Captions
Captions is an AI video editing app from Mirage, the New York company that was itself called Captions until 2025, and it turns raw footage into edited, captioned videos. It offers AI Edit styles, AI avatars, translation in 100+ languages and eye-contact correction for creators and small businesses.
Quick facts
Best for
- Creators filming on iPhone
- Small businesses making video ads
- Talking-head and UGC videos
Key features
Pick a style and Captions cuts scenes, overlays B-roll and adds graphics across the whole video at once.
Generates stylized captions from 100+ templates with emoji and keyword highlights, plus downloadable transcripts.
Creates a digital twin of you or uses stock AI actors, with prompts to change outfits, backgrounds or product inserts.
Translates a video's speech into other languages and syncs lip movement to the new audio track.
Corrects glances away from the lens, removes background noise, and trims pauses and filler words automatically.
Directs changes through plain-language prompts, and Clips Chat requests more or different short clips from a long video.
Use cases
- Film a talking-head tip on an iPhone and let AI Edit add cuts, B-roll and captions before posting.
- Create a UGC-style product ad with an AI actor instead of booking on-camera talent.
- Translate a founder video into Spanish and French with lip-synced dubbing for international audiences.
Pricing
Current deals
What is Captions?
Captions is the consumer app from Mirage, which describes it as its agent in your hands: the agent plans, edits and designs a video while every layer stays editable until you publish. The company used the Captions name itself until its 2025 rebrand.
What stands out
- Mirage trains its own avatar and audio models, including Avatar X, announced on July 28, 2026.
- Unlike many credit-based video tools, unused credits roll over for up to two months.
- The workflow is mobile-first, so a phone recording can become a finished vertical video without a desktop.
Limitations
- Almost everything generative requires Max or Frontier; the free version is limited to basic editing.
- Website prices reflect iOS plans, so what you pay on web or Android may differ.
- Frontier starts at $69.99/month, a big jump for teams that outgrow the 500 credits on Max.
- Credit costs per generation are not published on the pricing page, so usage is hard to forecast.
Captions FAQ
Alternatives to Captions
Video editor with AI captions, effects and text-to-video tools.
Online video editor with AI subtitles, avatars and clean audio.
AI avatar videos, translation and lip-sync dubbing.
AI clipping tool that turns long videos into share-ready short clips.
Video and podcast editor you control by editing the transcript.
Sources
Reviewed on Oct 12, 2026
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