Kapwing's free auto-subtitles are capped at 10 minutes, and every free export carries a watermark. ScribeGrab burns subtitles into your video for free, with no watermark, for videos up to 60 minutes.
No account. 10 recordings a day. Files up to 60 minutes here, and it resets at midnight.
By ShinobiTools Team · Last updated: 2 October 2026
Kapwing's subtitles page says "Free accounts include up to 10 minutes of subtitles" and "if you are using Kapwing on a Free account then all exports — including from our subtitles maker — will contain a watermark". Its pricing page adds that free exports are limited to videos up to 4 minutes long at 720p. We read both on 2 October 2026; the links are in the table. ScribeGrab's figures come from our own code.
| ScribeGrab — free | Kapwing — free | |
|---|---|---|
| Auto subtitles | Videos up to 60 minutes, 10 a day | Up to 10 minutes of subtitles |
| Export length | Up to 60 minutes | Videos up to 4 minutes |
| Export quality | Original resolution kept | 720p |
| Watermark on export | None | On every free export |
| Account needed | No | Yes (a sample works without one) |
| Price to go further | €5 one-off for 30 days (files up to 4 hours) | Pro $16/member/month billed yearly, $24 monthly |
| Files kept | Deleted within 45 minutes (24 hours with a pass) | Not checked |
| Source (checked 2 Oct 2026) | our own code | kapwing.com/subtitles, kapwing.com/pricing |
No account, no watermark, videos up to 60 minutes and 1.5 GB for free, 10 a day, around 100 languages detected automatically, and you get the plain transcript and SRT/VTT files back too, not only the burned-in video. Kapwing markets the same auto-subtitle feature under an AI label; swap it out for this when the free limits are what's stopping you.
This is the same subtitle burner covered in detail on burn subtitles into a video: auto-transcribed, three styles to choose from, and the export is the same video you'd get on a paid plan elsewhere — nothing stamped on it.
Nothing for the parts that matter: no watermark, no account, no trial. Free covers videos up to 60 minutes. Longer than that? The €5 month pass raises it to 4 hours and adds the pro extras across all our tools. Need to just transcribe audio instead of burning subtitles? See our free TurboScribe alternative.
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None. The exported MP4 is your video with your subtitles and nothing else on it.
Kapwing's own pages (checked 2 October 2026) allow up to 10 minutes of auto subtitles on a free account, free exports of videos up to 4 minutes at 720p, and a watermark on every free export, including from the subtitles tool. ScribeGrab's free tier covers videos up to 60 minutes with no watermark and no account.
Yes. Burned-in text is part of the picture, so it shows in every app, muted feeds included. Vertical video stays vertical.
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 €5 month pass raises the limit to 4 hours and adds meeting notes, real speaker names and Word export across the site.
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 privacy.
Yes, if you have the video file: upload it here for the full transcript alongside the burned-in subtitles. The page takes files, not Instagram links.
Among Kapwing alternatives, desktop editors such as Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve burn subtitles in on export, HandBrake and ffmpeg do it if you already have an SRT, and ScribeGrab does the whole job in the browser: auto-transcribe, pick one of three looks, burn it in, free and without a watermark. Check each tool's own pricing page, since free limits change without notice.
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