Alternatives to Gaupol

An open-source editor for creating, editing and translating text-based subtitle files. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

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Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Gaupol.

  • Subtitle Edit

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

    Subtitle Edit adds Windows and macOS builds, a waveform and spectrogram for timing, over two hundred formats, and OCR for image-based subtitles, with a busier interface.

  • Aegisub

    A free, open-source cross-platform editor for creating, timing and styling subtitles.

    Aegisub is open source under BSD, runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, and focuses on precise timing and detailed styling with real-time video preview.

  • Subtitle Composer

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

    Subtitle Composer is an open-source KDE editor for Linux and Windows that adds a waveform view and side-by-side subtitles for translation.

  • Jubler

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

    Jubler is AGPL-3.0 open source on Windows, macOS and Linux, adding video preview, a waveform, TED guideline checks and command-line batch tools.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.