Captions Alternatives: 6 AI Video Editors Compared on Price

Captions is an AI video editor: you upload footage and it cuts scenes, adds B-roll, writes stylised captions, removes pauses and filler words, fixes eye contact and can make AI avatars. People searching for Captions app alternatives usually want one of those jobs done somewhere else, for a clearer price or a more reliable app.

So we started from the complaints on its Trustpilot page, where it rates 1.7 from 91 ratings: confusing credits, billing trouble, glitches, lost projects and weaker desktop and Android versions. Then we picked tools in the same category, AI video for social media, that cover the same jobs. Every price, plan name and rating on this page comes from each vendor's pricing page or a public review page, checked in October 2026.

• Editing on your phone with templates: CapCut.
• Subtitles, translation and quick edits in the browser: VEED or Kapwing.
• Turning a podcast or long talk into short clips: OpusClip.
• AI avatars and presenter videos: HeyGen.
• Free captions on a computer, plus brand ads, images and posts made and scheduled in one place: Infinall AI.

If you mainly need the same features on iPhone, Android and desktop, test the free plan of each tool on the device you use most before you pay. The Infinall AI Editor does not open on phones or tablets, so it is not a fit for phone-only editing.

Captions has a free version with a more limited feature set. Its paid plans, shown in US dollars for iOS, are Max at $24.99 a month with 500 credits, Frontier at $69.99 a month with 1,400 credits, Frontier 2x at $139.99 with 2,800 credits and Frontier 4x at $279.99 with 5,600 credits. The pricing page does not show yearly prices or web and Android prices, so check the Captions pricing page before you compare.

Most alternatives also sell credits. Kapwing and HeyGen attach a monthly credit allowance to each plan, OpusClip lets unused Pro credits roll over for 2 months, and VEED credits do not carry over.

Infinall AI uses one credit balance for everything, and one credit is one US cent. Free gives 1,000 credits every month with no card. Pro costs $10 for the first month, then $30 a month or $299 a year, with 3,000 credits a month. In India it is Rs 999 for the first month, then Rs 2,899 a month or Rs 33,999 a year. Making subtitles in the AI Editor, editing, exporting and downloading use no credits. Only the optional Let AI pick the look switch is paid, and it shows its price first.

Captions is still a strong pick for talking-head video. It fixes eye contact, removes background noise, trims pauses and filler words, and translates and subtitles in 100+ languages, all from one upload. Its chat-based editor lets people who have never edited make advanced changes with simple prompts, and you can reuse the same avatar across topics while changing outfits, backgrounds or product inserts.

If you record on an iPhone, its full feature set works for you and the credits cover your month, there is little reason to switch. Look at the tools above when billing, lost projects or a weaker desktop or Android version start to cost you time.