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Upload a track and Capify writes out the lyrics and times every word to the vocal. Pick a style, keep the words clear of TikTok’s buttons, and export a 1080 × 1920 video ready to post.
Free preview. Full-length exports need a paid plan.
Four steps
Four steps, all in your browser. Nothing to install on your phone.
Drop in an MP3, WAV, M4A or OGG file. For a TikTok, most artists cut the file down to the hook or the chorus first, so the video starts on the line people already know.
Capify transcribes the vocal and times every word to it. Open the lyric editor to fix a misheard word or nudge a line that lands early.
Choose a lyric animation such as aesthetic, Karaoke, Word by word or Typewriter, then a background. Drag the lyrics to where you want them in the frame.
The editor opens in vertical, so the video exports at 1080 × 1920, the full TikTok frame. Upload the file in TikTok and write your caption there.
On the For You feed a video starts playing the moment it appears, and people swipe fast. So skip the eight-bar intro. Trim your file to start a beat before the hook and the first words on screen are the ones that stick.
An intro card can put your song title and artist name up front for the first moments of the video. Turn it on in the editor if you want people to know what they are hearing before the chorus lands.
A lyric edit lives or dies on timing. Every word in Capify is timed to the vocal, so styles like Word by word, Karaoke and Rush land on the word as it is sung, not a second late.
The aesthetic style, the one this editor opens with, sets the lyrics as a tight lowercase block that fills in word by word. Put it over performance footage, a photo dump or one of 53 animated backgrounds. For words over your own footage, see add lyrics to video.
Post the lyric video with your song as its audio and TikTok normally lists it as an original sound. Anyone who taps the sound can make their own video with it, and the sound page collects every video that uses it.
If your distributor delivers the song to TikTok, it can also show up in the sounds library under its own name. A lyric video gives people something to watch while they decide to use it.
You can add lyrics on TikTok with the text tool, one box per line, setting when each box appears and disappears. For a 30-second chorus that can mean a dozen boxes or more, each timed by eye on a phone screen.
Capify gives every word its own start and end time from the vocal, then animates the lyrics to match. The words are part of the video file, so they look the same in the feed, on a repost and in a download.
Independent artists, labels and producers make their release videos on Capify.
Make the video first, then post it. Upload your song to Capify, let it time the lyrics, pick a style and export in 9:16. In TikTok, tap the plus button, upload the file from your camera roll, and add your caption and hashtags before you post.
TikTok's own text tool means typing each line and setting when it shows up by hand. Capify does that part for you. It transcribes the song, times every word, and burns the lyrics into the video, so all you do in TikTok is upload it.
Vertical 9:16 at 1080 × 1920 pixels. That fills the whole screen on a phone. This page opens the editor in 9:16, and you can switch to 16:9 for YouTube from the same project.
A lyric edit is a short video where the words of a song appear on screen in time with the music, often over clips, photos or a moving background. Artists post them to push a new song and fans make them for songs they love.
Yes. Upload a photo or video as the background in Visuals, or pick one of 53 animated backgrounds that move with the music. A reactivity slider sets how hard the background responds to the beat.
When you post a video with your own audio, TikTok usually saves it as an original sound that other people can use. If your song is distributed to TikTok's music library, people can also find it by name there. Capify does not upload anything to TikTok for you.
You can upload a song, generate the lyrics and preview the whole video for free. Exporting the full-length video needs a paid plan. The plans are listed on this page.
Open the lyric editor and type the right word, or change when a line starts and ends. On a paid plan you can also paste your lyrics and transcribe again for better accuracy.
TikTok draws your caption and username along the bottom and its buttons down the right side. Keep the lyrics around the middle of the frame so nothing important ends up behind them. You can drag the lyrics anywhere in Capify's preview.
Yes. Reels and Shorts use the same 9:16 frame, so one 1080 × 1920 export works on all three. For a horizontal version, switch the project to 16:9.
Posting to Instagram too? Read the guide to lyrics on Instagram Reels. For a full-length 16:9 upload, use the YouTube lyric video maker, or add bars and waves with the audio visualizer. Everything runs on the same AI lyric video maker.
