Animated captions · Arabic-first
Moticap listens to your video, writes every word the moment it's spoken, and animates it in the look you choose. Want to change something? Click it, right on the video. On your own machine, inside the editor you already use.
A real recording of the Mac app's new interface.
For creators, editors and teams who publish in Arabic and English: Moticap turns what you say into animated captions — on Mac, inside your editor, and on your phone.
Works where you edit
Keep your workflow. Open Moticap inside the app you already use: the same interface opens up in the app and tucks into a panel, and every caption feature on this page works in all six.
macOS
Drop a video in, click what you want to change, export. The shortest path from camera to post.
Windows coming
Adobe After Effects
The same interface in a panel beside your comp — Create builds real layers you can open up and tweak by hand.
Adobe Premiere Pro
Take the clip from your timeline; “Put in project” brings it back ready, with cuts and captions each on their own track.
DaVinci Resolve Studio
A side panel next to Resolve that builds a full timeline, with cuts that land on the exact frame.
Requires Resolve Studio
Final Cut Pro
Window ▸ Extensions ▸ Moticap: drag a clip in, hit “Prepare for Final Cut”, and drag the result onto your timeline.
New
iOS · Android
The video is the interface: a full-screen editor that opens up on iPad and foldables. The finished video is exported on your device.
If a caption feature doesn't work in all six, we don't call it done.
Arabic, done right
Arabic isn't a second language for us. Direction, joined letters and everyday speech as people really say it are all handled from the start.
Lines, the active word and the motion all run in the right reading direction.
No broken or scrambled letters — even with outlines, shadows and word-by-word animation.
Gulf, Levantine and Egyptian everyday speech — not just news-anchor Arabic.
Arabic (٠١٢٣) or Western (0123) digits, and Arabic punctuation (، ؟ ؛). Only the captions change — the transcript stays exactly as spoken.
Try it here
These controls run the exact Moticap code that ships in all six apps.
Arabizi, both ways
Switch captions to Arabizi — Arabic written in Latin letters and digits, reading left to right: «وش تسوي يا حبيبي» becomes “wesh tsawi ya 7abibi”. It works the other way too: type a line in Arabizi in the lines list — say “3shan kitha el caption mohem marra” — or paste a whole script, and it comes back in Arabic automatically.
Glossaries
Keep a general dictionary for everything, plus named lists per client or field that you switch on per project. Open it with ⌘K from anywhere, and hit “Suggest from this video” to catch a word spelled two ways and names that keep coming up.
Many languages
Pick the language of the video from the list, or leave it on Auto and Moticap detects it.
العربية
English
中文
हिन्दी
Español
Français
বাংলা
Português
اردو
Bahasa Indonesia
日本語
한국어
Deutsch
Türkçe
Tiếng Việt
Italiano
PolskiLooks
Here are 12 of them on the same clip, each one a real export from Moticap. Change anything in a look: the font, colours, box, outline and motion. Or describe a look in your own words, or give it a picture with captions you like, and AI builds a new look for you.
Click what you want to change
No steps, no long lists. Click the letters, the box or the motion right on the video, and only that part's panel opens. Then choose how far the change goes: every caption, just this line, or this one word — its colour, its size, an emoji on top.
Start from a look
Click Look above the video and hover over the looks — each one plays on your video, not a sample. Pick one as a starting point, then change what you like: fonts, colours, boxes, outlines, and how the active word pops.
Sizes & safe zones
Pick the shape in the Frame part: 9:16, 4:5, 3:4, 2:3, 1:1, 16:9, 4:3, 2:1, 17:9, 21:9, or type your own. The Safe zone button draws what TikTok, Reels and Shorts cover, and if a caption strays outside, one click brings it back.
Smart cut
Removes long pauses, “um”s and repeated words automatically — or tap any word in the transcript to cut it. Cuts are frame-exact in every editor.
Title cards
Select a line and tap Make it a title: it becomes a title card in the middle of the video that breaks it into chapters. 24 looks, from torn paper and stamps to neon and gold 3D, all shown below on the same clip.
Emphasis pack
Moticap picks out the key words and adds an emoji pop above them, a short sound effect and a quick zoom punch. Keep, tweak or remove any of it.
In MoticapFinal video
Colour
Tap Auto, start from a ready grade, or set everything with sliders like the Photos app. The skin tools adjust skin tone, calm redness and smooth naturally. In the video: before on the left, after on the right.
