Plain captions
Plain captions: calm subtitles on a soft dark band
Plain is Clyper's quiet style: up to 7 words at a time in sentence case on a soft dark band, with no animation. For interviews, talks and anything where the words matter more than the energy. On Pro and Studio.
- No watermark
- 1080 × 1920 exports
- Captions in 50+ languages
- Up to 30 clips per video
Plain captions
- Up to 7 words, 34 characters
- Sentence case, not capitals
- A soft dark band behind the line
- No animation; Pro and Studio
Drawn live in your browser by Clyper's own caption builder, the one that burns captions into every clip. Try other languages, or compare the other styles.
How it works
- 1
Paste a link
A YouTube video or an upload. Clyper finds its best moments and captions every word.
- 2
Pick Plain
Choose Plain when you start the video, or switch any clip to it in the editor.
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Download
1080 × 1920 MP4s with Plain captions burned in, ready for TikTok, Reels and Shorts.
What you get
- Timed to every wordEach word appears as it's said, with a new caption at each sentence, comma and pause.
- 50+ languagesPlain works in every language Clyper captions, in the right font for its script.
- Plain, in your colorsOn Pro and Studio, save a style of your own from Plain, with your font, colors, size and height.
- Hook headlinesOn Pro and Studio, each clip opens with its hook as a headline at the top.
- Fix any wordCorrect a name or a misheard word in the editor and see the change at once.
- Burned inPart of the video, so the captions show on every app exactly as you saw them.
“Tripled our client load without hiring anyone. Clyper is basically a second team.”
Dan Reyes, Lowkey Media · 9 clientsHow Plain looks
Plain puts up a longer line than the other styles, up to 7 words and 34 characters, in sentence case, in white on a soft dark band. Nothing pops or fills: each line simply changes as the speaker moves on. It sits a touch lower and smaller than the bold styles (125 against Pop's 200), the way subtitles look on a film.
When to use Plain
- Interviews, talks and sermons, where bold capitals would feel loud.
- Courses, webinars and business clips, for LinkedIn and anywhere a calmer look fits.
- Languages where capitals change the feel, or have none to give: Plain reads the same in any script.
Plain at a glance
| Plain | |
|---|---|
| Words at a time | Up to 7 |
| Characters at a time | Up to 34 (14 in Japanese, Chinese and Thai) |
| Letters | Sentence case |
| Text | White, on a soft dark band |
| The spoken word | No animation |
| Size | 125 on a 1080 × 1920 frame |
| Height | Centered 1,320 px down the 1,920 px frame |
| Plans | Pro and Studio |
Make Plain your own
On Pro and Studio, save up to 10 caption styles of your own: start from any of the 5, then choose the font (Poppins, Montserrat, Anton, Bebas Neue, Archivo Black or Bangers), the colors, the size and how high the captions sit. They show beside the built-in styles when you start a video or edit a clip.
Your styles carry your font into every language with letters it has; for other scripts, the captions fall back to the matching Noto Sans font, so nothing turns into empty boxes.
The other caption styles
Compare all 5 on the preview above, or read about each. Every style works in every language: see captions in every language.
Or see a language:
What it costs
A credit is a minute of video, so a plan is how much video you can clip in a month, however many clips it makes.
Starter
$20/mo
150 minutes, about 75 clips
Pro
$19/mo yearly
400 minutes, about 200 clips
Studio
$48/mo yearly
1,000 minutes, about 500 clips
Also as 2× or 4×, for more of both
Questions
Are Plain captions subtitles?
They look like them: sentence case on a dark band. Like every Clyper style, they're burned into the clip, so they show on every app.
Which plans include Plain?
Pro and Studio, with the other styles and styles of your own. Starter clips use Pop.
Does Plain work in every language?
Yes. Plain captions every language Clyper does, 50+ of them, each in a font made for its script, from Spanish to Japanese to Arabic.
Can I switch a clip to another style?
Yes, in the clip editor, with the preview showing the change before you download. On Starter, clips use Pop; Pro and Studio can switch between all 5.
Are the captions burned into the video?
Yes. They're part of the clip, so they show on every app exactly as you chose them, with nothing to upload separately.
Clips with Plain captions, ready to post
Paste a YouTube link. Clyper finds the best moments, frames them vertically and captions every word in Plain: up to 30 clips, ready for TikTok, Reels and Shorts.
Learn more
- Making clipsHow to caption short videos so people keep watchingWhy every clip needs captions, the styles that hold attention, and where to put them so the apps don't cover them.5 min read
- Making clipsHow to add captions on TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube ShortsEach app's own captions, step by step: turning them on, fixing words, and why most clippers burn styled captions into the video instead.10 min read
- GrowingHook examples for TikTok, Reels and Shorts (and why they work)Why the first seconds decide a short video's reach, 54 hook templates with examples, and how to find and test the hook in your own clips.12 min read
Free tools
- Auto caption generatorTurn a video's speech into timed captions in your browser: edit them, download SRT or VTT, or burn them into a vertical video.
- Add captions to videoBurn captions into a vertical video, word by word in the styles clips use: transcribed from its speech, or from an SRT or VTT file.
- Video to text converterTranscribe a video or audio file into text with timestamps, in your browser, and copy or download it.