Ten tools that make animated or burned-in captions and charge one price instead of a monthly fee, read on their own pages on 2 October 2026. Burncaps is one of them, and this is our page, so we kept to what each vendor states and say plainly where another tool is the better pick.
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| Tool | Price | Where it runs | Try it before paying | Is your video uploaded? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caption Cut | $15 once (₹1299 in India); the page says it covers 2 devices | Windows 10/11 and macOS 12 or later; installed | 3-day full trial, no account, no watermark; 14-day refund | No: "100% Offline", models run on your computer |
| Sablate | Pro $29 once | Windows and macOS; installed | Free tier: videos up to 10 minutes, 3 transcription jobs a month, small credit and corner mark on exports | No: transcription, translation and rendering run locally |
| SubVix | $29 once ("early access") | Windows only; installed | No trial stated; 14-day refund | No: files never leave your machine |
| FrameCraft | $29 once (the page also shows a regular price of $499) | Windows and Mac; installed | Not stated on its landing page | No: runs locally |
| UIDCaption | $39 once, free updates | Windows 10/11 only; installed | No trial stated; 30-day money-back; no watermark | No: runs offline |
| Burncaps | Free to use; Pro $49 once removes the mark | In the browser, nothing to install; the finished video is written in Chrome, Edge, Brave or Arc on a computer | No mark on your first two videos, then a small burncaps.app credit on each; subtitle files free without limit | No: the video stays in your browser. The sound leaves only if you choose our speech service |
| WithSubtitles Desktop | $49 once, lifetime licence | Windows, macOS and Linux (experimental); installed | No trial stated; points to its free browser version | No: works fully offline after its components download |
| Subtitle Studio | $69 once, lifetime licence | macOS (Apple Silicon) and Windows 10/11; installed | Free download with full transcription and editing; exporting needs the licence | No: transcription runs on your computer |
| ReClipStudio | Creator $99 once (shown reduced from $149); Pro $139 once | Windows, macOS and Linux; installed | Free to try; exports carry a watermark until you activate | No: clipping, reframing and captioning run locally |
| Captioneer | $150 once; also $15 a month | An extension for Adobe Premiere and After Effects; needs one of them | 14-day trial, no payment needed | Not stated on its page |
Read on each vendor's own page on 2 October 2026, signed out. Prices change, and some of these show a launch or reduced price: the vendor's page is the authority. Languages, caption styles and file limits differ between tools; this table covers what decides whether you pay once. Spotted something out of date? Email hello@burncaps.app and we will correct it.
An installed app. Caption Cut at $15 is the cheapest in this table and states no length limit; UIDCaption at $39 is Windows-native and says exports carry no watermark. Both state that everything runs offline.
Captioneer, at $150 once or $15 a month, puts the captions on your timeline. It is the only one here built as an extension for those editors.
ReClipStudio is built for finding clips in long footage and runs locally. Burncaps takes one video of up to ten minutes and captions all of it, or cuts its best 30 or 60 seconds.
Burncaps: open the page and drop the video. 20 animated word-by-word styles, twelve Indian languages heard on your device, captions translated into 37 languages. Free to use: no mark on your first two videos, then a small credit, or $49 once to remove it.
It works offline once installed. Several state no length limit, while Burncaps takes up to ten minutes a video and the browser tab has to stay open while it writes the file. If you caption hours of footage, or work on a plane, buy one of them. Where Burncaps is the better pick: you want the result in the next five minutes, you are on a machine where you cannot install software, or the speech is in one of twelve Indian languages, which it hears on your own computer.
As read on the vendors' own pages on 2 October 2026: Caption Cut $15, Sablate Pro $29, SubVix $29, FrameCraft $29, UIDCaption $39, WithSubtitles Desktop $49, Burncaps Pro $49, Subtitle Studio $69, ReClipStudio $99 for its Creator tier and Captioneer $150. Captioneer also sells a $15 monthly plan, and Burncaps is free to use before you pay.
Caption Cut at $15, which its page says covers two devices, with a three-day full trial and no watermark. Sablate, SubVix and FrameCraft are $29 each. Burncaps costs nothing to start: no mark on your first two videos, then a small burncaps.app credit on each export, which Pro removes for $49 once.
The ones in this comparison say so on their own pages: Caption Cut, Sablate, SubVix, FrameCraft, UIDCaption, WithSubtitles Desktop, Subtitle Studio and ReClipStudio all state that transcription and rendering run on your computer. Captioneer's page does not say where its transcription runs. Burncaps keeps the video in your browser and sends the sound away only if you choose its speech service.
Burncaps runs in the browser, so there is nothing to install, and it works on Windows, Mac and Linux. The finished video is written by Chrome, Edge, Brave or Arc on a computer; Safari and Firefox can still make subtitle files. It is free to use, and $49 once removes the small mark after your first two videos.
Work offline once installed, and take longer files. Burncaps takes a video of up to ten minutes, and runs in a browser tab that needs to stay open. Several desktop apps here state no length limit. If you caption hours of footage, one of them is the better pick.
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.