> Canonical: https://www.cliphi.com/tools/add-captions-to-video

# Add Captions to a Video

Paste or upload your video and Cliphi adds animated captions automatically, synced to every word and ready to post.

## How it works

1. **Paste a link or upload your video** Drop in a supported video link or upload a file. Cliphi pulls the audio and reads what is said.
2. **AI captions every word** Cliphi transcribes the speech and lays animated captions over the video, synced word by word.
3. **Style it, then post** Pick a caption style and tweak the font, color, size, and position, or keep the default. Then download or publish to your socials.

## Why Cliphi

- **No caption editor, ever** Skip the play-pause-type-fix loop. You paste a link or upload a file, and the captioned clip comes back without you opening a caption editor at all.
- **One long video, many captioned clips** Cliphi can find the best moments in a long video and caption each one, so a single upload turns into a set of shorts instead of one file.
- **Watchable on mute** Most short-form gets watched with the sound off. On-screen captions are usually the difference between someone watching and someone scrolling past.

## Captions, without typing a single word

Adding captions by hand is the worst kind of busywork. You play a second, pause, type, fix the timing, and repeat for the whole video. Cliphi does it for you. Paste a link or upload the file and it transcribes the speech and lays the captions over the video in time with what is said, so you go from raw video to captioned clip without ever opening a caption editor.

## Built for how short-form is watched

Most people scroll feeds with the sound off, so a clip without captions is a clip most of them never really watch. Cliphi's captions land word by word with a bit of motion, the way the clips that do well on TikTok, Reels, and Shorts look. You can match the font and colors to your brand or keep a clean default.

It handles accents, several speakers, and background noise, and works in \[around 99 languages\]\(/tools/transcribe-spanish-video\), so the captions match what was actually said rather than a rough guess. And because Cliphi is a clip tool, it can also \[find the best moments\]\(/tools/youtube-to-tiktok\) in a long video and caption each one, so a single upload becomes a set of \[captioned shorts\]\(/tools/add-subtitles-to-youtube-shorts\).

Done by hand this quietly eats an evening, and the payoff for getting it right is real: captioned clips get watched longer and shared more, and they reach people scrolling in a quiet office or a loud train. Cliphi turns that evening into a paste and a download, and you can still edit a word or restyle the look before you post.

## FAQ

### Do the captions get added to the whole video or to clips?

Both work. Cliphi can caption a short video you upload, or find the best moments in a long one and return captioned vertical clips.

### How long can the video be?

Length is not a problem. A short clip comes back captioned in one go, and a long recording gets cut into captioned moments instead.

### Which languages work?

Around 99 languages, the full set Whisper supports, with the language detected for you.

## Related

- [Auto Subtitle Generator](https://www.cliphi.com/tools/auto-subtitle-generator.md)
- [Animated Captions](https://www.cliphi.com/tools/animated-captions.md)
- [YouTube → TikTok](https://www.cliphi.com/tools/youtube-to-tiktok.md)

## About Cliphi

Add captions to your video. Paste a link or upload a file and get it back captioned.

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