The Captionfy Blog 📓

Hi! We at Captionfy are building a captioner's first, social network platform for YouTube Community Captions. You can read about our journey and what we've learnt along the way about captioning, subtitling and other things on this blog.

April 24, 2022

How subtitles and closed captions help increase views for YouTube videos

Subtitles and closed captions play an important role on your viewers outreach and SEO.

April 15, 2022

Are you a YouTuber? Your fans might have captioned your videos on Captionfy. Follow this article to download your subtitles.

Every YouTube channel has a special page within Captionfy, where all the public submitted subtitles for their videos can be found.

May 11, 2021

How to create captions and subtitles for YouTube videos using Captionfy (even if you are not the owner of the video).

Follow these steps to create subtitles for YouTube videos in a simple and fast way. If you are not the video owner, you can still do it.

May 10, 2021

Two (often overlooked) ways community captions can help your YouTube channel grow.

Since I started working on Captionfy I have learned a lot more about the benefits of having captions on your Youtube videos, especially if these captions were made by your fans.

September 21, 2020

Why I am creating a YouTube community captions platform.

Watching YouTube videos has always been a hobby for me. And I have often encountered myself sharing videos to friends. However, this didn’t always work because some of them could not understand the language in the video very well (usually English). I decided to take action and caption the videos myself.