The Very Best Subtitle Software Guide: a top 14

Jean-Marc
May 9, 2023

As you certainly know from experience, doing subtitles is a tedious task. Especially for long videos, even subtitle experts find it sometimes difficult.

To lighten their efforts, numerous subtitle tools have emerged.

Here's our ultimate list of subtitle editors according to their pros and cons.

Why use a subtitle solution?

Subtitling fully manually is a very challenging task. Simultaneously transcribing, synchronizing, and translating subtitles is exhausting, especially for long videos.

The high redundancy and the difficulty of adjusting both image and sound make the task quite complex. And we know this from experience. From 30 minutes on, even our most expert subtitlers begin to have trouble keeping up.

So how can you subtitle a video by yourself without struggling ? Numerous solutions have appeared on the market to address this problem.

By choosing the right subtitle editor, you will get crucial benefits for your work :

  • You can transcribe your video more easily, making sure you don't make typos or forget a word.
  • Time synchronization becomes more intuitive, especially with an interface that allows you to directly view and edit the display of your subtitles on the video.
  • With translation capabilities, you open your content to a variety of languages and nationalities around the world.
  • The solutions give you the ability to customize the look and feel of your subtitles to make them more readable and more in line with your identity.
  • You save time in the technical optimization and conversion of your subtitles and videos (SRT file, VTT, subtitle overlay).

Exciting, isn't it? Here's our best subtitle editors ultimate guide.

Manual subtitle software: our selection

Jubler

Pros :

  • A classic of open-source subtitle editor, Jubler has a comprehensive interface to sync subtitles easily.
  • You can transcribe your text at the same time as you run your video.
  • Includes a spell checker
  • Good customization possibilities
  • Works in Windows, Linux and Mac

Cons :

  • A design that has aged rather badly
  • You need to install MPplayer to get a preview of your video
  • Not really updated anymore

Aegisub

Best Subtitle Editors : aegisub

Pros :

  • One of the subtitle software with the most expert and in-depth features
  • Displays the sound spectrum of your video for perfect synchronization
  • Automatic Backup
  • Generates its own format customizable in detail
  • Translation Assistant
  • Supported by all operating systems

Cons :

  • May seem complex for beginners
  • Complicated to merge Aegisub subtitle with the video.

Subtitle Edit

Pros :

  • User-friendly and intuitive interface
  • Very large number of supported formats
  • Includes Google Translate for fast translation
  • Error correction system ("wizard" button)
  • Open-office spelling correction
  • Audio Spectrum

Cons :

  • Interface that sometimes seems complex
  • no customization functionality

Adobe Premiere Pro

Best Subtitle Editors : Adobe Premiere Pro

Pros :

  • The king of video editors, it allows you to fully customize your text and subtitle creation.
  • Simple and intuitive drag and drop features
  • Great import and export possibilities
  • All-in-one video editing and optimization

Cons :

  • Expensive if you just want to do subtitles
  • Creating subtitles manually takes time if you have a long video
  • No translation

Best Online Subtitle Software

Amara

Pros :

  • Unique online subtitle editor, it allows you to collaborate with others to transcribe your video.
  • Good design and easy to use interface
  • Active community that can help you and that advocates accessibility of content for everyone
  • You can hire an expert to help you use it

Cons :

  • No automatic subtitles
  • No machine translation
  • No subtitle customization

Clideo

Pros :

  • Quick and useful tool to add an SRT file to your video and adjust subtitles.
  • Friendly interface for a free tool
  • You can work directly on YouTube, Facebook, or TikTok videos from a URL

Cons :

  • No automatic subtitle and machine translation
  • Limited features
  • Manual transcription and sync can be time-consuming and complicated.

Subtitle Edit Online

Pros:

  • The most immediate-to-use online tool to create and adjust your subtitles.
  • You can't get a simpler and more straightforward interface
  • Machine translation

Cons :

  • Contains only the basic transcription features
  • Transcription and Manual Synchronization
  • Suitable only for small video projects

Best IOS and Android subtitle apps

Mix Captions

Pros :

  • Best subtitle app on IOS, it automatically subtitles your Instagram and Facebook videos
  • Simple and efficient interface
  • You can add subtitles to audio files
  • A lot of subtitle customization features
  • Paid version really cheap for the quality of the app

Cons :

  • Limit of 30 minutes of video for free version
  • Watermark but can be removed

Kaptioned

Pros :

  • One of the best subtitle app on Android, generate fast automatic subtitles.
  • Very easy to transcribe and edit
  • Machine translation

Cons :

  • Some bugs
  • Need credits to transcribe videos after 3 free trials


Autocap

Pros :

  • Efficient tool, it automatically transcribes your videos
  • Simple and friendly interface
  • Developers are constantly improving user experience.

Cons :

  • No translation features
  • Sometimes transcription and export issues
  • May be unstable

Automatic subtitling generators

YouTube

Pros :

  • Video platform impossible to circumvent, it automatically transcribes the published videos and has a subtitle editor.
  • Large number of languages for translation
  • Easy-to-edit subtitles and free tool
  • Improved speech recognition…

Cons :

  • But it's not perfect yet
  • No possibility to customize and export subtitles
  • Translations to review

Kapwing

Pros :

  • Simple and practical tool for automatic online subtitling
  • Pleasant and intuitive interface
  • You can transcribe manually or automatically
  • URL download feature

Cons :

  • 3 hours of free video then paid version
  • No translation
  • Not suitable for long videos
  • Little customization features

Veed.Io

Pros :

  • Quick and easy to use tool for your social media videos
  • Easy to add aesthetic texts, emoji and animated elements
  • Fast and efficient transcription and translation

Cons :

  • Free version no more than 10 minutes
  • Transcription interface not suitable for long videos

Checksub

Well, we had to talk about our solution!

At Checksub, we've been committed to design the ultimate subtitling solution. That's why we've created an intelligent subtitle editor with automated timestamp synchronization. We've also designed one of the most accurate transcription and translation technologies available. And as a bonus, we've integrated automatic AI dubbing that lets you turn your subtitles into natural speaking voices.

Pros:

  • Wide choice of languages and high-quality translations
  • Intelligent platform that automatically synchronizes your subtitles
  • One of the best speech-to-text on the market
  • Reliable, responsive customer service

Cons:

  • Occasional bugs
  • Speech recognition not 100% perfect, but easy to edit with our intelligent editor.
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