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Strip the caption. Keep the moment.

Erase Snapchat-style captions, burned-in subtitles, lower-thirds and social overlays so the frame is ready to reuse — then place new copy in Edit if you need it. Free in the browser; rough boxes are enough.

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Before / after

Caption band cleared — faces, drinks and bokeh still yours.

Before
After

Built for this workflow

  • Social captions on stills

    Saved Snaps, Stories and chat exports often bake the caption into the pixels. Erase the text and rebuild whatever sat behind it — including soft glow on dark photos — so the moment is reusable without the old line.

  • Screenshot labels and UI chrome

    Wipe sticker text, status strings or in-app labels before you redesign App Store slides or article stills. Select text with Keep selected when a clock or carrier name should stay while the rest goes.

  • Burned-in subtitles and lower-thirds

    News and social clips often bake a subtitle band or name plate into a still. Clear the lettering; if an opaque colour bar remains under the glyphs, Brush the bar after — that is bar vs letters, not a failed erase.

Caption vs solid bar

Lettering clears with All text or Select. An opaque colour slab under a lower-third or subtitle strip may need Brush on the slab after the glyphs go. Soft white captions on busy backgrounds usually clear in one All-text pass; compare at 100% on faces and edges near the band.

Which tool when

All text when every overlay should disappear. Select when you want some chrome to stay (status bar, logo lockup). Brush when OCR did not box a hand-drawn sticker or a faint corner badge. Edit is for writing the next caption on the rebuilt plate — not for the erase pass itself.

Reuse without redesigning the plate

Same photo, new copy: clear the caption first, then write the next line in Edit or export into your design tool. Download matches the canvas, including Edit. Uploads on the free product delete after one hour — save the clean plate before you leave.

How it goes

  1. 1Upload the captioned photo, screenshot, or still
  2. 2Erase the caption band or selected text (All / Select / Brush); Brush any remaining solid bar
  3. 3Compare, then Download — or open Edit on the clean plate to place new copy
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