How to add captions to a yoga or meditation video on iPhone

Why caption yoga and meditation videos

Yoga flows, stretching sequences, breathing exercises and guided meditations are often watched with the sound low or off, and viewers glance at the screen while they move. Captions let them follow each cue as you say it, and they help viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing.

This guide is for teachers giving spoken instructions: a pose breakdown, a short flow or a guided meditation. For workouts and coaching clips, see the fitness video guide; for talking to camera about your practice, the vlog guide. CaptionAddr burns the captions into the picture, so they show wherever you post.

Caption a yoga or meditation video on iPhone

1. Keep your voice above the music. Place the iPhone or a microphone close and record with music off or very quiet; add music afterward in the app you post to. A soft voice under music may be missed, and stretches detected as music only are usually left without captions.
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 pose names and counts. Pose names, especially Sanskrit names, body-part cues and breath counts 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 pose in view. Choose one of the 20 fonts and a size that reads from a mat, turn on the tinted background over a busy room, and drag the captions where they don’t cover your body, hands or feet.
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 yoga and meditation captions

• Name the pose first. Say the pose or the practice in the first seconds, so the first captioned words tell viewers what they’re about to do.
• Say the English name too. CaptionAddr transcribes English, so a Sanskrit pose name can come out as similar-sounding English words. Say the English name as well, then check each one in Edit Captions.
• Speak a little louder than in class. A calm, quiet voice is easy to miss, so keep an even, clear voice close to the microphone.
• Delete stray words. Remove words picked up from other people in the room or a background track in Edit Captions.
• Keep your original. CaptionAddr exports a new copy and leaves the original clip in your library.

Limits

• Quiet stretches have no captions. Captions appear only while you speak, so silent holds and music-only stretches stay without captions.
• Captions only. The app doesn’t add pose names, timers, breath counters or titles, 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 music or 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, so a longer class needs to be split into shorter clips first. 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

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