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By the toolist.ai editors. Researched from Captions's own pages and hands-on tests published by others, not hands-on tested by toolist.ai. Updated October 15, 2026.

Captions review: pricing, features and what testers found

Captions is Mirage's AI video editor for talking videos on iPhone and the web: AI Edit cuts a clip and adds captions, B-roll and music, Clips turns long videos into ranked shorts, and Mirage avatars or your own AI twin read a script for you. Basic costs $9.99 a month for 200 credits; AI Edit, avatars and Clips start with Max at $24.99 a month for 500 credits.

Our take

Captions suits creators and small businesses who film talking-head shorts on an iPhone and want the edit done for them: AI Edit cuts the clip and adds captions, B-roll and music, Clips turns long videos into ranked shorts, and Mirage avatars or an AI twin can stand in when you cannot film. Basic costs $9.99 a month for 200 credits but covers captions, dubbing and cleanup tools; AI Edit, avatars and Clips start with Max at $24.99 a month for 500 credits, and Frontier runs $69.99 to $279.99 a month for 1,400 to 5,600 credits. No published hands-on test of today's paid plans turned up, so AI Edit, Clips and the Avatar X avatars are described here from Captions' own pages: on October 1, 2026, Multilogin's Ying D. tried only the free web tier and found its 50 credits did not unlock an AI actor video; in June 2025, before Mirage Studio was merged into Captions, Gizmodo's James Pero tested that separate app at launch and found an AI-actor remake looked okay at a glance but showed hazy edges and stray artifacts; and in 2023, before AI Edit, AI twins and the Mirage avatars existed, Fast Company's Jeremy Caplan tested the older iPhone app and found the captions accurate apart from names, but the noise removal unreliable and auto-trim prone to cutting too much. Watch the credit math (AI Edit takes 10 to 40 credits a project; Captions' own help pages disagree threefold on what avatar video costs, and disagree on whether credits roll over), monthly plans that are not refunded, the reduced Android app, and terms that let Mirage use your uploads to improve its products, with training excluded only on Enterprise.

Based on Captions's published plans and the hands-on tests linked below, not on a test of our own.

Good for

  • Creators and small businesses filming talking-head shorts on an iPhone who want a finished edit with captions, B-roll and music in one step
  • Spokesperson, explainer or UGC-style ad videos made with stock AI actors or your own AI twin, without filming
  • Turning podcasts, webinars and streams into a batch of short clips

Watch out for

  • Plans and prices are spread across pages: the pricing page prices only Max ($24.99) and Frontier ($69.99 to $279.99) and says its prices reflect iOS; Basic ($9.99) is listed in the help center and the US App Store, which also sells Basic weekly at $5.99; Lite ($4.99) is sold only in the separate Captions Lite Android app and does not work on iPhone or the web. Yearly prices are not published except Basic at $64.99 a year in the US App Store, and checkout may show local prices above or below the USD ones.
  • Every AI feature spends credits, even on projects you never export: AI Edit 10 to 40 credits a project, Prompt to Video 16 credits per 6 seconds, chat editing 2 credits a message plus 1 per action, and generated clips by model (Veo 3.1 at 64 credits for 4 seconds). The help center's separate Mirage credits page instead charges 8 credits per second of Mirage video, three times as much. Extra credits cannot be bought except on Frontier 4x and legacy Teams and Business plans; otherwise the help center's answer is to upgrade.
  • The pricing page and main credits page say unused credits roll over, up to three times the monthly allowance, but the Mirage credits page says they do not; downgrading cuts the balance to the new plan's cap and cancelling forfeits it.
  • The free plan's credits are inconsistent too: the help center lists 60 to 200 one-time credits, the pricing page's comparison lists none, and Multilogin's tester saw 50 that still did not unlock an AI actor video.
  • The terms make payments non-refundable unless the law requires otherwise, and the help center says monthly plans are not refunded (technical problems go to support); App Store and Google Play purchases can be refunded only through Apple or Google. Cancel at least 24 hours before renewal.
  • You own your uploads and output, but the terms give Mirage a royalty-free, sublicensable licence to use them to run and improve the service and build new products, which survives termination; the privacy policy says user information trains its AI models and may be shared with third parties to train theirs. Excluding your data from training is listed only for Enterprise.
  • The acceptable use policy bars output that contains regulated goods or services, naming alcohol, tobacco, vaping, firearms, gambling, contraceptives and dating services among others, and the Captions on Web terms require you to disclose AI use and advertising where appropriate.
  • The Android app is the reduced Captions Lite, the web app's interface is English-only, and features and limits differ between iPhone and the web.

