Animated captions

Animated captions that make people stop scrolling

143 caption styles that move with the words, from karaoke highlights to words that pop up as they're said. What you see in the preview is what gets burned into your video.

Download on the App Store Free to download
for iPhone
  • 143 styles
  • 14 entrances
  • Karaoke spoken word
  • Save your own
Karaoke captions: This is the part nobody tells you, each word lighting up as a guest says it
Karaoke
Pop words: each word pops up big over a creator the moment it is said
Pop words

Caption styles

A hundred and forty-three ways to say it.

Ten of them here. Drag to compare — the difference between half of these only shows once the words are moving.

Make every word land — in your language

Clean Minimal

The whole phrase, quietly.

Make every word land — in your language

Bold Highlight

The spoken word in gold.

Make every word land — in your language

Word Pop

One word at a time, scaled up.

Make every word land — in your language

Editorial

Set like a magazine caption.

Make every word land — in your language

Karaoke Bar

On a plate, for busy footage.

Make every word land — in your language

Aegean Bold

Lit from behind.

Make every word land — in your language

Pop Quiz

A bright plate you cannot miss.

Make every word land — in your language

Soft Caption

Small, low, out of the way.

Make every word land — in your language

Headline

Big type, one line at a time.

Make every word land — in your language

Impact

Every word a beat.

02 · Animation

Animation for the line, the word and the loop

Any caption style can move. Start from a quick style, or build it up in three layers: how each caption arrives, what the spoken word does while it is being said, and a motion that keeps the line alive.

The animation applies to the whole video, so all your lines come in the same way. One caption arriving differently would look like a mistake.

For a bigger moment, Motion adds full-frame caption looks, like the karaoke lines and pop-up words playing at the top of this page.

Quick styles

  • Karaoke
  • Bounce
  • Pop
  • Typewriter
  • Highlight
  • Punch
  • Spring
  • Fade
  • Slide
  • Zoom
  • Glitch
  • Word lift

Entrance · 14

  • Fade
  • Pop
  • Slide
  • Fade up
  • Fade down
  • From left
  • From right
  • Zoom
  • Bounce
  • Spring
  • Typewriter
  • Blur → sharp
  • Stretch
  • Flip in

Spoken word · karaoke styles

  • Highlight
  • Color
  • Bold
  • Glow
  • Box
  • Bounce
  • Pulse
  • Flash
  • Zoom

Motion

  • Pulse
  • Wobble
  • Flicker
  • Neon
  • Glitch
  • Floating

03 · Yours

Make a style yours, then save it

Pick any style and change what you like: the font, the size, the text, highlight and background colours, and the letter case. When you tap a word to emphasise it, the word grows and takes the highlight colour. A single caption can also get an emoji, an underline, its own colour or a supersized moment.

When it looks right, tap Save as my style and name it. You'll find it in your Custom tab in every project.

  • Font, text, highlight and background colour
  • Emphasise key words so they grow and take the highlight
  • Letter case: as spoken, AA, aa or Aa
  • Emoji, underline, colour or supersize on a caption
  • Save as my style → your Custom tab

Playground

Type something. See it in 143 styles.

Real caption styles from the app, drawn with the same fonts the export burns in. Type your own words.

143 styles

Clean Minimal

Bold Highlight

Word Pop

Karaoke Bar

Editorial

Boxed Modern

Premium Serif

High Contrast

Iris Glow

Neon Mint

Citrus Punch

Midnight Card

Crimson Stamp

Sky Caster

Paper Note

Quiet Voice

Amber Echo

Steel Brief

Coral Wave

Olive Slate

Violet Verse

Soft Focus

Aegean Bold

Night Market

See all 143 styles

How it works on iPhone

How to add animated captions on iPhone

  1. Caption your video

    Open your video and let Voxcene transcribe it, or tap + to type a caption yourself.

  2. Pick a style

    Tap Style and choose from all 143 styles, or search one by name.

  3. Animate it

    Open Animation and start from a quick style such as Karaoke, Pop or Typewriter, or set the entrance and the spoken word yourself.

  4. Make it yours

    Change the font and colours, emphasise key words, then tap Save as my style.

  5. Export

    Export the video. The captions are burned in exactly as they play in the preview.

FAQ

Questions people ask

What are animated captions?

Captions that move with the speech: words pop in as they are said, the spoken word lights up karaoke-style, or each line arrives with a bounce or a typewriter effect. They keep people watching with the sound off.

How many caption styles does Voxcene have?

143, sorted into Animated, Talking head, Social, Editorial and Bold, with a search by name. The Free plan includes 4; Basic and Premium include all 143.

Can I make the word being spoken stand out?

Yes. With a karaoke style (Bold Highlight, Karaoke Bar and many more), the Spoken word setting decides what the current word does. It can highlight, change colour, go bold, glow, sit in a box, bounce, pulse, flash or zoom.

Can I save my own caption style?

Yes, on every plan. Style a caption the way you like it, tap Save as my style and name it. It appears in your Custom tab for every project.

Do the animations survive the export?

Yes. The captions are burned into the video with the same animation you see in the preview, so they play the same on Reels, TikTok, Shorts or anywhere else.

Do animated captions work in other languages?

Yes. Captions come in 60+ languages, and Greek is set properly, with its accents and final sigma, in fonts that carry them.

Pick a style and see how it looks on your own clip.

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