About DownSub

What is DownSub?

DownSub has been online since 2015. It is an online toolkit that lets you extract subtitles and transcripts from videos across the web - no software to install and no account required to get started.

Paste a video link and get clean, ready-to-use subtitles, transcripts, translations, and summaries.

downsub.com and app.downsub.com

downsub.com is the original DownSub site: a free subtitle downloader for online videos.

app.downsub.com is the account and Pro edition of DownSub. It keeps the free downloader and adds a DownSub account, Pro plans with credits, AI tools, batch downloads and the developer API.

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Supported platforms

We support YouTube, Viki, Vimeo, Viu, WeTV, iQIYI, Dailymotion, Bilibili, and many more platforms.

Whether the video has manual captions or auto-generated ones, DownSub helps you capture the text you need.

What you can do

Downloading the subtitles of a video from its link is free and needs no account. With app.downsub.com you can also:

• Download subtitles from several videos at once, or from a whole playlist
• Translate subtitle files into 100+ languages with Google Translate or AI
• Generate subtitles with AI for uploaded videos and audio that have no captions
• Turn burned-in (hardcoded) subtitles into a subtitle file
• Summarize videos, audio and subtitle files with AI, and analyze YouTube comments
• Check which countries a YouTube video is blocked in
• Download subtitles from your own code with the DownSub API
• Download subtitles right on video sites with the DownSub Chrome extension

Most of these tools are part of the Pro plans, and AI features and the API also use credits.

Our mission

We believe the knowledge locked inside video should be easy to read, search, translate, and reuse.

DownSub is built to make video content accessible to students, creators, researchers, businesses, and developers everywhere.

Contact us

Questions, billing or copyright requests: email contact [at] downsub.com or use the contact form.