Textover

Textover turns the speech in your own videos into subtitles and burns them into the picture — entirely on your iPhone. Import a clip from your photo library, transcribe it with Apple's on-device speech recognition, fix the wording, pick a style, and export a captioned video you can post anywhere. No account, no cloud, no subscription.

What It Does

• Automatic captions from the audio in your video, using on-device speech recognition — for the languages your iPhone has a model for it even works in airplane mode
• Edit every line: the text, the start and end time in 0.1-second steps, split one caption in two — at the line break you type, or in the middle — merge it with the next, delete it, or add a caption at the playhead
• Captions running early or late? Shift all of them at once by 0.1 or 0.5 seconds
• Three caption styles (Classic, Band, Yellow), three sizes and three positions, plus optional word-by-word highlighting in three colours
• Posting vertical? Textover tells you when your captions would sit under the buttons TikTok, Reels and Shorts draw over the video, and raises them clear in one tap
• Watch the styled captions play over your own video before you export anything
• Reframe the export for the platform you post on: 9:16, 4:5, 1:1 or 16:9, with the picture fitted (on a black, white or violet background) or cropped to the edge — and the exact output resolution written out before you start
• Export the video with the captions burned in — no watermark, no length limit — to your photo library or straight to the share sheet
• Only need the words? Share the subtitles as a standard .srt file or copy them as plain text, without rendering the video
• A built-in sample clip that speaks its own three lines, so you can try the transcription itself — and edit, style and export captions — before importing anything of your own

Why You'll Like It

• One-time purchase — no subscription, ever
• 100% on your device — your video and its audio are never uploaded
• No ads, no account, no sign-up
• Your original audio is kept; only the captions and the frame change

Nearly every caption app charges monthly for the one thing you actually want: the export. Textover is a single, fair one-time unlock. Import, transcribe, edit, style and preview as much as you like for free; the unlock turns on saving and sharing the captioned video, the .srt file and the plain-text copy.

Caption it once. Post it anywhere.