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.

How to Automatically Add Subtitles to Videos

 

We all know that videos with subtitles increase reach and engagement on social media. So, it’s a pretty good strategy to add subtitles to your videos because 85% of videos are watched without sound.

You want to add subtitles but you don’t have the time and energy to type it all? There should be a quick and easy way, right?

You can add subtitles automatically and you can do it easily on your mobile phone. All you have to do is download Subcap on your iOS or Android phone.

Subcap is an auto-subtitle generator mobile app with high accuracy thanks to its artificial intelligence. It allows you to shoot a video or upload a video from the gallery. It automatically transcribes the audio to text in 125 languages.

Besides, you can automatically translate subtitles created in the language of your video into other languages and add a new subtitle to your video. Subcap uses machine translation to detect more than one hundred languages. You can also create your video with subtitles by adding your .srt file to your video.

You don’t need to log in or give any personal information. Just download Subcap and start captioning your videos. It’s so easy. Let’s see how it works.

How to add subtitles

First of all, you can shoot a video from the homepage or add an existing video from your phone.

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 social media. 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.