How to add captions to a money tips or personal finance video on iPhone

Why caption money tips

Money tips, such as a budgeting method, a saving challenge, a breakdown of a monthly spending plan or an explainer on a finance term, are usually watched in a feed with the sound off. Captions let viewers follow the numbers as you say them, and they help viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing.

This guide is for talking-to-camera finance tips and explainers. For explainers about the news, see the news explainer guide; for clips from a longer conversation, the podcast clip guide. CaptionAddr burns the captions into the picture, so they show wherever you post.

Caption a money tips video on iPhone

1. Say the numbers clearly. Keep the iPhone close, speak at an even pace and say each amount and percentage in full. Captions come from your speech, so a rushed or mumbled number can 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. Check every number and term. Amounts, percentages, dates and finance terms and abbreviations are the words most likely to come out wrong, and a wrong number changes the tip. Correct them in Edit Captions. You can edit, delete and reorder words, with undo and redo.
5. Keep your examples in view. Choose one of the 20 fonts and a size that reads on a phone, turn on the tinted background over a busy background, and drag the captions where they don’t cover your face, a notebook or a screen you’re showing.
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 money tips captions

• Lead with the tip. Say the main idea in the first seconds, so the first captioned words tell viewers why to keep watching.
• Keep numbers consistent. Numbers can come out as digits or as words, and decimals and percent signs are kept as transcribed. Pick one style and match the rest in Edit Captions.
• Spell out abbreviations. Say the full name of a term the first time, since short abbreviations are easy to mishear, then check each one in Edit Captions.
• Delete filler words. Remove “um,” repeated words and false starts in Edit Captions so the numbers stand out.
• Keep your original. CaptionAddr exports a new copy and leaves the original clip in your library.

Limits

• Captions only. The app doesn’t add charts, tables, calculations, titles or on-screen numbers you didn’t say, and you can only fix, delete or reorder the transcribed words.
• No fact checking. CaptionAddr writes down what you said; it doesn’t check whether a number or a claim is correct.
• 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 news recap or explainer video on iPhone
• How to add captions to a podcast clip on iPhone
• Captions for YouTube Shorts

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