What’s new
in KakuCut.

Real recorded sound effects for every edit.

72 recorded sound effects in 11 categories, plus fixes for voiceover, caption editing and VoiceOver.

• 72 new recorded sound effects in 11 categories, from whooshes and pops to cartoon punches and camera shutters.
• Voiceover: if microphone access is off, a button takes you straight to Settings.
• The keyboard stays open after you merge caption lines.
• VoiceOver reads each caption in the preview only once.

Translate your captions on your iPhone.

On-device caption translation, Cantonese captions, and music from the sound of any video.

• Translate captions on your iPhone and show both languages, each with its own style.
• Cantonese (Hong Kong) captions.
• Use the sound of any video in your library as music.
• Music now has its own timeline lane with a waveform: drag to move it, trim its ends.
• Videos saved from social media no longer export as oversized files.
• Smoother caption editing and playback.

Light up each spoken word on a colored box.

A new Word Box caption style, more Japanese and Korean fonts, and Undo that brings back deleted audio.

• New Word Box caption style: each spoken word lights up on a colored box. Choose the spoken word and box colors in the Color panel, or turn the box off.
• More Japanese and Korean caption fonts, including one built in that works offline, with full license notices.
• The caption font picker scrolls smoothly even with many fonts.
• Undo now brings back the sound of a deleted voiceover or sound effect.

KakuCut now speaks Japanese, Korean and Spanish.

Use the app in Japanese, Korean or Spanish, generate Spanish captions, and get captions that wrap more naturally.

• KakuCut now speaks Japanese, Korean and Spanish, and generates captions in Spanish.
• Japanese and Korean captions use Japanese and Korean fonts, with more downloadable fonts and creator styles.
• Captions split at more natural points, and Japanese and Korean words stay whole when a caption wraps.
• Style pickers open on the choices you already made.

Fade in, fade out, and keep your styles.

Give any clip a fade, save caption looks to reuse in one tap, and place captions more precisely on the preview.

• Fade in and out: give any clip a picture and sound fade with the new Fade tool.
• Reuse caption styles: save your own looks and apply them in one tap from Saved, Project or All. Color combos set the text, outline and background colors together, and you can pick a color straight from your video.
• Easier caption placement: captions snap to the center line as you drag, Top / Center / Bottom put them back in the middle, and two fingers resize or rotate text right on the preview.
• Duplicate a project, and see how much space each project uses in Settings → Manage Storage, where you can free some up.
• A tidier editor: the toolbar for a selected clip shows only clip tools, and every message now follows the language you pick in the app.

Stack a video or photo on top.

Overlay adds a second video or photo layer that you move and resize right on the preview.

• Overlay: add a second video or photo on top of your clip. Move and resize it right on the preview, give it its own filter and volume, and tap it on screen to edit.
• More reliable exports: projects with split or trimmed clips export correctly, and cancelling an export stops it right away.
• Fixed: cancelling a Photos or iCloud import now stops the download, and imported video lengths are measured more accurately.

A look for every clip.

Give each clip its own filter, choose a project cover, and see each clip’s original audio on the timeline.

• Filters: give each clip its own look (Vivid, Crisp, Portrait, Warm, Cool, Film, Cinema, Black & White or Noir) with adjustable intensity, or apply it to all clips.
• Project covers: pick a frame from your video or a photo as the project’s cover.
• See each clip’s original audio as a waveform on the timeline and set its volume.
• A roomier editor: an edge-to-edge timeline, playback time up front, and tap empty space to clear a selection.
• Fixed: unselected text now moves on the first drag, and long audio waveforms draw reliably.

Edit right on the preview.

Pinch, twist, and drag captions and text directly on your video, with two new caption styles.

• Pinch, twist, and drag captions and text directly on your video. The size slider and pinch now stay in sync.
• New Handwritten and Documentary caption styles.
• Text now has the same font and style tools as captions.
• Generated captions break at natural phrases.
• Fixed: a white canvas showed black bars at the edges.
• Fixed: stickers could appear rotated in exported videos.
• Better Japanese and Korean caption spacing, plus other fixes.

Karaoke captions, word by word.

Captions can now highlight each word as it is spoken, with six short-form caption styles to choose from.

• Karaoke captions highlight each word as it is spoken.
• Choose from six short-form caption styles, plus custom colors and translucent caption boxes.
• Search caption fonts; Traditional Chinese caption fonts are now included.
• Timeline thumbnails stay available after you reopen the app.
• Export is smoother, and long captions shrink instead of dropping lines.
• Smoother timeline playback and scrubbing.
• Fixed caption timing edits and timeline trim handles.

How to make word-by-word karaoke captions

A steadier timeline for captions and overlays.

This update fixes timing edits so captions, text, and stickers move and resize more reliably on the timeline.

• Fixed captions that could fail to move or resize correctly on the timeline.
• Fixed unexpected jumps while dragging captions, text, and stickers.
• Improved edge-handle controls for short captions, text, and stickers.

A smoother caption editing experience.

Caption editing now keeps the keyboard and your text more dependable as you work between lines.

• Fixed editor resizing while moving between captions.
• Double-tap a caption to open the full-height editor for easier keyboard editing.
• Fixed an issue where merged captions could lose text.

Caption backgrounds preview correctly.

Fixed an issue where changing a caption background color could still show a black background in the editing preview.

A clearer, smoother editing flow.

This update makes caption editing easier to control and brings your editing tools into a more consistent workspace.

Edit text with a simple double tap.

Text editing now supports double-tap interaction, making it easier to enter and refine text while you work.