YouTube Shorts caption generator
Caption vertical Shorts with readable hooks, fast review, and export options for SRT or rendered captions.
Last updated: July 24, 2026.
Vertical video captions
Best for 9:16 clips, talking-head videos, podcast cuts, tutorials, and creator hooks.
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Overview
YouTube Shorts move quickly, and many viewers decide in the first few seconds whether to keep watching. Captions help hooks land when the phone is muted, the viewer is in a noisy place, or the speaker is moving fast. Filmizzy helps you create a timed caption draft, clean up the first lines, and export subtitles for your Shorts workflow.
Shorts has its own visual furniture stacked on top of the video — like/comment/share icons and the channel name sit along the right edge and lower third of the frame. A caption position that looks fine in a plain video preview can end up hidden behind that UI once it's actually in the Shorts feed, so it's worth previewing caption placement against a real Shorts layout, not just the raw clip.
Real input and output
Original
Audio: "Agar tum reels edit karte ho, yeh timing trick save kar lo."
Generated caption
Agar tum reels edit karte ho, yeh timing trick save kar lo.
1 00:00:00,060 --> 00:00:02,900 Agar tum reels edit karte ho, yeh timing trick save kar lo.
The caption is split for mobile readability and keeps the hook visible without becoming a paragraph.
How it works
The page content is crawlable without logging in, and the generation workflow starts from a clear upload and review path.
Start with a short video and choose the spoken language before processing.
Create a timed caption draft for the spoken hook and body.
Review the opening caption, split long lines, and remove filler when needed.
Use SRT for platform captions or render visible captions directly.
Use cases
Turn useful moments into captioned Shorts without transcribing the whole episode manually.
Make fast spoken hooks readable for viewers watching without sound.
Caption steps and explanations so the tip stays understandable on mobile.
Comparison
Shorts captions need to survive a glance — short lines, an early hook, and text that doesn't compete with on-screen UI.
Long-form subtitles can run longer per line since the viewer has already committed to watching, and no feed UI overlaps the frame.
SRT keeps the caption editable if you re-cut the Short or reuse the clip somewhere else.
Burned-in captions guarantee every viewer sees the text even if they watch with platform captions turned off.
FAQ
Away from the right-edge icon stack and the lower-third channel name — both are part of the Shorts feed UI, not your video.
Short enough to read in under a second or two. Split long sentences rather than letting one line run the width of the screen.
Yes — most Shorts viewers decide whether to keep watching within the first couple of seconds, so the hook caption is worth extra review.
Yes, Hinglish and Roman Hindi are core supported modes alongside English.
SRT if you might re-edit the clip later; burned-in if you want the text visible regardless of viewer caption settings.
Start now
Upload a vertical clip, check the hook, and export captions that are readable in the feed.