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macOS and Windows. Your files stay on your computer.
macOS and Windows. Your files stay on your computer.
Hangar listens to the speech, writes the captions and burns them into the picture, all on your own computer. Pick a look, fix any word, highlight each word as it is spoken, and deliver vertical, square or widescreen from the same clip. The video is never uploaded.
Intel Mac or need help installing? All downloads
Hangar runs on Mac and Windows. Open this page there to download.
The real app with a real file, recorded on screen.
Where the AI runs
Caption apps upload your video to transcribe it. Hangar hears the speech and draws the captions on your computer, so unreleased videos stay unreleased.
A video: MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV.
A speech model you set up once. Then it runs locally and offline.
A new MP4 with the captions burned into the picture, ending in -captioned.
Upload to a serverNot part of the path. Your file and the result never leave this computer.
Five speech models
The strongest balance of accuracy and languages.
Best for: Any of 99 languages.
A light model for many languages.
Best for: Hindi and other languages on a slower computer.
The fastest start.
Best for: Everyday English recordings.
Precise word timing.
Best for: Long English recordings.
Detects the language for you.
Best for: Speech in 25 European languages.
Sizes are the one-time setup shown in the app. Models are checked after they download and stay on this computer.
Hard cases
The captions come from what the model hears, and they become part of the picture.
Viewers cannot turn the captions off. Keep the original for a clean copy.
Reads best. Music under the voice can cost words.
Check the spelling in the Studio before you export.
Best overall covers 99. Multilingual · Quick is lighter for slower computers.
How it works
MP4, MOV, WebM and MKV all work. Hangar transcribes the speech on your computer, with every word timed.
Start from a ready-made style, then set the typeface, colors, size and position. Edit any caption, or find and replace a name.
Keep the source shape or deliver 9:16, 4:5, 1:1 or 16:9, cropped to fit. You get an MP4 with the captions burned in.
New to Hangar? How to run a tool, step by step
Choose the delivery shape
Pick the shape you deliver and the frame is cropped to fit, never padded with bars. You choose where the crop sits, and the captions go wherever you place them.
The clip’s own shape.
Best for YouTube, courses and the web.
A vertical cut from any clip.
Best for Reels, TikTok and Shorts.
A square cut.
Best for feeds where square takes the most room.
Every setting, explained in the Caption video guide Typeface · Text case · Motion · Size · Position
The alternative
Online caption apps are good, often with bigger style libraries and team features. They all start the same way: your video goes to their servers to be transcribed.
Who uses it
Word-by-word captions keep people watching with the sound off.
Hangar for video and social creatorsCaption the best moments of a video episode before they go to social.
Hangar for podcastersCaption training videos and internal recordings without sending them to a cloud service.
One app, one payment
The same app trims, converts, compresses and captions video and audio, and does the same kind of work for PDFs and images. One payment covers every tool.
Save it as a chain
Caption the clip and check every word. Then compress it and name it for posting.
How chains workEvery tool is free for 3 days, with no account and no card. After that, Hangar is a one-time payment from $45, with updates for the version you buy. There is no subscription.
Only once, to download the speech model the first time you caption. After that it works offline, and your video is never uploaded.
Yes. Edit any caption before you export, and use find and replace to fix a name everywhere at once.
Caption video burns the words into the picture. For a separate SRT or VTT file, use Transcribe, which also runs on your computer.
No. Your files are processed on your computer and never sent anywhere. Hangar sends anonymous usage counts to improve the app, never file names or contents, and you can turn that off in Settings.
Yes. A license works on any mix of Mac and Windows computers. Solo covers 1 computer, Crew 3 and Fleet 10.
Then pay once, from $45, for every tool and the updates for your version. No subscription. 30-day refund.See plans
Intel Mac or need help installing? All downloads
Hangar runs on Mac and Windows. Open this page there to download.