A Kapwing alternative for subtitles, in your browser

Kapwing's free plan exports up to 4 minutes at 720p with its watermark, and the watermark goes on Pro at $24 a month. Burncaps does the subtitle job alone: animated word-by-word captions burned into a video of up to ten minutes, made on your device with the video never uploaded. Free to use: two videos every 30 days with no mark, or $49 once for unlimited videos.

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  • No subscription
  • Video never uploaded
  • No sign-up
  • Free to use

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What Kapwing is good at

A shared editor for teams

A collaborative workspace your team edits in together, with a brand kit and custom fonts on Pro. Kapwing is built for groups that make a lot of content.

Repurposing tools

A resizer, scene finding, dubbing on Pro (up to 50 minutes a month) and, on Business, custom voice clones and lip sync.

Long exports on Pro

Pro exports projects up to 2 hours long, in 4K, with up to 1,000 minutes of auto-subtitling a month and 200 GB of storage.

Where Kapwing stops, if you only need captions

The watermark

The free plan reads "Unlimited exports with a watermark". No Kapwing watermark starts on Pro: $24 a month, or $16 a month billed yearly.

Four minutes at a time

Kapwing's free exports are up to 4 minutes long at 720p, with 30 minutes of exports a month and auto-subtitling up to 10 minutes, paid from 10 credits.

Uploads

The video goes to Kapwing's cloud to be edited: up to 2 GB a file and 5 GB of storage on the free plan.

Kapwing plans read on kapwing.com/pricing (plan cards and the full plan table) on 14 October 2026, signed out, prices in dollars as shown. If Kapwing's page has changed since, its page is the authority.

Side by side, for captions

What mattersBurncapsKapwing
PriceFree to use: two videos every 30 days with no mark, or $49 once for unlimited videosPro $24 a month, or $16 a month billed yearly; Business $64 a month, or $50 billed yearly
Free planTwo videos every 30 days, up to ten minutes each, every feature, no markExports up to 4 minutes at 720p, 30 minutes of exports a month, 10 minutes of auto-subtitling
Watermark on free exportsNone on the two free videos every 30 days, and none with ProYes, until Pro
Longest captioned videoTen minutes, burned in (up to 90 minutes for the script and subtitle files)4 minutes free, 2 hours on Pro
Where your video is processedOn your device, in your browserUploaded to Kapwing's cloud
Cost after 12 months$49 total$192 on Pro billed yearly

Kapwing column as read on its own pages on 14 October 2026 (sources above). Burncaps column from the product as it works today.

When to keep using Kapwing

Your team edits together

A shared workspace and one brand kit for everyone: Kapwing is made for that. Burncaps has no shared projects; each video is made in one browser.

You export long or in 4K

Kapwing's Pro exports projects up to 2 hours long in 4K. Burncaps burns captions into recordings of up to ten minutes.

You repurpose at scale

Resizing one video for every network, finding scenes, dubbing and voice clones are Kapwing tools with no counterpart in Burncaps.

How Burncaps does the caption job

It listens on your device

Drop an MP4 or MOV of up to ten minutes. The speech model runs in your browser, so the video never leaves your device. On a phone, or for a language other than English, you can choose our speech service instead, which gets only the sound.

You correct the words

The transcript opens as a script under the video. Click a word to fix it, and one click fixes it everywhere it was heard. Choose one to six words at a time, the position, the size and the text and highlight colours.

It burns the captions in

Pick one of 20 animated styles, where each word lights up as it is said, and export one MP4. Or ask for the best 30 or 60 seconds, cut to 9:16 and framed on your face. SRT, VTT, ASS and text files are free without limit for recordings up to ten minutes.

What it costs

Free to use: two videos every 30 days with no mark, or $49 once for unlimited videos. Pro is not a subscription, and the free videos need no account.

Questions, answered plainly

Is there a free Kapwing alternative without a watermark?

Burncaps is free with every feature for two videos every 30 days with no watermark, and Pro, $49 once, gives unlimited videos with none. It burns animated word-by-word subtitles into your video in your browser, without uploading the video and without an account.

Does Kapwing's free plan add a watermark?

Yes. As read on kapwing.com/pricing on 14 October 2026, Kapwing's free plan gives unlimited exports with a watermark, up to 4 minutes long at 720p and 30 minutes of exports a month. No Kapwing watermark starts on Pro at $24 a month, or $16 a month billed yearly.

Can Burncaps caption a video longer than ten minutes?

Burned-in captions take a video of up to ten minutes. On a computer, a recording up to 90 minutes and 10 GB gives its script and subtitle files: without Pro the first ten minutes are free, and Pro, $49 once, does the whole recording.

Is my video uploaded?

No. The video opens in your browser and never leaves your device. The sound leaves only if you choose our speech service, and then only the sound, in short pieces, never the picture. The transcript text leaves only for the optional best-moment pick, name check or translation, and ticking Keep everything on this device stops that.

What does Pro add?

Pro is a single payment of $49, not a subscription, for unlimited videos with no mark. Every video, free or Pro, gets every style and the max-accuracy model; without Pro, two videos are free every 30 days with no mark, and subtitle files are free without limit for videos up to ten minutes.

Burncaps facts, checked 14 October 2026

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 two videos every 30 days with no mark; Pro, $49 once, gives unlimited videos with no mark. 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 for recordings up to ten minutes. A longer recording, up to 90 minutes on a computer, gives its script and those files: the first ten minutes free, all of it with Pro.

Languages and styles: captions in the language spoken, twelve Indian languages heard on your device, translation into 37 languages, 20 caption styles.

After it listens: correct any word (one click changes it everywhere), add or cut words, one to six words at a time, position, size, text and highlight colours, and names this browser remembers, all free and without listening again.

Made by: Jordan Labs Ltd, UK company no. 17358646.

Against other tools: sixteen caption tools compared, from the vendors' own pages.