Top 5 Free Tools for Subtitles - Subtitle Maker, Translator, Editor and Downloader

Subtitles are a textual version of a film or television program's dialogue that appears onscreen. They are used more and more frequently in films, television programs, video games, and the like. The reason to subtitles’ growing popularity is their being extremely useful for same and different language captioning, which is practical for hearing impaired people, for people in general to learn and understand foreign language, as well as for adding important notes the image couldn’t translate to the viewer in full. Moreover, subtitles are quite simple to work with - any user can write, edit, convert and download subtitles with a few special applications on his hands.

The applications listed below is the essential pack of tools you need to work with them:

1. Subtitle Workshop - a free application for creating, editing and converting subtitles. Multi-language, user-friendly and customizable interface. Supports spell checking, automatic and custom durations, style tags, color text, info tags and over 60 subtitle formats.

2. N!kse.se Subtitle Edit - another great opensourse application for subtitles editing, but is way more advanced in comparison to Subtitle Workshop, and offers support for 200+ different subtitle format, including SubRib, MicroDVD, Advanced Sub Station Alpha, Sub Station Alpha, D-Cinema, SAMI, youtube sbv and has numerous other handy features.

3. SubExtractor - this app is a perfect option for those who have piles of old DVDs and want to transfer movies along with subtitles to the computer. SubExtractor converts subtitles not only from DVDs, but from Bluray as well into SRT text format. It can also convert PGS and sub/isx files.

4. Various video players support subtitles playback. We recommend using Media Classic Player and VLC, but even default OS players, like Windows Media player, can display subtitles. Learn more about video players that support subtitles and how to work with them here .

5. 4K Video Downloader is an application you need when you want to download not just a video from YouTube, but a video with subtitles that are saved in convenient SRT format to your computer. You can edit and play the subtitles you download with 4K Video Downloader with all of the above applications from the list. Get 4K Video Downloader for your Mac OS, Windows or Linux and download your favorite subtitled videos from YouTube easily - see how to do it here .