Alternatives to Aegisub

A free, open-source cross-platform editor for creating, timing and styling subtitles. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Aegisub.

  • Subtitle Edit

    Creates, retimes, translates and fixes subtitles, with a waveform so you can see where the speech is.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    Subtitle Edit is MIT-licensed and adds waveform and spectrogram timing, over two hundred formats, speech recognition, translation and OCR, though it lacks Aegisub's detailed typesetting focus.

  • Subtitle Composer

    An open-source KDE editor for text-based subtitles with a waveform view and video preview.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsLinux

    Subtitle Composer is an open-source KDE editor with a waveform view and side-by-side translation, available on Windows and Linux but without a macOS build.

  • Jubler

    An open-source subtitle editor for creating, editing, timing and converting text-based subtitles.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinuxCommand line

    Jubler is an AGPL-3.0 subtitle editor with video preview, waveform, TED guideline checks and command-line batch tools, but it handles text-based subtitles only.

  • Gaupol

    An open-source editor for creating, editing and translating text-based subtitle files.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Gaupol is an open-source text subtitle editor with translation tools, mainly aimed at Linux desktops, and it offers fewer styling and typesetting features.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.