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YapCap: AI Automatic Captions

YapCap: AI Automatic Captions

Oct 21, 2026 Productivity
android app automatic transcription tiktok-style user-friendly video-captions

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YapCap: AI Automatic Captions

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Dev here. Two weeks ago I released YapCap, an Android app that puts word-by-word TikTok-style captions on videos. Free, no account, no ads. The interesting part isn’t the app, it’s the architecture decision. Every captions app burns money on transcription. That’s why they all end up with subscriptions, watermarks, or “3 free exports then pay”. I’m a solo dev working a cleaning job to fund this, so I couldn’t afford to subsidize anyone’s transcription. So I didn’t. YapCap has no backend at all. U...

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Baby Sipes Baby Sipes 3 days ago

nice design, but curious about the architecture and tech stack behind it.

Nellie Kunde Nellie Kunde 3 days ago

captions on videos? finally, someone gets it. genius.

Donnell Hegmann Donnell Hegmann 3 days ago

yapcap sounds awesome for making videos more accessible, can’t wait to try it out.