Upload your clip, and GhostShorts generates clean, animated captions designed for TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Reels automatically synced and styled.
No editing skills required. Upload your video, customize your caption style, and export in minutes.
Drop in any video clip with speech (podcast, vlog, talking head, whatever).
Choose fonts, colors, highlight styles, and adjust timing to match your brand.
Download your video with auto-generated captions perfectly synced word by word for TikTok, YouTube Shorts, or Reels.
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The same template runs through the GhostShorts API and MCP server. Connect it once and ask your assistant for a video; it comes back as a finished MP4 on the same plan and credits.
claude mcp add --transport http ghostshorts https://api.ghostshorts.com/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer <your API key>"A large share of people scroll TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels with the sound off: on the train, at work, in bed next to someone sleeping. If your message only lives in the audio, those viewers never hear it. They see a person talking, get nothing from it, and keep scrolling.
Captions fix that, and they help viewers who do have the sound on too. Reading and listening at the same time makes fast talkers, strong accents and noisy recordings easier to follow. On a podcast clip or a street interview, that is often the difference between someone understanding the point and someone giving up after three seconds.
The style matters as much as having captions at all. Old-school subtitles show a full sentence at once, so viewers read ahead and then wait for the speaker to catch up. Short-form captions work differently: a few words on screen at a time, with the word being spoken highlighted as it is said. Your eyes move with the voice instead of racing it. GhostShorts captions work this way by default, showing a short group of words and highlighting each one as it is spoken.
Captions are also simply expected now. On every major short-form platform, the clips that look finished have them. A talking-head clip without captions reads as a draft, even when the content is good.
Not every caption style suits every video. A calm interview and a hype gaming clip should not look the same. GhostShorts ships with 17 ready-made caption styles, and each one sets the font, colors, outline, shadow and animation together, so you pick a look instead of building one from scratch. Here is how the styles group, and what each group is good for.
| Style family | GhostShorts presets | Works best for |
|---|---|---|
| Bold uppercase with a popping highlight word | Hormozi (the default), Beast, Devin, Nick, Doug, Carlos | Podcast clips, business and motivation content, hot takes, anything fast-paced |
| Clean sentence case with a soft fade | Ali, Iman | Interviews, tutorials, educational clips, calm vlogs and lifestyle content |
| Playful display fonts | Kendrick, Laura, William, Fire, Neon | Gaming, comedy, reactions, and anything that should feel loud and fun |
| Outlined, high-contrast text | Classic White, Matt, Luke, Leon | General use, and footage with busy or bright backgrounds where readability comes first |
The bold word-highlight look is the default for a reason: it is the style most viewers now associate with short-form clips, and it stays readable on a small screen. But switching costs nothing. Pick a style in the editor, watch the preview update, and keep the one that fits the tone of your clip.
Once GhostShorts has transcribed your clip, the editor gives you a short list of settings that matter, without a timeline to wrestle with.
Choose from 17 presets. Each one changes the font, highlight colors, outline, shadow and animation in one click.
Place captions at the top, middle or bottom of the frame, so they never sit on top of a face or an important detail.
Fill the vertical frame and choose which part of the video to keep in view, or fit the whole video in frame so nothing is cropped.
Every caption line is listed with its timestamp. Fix any word, save, or reset everything back to the original transcript.
The spoken language is detected automatically when your clip is transcribed. Captions come out in the language being spoken.
MP4, MOV or WebM files, up to 8 minutes long and 500MB. The export is a vertical 9:16 MP4 with captions built into the video.
There are two ways a caption can reach a viewer, and they behave differently.
Burned-in captionsare part of the picture itself. That is what GhostShorts exports. They look identical on TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Reels, X, a group chat or a client's inbox, they cannot be switched off by accident, and you never have to upload a separate subtitle file. The trade-off: because they are pixels, not text, search engines and platforms cannot read them as words.
Caption tracksare separate text files (like SRT) or a platform's own auto captions. Viewers can turn them on and off, and YouTube can read the text. But the styling is limited to whatever the platform offers, and the look changes from app to app.
For short-form clips, burned-in captions are the norm because the look is part of the content. If search on YouTube matters to you, nothing stops you from also adding a caption track or keywords in your title and description. The two approaches work fine together.
Captions make your videos usable for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, who would otherwise get nothing from a talking-head clip. They also help viewers watching in a second language, viewers in loud places, and anyone who cannot play sound at that moment.
Accessibility only works if the captions are right. Automatic transcription is very good on clear speech, but names, brand terms, slang and numbers are where mistakes happen, and a wrong word in those spots can change the meaning. Take a minute in the Words tab to read the captions through before you export.
If you publish video for a business, a school or a public organization, check whether your own accessibility policy requires captions on everything you post. Many do, and adding them at the editing stage is far easier than retrofitting them later.
Many creators start with manual tools: typing an SRT file, using a phone editor's caption feature, or building subtitles in desktop editing software. Those methods work, but the work grows with every video. Here is how the two approaches compare.
| Step | Manual captioning | GhostShorts Auto Captions |
|---|---|---|
| Transcription | Type every word while pausing and rewinding the audio | The audio is transcribed automatically after upload |
| Timing | Set a start and end point for every line by hand | Each word is timed from the transcript, so highlights follow the speaker |
| Styling | Build a look from scratch, then recreate it for the next video | 17 ready-made styles you can swap at any time |
| Animation | Static text unless you keyframe each word yourself | Word highlights and caption animations are part of every preset |
| Fixing mistakes | Find the segment, retype it, re-render the project | Edit the line in the Words tab and save, or reset to the original transcript |
| Output | Depends on your export settings and the platform | A vertical 9:16 MP4 with captions built in, ready to post |
The difference adds up when you post every day. Captioning stops being a chore you do at the end of every edit and becomes one step of a few clicks. See the pricing page for current plans.
Adding captions is step one. A few habits make them work harder for your watch time.
These are the words transcription is most likely to get wrong, and the ones viewers notice first. Read the caption list once before exporting and fix anything that looks off.
Viewers look at faces for emotion. On talking-head clips, move captions to the top or bottom so they never cover the speaker's eyes or mouth.
Captions have to stay readable over whatever is happening behind them. On bright or busy footage, pick a preset with a heavy outline and shadow.
Loud uppercase highlights suit hype, gaming and motivation. Softer sentence-case styles suit interviews and calm explainers. A mismatch makes the clip feel off, even if viewers cannot say why.
Most people will watch your clip on a phone at arm's length. Watch the export the same way before posting. If you have to squint, so will they.
The best style varies by niche and audience. Try two different presets on comparable clips and compare retention in your analytics after a couple of days.
Making more than captions? The same caption styles appear across other GhostShorts formats, like Reddit story videos and split-screen videos.
Cleaner, faster, and more accurate than manual editing.
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