Adobe supports 16 languages. CaptionLab supports 99 — including Polish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Arabic, Indonesian and dozens more Adobe never bothered with. No cloud. No API keys. No subscription.
Every language OpenAI Whisper supports. Not 16. Not 27. Ninety-nine.
If you edit video in a language Adobe ignores, every project starts with the same dread.
3 to 5 hours of manual subtitling for every hour of footage. Time you'll never get back.
Adobe's Speech-to-Text works great — if you speak one of 16 languages. Yours isn't one of them.
Creative Cloud. Spotify. Netflix. ChatGPT. Every tool wants $15/month — forever.
Cloud tools send your confidential footage to servers you don't control. NDA? What NDA?
No export. No upload. No waiting for a server. Open the panel and go.
CaptionLab lives right inside Premiere Pro. Window → Extensions → CaptionLab.
Choose from 99 languages — or let it auto-detect what's being spoken.
Whisper transcribes locally on your Mac. Nothing uploaded anywhere.
Editable subtitles appear on your timeline as a native caption track. Tweak and ship.
Pay $39 one time. Use it forever. No monthly invoice, no "your plan expired" message at 2am before a deadline. You own it.
No Deepgram account. No Groq key. No OpenAI credits. Whisper runs locally on your Mac. Your footage never touches the internet.
The Eastern European, Middle Eastern, and Asian languages Adobe never supported. If Whisper speaks it, CaptionLab subtitles it.
Subtitles appear as a real, editable Premiere caption track — not a screenshot, not an export. Edit timing and text like always.
We did the research so you don't have to.
| Feature | Adobe built-in | Cloud tools | CaptionLab |
|---|---|---|---|
| Languages | ~16 | 99 | 99 |
| Runs offline | ✗ cloud | ✗ cloud | ✓ local |
| API key required | ✗ | ✗ yes | ✓ none |
| Footage stays private | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ always |
| Pricing | $55/mo CC | $15/mo+ | $39 once |
| Subscription | ✗ required | ✗ required | ✓ never |
Your client's footage stays on your machine.
That's not a feature. That's how it should work.
— the whole point of CaptionLab
No tiers. No upsells. No catch.
Premiere Pro 2023–2026 · macOS · Windows coming soon
One purchase. Your language. Your machine. Forever.
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