Captions vs OpenShot Video Editor
Captions
captions.aiOpenShot Video Editor
openshot.orgSide by side
| Figure | Captions | OpenShot Video Editor |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $4.99/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 12 | 2 |
| Spec score · Video Editing Software | 9.4 (#2) | 8.4 (#36) |
| Company | The company says it builds the Captions app, Mirage foundation models and Mirage API, and rebranded as Mirage in 2025. | OpenShot Studios, LLC is a Texas-based software company founded in early 2012, with an address in Rockwall, Texas. |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Headquarters | New York City, New York, United States | Rockwall, Texas, United States |
| Integrations | The help center lists Clay as an integration for creating personalized AI avatar sales and talking-head videos. | OpenShot supports Blender-powered 3D titles and uses FFmpeg to read common media formats. |
| Support | The Enterprise plan includes a dedicated account management team, customer onboarding, priority training and hands-on support. | The site lists email, a forum, and Discord as support channels. |
| What it does | Captions is an AI video editor and generator that turns uploaded footage or prompts into edited, captioned and shareable videos. | OpenShot is a free, open-source video editor for Linux, Mac, and Windows. |
Plans
Captions
- Max$24.99 a month
- Frontier$69.99 a month
- Frontier 2x$139.99 a month
- Frontier 4x$279.99 a month
- FreeFree
- FreeFree
- Lite$4.99 a month
- Basic$9.99 a month
- Frontier$69.99 a month
- Frontier 2x$139.99 a month
In their own words
Captions
Captions is an AI video platform for creating and editing videos from footage or prompts. AI Edit can apply cuts, captions, music, and formatting to uploaded material. The service offers automatic transcription, more than 100 caption styles, and translation into over 100 languages. Users can dub videos into more than 30 languages with a cloned version of their voice. Prompt to Video creates talking-head videos from scripts using built-in actors or an AI Twin. The platform is aimed at creators, marketers, and developers making materials such as ads, listing videos, and podcast clips. Its Mirage API generates content from scripts, image references, or actor IDs and uses credit-based billing. The free plan costs nothing and includes no AI usage credits, one caption template, and basic editing tools. Max costs $24.99 a month and includes 500 monthly credits; Frontier plans provide higher credit allowances. Unused credits can roll over for up to two extra months, capped at three times the monthly allowance. Captions is available on Android, iOS, and web, with an API offering.
OpenShot Video Editor
OpenShot Video Editor is a free, open-source desktop editor for Linux, macOS and Windows. Its timeline handles video, audio and image clips across unlimited tracks, with trimming, snapping, waveforms and frame-by-frame controls. It reads common media formats through FFmpeg and supports 4K export. Effects include brightness and contrast, chroma key, color adjustments, crop, blur and lens flare, with keyframed properties. The editor includes more than 400 transition patterns, over 40 editable vector title templates and Blender-powered animated titles. Recording can capture a full screen, window or selected region, along with webcam and microphone input. The Free plan costs nothing, with no subscription, watermark or project limit. Support is listed through email, a forum and Discord. There is no web or mobile app.