Submagic's free trial covers 3 short videos, and downloading them without its watermark needs a subscription. Burncaps burns animated word-by-word captions into your video, or cuts it to its best 30 seconds, with your video never uploaded. Free to use, with no watermark on your first two videos, then a small burncaps.app mark, or $49 once for none, never a subscription.
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| What matters | Burncaps | Submagic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free to use: no mark on your first two videos, then a small mark, or $49 once for none | From $12 per member per month billed annually, $19 monthly |
| Free plan | As many as you like, up to ten minutes each, every feature; no mark on the first two, a small mark after | A trial of 3 short videos |
| Watermark on free plan | None on the first two videos; a small burncaps.app mark after | Yes, until you subscribe |
| Where your video is processed | On your device, in your browser | Uploaded to their servers |
| Account required | No | Yes |
| Cost after 12 months | $49 total | From $144 per member |
Submagic prices from submagic.co/pricing and the free trial from its help centre, checked 28 September 2026. If they have changed since, their page is the authority.
One job, done properly: transcribe on your device (or, if you choose, with our speech service, which gets only the sound), let you fix any word with a click, then burn animated word-by-word captions into a clean MP4. 20 styles, 37 languages, SRT, VTT, ASS and text export included.
AI b-roll suggestions, auto-zooms, hook templates, stock media and team workspaces. If those carry your workflow, a subscription tool earns its fee. Captions alone do not need one.
Cloud caption tools pay for GPU servers every time you upload, so most charge monthly and many watermark free exports. Burncaps runs on your hardware. Our cost per video is close to zero, which is why every video is free with every feature, why the first two carry no watermark and the rest only a small mark, and why Pro is one payment instead of a subscription.
For captions, yes. For everything else, no. Submagic also sells AI b-roll, auto-zooms, hook templates and team workspaces. Burncaps does one job: it transcribes your video on your device and burns animated word-by-word captions into it. If captions are what you pay Submagic for, you can stop paying. If you rely on the other features, keep the tool that does them.
No. There is no sign-up, no email capture and no login. Open the page, drop a video, export. Only if you buy Pro for unlimited videos do you sign in, with your email and a six-digit code, no password.
Burncaps uses OpenAI's open-source Whisper model with word-level timestamps, the same family of speech recognition most caption tools build on. Every word is editable with one click before you export, so the final accuracy is in your hands. The large-turbo model for harder audio is included.
Pro is a single payment of $49, not a subscription, and it removes the mark from every video. Every video, free or Pro, gets every style and the max-accuracy model; the free ones carry no mark on your first two and a small mark after, and subtitle files are free without limit.
Yes, on many phones: transcription, editing and subtitle files work in most modern browsers, and the burned-in export works on many phones, more slowly than on a computer. Chrome or Edge on a computer is the fastest and surest, because they use the graphics chip to write the video.
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.