Real Voices. Real Impact.
Discover how Zip Captions and our accessibility tools empower worship communities, classrooms, live streamers, and civic organizations around the world.
Rock Valley First Reformed Church
Rock Valley, Iowa: Full-sanctuary screen captioning, live stream integration, and leased cable TV broadcast.
Kevin Bouwman
Community Broadcast Accessibility Lead and Advisory Board Member
"Zip Captions makes it very easy to add live open captions to our service broadcasts for our livestream and our leased cable tv channel. We also incorporate live open captions on our in-person presentation screen."
"We have people with hearing loss who appreciate the captions and people without hearing loss who have said they find the captions helpful. The support team is very responsive when we needed help, and the development team has been very receptive to our feedback about how to improve and enhance the software."
"When sound is available but not understood, it is as if you are listening to a foreign language. With this closed caption I can follow the service and hear The Message. What a wonderful experience!"
Doris
Congregation Member, Rock Valley First Reformed Church
Assistive Technology and Education Leaders
How leading educators, speech specialists, and assistive technology consultants evaluate Zip Captions in classrooms.
Dr. Brian Friedlander
Assistive Technology Specialist and Professor of Education
"This is a free captioning tool that could be really helpful for students with language-based learning disabilities, auditory processing disabilities, or students who are hard of hearing. They can access ZipCaptions and have live captioning appear on their screen."
"Another feature allows you to save the transcript and then take the transcript and run it through ChatGPT for summaries... looking at a higher level than what we have as standard closed captioning."
Katie Fielding
VSTE Coach of the Year and Educational Content Manager
"A really powerful way to live caption your class that supports all learners in your classroom: from ELL students, our emerging readers, and our hearing-impaired students."
"Lexend is a great font for our emerging readers who need special font support. And you can even change the colors and themes: that is what accessibility is all about, having choices for what we use."
Tracey Green
Teacher of the Deaf, Montreal Oral School for the Deaf
"The website can benefit many people, including those with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder or who are struggling to understand French or English."
"For those with hearing loss, it empowers them. This fosters autonomy and independence, so you do not have to ask for help all the time."
Hadley Media and Senior Center
Coffee with a Cop Live Event (Hadley, Massachusetts)
Hadley Media utilized Zip Captions on laptops during public meetings at the Hadley Senior Center to ensure municipal and police information was directly readable for hearing-impaired residents:
"Hadley Media was at the Senior Center today for Coffee with a Cop with Lt. Mitch Kuc to provide captioning for residents who are hearing impaired. Using a free app called Zip Captions, we are able to provide another way for residents to participate in events going on in town. Everyone deserves equitable access no matter who you are."
Zip Captions active during senior public forum in Hadley, MA
Broadcasters, Streamers and Community Engineers
Simple real-time setup for OBS Studio, vMix, video switchers, and live streams across sports, gaming, and tech forums.
"Recently discovered the wonderful Zip Captions app and how brilliantly easy it was to incorporate it into our @chicagoknockouts live stream."
The Goat of Menendez
@necrohell.bsky.social
"I LOVE ZIP CAPTIONS. Full stop."
"No ads, just accessibility." Real-time, zero-friction live captioning right inside the browser that works when you need it most.
Mia
Tech and Accessibility Enthusiast
"There is zipcaptions.app. It works really well, uses Google's API, lots of neat features and completely free... came about after WebCaptioner was sunset."
Recommended across multiple community threads as the go-to WebCaptioner replacement for connecting auxiliary patch cables and streaming speech to text.
u/surdophobe
Active Contributor, r/deaf
"Just cause I have not seen it recommended yet, but also because you did not list too many requirements: https://zipcaptions.app/."
Recommended by live production and video switcher engineers looking for low-latency browser feeds to display on live event stage monitors and video switchers.
Live Production Engineers
r/VIDEOENGINEERING Community
Nearly 6,000 Users
10x growth from under 600 users in mid-2024, driven by grassroots word-of-mouth
2,780+ Downloads
Official OBS Project live captioning resource with 11,490+ views
Bitfocus Companion
Official module for Elgato Stream Deck and production switcher automation
840+ Active Users
Chrome Web Store extensions for vMix and persistent screen overlays
Using Zip Solutions in Your Organization?
Whether you are an educator using EasySpeak, a house of worship running Zip Captions, or a broadcaster using Zip vMix, we would love to hear how our tools are making a difference.