Film emulation
Nine film stocks, each with its own colour, contrast and grain. Here is the same clip in every stock, each one a real export from Moticap, and it looks the same in the preview and the export.
Filming
The teleprompter scrolls over the camera while you film. With Follow my voice it follows your speech: it lights up the word you're saying, dims what you've said, and waits when you stop. Or pick Manual and a speed that suits you. Look away from the camera and Eye watch pauses the take, then picks up from the last word you said. In Clips mode, film short shots with the front and back cameras, trim and reorder them, and Moticap joins them into one video with your script carrying on where you stopped.
Face in frame
Reframe to 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5 and the crop follows the face automatically. Captions move on their own so they never cover it.
Cleaner sound
From Sound on the Mac and the phone: remove background noise, light or strong, bring your voice forward, and even out the loudness so it sits right on every platform. You hear the result in the editor before you export, and cuts and sound effects stay in place.
Log footage
Moticap recognises Apple Log, Apple Log 2, DJI D-Log and D-Log 2 footage by itself and turns it into a natural picture, keeping the detail in the light. For Insta360 I-Log, pick it under Source.
Your look, in words
Say what you want in plain words, or show it a picture with captions you like, and AI builds the look for you to fine-tune.
iPhone Duo
Folded, the phone editor fills the screen, with its controls in a column at the side. Unfold it and the editor opens up: the video in the middle, the panel you're editing beside it, and the timeline across the full width. When you film yourself with the back camera, Moticap can show your script on the cover screen whenever iOS makes it available, so you read while the main camera records.
Transcription runs locally: faster, no uploading your footage, and it works offline.
Every caption feature here — Arabizi, glossaries and your logo included — works on Mac, in After Effects, Premiere, Resolve and Final Cut, and on your phone.
In After Effects, Premiere, Resolve and Final Cut you get real layers and timelines, not a locked render.
The Review button walks you through the words the transcript wasn't sure about, one at a time, before you export.
Add your logo once, then switch it on or off for each project — in all six apps.
Record with your script scrolling over the camera or without one, or run the prompter on its own — mirrored or flipped for a prompter glass, and moved along with a Bluetooth remote.
On Mac and phone: grade sliders, ready-made looks, your own .cube LUT or one tap on Auto — plus sharpening.
On Mac and phone: remove background noise, bring the voice forward and even out the loudness before you export.
Hit Export and watch the progress in the button itself — Stop sits right beside it if you change your mind. Every option lives under the small arrow.
How it works
In the app or right inside your editor. Moticap transcribes it word by word.
Choose a preset, customise it, or describe what you want. Cut what you don't need.
Get a post-ready video, or layers and a timeline to keep working on.
Pricing
We're getting ready to launch. Join the waitlist to be among the first to try Moticap — and hear about pricing before anyone else.
Email hello@moticap.com and we'll add you.
On the Mac and inside your editor, transcription runs on your machine and works offline. In the phone app, the video's sound is sent for transcription, so it needs a connection; the final video is then rendered on the phone itself. AI features, like describing a look or copying one from a picture, need a connection.
On the Mac and inside your editor, your video stays on your machine. In the phone app on iPhone and Android, the final video is rendered on the phone itself, and only the video's sound is sent for transcription. When you use AI features, only what you choose for them is sent, such as the description or the picture.
Arabic in everyday dialects — Gulf, Levantine and Egyptian — plus English.
Yes, both ways: it can write captions in Arabizi, reading left to right, and it turns any line you type or paste in Arabizi into Arabic automatically.
A standalone Mac app, panels inside Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro, a plugin for DaVinci Resolve Studio, an extension for Final Cut Pro, and a phone app for iOS and Android. Windows is on the way.
Open Window ▸ Extensions ▸ Moticap inside Final Cut and drag a clip in from the browser or the timeline. Edit as you like, then hit “Prepare for Final Cut” and drag the result onto your timeline — or open it as a new project.
Of course. Click any part of a caption to change it, or fix text and timing in the strip under the video — and in After Effects, Premiere, Resolve and Final Cut you get real layers and timelines to change however you like.
The plugin requires DaVinci Resolve Studio.
We'll announce pricing and the launch date soon. Join the waitlist to hear first.
