Premiere Pro caption plugins compared

How did we pick these Premiere Pro caption plugins?

We picked tools that put captions on a Premiere Pro edit. Some run inside Premiere; others hand you a finished video. We read each maker's own pages on 3 November 2026 and copied prices exactly as shown that day. Where a page did not publish something, the table says Not published.

We make mouzeclick, one of the tools on this list. Its section is labelled as ours and is not at the top, and we say where each of the others is the better pick.

Three questions set the order:

• Does the tool run inside Premiere?
• Does it run on both Windows and macOS?
• How much of its caption workflow does the maker document?

Premiere's own tool comes first because every reader already has it. If you caption outside Premiere as well, our wider list of auto caption generators covers more apps.

How do the Premiere Pro caption plugins compare side by side?

Checked on 3 November 2026. Prices are copied from each maker's page that day and can change. Words such as "first year" and "new subscribers" are the maker's own.

Is Premiere's own Speech to Text good enough for captions?

It is the place to start. Adobe's Speech to Text help page describes it as the way to automatically generate transcripts and add captions to videos in Adobe Premiere on desktop. It is part of the app, not a separate plugin.

Two more things on Adobe's product page matter for captions:

• Text-Based Editing transcribes your video on import (Adobe calls this AI). You can then build a rough cut by copying and pasting text.
• Caption translation covers 18 languages. None of the other tools here publish caption translation into anything beyond English on the pages we checked.

Adobe has also renamed the app. Premiere Pro is now called Adobe Premiere, a name that covers the desktop and mobile apps.

The Adobe pages we checked do not publish the list of transcription languages or the caption style, box and font options. If you need a particular language, test it in the free trial. The trial runs on macOS and Windows, there is no charge until it ends, and you can cancel up to 14 days after for a full refund.

Price. The single-app plan starts at US$22.99/mo, annual, billed monthly, for the first year and for new subscribers only. Creative Cloud Pro adds 20+ other apps: regularly US$69.99/mo, with an offer of US$34.99/mo for the first 3 months for new subscribers. There is no perpetual licence; Premiere is a membership only.

We put it side by side with Whisper running on your own PC in auto captions in Premiere Pro, word by word.

Best for: editors who already pay for Premiere and need clean, plain captions, or captions translated into another language.

AutoCut: what do you get with AutoCaptions?

AutoCaptions transcribes your audio and adds word-by-word captions, with fonts, colours and highlights you can change. Advanced AutoCaptions adds 90+ fully editable presets.

AutoCut describes itself as an AI plugin that works directly inside Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, with no bouncing files between apps and no re-imports. It supports:

• Premiere Pro 2023–2027
• DaVinci Resolve 18.6 or later, Free and Studio
• Windows and macOS

Captions are one of 10+ features in the AI Plan. The others include AutoCut Silences, AutoZoom, AutoCut Podcast (switches camera angles to the speaker), AutoCut Repeat (keeps the best of repeated takes), AutoB-Rolls and AutoChapters.

Pricing, as shown on the AutoCut pricing page:

• AI Plan: $14.9 /month, $178.8 billed yearly.
• Basic tier: $6.6 /month or $79 billed yearly. It includes only silence removal, so no captions.
• Enterprise: $19.9 /month per licence, $238.8 billed yearly per licence.

There is no time limit on video projects. One licence can be used on two computers, one at a time.

AutoCut's pages do not publish the caption languages it supports, and the pages we checked do not name its speech model. Check your language in the trial before you pay for a year. The overlap with mouzeclick is covered on our AutoCut alternative page.

Best for: editors on Windows or Mac who want word-by-word captions and a full cutting toolkit in one plugin, in Premiere and in Resolve.

FireCut: how do its captions work in Premiere?

FireCut is a plugin that runs inside Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve and edits directly in your timeline, so there is nothing to upload or export. Captions sit alongside silence cutting, zooms, chapters, podcasts and shorts.

Requirements and trial, from the FireCut site:

• Premiere Pro 2022 or later, on Windows or macOS.
• DaVinci Resolve 20 or later, Free or Studio, on Windows, macOS or Linux.
• A 7-day free trial on every plan, which you can cancel at any time.

Two limits matter for captions. Features that call AI or transcription services need an internet connection. And transcription counts against your plan allowance; past the quota, FireCut stays usable and you can keep working from an existing subtitle track. The allowance per plan, the plan names and the prices were not published on the pages we checked.

