How to add captions to a food review or taste test video on iPhone

Why caption food reviews

Food reviews, such as a restaurant review, a taste test, a snack ranking or a first bite of a new menu item, are often watched in feeds with the sound off, and they are often filmed in busy, noisy places. Captions let viewers follow your verdict without sound, and they help viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing.

This guide is for videos where you try food and talk about it. For videos where you make the food yourself, see the cooking guide; for opening and showing products, the unboxing guide. CaptionAddr burns the captions into the picture, so they show wherever you post.

Caption a food review on iPhone

1. Talk between bites. Keep the iPhone close, finish chewing before you speak and give your verdict clearly. Captions come from your speech, so words said with a full mouth or over loud music may come out wrong.
2. Choose the video. Tap Select Video in CaptionAddr and pick the clip with Apple’s Photos picker. Vertical, square and landscape videos all work, and the video keeps its shape.
3. Let the captions generate. Captions start as soon as the video opens; keep the app open; the English speech is transcribed on your iPhone, not on a server.
4. Fix dish and place names. Restaurant names, menu items, dish names from other cuisines and prices are the words most likely to come out wrong. Correct them in Edit Captions. You can edit, delete and reorder words, with undo and redo.
5. Keep the food in view. Choose one of the 20 fonts and a size that reads on a phone, turn on the tinted background over a busy table, and drag the captions where they don’t cover the plate or your first bite.
6. Export and post. Tap Export Video to save the captioned copy to Photos, then upload it to TikTok, Reels, Shorts or any other app. The watermark is off unless you turn it on.

Tips for food review captions

• Open with the verdict. Say the dish and your rating early, so the first captioned words tell viewers why to keep watching.
• Step away from the noise. Restaurant music, kitchen clatter and other diners can cover your words; sit away from speakers or record your verdict outside.
• Delete the chewing sounds. Remove any stray words from chewing, crunching or background chatter in Edit Captions.
• Add music last. Music under your voice can cause missed words. Add music in the app you post to, after the captions are made.
• Keep your original. CaptionAddr exports a new copy and leaves the original clip in your library.

Limits

• Speech only. CaptionAddr captions spoken English. It doesn’t caption music or sound effects, and it doesn’t read menus, signs or packaging shown on screen.
• Captions only. The app doesn’t add ratings, price tags, location titles or maps, and you can only fix, delete or reorder the transcribed words.
• English only. CaptionAddr transcribes English speech and doesn’t translate.
• Single-word captions. Words appear one at a time, timed automatically, always in uppercase; there are no speaker labels, full-sentence layouts or manual per-word timing.
• No audio changes. The app doesn’t remove background noise or change the audio; deleting a word removes it from the captions only.
• Length. Free covers videos up to 2 minutes; CaptionAddr Pro covers up to 30 minutes. The App Store shows the current Pro price in your currency.
• Burned-in captions only. There is no SRT, VTT or text export, and the app doesn’t post to social platforms.

Frequently asked questions

Related guides

• How to add captions to a cooking video on iPhone
• How to add captions to an unboxing or haul video on iPhone
• How to add captions to TikTok videos

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