Chromebooks cannot run Premiere or CapCut desktop, which leaves most caption tutorials useless. Burncaps runs entirely inside Chrome, which is exactly what a Chromebook is best at. Free, unlimited, no watermark, and your video never leaves the device.
Caption a video freeLive preview, rendered on this page by the same engine that burns your video.
There is nothing to download from a store, no Linux container to enable and no Android app to sideload. You open a web page, drop your video in, and work.
Chrome includes WebCodecs, the browser feature that decodes and re-encodes video using your hardware. That is the same machinery a desktop editor uses, and Burncaps drives it directly.
Nothing is uploaded, so a slow or capped connection does not matter after the one-time model download. School and work devices with restricted networks handle this fine.
Transcription runs on your own processor, so an entry-level Chromebook will be slower than a laptop with a dedicated graphics chip. A one-minute clip is comfortable; a long lecture recording will take a while. If your Chromebook is in tablet mode or very old, expect the export to be the slow part, and remember the SRT and VTT exports are near-instant on any machine.
| What matters | Burncaps | Typical desktop editor |
|---|---|---|
| Runs on Chrome OS | Yes, it is a web page | No, needs Windows or macOS |
| Install required | None | Yes |
| Price | Free. Pro is £29 once | Subscription or licence fee |
| Your video | Stays on your Chromebook | On disk, or uploaded for cloud tools |
| Animated word-by-word captions | 10 styles built in | Manual keyframing or a plugin |
No. Burncaps is an ordinary web page in Chrome. Nothing needs enabling, installing or unlocking, which also means it works on managed school and work Chromebooks.
Usually yes, as long as burncaps.app is not blocked by the network filter. Everything happens locally after the one-time model download, so there is no upload for a filter to object to.
The AI model downloads once, about 80 MB, then is cached. After that a short clip transcribes in well under a minute on most Chromebooks. Export speed depends on your hardware.
Yes. SRT, VTT, ASS and plain text all export instantly and work on every Chromebook regardless of processor.
None. The free tier is unlimited videos at any length with no branding of ours on your export, permanently.
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