Captione
A personal tool for publishing my own short videos.
Captione is a private desktop tool used by one person — its owner — to publish short data-story videos to the owner's own social media accounts. It is not a public service, it has no accounts for other users, and it does not publish or manage anyone else's content.
What the tool does
The owner creates a video, then uses Captione to upload that same video to the owner's own TikTok, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram accounts — either immediately, at a scheduled time, or as a draft in the TikTok inbox. Every upload is triggered manually, by the owner, for the owner's own account.
Who uses it
- One user: the owner of the accounts.
- One account per platform, connected through the platform's official login.
- No third-party users, no public sign-up, no content from other people.
What it stores
- Access tokens issued by each platform, kept locally on the owner's computer.
- A local record of which video was posted to which account, so the tool does not post twice.
- No analytics, no advertising identifiers, no data sold or shared with anyone.
API usage
Captione uses the official TikTok APIs — Login Kit for authorization and
Content Posting API (inbox / draft upload) to send the owner's own video into the
owner's own TikTok inbox for a final manual confirmation in the TikTok app. The tool never
posts on behalf of anyone else.