LipiPublic beta · runs in your browser
Reels and Shorts, captioned the way you talk.
Lipi is a free video editor for Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts. It writes captions in Hinglish, Hindi or English on your own computer, lets you fix and style them, and exports a 1080p MP4. Your video is never uploaded.
Free. No sign-up to start. Works on a laptop, desktop or phone.
What Lipi does
Hinglish captions
Hindi and English in one sentence, written in Roman letters the way creators actually caption. Hindi in Devanagari and plain English work too.
Fix words, cut the ums
Correct any wrong word in the transcript. Remove um and uh, and dead air at the start and end, using the caption timings.
Made for Reels and Shorts
Projects start vertical at 1080 by 1920, with guides for where Instagram and YouTube put their buttons. Switch to 4:5, 1:1 or 16:9 any time.
Looks and templates
Caption styles, text, stickers, filters, transitions and one-click templates that set up a whole Reel's look.
AI tools on your computer
Remove background, auto-reframe, clean up voice, translate captions, cut to the beat and text to speech. Each runs in your browser.
Export that Instagram accepts
An MP4 with H.264 video and AAC audio, at 1080p, 1440p or 4K, at 30 or 60 frames a second. A 60 second Reel usually takes 10 to 20 seconds on a recent laptop.
Your first Reel, in three steps
Step 1
Add your clip
Drag a video into a new project. It goes straight onto the timeline.
Step 2
Generate captions
Pick Hinglish, Hindi or English and press Generate captions. Pick a style, then fix any wrong word.
Step 3
Export
Press Export. Your MP4 downloads, ready for Instagram or YouTube.
The full guide is on the How to page.
Questions people ask
Is Lipi free?
Yes. Lipi is free to use and there is nothing to buy. We may add paid features later, and we will tell you before anything you use starts to cost money.
Is my video uploaded anywhere?
No. Editing, captions and the AI tools run in your browser, on your computer. Your video, audio and text are not uploaded.
How do the captions work?
The first time you generate captions, your browser downloads a speech model once (a few hundred MB). After that, captions are made on your computer.
Which browsers and devices work?
Works on a laptop, desktop or phone, best in Chrome or Edge. Safari on a Mac works, and so does Firefox, though Firefox cannot open iPhone HEVC videos. The phone editor is new and we are testing it, so a laptop is still the safest for long edits.
Why does it say Beta?
Lipi is in public beta. It is open to everyone, still being built, and some things will break or be missing. Use "Something missing?" in the editor to tell us.
Your privacy matters here. Read the privacy policy.