Make your YouTube videos accessible to a wider audience with our selection of caption tools. Find software to create, edit, and manage subtitles and closed captions for your content.
Aegisub is a free, cross-platform open source tool for creating and modifying subtitles. Aegisub makes it quick and easy to time subtitles to audio, and features many powerful tools for styling them, including a built-in real-time video preview.
Captions
Kapwing is a modern video creation platform that helps teams make great content faster. Create more content in less time.
Video Editor, Audio, Captions
Rev is a speech-to-text platform which helps transform spoken words into accurate transcripts, summaries, insights, and more.
AI, Captions
Edit your videos & podcasts just by typing. Descript's powerful AI editing tools let you make videos, podcasts, & short clips for social fast.
Video Editor, AI, Captions
Runway ML is a creative platform that provides easy-to-use tools for AI-powered content creation, enabling users to generate and edit images, videos, and other media without deep technical knowledge.
Video Editor, AI, Audio, Captions, Image
Matcha is an online tool for trimming videos via transcript editing. It then exports your cuts via a file that you can bring into an NLE like Davinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro
AI, Captions
Captions are crucial for YouTube videos as they improve accessibility for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers, enhance comprehension for non-native speakers, allow for silent viewing, and can boost SEO by providing additional text content for search engines to index.
Some excellent caption tools for YouTube include Rev for professional captioning services, Kapwing for easy online caption creation, and Aegisub for advanced subtitle editing.
You can add captions to your YouTube videos by uploading a subtitle file (like .srt), using YouTube's automatic captioning feature and editing for accuracy, or typing them manually in YouTube Studio. Many third-party tools also allow you to create captions and export them in YouTube-compatible formats.