BETASubtext
Word-perfect animated captions, burned in on your iPhone.
Subtext turns a talking-head clip into a captioned, postable video without ever leaving your iPhone. It transcribes on-device with word-level timing, shapes the words into clean caption lines, and burns in animated captions - karaoke highlight, word-pop, or a clean line fade - up to 4K. A transcript-first editor makes fixes effortless: tap a word to jump to it, hold to emphasize, sweep out the fillers in one tap. Your footage never leaves the device, exports are unlimited on every tier, and a single one-time purchase removes the watermark instead of a per-minute meter.
Everything Subtext does well.
On-device transcription
Word-level timing with automatic language detection - your footage never leaves the phone.
Captions that match the feed
Karaoke highlight, word-pop, and clean line-fade styles, safe-zone aware.
Transcript-first editor
Tap a word to seek, hold to emphasize, sweep fillers in one tap.
Burned-in export
Original resolution up to 4K, plus .srt / .vtt sidecars. Unlock removes the watermark.
Captions are a per-video tax, and the whole category rents it back to creators as a metered subscription because their transcription runs in the cloud. Apple Silicon does that work on the phone for free - so we built a pay-once caption studio that is faster, private, and free of subscriptions.
See it in action.
Simple, honest pricing.
Free - $5.99 one-time unlock, no subscription
Good to know.
Is there a subscription?
No. Exports are unlimited and free; a one-time unlock removes the watermark, forever, no meter.
Does my video get uploaded?
Never. Transcription and export happen entirely on your iPhone.
Ashvara designed and built Subtext end to end.
We build native iOS apps like this one - from first sketch to the App Store. If you have a product in mind, we can ship it.
