Vidova vs Captions

At a glance

Vidova and Captions side by side, checked on October 27, 2026

Feature	Vidova	CaCaptions
AI agent edits a timeline from chat	Yes.The agent cuts, trims, captions and arranges clips on the timeline from a chat request, then previews frames to check its work.	Yes.On Max and above, chat-based editing changes the project from a typed request, and AI Edit edits a whole talking video in a chosen style.
Multitrack timeline you edit by hand	Yes.Every agent edit lands on a multitrack timeline. You can change, keep or undo each edit.	Yes.Timeline editing on iPhone with trims, splits, keyframes and media layers. Captions lists fewer manual tools on the web.
Edit from Claude, Cursor or other MCP clients	Yes.A hosted MCP server at mcp.vidova.ai/mcp. Claude, Cursor, VS Code and Codex can open and edit your projects after one sign-in.	Partly.No MCP server found. Mirage's separate Tesseract tool works as a ChatGPT and Codex plugin or as skills for other agents, and makes its own local projects.
Generate images, video, voice and music	Yes.Images, video clips, voiceover and music from a prompt, placed in the same project.	Yes.Images, video from models such as Veo 3.1, Sora 2 and Seedance 2.0, music, sound effects, voiceover, AI actors and AI Twins.
Animated captions	Yes.Transcribes speech and adds animated captions that you can style.	Yes.Auto captions in 100+ languages with 100+ templates on paid plans, plus dubbing into 30+ languages in a cloned voice.
Editable export to Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve	Yes.FCPXML for Premiere Pro and OTIO for DaVinci Resolve, with the source media.	No.We found no Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve export. Exports are a video file and an optional SRT caption file.
Free plan	Yes.Free with a card check that charges nothing. It gives 750 credits once, and previews and exports carry a watermark.	Yes.Basic tools such as trim, zoom, transitions and captions in one template. AI Edit, chat editing and generation need a paid plan.
Platforms	Note.Editor in the browser on desktop and phone. Vidova Recorder, a free desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux, records your screen, and the recordings open in the editor.	Note.iPhone (it also runs on iPad), Android as Captions Lite with fewer features, the web, and a Mac app since July 2026. No Windows app.
How AI use is billed	Note.One credit balance per account. The agent, generation, analysis and cloud renders spend credits. Editing by hand and device exports use none.	Note.Monthly or yearly subscription with AI credits each month: 500 on Max. Unused credits roll over, up to 3 times the monthly amount.

Which one should you choose?

Pricing

Captions shows these US dollar prices for its iOS plans and says checkout can show your local currency. A yearly plan costs less than 12 monthly payments. Unused credits roll over, up to 3 times the monthly amount. Vidova's paid plans start at $19 a month, remove the watermark and export up to 4K at 60 fps.

How the AI editing differs

Captions has two AI editing modes. AI Edit takes one clip, applies an editing style and adds captions, B-roll, transitions and music. Its help center says AI Edit works best on a video of 3 minutes or less with one person talking, and limits it to 2 minutes on iPhone and 1 minute on the web. Chat-based editing, on Max and above, changes the project from a typed request. On the web you can pick timeline elements, add notes on the video and set an effort level from Low to Ultra.

Vidova's agent works from your own clips, photos and audio, with one speaker, many or none. It cuts on the beat, builds product ads, recaps and music edits, reframes 16:9 footage to 9:16 by tracking a face, and slows footage down with AI frame interpolation. Every edit lands on a multitrack timeline that you can change by hand. Before it hands over the cut, the agent previews frames of its work and runs a quality check.

Talking videos, AI actors and dubbing

This is where Captions is strongest. Prompt to Video generates a talking video from a prompt, with an AI actor or your AI Twin, at 16 credits for every 6 seconds. AI Dubbing translates speech into more than 30 languages in a cloned voice, and eye contact correction fixes a speaker who reads from a script. The iPhone app also has a camera with a teleprompter.

Vidova can clone a person's voice from a clean stretch of their speech and lip-sync them to a new line, also in another language. If your channel is built on AI presenters and avatars, Captions has more tools for that work.

Editing from Claude, ChatGPT and other agents

We found no MCP server for Captions. Its maker, Mirage, offers Tesseract, a separate tool for AI agents. It installs as a plugin for ChatGPT and Codex or as skills for other coding agents, edits and renders on your own computer, and saves its own project files. We found no way for it to open projects from the Captions app.

Vidova's hosted MCP server at mcp.vidova.ai/mcp lets Claude, Cursor, VS Code and Codex open and edit your Vidova projects after one sign-in.

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