Burn karaoke captions onto your clips, all on your own hardware.
Creators bleed money on per-month editing, caption and thumbnail tools that charge more the more they publish. Pay-once apps let them produce unlimited content without a meter running.
The tool this job usually means renting is Submagic, at $18–39/mo — roughly $216 a year, every year. Captionly does the job for a one-time $34 — running locally on your own machine.
whisper.cpp with word-level timestamps; the engine and model download once on first run, then run fully offline.
For content creators, local Whisper transcription pays off when there's a publishing schedule to hit — and it's covered by the same one-time $34, not metered per month.
Real ASS timing tags per word for the TikTok and Reels look, rendered by ffmpeg exactly as previewed.
For content creators, karaoke word-highlight captions pays off when there's a publishing schedule to hit — and it's covered by the same one-time $34, not metered per month.
Karaoke Highlight, Bold Center and Classic Subtitle, plus font size, position and highlight color controls.
For content creators, 3 style presets pays off when there's a publishing schedule to hit — and it's covered by the same one-time $34, not metered per month.
One payment of $34 gets you the signed Windows installer, or clone the MIT source and build it yourself for free.
Drop a video and run whisper.cpp on your machine for word-level timestamps, then fix any misheard words inline.
Pick a style, burn a ready-to-post MP4 with ffmpeg, or export SRT and ASS for elsewhere.
Captionly is $34, once. Submagic at $18–39/mo — roughly $216 a year, every year. Costs about one month of Submagic, then captions the rest of your clips for free.
Costs about one month of Submagic, then captions the rest of your clips for free. Captionly costs $34 once; Submagic charges $18–39/mo — about $216 a year. For content creators, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
Yes — Captionly is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/video-clip-captioner-mvp. The $34 buys the signed Windows installer; building from source is free.
Never. Captionly runs Whisper and ffmpeg entirely on your machine — your footage never leaves it, with no accounts or telemetry.