FireCut documents its cutting tools in more detail than its captions. On its DaVinci Resolve feature pages:

• Silence removal has loose, default and tight settings.
• An Advanced mode adds a dB threshold, minimum duration, padding and J-cuts.
• A filler-word pass lets you review each word before you cut all or add markers.

Our FireCut alternative page compares it with captions made on your own PC.

Best for: editors who want captions plus silence cleanup in one plugin, including Resolve users on Linux.

Where mouzeclick fits (we make it)

mouzeclick Studio is a panel inside Premiere Pro: an extension, not an effect plug-in. Its Captions tab writes captions on your computer with Whisper, the open speech model. Studio captions are Windows only. This is our product, so weigh this section accordingly.

How the captions are made

Studio uses three Whisper models: Fast (60 MB), Accurate (190 MB) and Best (574 MB). Each downloads once; after that, your audio never leaves the machine. Studio covers 47 languages plus automatic detection, with Translate to English.

Hinglish is one of the 47. Pick Studio › Captions › Language › Hinglish (Roman letters) to get Hindi and English mixed, written the way people type, one spelling per word, with English words left unchanged. Hinglish uses the Accurate model, and Hindi in Devanagari is a separate choice. More in Hinglish captions in Premiere Pro.

Fixing words before they land

• Unsure words are underlined.
• Click a caption to jump to it; double-click to correct it.
• Replace all, and Remember this fix, which carries the correction into every new transcript.
• Spell right, and save as .srt.

Two kinds of output

Premiere's own caption track (Subtitles, Short, Social or Word by word), editable in Premiere.

Styled on the video: 289 looks in 27 families, including Bold & kinetic, Neon & glow, Handwritten, Karaoke, Indian & multilingual and Word by word. Word motions include Pop, Bounce, Drop in, Zoom in, Typewriter and Wipe.

mouzeclick draws styled captions into pictures, timed to the words, on a video track above everything. Premiere needs none of the fonts, the pictures go into their own bin, and one button takes the last set off the timeline. The words can't be edited in Premiere, so correct them in Studio before you place them. Every tab is listed in the Studio feature library.

What runs where

Captions, styled captions, Hinglish and Retakes are Windows only. On a Mac you still get Studio's Silence, Timeline and Guides tabs, plus the mouse app, wheels and gestures. See installing mouzeclick on a Mac.

On Windows, the Premiere Pro workspace adds its own Caption studio: four modes (Captions, Word Pop, Transcript and Editor), eight speech models, Auto Detect or 40 language options, transcription of the whole timeline, and a Subtitle Editor that writes a new .srt.

The speech runs on your PC, but the mouzeclick app needs an internet connection while it runs, because the licence lives in your account.

Price: $25 a month, $249 a year, or $499 once for one of the first 100 lifetime keys. There is a 3-day free trial with no card. See mouzeclick pricing.

Best for: Windows editors who want captions made on their own PC, Hinglish in Roman letters, or many styled looks without installing fonts.

Is there a Whisper plugin for Premiere Pro?

Not from OpenAI. Whisper is an open speech model, and the page we checked publishes no Premiere Pro integration. To use it in Premiere, you need a tool that runs it for you, or you run it yourself and bring the result in.

Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model that also does speech translation and language identification. Its code and model weights are released under the MIT License. It comes in six sizes, per the openai/whisper README:

Speed is relative to the large model, measured on an A100.

• turbo is an optimised large-v3 and the command-line default. It works well for English but is not trained for translation. To translate into English, use a multilingual model instead; medium or large give the best results.
• English-only .en versions exist for tiny, base, small and medium.
• Accuracy varies widely by language.

Running it yourself means Python: it was tested on 3.9.9 and is expected to work on 3.8–3.11. A typical command is whisper audio.flac audio.mp3 audio.wav --model turbo.

Inside Premiere, mouzeclick Studio runs Whisper on your computer on Windows (see the section above). The AutoCut and FireCut pages we checked do not name their speech model.

Best for: editors comfortable in a terminal who want free transcripts and don't mind the round trip into Premiere.

Submagic: captions made outside Premiere

Submagic is a short-form editing tool. You upload a video or a YouTube link, and it adds captions, removes silences, inserts B-roll and finds key moments. The pages we checked publish no Premiere Pro plugin and no desktop app. It is on this list for editors who finish shorts outside Premiere.

On languages, the homepage claims caption styles in 123 languages with 99% accuracy. Another Submagic page lists 48+ supported languages, so test your language yourself.

