The typeface
5 of the 18 caption fonts cover Cyrillic: Nunito, Manrope, Montserrat, Oswald, Vollkorn.
Russian captions
Add Russian subtitles to a video on iPhone
Capster transcribes Russian 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.
Русский · Cyrillic · iPhone, iOS 16.0+ · Updated September 2026
What a Russian caption looks like
Cyrillic is the case where the answer is genuinely "some fonts, not all", and knowing which five saves you from restyling a finished clip.
Добавь субтитры к видео за две минуты
Which fonts render Russian
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 Russian
- Only five caption fonts carry Cyrillic. Nunito, Manrope, Montserrat, Oswald and Vollkorn cover it. Pick any of the other 13 and iOS substitutes a plain system face for the whole line, so the caption renders but not in the font you chose.
- Russian sets wide. The same sentence is longer than in English, and Cyrillic letterforms are wide. Between that and the five-font limit, Oswald — which is condensed — is often the practical choice on a vertical clip.
- ё is frequently written as е. Russian writing routinely drops the diaeresis, and transcription follows the convention rather than the pronunciation. If the distinction matters for your clip, it is a manual edit.
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 Russian audio transcribe
The audio track is sent for transcription and comes back as Russian 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 Russian 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. 5 of the 18 caption fonts cover Russian.
- 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 Russian subtitles to a video on my iPhone?
Yes. Capster transcribes Russian 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 Russian?
5 of the 18 caption fonts cover Cyrillic: Nunito, Manrope, Montserrat, Oswald, Vollkorn. Every other style control works the same as it does in English.
Do I have to choose Russian 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 Russian 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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Free to try: 5 transcriptions, clips up to 2 minutes, exports carry a small Capster badge. iPhone, iOS 16.0+. No account.