1CapApp

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The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free: a recording up to 20 minutes transcribes in full, a longer one is previewed, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, and credits never expire.

Caption-delivery platform used by independent live captioners to bill, deliver and embed captions.

Web  ·  subscription · contact sales

TL;DR

Best for freelance CART writers and small captioning co-ops that need a viewer page, encoder hooks and invoicing. Pricing: subscription · contact sales.

Category
Products
Pricing
subscription · contact sales
Platforms
Web

What it is

1CapApp is a captioning back-office and viewer platform for independent realtime captioners. It bridges a captioner's CAT software to a public viewer URL or to platforms like Zoom and YouTube, with usage logs for invoicing.

Best for: Freelance CART writers and small captioning co-ops that need a viewer page, encoder hooks and invoicing.
Watch out for: Independent vendor, smaller engineering team than the broadcast majors; viewer page is mostly Zoom/web-embed.

Install / use

Go to 1CapApp 1capapp.com

What people actually do with 1CapApp-style transcription

The tool is the means. These are the jobs — each one priced at published rates, each one wired up on its own page.

Wire it into Google DriveYouTubeAmazon S3n8nZapierMake.com

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeYes
Languages supportedNone
HIPAA eligibleNo

1CapApp vs Whipscribe

Feature1CapAppWhipscribe
CategoryProductsTranscription APIs
PricingNot verified$6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free
Speaker identificationNot verifiedNamed in the summary, key quotes and chapters
Word timestampsNot verifiedYes
StreamingNot verifiedNo
Languages—99
PlatformsWebWeb, API, MCP

Alternatives to 1CapApp

Frequently asked about 1CapApp

How much does 1CapApp cost?

1CapApp does not publish a self-serve price — it is quoted by the vendor on contact. Expect an enterprise-style agreement rather than a card-and-go signup.

Does 1CapApp work on Mac, Windows and Linux?

1CapApp runs in the browser, so it works on any desktop OS with a modern browser, and on phones and tablets.

How do I get started with 1CapApp?

There is nothing to install — 1CapApp is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.

What are the limitations of 1CapApp?

Independent vendor, smaller engineering team than the broadcast majors; viewer page is mostly Zoom/web-embed.

Who is 1CapApp best for?

Freelance CART writers and small captioning co-ops that need a viewer page, encoder hooks and invoicing.

Is 1CapApp open source?

No. 1CapApp is a proprietary product. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.

Is there a 1CapApp desktop app?

No — 1CapApp is browser-only. There is nothing to install and nothing runs on your machine.

What kind of tool is 1CapApp?

In this directory 1CapApp is filed under live caption, event as a product.

What are the alternatives to 1CapApp?

There is a side-by-side page at /tools/1capapp-alternatives comparing 1CapApp with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.

Can I automate 1CapApp-style transcription without running it myself?

Yes. If what you want is transcripts rather than the tool itself, Whipscribe does the same job as a hosted API: submit a file or URL, poll a job id, pull the result as txt, json, srt, vtt or docx. $0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. The automation recipes on this site show it wired to Drive folders, Zoom recordings, S3 buckets and no-code platforms.

How is Whipscribe different from 1CapApp?

1CapApp is another vendor's product; Whipscribe is a per-minute transcription service. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and every job returns five formats plus an AI summary, quotes and topics. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.

What does transcription cost if I use Whipscribe instead of 1CapApp?

$0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum: a 3-hour recording is about $2.16, a thousand-hour archive is about $720 once. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, so you can see what your recording holds before paying anything.

Where is the 1CapApp category heading?

Three things are moving across the whole speech-to-text market right now: summaries, action items and speaker insights generated on top of the transcript rather than sold separately; private, secured deployment where the audio never leaves a boundary you control; and agent access — transcription exposed as a tool that Claude, Cursor or a workflow runner can call directly. Whipscribe ships all three today: per-job insights, our own servers, and an MCP server.

Whipscribe is a hosted transcription service. If you want transcripts without running infrastructure, paste a URL or drop a file in the form below — you'll have a transcript in seconds.

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