I am talking about the captions. I see this a lot on social media but I am not sure how people are doing it. I would imagine most if not all are using AI but every time I find an AI platform that provides it, they either charge a fee, require you to sign up and limit your usage, or it gets watermarked. I am certain there has to be a free one without all this mess in the way.

As far as I know, there are a lot of them but pretty much all of them will require you to pay or you will be stuck with a watermark.

I would just do it myself if it was something I wanted. It takes extra time yes, but at least you don't have to worry about losing access to a tool or having to pay for it.

Filmora and Canva. I think @dannydobbs is right though about people using paid options. I don't see any that are free that don't either limit your use or put watermarks on the video. You might be better off finding an AI platform you like that can do this and more and just paying monthly for it.

You can just edit this yourself if you have the patience for it. I have done so using Gimp. You just create layers and then put them as an overlay on your videos in order. It is obviously more time consuming but this is how people used to do it before AI did it. That or they used manual programs but you still needed to do editing.

On 7/25/2026 at 11:11 AM, GZip29 said:

You can just edit this yourself if you have the patience for it. I have done so using Gimp. You just create layers and then put them as an overlay on your videos in order. It is obviously more time consuming but this is how people used to do it before AI did it. That or they used manual programs but you still needed to do editing.

This can be annoying if you have a lot of words to add. And I even noticed that these AI overlays get them wrong sometimes too but people tend not to even notice. lol

I wouldn't be able to do this personally, too much time goes into it.

On 7/24/2026 at 8:52 AM, ChrisWP said:

Filmora and Canva. I think @dannydobbs is right though about people using paid options. I don't see any that are free that don't either limit your use or put watermarks on the video. You might be better off finding an AI platform you like that can do this and more and just paying monthly for it.

It is the only conclusion I could find because the fonts look clean and the only ones I ever see with clean fonts and good quality are paid programs. I am guessing it isn't that costly if you are earning from the videos.

I did manage to find a few free options. I don't know about the rules of posting links on the forum so I sent them to you in a private message.

You do have to sign-up and their are credit limits for some of them, i.e. a set amount you get each month to use but you can use multiple accounts/vpns to get around this if you need more.

On 8/10/2026 at 9:42 AM, simonsays said:

I did manage to find a few free options. I don't know about the rules of posting links on the forum so I sent them to you in a private message.

You do have to sign-up and their are credit limits for some of them, i.e. a set amount you get each month to use but you can use multiple accounts/vpns to get around this if you need more.

Would you mind sending those to me as well? I want to see what you found and play around with some videos for advertisement purposes. I was looking into promotional videos and they all recommend using font like this now.