Subtitle Viewer

Open a subtitle file — SRT or VTT — and read the captions with their timings laid out.

Seeing what's in a subtitle file

Subtitle files like SRT and VTT are plain text under the hood: numbered captions, each with a start and end time and the words that appear on screen. Opened raw they are a jumble of timecodes; this lays them out cleanly so you can read the captions alongside their timings, check a translation, proofread the text, or find a specific line.

Drop in the subtitle file and the cues are displayed in order.

Why read subtitles outside a video

Pulling the captions out of the video is genuinely useful. You can proofread a subtitle track for typos without scrubbing through the footage, review a translation cue by cue, check the timing values, or lift the transcript of what was said. Because it opens the file directly in your browser, a subtitle track for something private is not uploaded just to be read.

Common questions

What subtitle formats can it open?

The common ones — SRT and VTT — showing each caption with its start and end times.

Why view subtitles separately from the video?

To proofread the text, review a translation, check timings, or read the transcript without scrubbing through footage.

Is my file uploaded?

No. The subtitles are displayed in your browser.

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