Open Source Subtitle Downloaders

Caption takes the effort out of finding and setting up the right subtitles. A simple design, drag & drop search, and automatic downloading & renaming let you just start watching. Caption is multi-platform, open-source, and built entirely on web technology.

Bazarr is a companion application to Sonarr and Radarr that manages and downloads subtitles based on your requirements.

VLSub is a simple extension for your VLC Media Player. It downloads subtitles from OpenSubtitles.org and play them as your open your movies.

gSubs is a free and open-source desktop app that finds you the perfect subtitle match for your videos. Just drag and drop the video files that you want to search subtitle for and gSubs will do it's job.

Submarine is a command-line program for searching and downloading the right subtitles for movies. Subtitles are searched based on movie file hashes and downloaded from online subtitle services. Downloaded subtitles are automatically renamed and saved next to corresponding files.

QNapi is designed to automatically download and match subtitles to a specific movie file. Unlike similar programs, QNapi queries several different subtitle databases to find the best subtitles for your movie.

Gnapi is application designed for automatically downloading and matching subtitles for movies. It supports Napiprojekt.pl and OpenSubtitles databases. Program can be extended by plugins.

With SubiT, you can download subtitles for your favorite movies and series by just right clicking them and executing SubiT.

PySubD (Python Subtitle Downloader) is an extremely easy to use, cross-platform, free (as in beer and freedom) automatic subtitle downloader for your Movies and TV Series.

SubHub is a small lightweight subtitles app downloader that’ll provide you with a modern UI and easy to use interface.

subget - Simple Subtitles downloading program for Linux with PyGTK. Supports plugins and multi-language.

Google2SRT allows you to download, save and convert multiple subtitles and translations from YouTube and Google Video to SubRip (.srt) format, which is recognized by most video players. You can download XML subtitles or simply type video's URL, Google2SRT will do the rest.