Submagic Pro is $39 a month. Captions Max is $24.99 a month. Burncaps Pro is $49 one time for unlimited videos: animated captions burned into the whole video, or the strongest 30 or 60 seconds cut and framed for you, inside your browser. It is free to try with every feature and no sign-up, and your video never uploads.
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Competitor prices are the monthly rates on their own pricing pages, checked 2 October 2026. Annual plans are cheaper per month and still recur.
| Tool | Price | Over one year | Watermark | Your video |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burncaps Pro | $49, once | $49 | None with Pro, and none on the two free videos every 30 days | Stays on your device |
| Submagic Pro | $39 a month | $468 | None on its paid plans | Uploaded to their servers |
| Submagic Starter | $19 a month | $228 | None on its paid plans | Uploaded to their servers |
| Kapwing Pro | $24 a month | $288 | On its free plan; Pro removes it | Uploaded to their servers |
| Captions Max (iOS plan) | $24.99 a month | $299.88 | Not stated on its pricing page | Uploaded to their servers |
Submagic and Captions ship B-roll, emojis, auto-zoom and clip finding across long podcasts. Burncaps does two things: it burns animated word-by-word captions into your video, or cuts a talking video to its best half minute, on your machine, and with Pro there is no limit on how many. If the extras are why you pay, keep paying. If captions and a clean clip are why you pay, stop.
Every thumbnail is rendered live by the engine on this page, not a mockup. Every style is included in every video, free or Pro.
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Need more? For a team or an agency, Studio is everything in Pro plus ten devices at once, 20 hours of our speech service in any 30 days and higher AI safety limits, for $29 a month. Pro stays one payment, and nothing in it changes.
Every limit in plain words, so you can decide before you pay.
As many as you like. There is no daily, monthly or lifetime limit on videos or exports, and none on subtitle files (SRT, VTT, ASS and text), which are free for everyone for recordings up to ten minutes; with Pro they cover the whole of a recording up to 90 minutes. No video carries a mark.
Video with captions burned in, and the best 30 or 60 seconds: up to ten minutes and 1.2 GB per file on a computer, and 250 MB on a phone. Pro and free are the same here. The reason is that your browser holds the file in memory while it writes the new video, and a longer recording is more than many computers can hold at once. A computer writes the whole video at its own resolution. We have not measured a ten-minute 4K export, so we do not promise one: try a 4K clip of yours on the free videos first. A longer recording, up to 90 minutes and 10 GB on a computer, opens for its script and subtitle files, because only its sound is read, a piece at a time: without Pro the first ten minutes are free, and Pro does the whole recording. We have no date for burned-in video past ten minutes.
One request is one batch of your caption lines sent to our AI. A video of normal length is one or two requests, and each line you correct afterwards is one more. With Pro, translations and best-moment picks are unlimited for your own use. Safety limits per account, for a day and for any 30 days, far above what one person making videos reaches, exist only to stop a misused sign-in, and we do not publish the numbers. The daily one resets at midnight UK time. If real work ever reaches it, the page says so, the captions stay in the spoken language (or a local rule picks the stretch), and an email to hello@burncaps.app gets it lifted.
The AI answers in short pieces of two to four spoken words, in the order they were spoken, and each piece is shown over the time of the words it translates. So the English follows the speaker, instead of being spread evenly across a sentence. Any line can be corrected by hand.
Five hours of sound in any 30 days, against 25 minutes without Pro. That is where a phone, an Indian language or any non-English language is written in seconds, by Microsoft’s MAI-Transcribe. Forty videos of five minutes are about three hours twenty. Only listening on our service uses it. When the five hours are used, Burncaps listens on your own device instead, without a limit and more slowly on a phone, and says so.
Pro is tied to the email you paid with and can be signed in on three devices at once, for example a phone and two computers. To add a new computer, choose Pro sign-in on it, type that email, then type the six-digit code we send to it. There is no password. A fourth sign-in signs out the device used longest ago, which can sign back in the same way. Please do not share your sign-in with other people.
Pro is $49 once, and features added to Burncaps later come with it at no charge. There is nothing to renew, because Pro is not a subscription. A separate plan for teams and client work, Studio, is a monthly subscription with its own price, and it adds only what client work needs on top of Pro. Nothing that is in Pro today will be moved out of it, into Studio or into any other plan. You can have your money back within 14 days if Pro does not work on your machine.
Your video never leaves your device. The sound leaves only if you choose our speech service, in pieces of up to 30 seconds with nothing from the picture, to Microsoft’s MAI-Transcribe in Ireland; neither we nor, by Microsoft’s statement, Microsoft keep it. The transcript text goes to our AI only for a best-moment pick, a name check or a translation, and is not stored. What we keep is counts, stored as salted one-way hashes, and for Pro your email, your purchase and up to three signed-in devices. Ticking “Keep everything on this device” stops every request that carries sound or words. The privacy policy has the whole list.
A recent browser. Chrome or Edge on a computer is the fastest and surest, because they use the graphics chip to write the video; Firefox may save a WebM file instead of an MP4, and many phones export too, more slowly. Where a browser cannot write video, you can still transcribe and download SRT, VTT or ASS files. Input is MP4 or MOV. Try a free video first on the machine you will actually use.
Stripe sends you back to Burncaps and Pro is on in that browser straight away. There is no key to keep and no password. On another device, choose Pro sign-in, type the email you paid with, and type the six-digit code we send to it.
Email hello@burncaps.app within 14 days and you get a full refund. No form, no questions beyond which browser you tried.
Yes. $49 once, for you, on up to three of your devices at a time, including every feature added later. There is nothing to cancel, because Pro is not a subscription. Every limit, in plain words.
No. The AI model downloads into your browser once (about 190 MB with a graphics chip, 80 MB without, then cached) and everything after that runs on your device. Open your browser's Network tab while captioning and you will see no request carrying your video. How to check this yourself.