What Is CapCut? Free Plan, Pro Pricing, Watermark, Download, Turkish Captions and Commercial Use

One of the most widely used video editors for Reels, TikTok and YouTube Shorts. You trim and merge clips, add music and text, turn speech into captions, and put out a video in a few minutes with a ready-made template.

It has AI tools too: removing the background in a video without a green screen, generating a short video from text or a product photo, and automatically editing speech to the beat of the music. AI generation uses credits.

Who it's for: content creators who post short videos, small business owners such as cafés and shops, and social media managers. For long, multi-layer video work, the desktop version is more comfortable.

You can download CapCut to your phone or computer, or open it in the browser without downloading anything. All of them are free to download and work with the same account.

• Age: accounts are for ages 13 and up; under 18 (or the age of majority where you live) requires parent or guardian consent. If you get a "You don't meet the age requirement" warning, you appeal from the mobile app; if the appeal is rejected, the account is permanently deleted, so download your data first.
• Phone verification and ID: whether these are required at sign-up is not stated in the official documentation. The Privacy Policy lists date of birth, login details and phone number as account information.

1. 1Open CapCut and pick a template you like from the Templates section. Templates marked with a diamond are paid.
2. 2Add your own photos and videos and change the text.
3. 3For a video with speech, tap Text › Auto captions: pick the spoken language or leave it on auto-detect, tap Generate, fix wrong words and split long lines.
4. 4Export. If you delete the CapCut-branded ending clip at the end (and the project has no Pro items), the video comes out without the logo.

If you're editing from scratch: New project › add clips › trim the extra › Text › Auto captions › add music › export. To take only part of the video, use the In/Out markers (Shift+X or the I/O keys).

!Auto captions may not spell Turkish correctly. Turning off music and effects and regenerating with only the speech audio, plus using a single speaker and clear audio, improves the result.

This is the most common problem in CapCut. The rule: if your project has a Pro-marked template, effect, font, music, sticker, AI tool, premium transition or LUT, you're asked for Pro on export.

To take only part of the video, use the In/Out markers when exporting. On your phone, closing the Pro window during export and downloading with the watermark is a free option.

!Don't upload client, identity, financial or medical content, or someone else's face and voice without permission, to an AI feature: the help center advises against it. If a feature gets stuck on the "Thinking" screen, wait 30–60 seconds, simplify the prompt, and don't send more than 3 requests in a row.

CapCut's official page describes a plugin called "CapCut × Codex": in the ChatGPT desktop app (on your computer) it generates a draft video through chat, lets you edit the timeline in the chat, and you can continue the work in the CapCut editor if you like. It isn't for ChatGPT in the browser.

!The CapCut page doesn't state a plan or fee requirement, and use with Claude isn't mentioned. To install the plugin, you need to run the prompt on the page in ChatGPT; the page doesn't make clear exactly what this step does, so read the prompt before running it.

Standard subscription benefits apply only in the phone app; on computer and browser, membership features require Pro. You can't pay from the computer; the subscription is purchased on the web page. A project started on your phone continues on your computer through cloud storage (1 TB on Pro).

Auto Cut (automatic editing to music or pauses in speech) is only on phone and desktop, not in the browser.

Basic editing and free templates are free. You can preview Pro-marked templates, effects, fonts, music or AI tools, but on export the rule depends on the device (see the "Export" section).

The pricing page shows an "up to 40% off monthly, up to 30% off yearly" badge; the page describes itself as "for informational purposes only," and the final amount, taxes and offer are confirmed on the checkout page after you sign in. The Terms of Service say that fees shown outside the EU and the UK exclude tax and that tax may be added; Turkey isn't among these exceptions. The Pro yearly plan isn't in the Turkey App Store listing.

Whether auto captions and noise reduction are available on the Free plan isn't clear in the official sources: one page says they're free, while the help center lists them among Pro's tools. Try it: if you're asked for Pro on export, that feature is paid on your plan.

1. Add the video to a project and tap Text › Auto captions.
2. Pick the spoken language or leave it on auto-detect, then generate.
3. Fix wrong words with "Edit captions"; change the font and color.

!Don't upload confidential, client-owned, identity or financial content, or someone else's face or voice without permission, to AI features. This is not legal advice.

!Not every item can be used in commercial work. Under the Materials License Agreement, most materials are for personal, non-commercial use; those marked "commercial use" (Dual Use) are open to limited commercial use. If a video has even one non-commercial item, the video is limited to personal use.

• If you're making a video for a client, choose items marked as cleared for commercial use, or use your own music.
• You own your content, but you grant CapCut and its affiliates a broad license to use it (Terms of Service). There's no separate clause governing ownership of AI output.

Source: CapCut Materials License Agreement (January 22, 2026) and Terms of Service (April 15, 2026). This is not legal advice; for a commercial project, check the item's label and the license text.

!"CapCut Pro APK," "mod" or "free Pro" files aren't official. The official sources are capcut.com, the App Store and Google Play. Pro features are tied to the subscription on your account; a file installed from an unknown source puts your account and device at risk.

1. 1iPhone: Settings› then Apple ID (your name) › Subscriptions › CapCut › Cancel Subscription. Android: Google Play › profile icon › Payments & subscriptions › Subscriptions › CapCut › Cancel. Web/PC: Payment Management › Subscriptions in your CapCut account.
2. 2Cancel at least 24 hours before the renewal date. It can take 5–14 business days for the change to go through.
3. 3Pro benefits last until the end of the billing period; then the account drops to the Free plan and cloud storage is suspended, so download your content beforehand.

Next to each feature, it says separately whether it's on the Free plan. Where the official sources aren't clear, it says what you can do.