purpose caption tool in a web page | A full video editor and app ecosystem |
| Install | None. It is a web page | App or desktop install |
| Account | None | Sign-in required |
| Caption cost | Free to use: no mark on your first two videos, then a small mark, or $49 once for none | Many caption features sit behind CapCut Pro, varying by region |
| Your footage | Stays on your device, verifiable in the network tab | Handled through the app; cloud features involve their servers |
| Word-by-word animated styles | 20 styles, live-rendered | Template library, availability varies by plan |
CapCut features, prices and free-tier boundaries vary by region, platform and plan, and change often. Statements about CapCut are kept general for that reason; checked August 2026.
When you are actually editing: trimming clips, layering music, adding transitions and effects. A caption web page does not replace an editor, and pretending otherwise would be marketing, not honesty.
When the edit is done and the video just needs captions. Drop the file, check the words, pick a style, export. Usually under a minute of your attention, and no app between you and the result.
Burncaps processes your video in your browser, and the footage is never uploaded: there is nothing to intercept, store or train on. The words are written in your browser too, unless you choose our speech service, which gets only the sound and keeps nothing. That is not a policy promise, it is an architecture you can verify in devtools.
No, and it does not try to. CapCut is a full editor: cuts, transitions, effects, music, overlays. Burncaps does exactly one thing: it transcribes your finished video on your device and burns animated word-by-word captions into it. Edit where you like, caption here.
No. The Whisper speech model downloads into your browser once and runs on your own hardware. Your footage never leaves your device, which you can verify in your browser's network tab while it works.
Yes. 10 word-by-word highlight styles, all included: Beast, Karaoke, Neon, Fire, Boxed, Typewriter, Bounce and more. Every style preview on our pages is rendered live by the same engine that exports your video.
It is free with every feature, and your first two videos carry no watermark. After that you can keep going free with a small burncaps.app mark on each video, or pay once, $49, for unlimited videos with no mark. Pro is not a subscription, and subtitle files are free without limit.
37 languages. It listens first and names the language it hears, with a one-click change. Accuracy is strongest in English; the max-accuracy model, included in every video, is noticeably better in other languages.
What it is: a browser tool that burns animated word-by-word captions into a talking video, or cuts it to its best 30 or 60 seconds.
Price: free with every feature, for as many videos as you like. The first two carry no mark; after that each carries a small burncaps.app credit, which Pro removes for $49 once. Pro is not a subscription.
Privacy: the video never leaves your browser. The sound leaves only if you choose our speech service.
Files: MP4 or MOV up to ten minutes in; an MP4 with the captions burned in out. SRT, VTT, ASS and text files are free without limit.
Languages and styles: captions in the language spoken, twelve Indian languages heard on your device, translation into 37 languages, 20 caption styles.
Made by: Jordan Labs Ltd, UK company no. 17358646.
Against other tools: twelve caption tools compared, from the vendors' own pages.