Other features on its pages:

• Magic Clips cuts one video into several shorts.
• Text-based editing lets you cut and trim by editing the transcript.
• Exports go up to 4K at 60fps.
• A shared team workspace and scheduled publishing sit in the same editor.
• The TikTok Caption Generator tool is free to use, with no sign-up.

Plan prices, limits and trial terms were not published on the pages we checked; the homepage says only "Try for free". We look at desktop captions as the other route in our Submagic alternative.

Best for: creators who make shorts from raw footage and don't need the edit to stay in Premiere.

Captions (captions.ai): burned-in captions from your phone

Captions is an app you use on a phone or a computer. You sign up in the browser, or download it from the App Store or Google Play. It burns subtitles directly into the video, as open captions. The pages we checked publish no Premiere Pro plugin and no native Windows or macOS desktop app.

Pricing is in credits:

• Frontier 1x: $69.99/mo, 1,400 credits a month.
• Frontier 2x: $139.99/mo, 2,800 credits a month.
• Frontier 4x: $279.99/mo, 5,600 credits a month.
• Enterprise: custom pricing.

Captions says all prices are in USD and reflect iOS plans only. Unused credits roll over, up to 3x the monthly allowance. Free trial terms, yearly prices and SRT export were not published on the pages we checked.

Open captions arrive in a Premiere edit as video, not as a caption track you can restyle.

Best for: creators who caption on a phone and treat Premiere as optional.

Is there a free captions plugin for Premiere Pro?

Not among the plugins we checked. The free routes are Premiere's own Speech to Text, which comes with the subscription you already pay for, and Whisper, released under the MIT License but not a plugin.

• Premiere Speech to Text: part of Premiere on desktop.
• Whisper: free code and weights. You supply the Python setup, and the turbo model wants about 6 GB of video memory.
• FireCut: a 7-day free trial on every plan.
• AutoCut: its pages state no free tier beyond the trial.
• mouzeclick: a 3-day trial with no card. Every Premiere Pro and After Effects tool works fully during it; captions need Windows.
• Submagic: the TikTok Caption Generator is free with no sign-up. It is not a Premiere plugin.

A trial is the honest way to judge accuracy. Run the same two minutes of your own footage through each tool and compare the words it gets wrong.

How do I choose a caption plugin for Premiere Pro?

Start from your computer and your language, then decide how the captions should look.

1. Windows or Mac? On a Mac, pick AutoCut, FireCut or Premiere's own Speech to Text. mouzeclick's captions are Windows only.
2. Premiere only, or Resolve too? AutoCut and FireCut work in both. mouzeclick has no Resolve panel.
3. Which language? AutoCut, FireCut and Adobe's help page don't publish a caption language list on the pages we checked, so test your own footage. For Hinglish in Roman letters, mouzeclick Studio has its own option.
4. Do you need translation? Premiere translates captions in 18 languages. mouzeclick Studio translates to English, and Whisper's documented translation is into English.
5. Local or online? FireCut needs the internet for transcription and counts it against an allowance. mouzeclick Studio downloads its model once and transcribes on your PC.
6. Editable text or styled pictures? A caption track stays editable text in Premiere. mouzeclick's styled looks are pictures that need no fonts. For boxes, fonts and karaoke in Premiere itself, see Premiere Pro caption styles.
7. What else do you need? If silence removal, zooms or retakes matter as much as captions, compare the whole toolkits, not just the caption tab.

If captions don't appear, or Speech to Text stops partway, our guide to fixing Premiere Pro captions that aren't working goes through the checks.

Questions people ask

Sources

Checked on 2026-11-03. Prices and features change: each link goes to the maker's own page.

1. Adobe Premiere product page (price, Text-Based Editing, caption translation, name change)
2. Adobe Creative Cloud plans (Premiere single app price)
3. Adobe Premiere free trial (platforms, refund)
4. Adobe help: Speech to Text in Premiere
5. OpenAI Whisper on GitHub (models, licence, usage)
6. AutoCut home (features, host apps, limits)
7. AutoCut pricing
8. AutoCut download (Resolve versions, platforms)
9. FireCut home (features, requirements, trial, internet)
10. FireCut for DaVinci Resolve: remove silences
11. FireCut for DaVinci Resolve: remove filler words
12. Submagic home (captions, features, exports)
13. Submagic video hook generator (48+ languages)
14. Submagic TikTok Caption Generator
15. Captions pricing
16. Captions home (phone or computer)
17. Captions: add captions to videos (open captions)

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