Upload a video and get it back with the subtitles burned into the picture itself — so they show on TikTok, Instagram, WhatsApp and every TV, no separate file needed.
Auto-transcribed in 98+ languages, in one of three looks. Free, no watermark, no account.
By ShinobiTools Team · Last updated: July 2026
No account. 10 recordings a day. Files up to 60 minutes here, and it resets at midnight.
Plain transcript and subtitles right here. Bleeping, translation and burned-in subtitles live in the full tool.
A .srt file only works when the player supports it and the viewer switches it on. Social apps mostly don't: Instagram, TikTok and WhatsApp play the video as-is, and most muted feeds scroll straight past anything without text. Burning the words into the frames means they are simply part of the video — nothing to enable, nothing to lose on upload.
The usual catch with free tools is the exit: you style everything, press export, and the download comes out stamped with a logo or capped at ten minutes unless you pay. Here the export is the same video you'd get on a paid plan: your full video, your subtitles, no stamp — no account, no trial that expires. Free covers files up to 60 minutes, well past the ten-minute cap most tools apply to a free burn. If you work with very long recordings, the €5 month pass raises the limit to four hours and adds the pro extras across all our tools.
Upload your video with the clean-or-subtitled option ticked. The speech is transcribed automatically — the same engine that does our transcripts — and you get the text first, so you can check it before anything is rendered.
VLC only displays subtitles. Subtitle → Add Subtitle File lays the track over the picture while you watch, on Windows, Mac or Android, but it never writes the text into the frames, so the subtitles are gone the moment the file plays anywhere else.
HandBrake and ffmpeg can burn subtitles permanently, but both need an SRT file ready first, plus the right settings or a filter command (ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -vf subtitles=file.srt out.mp4); a Python script usually wraps that same command. You can get the SRT here and keep using them, or skip both steps and upload the video above.
DaVinci Resolve and Premiere Pro do it too: import the SRT onto a subtitle or caption track, then export with the captions burned in. That's several steps in an editor against one upload here. Subtitle Edit and Aegisub create, time and style subtitle files, but the burn-in itself still needs a separate render.
It runs in the browser, so Mac, Windows, Linux and Android all work the same, with nothing to install. Burn-in takes roughly a minute per ten minutes of footage, the export keeps the original video quality with only the text baked into the frames, and the MP4 download has no watermark, free for files up to 60 minutes. A pre-burned MP4 also shows its subtitles on any Plex client or TV, with no separate file to manage.
Really. The exported MP4 is your video with your subtitles and nothing else on it. The site is paid for by the small ads around the tool, not by stamping your work.
Yes — that's the point of burning. The text is part of the picture, so it shows in every app, muted feeds included. Vertical video stays vertical.
The transcription understands 98+ spoken languages and the subtitles render in any script your video needs.
Yes. The transcript appears first and nothing is burned until you press the button. To fix a line, download the subtitles as a spreadsheet, correct the text, upload it back, then burn; the timings in the SRT file stay exactly as they were.
Up to 60 minutes free. The €5 pass raises that to four hours.
No. Your upload and the subtitled MP4 are both deleted with the rest of the job within 45 minutes (24 hours with any pass, free or paid).
See the free Kapwing alternative page for a side-by-side of the two free plans.
VLC can display a subtitle file over the video, but it's a player, not an editor — it doesn't burn the text into the picture permanently. Skip that step: upload the video above and download an MP4 with the subtitles already burned in.
Yes, that's exactly what this page does: upload the video and the MP4 that comes back has the subtitles burned into the picture, all from the browser. The whole video is rendered, not a watermarked preview, and the MP4 download is free up to 60 minutes.
It can, if you already have a subtitle file and know the encoding settings — HandBrake is built for video conversion, not for generating captions. Get the SRT here first, or skip HandBrake entirely and upload the video above for an already-burned-in MP4.
Yes, with a command like ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -vf subtitles=file.srt out.mp4 — but that means installing ffmpeg and having a subtitle file ready first. Upload the video above instead and skip both steps.
Import an SRT into Resolve's subtitle track and render with burn-in captions on — it works, but it's several steps in an editor. Upload the video above for the same result in one step, no editor needed.
No — burning subtitle text into the frames keeps the original video quality; only the pixels where the captions sit change.
burn-in subtitles here come in three styles — Classic (white with an outline), Boxed (white on a dark band) or Big (larger, bold) — picked before you press the burn button.
This subtitles burner needs the original video file; it transcribes the audio itself rather than reading in a separate SRT.
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