Aegisub
A free, powerful and customizable cross-platform subtitle editor featuring support for multiple formats, real-time video preview, and a robust scripting module, allowing accurate timing, visual typesetting, and translation capabilities for a seamless experience.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- Flatpak
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
Features
- Portable
- Ad-free
- Spell Checking
- Works Offline
- No Tracking
- No registration required
- Auto Formatting
- Lua scripting
Tags
- subtitle-creator
- Subtitles
- subtitle-program
Aegisub News & Activities
Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about Aegisub
Aegisub 3.4.0 launches after a decade-long wait for a new versionAegisub has introduced version 3.4.0, its first stable update in a decade, focusing on compatibilit...
Recent activities
skalda-dev added Aegisub as alternative to SKALDA FLINT- Korwin updated Aegisub
- Korwin reviewed Aegisub
A dazzling interface that can't be switched to a dark theme.
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What is Aegisub?
Aegisub is a free, cross-platform open source tool for creating and modifying subtitles. Aegisub makes it quick and easy to time subtitles to audio, and features many powerful tools for styling them, including a built-in real-time video preview.
Aegisub was originally created as a tool to make typesetting, particularly in anime fansubs, a less painful experience. At the time of the start of the project, many other programs that supported the Advanced Substation Alpha format lacked (and in many cases, still lack; development on several competing programs have since been dropped for various reasons completely unrelated to Aegisub) many vital functions, or were too buggy and/or unreliable to be really useful.
Since then, Aegisub has grown into a fully fledged, highly customizable subtitle editor. It features a lot of convenient tools to help you with timing, typesetting, editing and translating subtitles, as well as a powerful scripting environment called Automation (originally mostly intended for creating karaoke effects, Automation can now be used much else, including creating macros and various other convenient tools).
Some highlights of Aegisub:
- Simple and intuitive yet powerful interface for editing subtitles
- Support for many formats and character sets
- Powerful video mode
- Visual typesetting tools
- Intuitive and customizable audio timing mode
- Fully scriptable through the Automation module
Aegisub information
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Open Source and Free product.Written in
Alternatives
42 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
AlternativeTo Category
Video & MoviesGitHub repository
- 1,459 Stars
- 589 Forks
- 154 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Good open source subtitling software that actually being used in the industry, like Crunchyroll.
A dazzling interface that can't be switched to a dark theme.
Eternal 2005. Even display resolution doesn't match modern screens. Support tons of archaic formats, but not Srb(YouTube )or vvt (MS Stream). No option to speed up video playback. If you just have a couple minutes of video it is fine but if you have to do whole movies then good luck. I will pick subtitle edit over list every single time. Both open-source and free, but on one you pay the open-source tax with your time and patience. One you get up to speed with peers using commercial alternatives.
Easy to use, you can understand most stuff quite easily and there's some EXCELLENT guide online. Unanimated's guide can take you from an average joe to pro fansubber in days, good stuff.
It runs well and easy to use
It's a shame this has been discontinued, but to my knowledge this is still the best FOSS subtitle editor for macOS.
Maintenance has resumed and should soon be merged in the main repo. See: