Meta’s Edits video app arrives on the Mac with free auto captions

Brett Westervelt, who runs Edits, listed what the desktop version brings, Social Media Today reports: unlimited automatic captions in several languages, Instagram’s licensed and royalty-free music, and hundreds of sound and video effects. Own fonts and LUTs (colour presets) can be imported, and grading gets curves, colour wheels and log conversion on a full multi-track timeline. Exports reach 4K with no watermark, in several aspect ratios.

For AI work, an MCP (Model Context Protocol) switch in settings lets an AI agent call the app’s tools. Audio and text styles saved on the phone carry over at sign-in, and editing one project on both phone and Mac is still being worked on. There is no Windows version, and Meta plans weekly desktop updates.

Edits launched on phones in January 2025 as a rival to ByteDance’s CapCut, Social Media Today notes.

Captions, an editor on our UGC video editors page, starts at $9.99 a month for 200 credits on Basic, and its $24.99 Max plan adds custom AI actors, generated B-roll and music, our 8 November check.

Captions, music and a clean 4K export now come free in Meta’s editor on a Mac, so a paid editor has to earn its fee on the generative work Edits’ list leaves out, such as the AI actors and B-roll on Captions’ $24.99 plan.