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Hindi captions

Add Hindi subtitles to a video on iPhone

Capster transcribes Hindi audio automatically — the language is detected, so there is nothing to choose — and exports the clip with the captions rendered into the frames. It is one of 99 languages the app handles, and the whole job runs on the phone in about two minutes.

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हिन्दी · Devanagari · iPhone, iOS 16.0+ · Updated September 2026

What a Hindi caption looks like

Hindi short-form video is enormous and almost no iPhone captioning app targets it, so the searcher has usually already failed with a tool that only really does English.

अपने वीडियो में दो मिनट में सबटाइटल जोड़ें

“Add subtitles to your video in two minutes” — हिन्दी, set here in your device's own Devanagari font. In the app, no caption font covers Devanagari, so iOS draws it in Kohinoor Devanagari. The font picker has no effect on Hindi captions; every other style control does.

Which fonts render Hindi

Checked against every one of the 18 bundled caption fonts in September 2026, by reading each font's own character map rather than trusting its name.

The typeface

No caption font covers Devanagari, so iOS draws it in Kohinoor Devanagari. The font picker has no effect on Hindi captions; every other style control does.

Nothing renders as an empty box — iOS substitutes Kohinoor Devanagari and the text is sharp. It is the font choice that has no effect, not the rendering.

Everything else in the style panel

Text size and colour, outline colour and width, letter case, background, word highlight, layout effect, animation and position all behave exactly as they do in English.

Every style control, and which tier has it.

Three things to watch for in Hindi

  • The caption fonts do not cover Devanagari. None of the 18 bundled caption fonts ship Devanagari glyphs, so iOS draws Hindi captions in Kohinoor Devanagari instead. The text is correct and sharp — but changing the font in the style panel will not change how a Hindi caption looks.
  • Matras sit above and below the line. Devanagari vowel marks extend past the line the Latin alphabet occupies, so a Hindi caption is taller than an English one at the same font size. Leave more room above and below than you would for English, especially with a background or a box.
  • Hinglish comes out as it is spoken. Mixed Hindi and English speech transcribes as a mix: English words in the Latin alphabet inside a Devanagari line. That is usually what you want, but it means one caption can be drawn from two typefaces at once.

How to do it

  1. 1

    Import the clip

    Pick a video from Photos. There is no account and nothing to set up, and no language to choose — Capster detects it from the audio.

  2. 2

    Let the Hindi audio transcribe

    The audio track is sent for transcription and comes back as Hindi text with word-level timing. The video itself is never uploaded.

  3. 3

    Read the transcript before you style it

    Tap any caption to fix a word. Machine transcription of Hindi is good, not perfect, and names are where it slips.

  4. 4

    Pick a style

    Colour, outline, background, word highlight, position and animation all apply. The typeface does not — iOS draws Devanagari in Kohinoor Devanagari whichever font you pick.

  5. 5

    Export with the captions burned in

    You get one finished video with the captions rendered into the frames, ready to post without switching anything on.

Questions people ask

Can I add Hindi subtitles to a video on my iPhone?

Yes. Capster transcribes Hindi automatically — you do not pick the language, it is detected from the audio — and exports the video with the captions burned into the frames. It is one of 99 languages the app handles, and the whole job happens on the phone.

Which caption fonts work with Hindi?

No caption font covers Devanagari, so iOS draws it in Kohinoor Devanagari. The font picker has no effect on Hindi captions; every other style control does. Everything else in the style panel — colour, outline, background, word highlight, position, animation — works exactly as it does in English.

Do I have to choose Hindi before transcribing?

No. The language is detected from the audio, so there is no picker and nothing to get wrong. If a clip mixes two languages, the transcript follows what was actually said, which is usually what you want on short-form video.

Are Hindi captions burned into the video?

Yes. The captions are rendered into the frames rather than attached as a separate subtitle track, so every viewer sees them by default and nothing is lost when the platform re-encodes your upload. There is no SRT file, by design.

Can I try it free?

Yes. 5 transcriptions per install, clips up to 2 minutes, and 2 caption styles, and the export is never blocked — free exports carry a small Capster badge and a short end card instead.

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