How do I add captions to Instagram Reels?
Two ways: Instagram's built-in caption sticker (fast, but styling is limited and errors are clumsy to fix), or captioning before upload in an editor — which is what most serious creators do. In EseCut you auto-caption the clip, fix any misheard words with a click, pick from 21 animation styles sized for 9:16, and export a clean vertical MP4 ready for Reels.
Pre-captioned videos also travel: the same file posts to TikTok and Shorts without redoing captions in each app. Keep captions in the middle band of the frame — Reels UI overlays eat the top and bottom edges.
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