Alternatives to Subtitle Edit
Creates, retimes, translates and fixes subtitles, with a waveform so you can see where the speech is. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Subtitle Edit
Creates, retimes, translates and fixes subtitles, with a waveform so you can see where the speech is.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Subtitle Edit.
Aegisub
A free, open-source cross-platform editor for creating, timing and styling subtitles.
Aegisub is a BSD-licensed cross-platform editor focused on precise timing and detailed styling, without Subtitle Edit's OCR and speech recognition.
Jubler
An open-source subtitle editor for creating, editing, timing and converting text-based subtitles.
Jubler is an AGPL-3.0 editor with waveform, over 20 formats, quality checks and command line tools, but handles text subtitles only.
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 with a waveform view and side-by-side translation, available for Windows and Linux but with no macOS build listed.
Gaupol
An open-source editor for creating, editing and translating text-based subtitle files.
Gaupol is an open-source text subtitle editor with translation tools, mainly for Linux desktops, with no image subtitle support.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
MKVToolNix
Builds, inspects and edits MKV files: add subtitles, drop a track, fix chapters, all without re-encoding.
MediaInfo
Tells you exactly what is inside a video or audio file: codecs, bitrates, resolution, frame rate, subtitle and audio tracks.
FileBot
A tool that renames and organizes movie, TV and anime files and fetches subtitles and artwork.
Descript
A video and audio editor where you edit recordings by editing their text transcript.
Clideo
A set of online tools for cutting, merging, compressing, converting and subtitling video in the browser.
FFmpeg
The command that converts, cuts, streams and inspects essentially any audio or video file in existence.
