Captions (by Mirage)
AI short-form video app that turns scripts, prompts, or raw footage into polished clips with auto-captions, AI avatars, and eye-contact correction.
Updated 2026-06-27
Overview
Captions is the consumer-facing creation app from Mirage, the AI video company that rebranded from "Captions" to "Mirage" in September 2025 after raising more than $100M at a reported $500M valuation. The app does one thing the broader market has converged on: it takes a script, a text prompt, or a piece of raw selfie footage and turns it into a finished short-form video — captioned, color-corrected, and ready for TikTok, Reels, or Shorts. What sets it apart from a generic caption generator is the stack of features built on Mirage's own foundation models, including AI avatars ("Twins" — digital clones of yourself), text-to-video generation, and automatic eye-contact correction that fixes the off-camera gaze you get from reading a teleprompter.
The app is aimed at solo creators, marketers, and social teams who shoot talking-head content at volume and don't want to touch a timeline editor. You record (or generate) a clip, and Captions handles the parts that normally eat the most time: transcribing and styling animated captions, trimming dead air, swapping in B-roll, and dubbing into other languages with lip-sync. The AI Twin feature is the headline differentiator — once you've trained a digital double, you can produce talking-head videos from a typed script without ever opening the camera, which puts it in direct competition with HeyGen and Synthesia on the avatar front while staying rooted in the fast, mobile-first short-form workflow.
Mirage backs the consumer app with real enterprise traction — TechCrunch's coverage of the rebrand names HubSpot, Comcast, FOX, and Harvard as customers, and the company reports 100K+ daily users plus an API for developers building on its models. That's a meaningful signal that the underlying tech is more than a wrapper around third-party APIs. The one thing to keep straight: "Mirage" is now the parent brand and model company, while "Captions" is the specific app at mirage.app/captions. If you're shopping for the consumer editor, that product page is the one you want.
Key features
Auto Captions
Transcribes speech and adds animated, word-by-word captions in a range of styles automatically. This was the app's original calling card and remains among the most polished caption engines for vertical video.
AI Avatars (Twins)
Train a digital clone of yourself, then generate talking-head videos from a typed script — no camera required. Competes directly with HeyGen and Synthesia avatars while staying in the short-form workflow.
Eye-Contact Correction
Automatically redirects your gaze toward the lens, fixing the off-camera look you get from reading a teleprompter or script. A small but genuinely useful touch for talking-head creators.
Text-to-Video Generation
Turns a written prompt or full script into a finished video using Mirage's own foundation models, including AI-generated presenters, B-roll, and voiceover dubbing with lip-sync in multiple languages.
Pricing
Free tier: Free plan with 200 lifetime (not monthly) credits and watermark-free-tier-dependent exports — useful for evaluation but exhausts quickly with regular use
| Plan | Price | What's included |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 200 lifetime credits, exports included — enough to test captions, avatars, and text-to-video on a handful of clips |
| Pro | $9.99/mo | Monthly renewing credits, no watermark, full caption and editing toolset for individual creators |
| Max | $24.99/mo | Higher monthly credit allotment, AI avatar/Twin access, more generation headroom for regular publishers |
| Scale | $69.99/mo | Top credit tier for high-volume creators and teams producing short-form content at scale |
200 lifetime credits, exports included — enough to test captions, avatars, and text-to-video on a handful of clips
Monthly renewing credits, no watermark, full caption and editing toolset for individual creators
Higher monthly credit allotment, AI avatar/Twin access, more generation headroom for regular publishers
Top credit tier for high-volume creators and teams producing short-form content at scale
Pros & cons
Pros
- ✓Auto-caption engine is among the most polished for vertical short-form video
- ✓AI Twin avatars let you produce talking-head clips from a script without filming
- ✓Eye-contact correction and auto-trimming remove tedious manual editing steps
- ✓Backed by Mirage's own foundation models and real enterprise customers (HubSpot, Comcast, FOX), not a thin API wrapper
- ✓Mobile-first workflow is genuinely fast for creators who publish daily
Cons
- ×Credit-based pricing with only 200 lifetime free credits — the free tier is for evaluation, not ongoing use
- ×Brand confusion: 'Mirage' is now the parent company while 'Captions' is the app, which muddies search and support
- ×Avatar realism still trails dedicated enterprise tools like Synthesia for corporate-grade presenters
- ×Best suited to short-form vertical video — not a replacement for a full timeline editor on longer projects
How it compares
| Tool | Best for | Pricing | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Captions (by Mirage) | — | Free tier + Pro $9.99/mo, Max $24.99/mo, Scale $69.99/mo | 8/10 |
| Runway vs Runway → | — | Freemium | 9.3/10 |
| Veo 3 vs Veo 3 → | — | Free via Gemini + Vertex AI pay-per-use | 9.1/10 |
| Seedance 2.0 vs Seedance 2.0 → | — | Free daily credits (Dreamina) + paid ~$15-$70/mo; API from ~$0.08/s | 9/10 |
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