Chromebooks cannot run Premiere or CapCut desktop, which leaves most caption tutorials useless. Burncaps runs inside Chrome, which is exactly what a Chromebook is best at. Free to use, with no watermark on your first two videos, and your video never leaves the device.
Try it 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.
Your video is never 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 to use: no mark on your first two videos, then a small mark, or $49 once for none | Subscription or licence fee |
| Your video | Stays on your Chromebook | On disk, or uploaded for cloud tools |
| Animated word-by-word captions | 20 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. Your video is processed locally after the one-time model download, so there is no video upload for a filter to object to.
The AI model downloads once, about 190 MB (80 MB on a computer without a graphics chip), 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.
Not on your first two videos: they are free with every feature and no branding of ours on the export. After that you can keep going free with a small burncaps.app mark in the top corner, or get Pro, $49 once, for unlimited videos with no mark.
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. No 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.