What Captions does

Price

Free plan: Free to edit with basic tools (trim, transitions, zoom, sounds, voiceover, captions with one template) and 60 to 200 one-time AI credits by the help center (the pricing page's comparison lists none); projects that use AI Edit, caption styles, eye contact or other paid features need a plan to export, and Captions' own pages disagree on whether free exports carry a watermark.

PlanBilled monthlyBilled yearly, per monthIncludesPrice per credit
Free free free Basic editing (trim, transitions, zoom, sounds, voiceover, resize) and captions with one template; 60 to 200 one-time credits by the help center (none in the pricing page's comparison); exports of basic edits only –
Lite (Android only) $4.99 not listed Sold and usable only in the Captions Lite Android app: caption styles, translation and dubbing, eye contact, denoise, teleprompter with AI scripts and generated sounds; no AI Edit, avatars or credits listed –
Basic $9.99 $5.42 200 credits a month, no watermark; Reddit to video, script generator, camera and teleprompter, captions and dubbing, eye contact, denoise, censor and AI voiceover; $64.99 a year in the US App Store, which also sells it weekly at $5.99; not shown on the pricing page. Projects that use AI Edit, Co-Editor, generated images or video or AI Creator export with a watermark $0.050
Max $24.99 not listed 500 credits a month: AI Edit, the chat-based editor, Clips, Mirage actors, up to 30 AI twins, 2 generations at once and generated images, video, music and sound effects; 2 seats by the help center's Mirage billing page; yearly price not published $0.050
Frontier $69.99 not listed 1,400 credits a month, Captions' top tier of generative models and faster generation; 3 seats by the help center's Mirage billing page; formerly Scale; yearly price not published $0.050
Frontier 2x $139.99 not listed 2,800 credits a month; 4 seats; otherwise as Frontier $0.050
Frontier 4x $279.99 not listed 5,600 credits a month; 5 seats; the only current plan the help center lets buy top-up credits $0.050
Enterprise not listed not listed Custom pricing: bulk credit discounts, custom seats, an account team, training data exclusion and commercial terms –

Price per credit is our calculation: the monthly-billing price divided by what the plan includes, assuming you use all of it. It is not a measured cost.

Prices last checked: 2026-10-16 on Captions's pricing page. Full breakdown: Captions pricing.

Price history

No price change since we first recorded these prices on October 15, 2026. We re-check them every week and list each change here.

What hands-on testers found

We have not tested Captions ourselves. These are the published tests we found that used it hands-on, newest first; follow the links for the full reviews.

Multilogin · Ying D. · October 1, 2026

What they tested: The free Captions web workflow in Chrome on October 1, 2026: a 12-second vertical explainer read by the stock avatar Mark from an original script. Only the free tier was tried; no paid plan or finished video was tested. Multilogin sells account-management software for social media teams, not a video editor.

  • The free account showed 50 credits, below the 60 to 200 the help center lists, and the pricing page's comparison lists none.
  • Choosing the avatar and entering the script worked, but Create my video opened an upgrade screen instead of generating: no video was made and no credits were spent.
  • The review says its free test could not judge output quality, and suggests judging a paid plan by credits spent per approved video, since retries and unexported generations also use credits.

Gizmodo · James Pero · June 4, 2025

What they tested: Mirage Studio in its launch week, a separate AI-actor app at the time; this predates its merger into Captions and is not a test of the Captions app. He fed in a colleague's Instagram video and had a stock AI actor, a streamer with a blue mohawk, deliver it.

  • A three-second preview took about 10 minutes to arrive.
  • The result looked okay at a glance but came apart the longer he watched: hazy edges, small distortions and a purple blob near the end; the narration held up because it copied the original delivery.
  • He questions how easily the tool lets anyone copy another creator's likeness and work.

Fast Company · Jeremy Caplan · November 17, 2023

What they tested: The older iPhone app in 2023, when it was iOS-only, cost about $10 a month and had a free trial of a few days (republished from his Wonder Tools newsletter): auto captions, teleprompter and AI script writing, eye contact, noise removal, AI music, AI trimming and dubbing into 27 languages. This predates AI Edit, AI twins and the Mirage avatars.

  • Captions were generated in seconds and accurate; the only mistakes were names.
  • The teleprompter worked well, though he wanted a way to preview scroll speed; he found the eye-contact correction a bit creepy.
  • Noise removal was unreliable, the AI music was weak and auto-trim sometimes cut too much; fine trims on a phone screen took several tries.
  • He preferred Captions' interface to CapCut's, while noting CapCut has many more features.

What users say

Test result

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