<b>Caption style and retention: what the tools get wrong</b>

<b>Caption style and retention: what the tools get wrong</b>

Big animated captions help, but most apps default to retention-killers.

The traps:
— Bottom-third captions: cut off by the Shorts UI on mobile — Submagic defaults here, fix it
— Tiny font: CapCut's default template font is too small for thumb-sized screens
— Over-emoji: Captions and Submagic spam emoji that distract from the word

Verdict: any tool works if you raise the safe zone, bump font to ~7% of frame height, and kill auto-emoji.

Not a tool problem — a default-settings problem. Don't pay for a new app to fix what's a two-click change. Pick whatever you own, just move captions out of the bottom 15% of the frame.