Captions

About Captions

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Captions

All products by Captions reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

CaptionsAI Video Generation

AI video editor that edits, dubs, and generates video from raw footage or text

From $10/mo7.8/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Captions

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Captions's product on their own terms. They landed within 0.9 points of each other, an unusually strong consensus.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Captions competes with, and how they differ.

HeyGen8.0/10

HeyGen competes on enterprise-scale avatar video with voice cloning and lip-sync dubbing across 175+ languages, aimed more at localization/translation workflows than Captions' short-form creator editing.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Synthesia7.7/10

Synthesia targets corporate training and marketing teams with text-to-avatar video at enterprise seat pricing, versus Captions' mobile/web-first workflow built for individual creators.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

CapCut7.7/10

CapCut is ByteDance's freemium short-form video editor with deep TikTok distribution ties, undercutting Captions on price for the same auto-caption and quick-edit workflow.

2 products reviewed on TopReviewed

VEED7.7/10

VEED offers a browser-based editing suite with auto-captions and translation aimed at marketing teams, overlapping with Captions' core editing feature set but without a generative AI-avatar product.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

OpusClip7.9/10

OpusClip's core job is repurposing long-form video into short clips for distribution, competing with Captions for creator attention on short-form platforms rather than on from-scratch editing or avatars.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Descript7.5/10

Descript's text-based editing (cut video by editing a transcript) and Overdub voice cloning target the same prosumer creator audience as Captions, priced per-seat rather than Captions' credit-based model.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Captions's history, with sources.

1. Sep 4, 2025Milestone

   Captions rebrands parent company as Mirage

   Captions rebranded its parent company identity to Mirage, unifying the Captions creator app and Mirage Studio under one brand focused on frontier video foundation-model research, while the Captions app remains the flagship consumer product.

   techcrunch.com
2. Jun 4, 2025Launch

   Mirage Studio launches for AI-generated UGC video

   Captions launched Mirage Studio, a platform that generates lifelike AI digital actors from an uploaded audio file or script for marketers and ad agencies, priced at $399/month for 8,000 credits.

   alternativeto.net
3. Jul 9, 2024Funding

   Series C — $60M led by Index Ventures at $500M valuation

   Captions raised $60 million in Series C funding led by Index Ventures, with new investors Adobe Ventures, HubSpot Ventures and Jared Leto joining returning backers Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, valuing the company at $500 million.

   venturebeat.com
4. Jun 22, 2023Funding

   Series B — $25M led by Kleiner Perkins

   Captions raised $25 million in Series B funding led by Kleiner Perkins, with Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and SV Angel participating, bringing total funding raised to date to $40 million.

   venturebeat.com
5. 2021Founded

   Captions founded in New York

   Gaurav Misra and Dwight Churchill founded Captions in 2021; the AI-powered video creation app for iOS launched that year and grew its user base rapidly on the Apple App Store.

   venturebeat.com