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Subtitle Edit vs Lingarr: catalog facts
Subtitle Edit	Lingarr
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Free Free and open source; external translation services may charge for their own use.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Web, Self-hosted
Waveform and spectrogram make timing subtitles straightforward Reads and writes over two hundred subtitle formats	Automated translation tied to Radarr and Sonarr libraries Choice of local or SaaS translation backends
Windows needs 10 version 22H2 or newer; older builds fail with a .NET error macOS 12 is the minimum and macOS 14 or newer is recommended	Machine translation quality depends on the chosen provider Most useful alongside Radarr and Sonarr
Downloadable app	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: AGPL-3.0
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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