CapMux

Captions for vertical video · Mac & Windows

Captions that hit every word.

CapMux recognizes speech in 45 languages, times every word to the moment it's spoken, lets you style the captions like the big creators do and burns them into your TikTok, Reels and Shorts. All on your own computer.

Free to download and try. Exporting needs a licence.

A vertical video in CapMux with the caption “THE BYD SEAL”, the word BYD highlighted in yellow

Everything a short video needs, from speech to the final file

  • Accurate Serbian, timed to the word

    Recognition tuned for Serbian, in Latin or Cyrillic, with every word timed to the moment it's spoken. Numbers come out the way captions write them: “dvesta pedeset konja” becomes 250KS.

  • Designs that stop the scroll

    14 templates, from Hormozi and Karaoke fill to Word pill and Neon glow, or your own design down to font, outline, shadow and animation. Highlight the spoken word and make key words like numbers and brands pop.

  • One Export tab for TikTok, Reels and Shorts

    Everything you export is in one tab: tick the networks and get a file for each, with the settings each one recommends (resolution, frame rate, bitrate, HDR), plus the .srt for CapCut or Premiere. The preview is the export: what you see is exactly what gets burnt in.

  • An editor made for captions

    Split, join and move words between lines with a click, fix a word with a double-click, drag caption edges on the timeline. And pick the app's own look: CapMux or Studio, a compact skin inspired by pro editing suites, each in light and dark.

  • Clean voice, clean captions

    Add your lavalier or microphone recording and CapMux finds where it fits, even in an edited video, so music and sound effects stay out of the captions.

  • Who's speaking

    Speaker recognition for interviews and podcasts: name each speaker and give them their own colour and position on screen.

  • 45 languages

    Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin and English, plus 40 more, from German and Spanish to Arabic, Chinese and Japanese, almost all with exact word timing.

  • New sentence mode

    Type a sentence using only words spoken in the video, and CapMux cuts it together, frame-accurately and without quality loss. Perfect for funny remixes.

  • Private by design

    Recognition, editing and export run on your computer. Your videos are never uploaded anywhere, and once the models are downloaded CapMux works offline.

All 45 speech languages
  • Arabic
  • Bosnian
  • Bulgarian
  • Catalan
  • Chinese
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Estonian
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Hebrew
  • Hindi
  • Hungarian
  • Indonesian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Macedonian
  • Malay
  • Montenegrin
  • Norwegian
  • Persian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Serbian
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Tagalog (Filipino)
  • Tamil
  • Thai
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian
  • Urdu
  • Vietnamese

Exact word timing from an alignment model in every language except Macedonian (timing from Whisper). Smart number formatting: Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin and English.

See it in action

Look mode: the Hormozi template on a vertical video, next to the template gallery and above the caption timeline
Look. Pick a template, tweak it, and see it on your video exactly as it will be exported.
Captions mode: the Transcribe button above the caption list with timings, next to the video
Captions. Transcribe, then edit every caption and its timing with a click.
Export mode: TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts chosen, each with its resolution, codec and estimated file size, and the .srt file below, next to the video with the captions burnt in
Export. Every network and the .srt in one tab: one click, one file per network, each with the right settings.
Look mode in the Studio skin: compact charcoal panes, orange highlights and the modes in a bar at the bottom
Skins. The same app in Studio, a compact look inspired by pro editing suites. CapMux and Studio each come in light and dark.

System requirements and installation

macOS

  • Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer)
  • macOS 14 Sonoma or newer
  • 8 GB of memory, 16 GB recommended
  • About 6 GB of free disk space

First install

  1. Unzip the download and drag CapMux into Applications.
  2. CapMux isn't notarized by Apple, so macOS may say it “is damaged and can't be opened”. It isn't: open Terminal and run this once:
xattr -cr /Applications/CapMux.app

The command only removes the “downloaded from the internet” flag; the app's signature stays valid. After that, CapMux opens normally.

Windows

  • Windows 10 22H2 or Windows 11, 64-bit (x64)
  • Processor with AVX2 (Intel 8th gen / AMD Ryzen 2000 or newer)
  • 8 GB of memory, 16 GB recommended
  • About 8 GB of free disk space
  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX recommended for fast recognition and export; without it CapMux uses the processor

First install

  1. Run CapMux-…-setup.exe. No administrator rights are needed.
  2. The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows may show “Windows protected your PC”. Click More info, then Run anyway. Only the first install asks.
  3. Start CapMux from the Start menu.

Internet is needed for the first transcription and the first use of each language, to download the speech models (a few GB). After that CapMux works offline.

Updates happen inside the app. CapMux checks for a new version when it starts. On Windows it downloads and installs it for you; on a Mac it downloads the new version. Your projects, settings and licence stay.

Licence: one computer, one key

Download CapMux and try everything: recognition, editing, design and preview. To export (SRT files, videos with captions, New sentence) you need a licence key for your computer. There is no trial period.

  1. Click Export in the Export tab. CapMux shows your computer's ID, for example DAEQ-QJKN-2DMK-EJHE.

  2. Send it to license@capmux.app. The app's Write an email button fills it in for you.

  3. You get a key (CAPMUX-…) for one month, several months or a lifetime. Paste it and export.

  • The key is checked offline: no account and no internet needed.
  • An activated licence survives every update.
  • New computer? Write to us and your key can usually be moved.
  • Everything you make with CapMux is yours, including for commercial use.

Get a licence key Questions or problems? support@capmux.app

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