Every tool I tried for captioning my short videos wanted the same three things: a monthly subscription, my email, and — the part that really bugged me — my raw footage uploaded to their servers. Paying $30/month and handing my video to a cloud I don't control, just to caption a 20-second Reel? It felt absurd. So I built the tool I actually wanted. AI Caption Cut runs 100% in your browser. Your video never leaves your device — the speech-to-text, the styling, the rendering, all of it happens on your own machine. Nothing is uploaded, ever. That's not a privacy feature bolted on; it's the whole architecture. And because there's no server doing the heavy lifting, it costs me nothing to run — so I killed the subscription model entirely: • Free, unlimited editing + captions • Free export (with a small watermark) • Pay once — ₹39 / $3.99 — to remove it and go HD. No plan, no lock-in. A few things I'm proud of: • Works fully offline after the first load • Speech-to-text in a dozen+ languages, including Hindi & Hinglish (which most tools ignore) • Real editor energy — trending caption styles, sound effects (import your own too), multi-layer text It's built by one person, deliberately NOT trying to look like a slick AI-SaaS — just a fast, honest tool that does one thing well. I'd love your feedback: what would make you switch from your current caption tool? And try captioning something without your video ever leaving the tab — it still feels a little magic to me.

AICaptionCut

Free, private video captions — no upload, no subscription

Free, private video captions — no upload, no subscription