The typeface
17 of the 18 caption fonts cover Italian. Flying Bubble does not.
Italian captions
Add Italian subtitles to a video on iPhone
Capster transcribes Italian 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.
Italiano · Latin · iPhone, iOS 16.0+ · Updated September 2026
What a Italian caption looks like
Italian is well served by transcription models and badly served by iPhone captioning apps, which is the gap this page exists for.
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Which fonts render Italian
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.
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.
Three things to watch for in Italian
- Grave and acute accents are both real. è and é are different words in some cases, and both appear at the end of ordinary words. Transcription usually gets these right; it is worth a glance because the accent sits at the end of a word where it is easy to miss.
- Doubled consonants carry meaning. One l or two changes the word. A mis-heard doubling is the most common Italian transcription slip and the easiest to fix in the caption editor.
- Words run longer than English. Italian sets noticeably wider for the same sentence. Two lines with word highlight is generally a better fit than one line at a reduced size.
How to do it
- 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
Let the Italian audio transcribe
The audio track is sent for transcription and comes back as Italian text with word-level timing. The video itself is never uploaded.
- 3
Read the transcript before you style it
Tap any caption to fix a word. Machine transcription of Italian is good, not perfect, and names are where it slips.
- 4
Pick a style
A style applies to every caption in the clip at once. 17 of the 18 caption fonts cover Italian.
- 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 Italian subtitles to a video on my iPhone?
Yes. Capster transcribes Italian 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 Italian?
17 of the 18 caption fonts cover Italian. Flying Bubble does not. Every other style control works the same as it does in English.
Do I have to choose Italian 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 Italian 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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Caption a Italian clip in about two minutes
5 free transcriptions, no account, and the export is never blocked.
Free to try: 5 transcriptions, clips up to 2 minutes, exports carry a small Capster badge. iPhone, iOS 16.0+. No account.