Text: tools and formats

Everything we can do with Text files. Most of it right in your browser, with nothing uploaded.

Tools

Convert subtitlesin your browserTurn SRT into VTT and back, and shift the timings while you are at it. Runs in your browser — it is text, nothing needs a server.

Formats, and when each one fits

SubRipsince 2000: — Subtitles are going to YouTube, a TV set or a desktop player
— The file will be edited by hand
— You want the most compatible option there is
WebVTTsince 2010: — The video plays on a site through a video tag
— Captions need to move off faces or name the speakers
— Subtitles are served together with the page

Common conversions

Each page compares the formats by facts and shows compression figures we measured ourselves, not generalities.