Captions for WhatsApp Status
A Status goes to people who already have your number, and it is gone in a day. WhatsApp publishes no safe zone that we could find, so this page uses Captik’s own guide for ordinary posts and says so. Burn the caption in, because the video is the only thing that travels.
Free to try, no card. Any video, any size.
What Status puts over your video
- The progress bars, your name and the time across the top
- The reply box along the bottom
- Captik’s guide: top 12%, bottom 20% (a convention, not a WhatsApp figure)
- A status disappears after 24 hours WhatsApp Help
- WhatsApp’s help pages disagree (most say 90 seconds, one says 30), so keep it short and check your own app WhatsApp Help
Set it up in Captik
Export a small file
The export settings have a Smaller file option, about half the size and a little softer. That is usually a fair trade for something that lasts a day.
Use one line at a time
A Status is seen for a moment. A single row of words with one word lit up reads faster than two rows, and it leaves the bands at the top and bottom clear.
Write it the way your contacts read
For family and local customers, the language’s own script or the Roman spelling they type in chats usually beats a translation.
Working in another editor? The safe zone checker draws these bands on your own frame and gives you an overlay PNG. Captions in your language: see every language.
WhatsApp Status captions, answered
Can I attach a subtitle file to a Status?
We could not find any option for that in WhatsApp’s help pages. Burn the captions into the video with Captik and they travel with it.
Why is my Status video blurry?
WhatsApp compresses what you send, whatever you export. Captik cannot change that, but large clear words hold up better than small ones, so favour a bigger caption size.
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What it costs
Free has every feature, with 2 caption minutes and 10 export minutes every 30 days, and its exports carry a small watermark. When the single video option is on offer at checkout, one video can be made clean for ₹20. A week of Starter is ₹99: 7 days, 9 caption minutes and 13 export minutes, with no watermark.
Rupee prices are for buyers in India; buyers abroad see their price in dollars. The pricing page shows what your checkout offers today, including tax.
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2 caption minutes
10 export minutes
for 30 days₹349
30 caption minutes
45 export minutes
for 30 days₹699
60 caption minutes
110 export minutes
for 30 days₹1,499
150 caption minutes
230 export minutes
for 30 days