14.1k stars · MIT · v5.1.0 (2026-07-29)
The mature desktop subtitle editor — waveform retiming, line-by-line translation, and every format converted.
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What it is
A mature desktop subtitle editor. Video and subtitles side by side, retiming against the sound wave, translation line by line, and conversion between almost every subtitle format in use.
Why it matters
Whisper gives you a rough transcript. Machine translation gives you rough Russian. The distance between rough and publishable is exactly where a bilingual channel either looks careful or looks automatic. Viewers read all of that as quality without ever naming it. This is also where the boring format work happens: SRT for YouTube, ASS for captions burned into a Short.
- Reads and writes nearly every subtitle format, which removes a whole class of dead end.
- The sound-wave view makes retiming fast enough that you will actually do it.
- MIT licence, works offline, and it has been maintained for over ten years.
- Windows is the main platform. Mac and Linux builds exist but are less polished.
- The current version 5.0.0-rc4 is a release candidate, which means a test version. Stay on the 4.x versions if you want stability.
- It is a program you click, so unlike everything else in this section it can never be automated.
Download it from the releases page: https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit/releases It takes the SRT file from whisper.cpp and gives YouTube and Camtasia the file each one wants.
