One upload. Everything done. Captions stops at one styled clip.
That's the Captions alternative you searched for. Captions restyles a clip you already cut and stops - cutting the clips, building the covers, writing the copy for every platform, the article and the posting are all still on you. Stargaze Studio is one unified flow: a single upload comes out the other side as finished, published content everywhere, and the work starts while the file is still uploading.
Captions covers a slice. Stargaze runs all six as one flow.
You can try the whole flow yourself: one video, from upload to published.
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Official APIs where they exist, our own publishing agent where they don't, including platforms like Patreon and HeroHero that have no public API at all.
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 restyles one video. It doesn't make more of them, and it doesn't post any of them.
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One upload, a whole week of content
Captions improves a clip you already produced. Stargaze produces the clips - three formats, captions included - plus covers, copy in your voice and a full written article, from a single source file.
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Work starts during the upload
There's no cut-it-first, then-style-it, then-export-it loop. Transcription, clip detection, captions and copy run against the stream while it uploads, so the first assets land in minutes.
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Covers that already know your brand
Every clip gets several cover options out of the same upload: a designed graphic, frames pulled straight from the video, further variants from the footage, and your own file if you'd rather use it. They're built with your primary and secondary brand colours, so a week of posts looks like one channel instead of ten unrelated ones.
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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, so every styled clip still leaves the app as a file you upload by hand.
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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, and the cheapest tier leaves out the generative AI the app is known for. Stargaze is free during early access (as of July 2026).
Without us, still on you afterwards
- 01Cut the source video into clips before there's anything to caption
- 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 | ||
| Deep manual editing | Partial | |
| Speed: first output ready | During upload | After you've cut the clip |
| Auto clips in 3 formats | Partial | |
| Auto covers & thumbnails | ||
| Covers in your brand colours | ||
| 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 | |
| Price today | Free in beta | $9.99-115/mo, shared minutes |
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 is a point tool that starts from a clip you already made and ends when it looks nicer. Stargaze starts from the raw recording: it cuts the clips, captions them, builds the covers, writes the platform copy and the article, and publishes the lot. One is a finishing touch, the other is the whole job.
Yes. Captions and subtitles are generated for every clip as part of the pipeline, in 11 languages, and they're built to read correctly on each platform's crop. You don't style them one video at a time - a week of clips comes out captioned together.
If you already have the clip and only want the subtitles restyled, that's a finishing job. If you're starting from a long recording and need the clips, the captions, the covers, the copy and the actual posting, that's Stargaze - and the captions come with it.
From the upload itself. You get a designed graphic, frames taken straight from the video and further variants from the footage, all using your primary and secondary brand colours, and you can upload your own instead whenever you want to.
During early access Stargaze is free, with no shared-minute quota to run down and no feature held back for a higher tier. 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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