Captions makes one video prettier. Stargaze makes one video go everywhere.
Styled subtitles, eye-contact correction and AI dubbing are real craft, and Captions does them well. They apply to a single clip you already made. Stargaze takes one upload and produces — then publishes — an entire week of content.
Captions covers a slice. Stargaze runs all six as one flow.
Don't take our word for it. Watch the thing work.
The full walkthrough: one upload going in, and clips, covers, copy and articles coming out the other side.
We start before your upload finishes
Most tools queue: upload completes, then processing begins, then you wait. Stargaze works on the stream as it arrives — transcription, clip detection and copy are already running while the progress bar is still moving. You get usable output in minutes, not after a coffee break.
One tool instead of four plus a scheduler
A clipper, a caption app, an editor and a scheduler don't add up to a workflow — they add up to four exports, four logins and four bills. Stargaze runs the whole chain from one upload: clips, covers, platform copy in your voice, written articles, and publishing.
What you get that Captions doesn't do
Captions polishes a video. It doesn't multiply one, and it doesn't post one.
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One upload, a whole content set
Captions improves a clip you've already produced. Stargaze produces the clips — three formats — plus covers, copy in your voice and a written article, from a single source file.
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It actually publishes
Official API publishing to six platforms, plus AI-agent publishing to platforms with no public API at all, like Patreon and HeroHero. Captions has no distribution layer.
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Minutes that aren't metered against you
Captions meters shared minutes across features — transcription, re-renders and processing all draw down the same quota, with per-minute overages once it runs out. Stargaze is free during early access (as of July 2026).
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A desktop workflow for people who publish for a living
Mobile-first is great for a quick fix on one video. Producing and distributing a week of content across ten destinations is desk work, and Stargaze is built for it.
Without us, still on you afterwards
- 01Cut the source video into clips before you can even caption them
- 02Write the copy and build the covers for each platform
- 03Post every one of them by hand
Stargaze Studio vs Captions
Including the rows we lose. Captions data as of July 2026, pricing and features change, so we date every claim.
| Capability | Stargaze | Captions |
|---|---|---|
| Styled auto-captions | ||
| Starts processing during upload | ||
| Auto clips in 3 formats | Partial | |
| Auto covers & thumbnails | ||
| Platform copy in your voice | ||
| Written articles from the video | ||
| Multi-platform auto-publishing | 6 via API | |
| Publishing to no-API platforms | ||
| Desktop workflow | Partial | |
| Billing model | Free in beta | Shared credits |
When Captions is the better choice
We'd rather you picked the right tool than churned in a month.
You need styled subtitles on a single video, from your phone.
- Caption styling quality, with 100+ caption languages
- Eye-contact correction and AI dubbing are genuinely distinctive
- Cheapest entry point if styled subtitles are literally all you need
You need that video turned into a week of published content.
- You want the video published, not exported
- You post to more than two platforms
- You'd rather not run four subscriptions
Free while we're in beta
Join now and you're a Founding Member: full access at no cost during early access, and you lock in Founding Member conditions when paid plans land. The first 1,000 spots filled ahead of schedule — the programme stays open until beta closes.
Free tier, then roughly $9.99 Pro, ~$57 Max and ~$115 Scale per month (as of July 2026).
The $9.99 tier excludes the generative AI features the app is best known for; those start at Max. Minutes are shared across features, and users report passing their limits within two to three weeks, then paying per-minute overages.
Free
Full access during early access. No card, no credits, no per-minute meter.
- Founding Member conditions locked in for later
- Your content stays yours, EU-encrypted, never trained on
- Open until beta closes
Questions people actually ask
Captions and subtitles are generated for every clip as part of the pipeline. If your priority is heavily art-directed caption styling on one hero video, Captions is the more specialised tool and we'd say so. Ours are built to look right across every platform automatically, at volume.
Depends what's slow for you. If you already have the clip and want it to look sharper, use Captions. If you're starting from a long recording and need clips, copy, covers and the actual posting, that's Stargaze.
Sure. Stargaze produces and publishes the set; nothing stops you polishing a hero clip in Captions first and uploading that.
During early access Stargaze is free, with no shared-minute quota to run down. Joining now makes you a Founding Member and locks in Founding Member conditions when paid plans launch.
Captions figures as of July 2026, from public pricing and review sources (cutsnap.ai/blog/captions-ai-pricing-2026, sendshort.ai/guides/captions-review, eesel.ai/blog/captions-ai). Competitor pricing changes often, tell us if something here is out of date and we'll correct it. Captions is a trademark of its owner, used here for comparison only.
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Free for as long as we're in beta, and Founding Member conditions when we aren't. Bring the video you were about to open Captions for.
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