Captions AI Eye Contact: Where It Works, and How to Get It in a Browser

Captions on Web is a different product from the phone app: Captions’ feature table lists AI Eye Contact, AI Zoom and AI Trim as iOS features that aren’t in the web version. So if you open a project in a browser, there is no eye contact button to press, and Chromebooks and locked-down work laptops can’t run the iPhone app at all.

The workaround is to correct the file before it reaches Captions. Upload the recording to StoryCut in your browser, download the corrected MP4 (same resolution, frame rate, length and audio), then import it into Captions for captions, AI Edit or anything else. On Android, you can also stay in the Captions app with the Lite plan, which includes AI Eye Contact.

Captions’ advice for its own eye contact applies to any tool: the closer your eyes stay to the lens, the cleaner the correction. Captions’ camera and teleprompter, which help with that, are in its phone apps, not on the web.

If you film on an Android phone or a laptop, put the script in a narrow strip right at the top of the screen, as close to the camera as it goes, and step back from the device. Whatever drift is left, typically a few degrees when you read off a screen near the lens, is well inside the roughly 20° that StoryCut’s correction fully covers.