How to Add Captions to Instagram Stories

Adding captions to your Instagram Stories sets you apart and enhances accessibility for all viewers, whether watching with or without sound. Captions explain your message, grab attention and keep viewers engaged, boosting the impact of your content.

To make your Instagram Stories and Reels more inclusive and engaging, you can add captions and subtitles manually by typing out each word. Alternatively, you can use the captions sticker, which auto-generates captions for you. However, Instagram’s captioning is not available globally, and the text styles are limited.

Luckily, there’s Subcap, an AI generated captions app that lets you add captions wherever you like. With Subcap, you can customize the appearance and placement of your captions to fit your unique style and storytelling needs.

 

Adding captions to your Instagram Stories offers several key benefits:

  1. Increased Accessibility
  2. Improved Engagement
  3. Better SEO
  4. Longer Watch Time
  5. Increased Audience Reach
  6. Enhanced Brand Awareness and Purchase Intent

 

How to add captions to instagram stories

 

Adding captions to Instagram Stories using Subcap

Go to Subcap app and either select Record New Video or Choose from Library.

After adding a video, select your video language.

 

Select language on Subcap app    Select languages on the app

 

And tap Auto-Generate Captions.

If you want to add subtitles automatically, select Go Pro.

If you are already Pro, it’ll ask again and just select Continue. And then you can edit the subtitles easily if necessary.

 

Add captions (subtitles)? Continue or Add Manually buttons

 

Congrats! You now have a captioned video that you can share on Instagram Stories. Now you can connect with your viewers instantly to make more connections, increase engagement rates, and gain followers.

If you have any questions, please check our FAQ page.

10 Apps that Every Content Creator Should Know

Whether you are a content creator or just a regular social media user, creating content and dealing with social media every day can be tiring. It also takes so much time and effort. And let’s admit that the content we see on social media has become a little too familiar.

Thankfully, there are a bunch of tools out there to make content creation easier for us all. So we are here to share 10 apps for you to stand out from the crowd and have the best content for your followers.

1. Evernote

Evernote for content creators

Evernote has everything you need to organize your life. Great notetaking, project planning, and an easy way to find what you need, when you need it. 

With Evernote, you can work anywhere, remember everything, find things fast and get things done easily. All of this allows you to create entirely new types of content, meaningful and informative.

 

2. Buffer

buffer for content creators

Buffer is a platform where you can manage different social media channels. For each social media account, you can manage post scheduling, view the direct messages you receive and generate reports.

With the Buffer App, you can regularly follow the posts you will make on social media, set the time of your posts with the timer feature and see how much interaction your posts get.

 

3. Subcap

Sunbcap for content creators

We all know that most people don’t watch videos with the sound on, therefore adding subtitles in videos is a must.

Subcap is an automatic subtitle app for your videos. It’s easy to use, simple but brilliant. Its speech-to-text engine is the best on the market which transcribes your words accurately in 125 languages. You can use it for all social media videos.

Putting subtitles on your videos increases your engagement and makes your content reach more people. It also makes your videos accessible for the deaf and hard of hearing.

 

4. Canva

Canva for designs

Canva helps you create professional designs and graphics. You can edit photos, add text, elements, stickers, frames and more. There are also more than hundreds of professional templates that you can customize to suit your needs.

 

5. Snapseed

Snapseed for content creators

Snapseed is one of the very useful photo editing apps, only available for mobile devices. Snapseed allows you to edit your photos to improve their aesthetic quality. You can then save, share, and export your final edited photo.

Snapseed’s photo editing tools come pretty close to some of the features found in the professional and often costly image editors.

 

6. Splice

Splice for videos

GoPro’s Splice is a free video editing application that works on iPhone and iPad. It’s a powerful video editor with a lot of features such as trimming, cropping, effects, transitions, titles, speed controls, animations, and more. It even has a library of free music and sound effects.

 

7. All Hashtag

All Hashtag for content creators

All Hashtag is a hashtag generator for Instagram, Twitter, and other social media networks. You must enter a term to get hashtag recommendations that are relevant to that word.

This program will produce and evaluate thousands of relevant hashtags for you to copy and paste into your social media posts. This can help you increase the reach of your content and the visibility of your business on social media.

 

8. LifeLapse

Life Lapse for content creators

LifeLapse is a stop motion app with all the tools you need to record and edit stop motion animations. You can import photos and use the app’s video editing tools to adjust frame rates, apply visual effects, and create soundtracks from royalty-free songs.

If you don’t know anything about stop motion videos, don’t worry. LifeLapse developers have created in-app academy to help you learn how to create stop motion videos.

 

9. Grammarly

Grammarly for content creators

Grammarly scans a text you’ve written and checks for any errors. The free version covers the basics (grammar, punctuation, and spelling) but the premium version goes a step further by providing stylistic and best writing practice recommendations.

It helps users write error-free content on Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and almost anywhere else.

 

10. Typeform

Typeform for content creators

Doing surveys is a great way to prompt engagement on social media. Typeform is an easy-to-use quiz, form, and survey builder that allows you to ask your audience questions in a variety of formats, including image-based, multi-choice, short answers, yes or no.

Once your quiz is ready, you can share it on social media platforms or share the link.