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Best alternatives to Substital: Add subtitles to videos and movies (2026)

10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to Substital, closest first. Each shows real store users, its rating, how recently it was updated and how many permissions it asks for.

Substital: Add subtitles to videos and movies today

≈400K users4.2★ from 3.3K ratingsUpdated 3 months ago5 permissions

Substital alternatives, compared

  1. 1

    Movie Subtitles

    Add your own subtitles almost anywhere you want such as Disney, Netflix, YouTube and many more!

    ≈8K users3.9★ from 46 ratingsUpdated 4 months ago2 permissions
    • About 50× fewer users than Substital
    • Rated 0.3 stars lower
    • Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 5)
    • Listed under Workflow & Planning
  2. 2

    SubStream: Add Subtitles to Videos

    Enhance Your Streaming Experience with Custom Subtitles!

    ≈1K users4.5★ from 10 ratingsUpdated 6 months ago1 permissions
    • About 400× fewer users than Substital
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 5)
    • Listed under Entertainment
  3. 3

    Open Subtitles

    Add subtitles to any HTML5 video sites such as Youtube, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, HBO Max and other stream sites.

    ≈10K users3.5★ from 29 ratingsNot updated for 3+ years5 permissions
    • About 40× fewer users than Substital
    • Rated 0.7 stars lower
    • Updated less recently
    • Listed under Functionality & UI
  4. 4

    Translate Netflix Subtitles

    Subtitle Translator for Netflix, YouTube, Coursera, Udemy, Amazon Prime Video, and more platforms.

    ≈10K users4.0★ from 103 ratingsUpdated 12 months ago13 permissions
    • About 40× fewer users than Substital
    • Rated 0.2 stars lower
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for more permissions (13 vs 5)
    • Listed under Education
  5. 5

    CaptionGo - Dual Subtitles & AI Captions

    Bilingual subtitles & AI captions for YouTube, Netflix & any video. Speech recognition. 30+ translation engines. Mobile-ready.

    ≈3K users4.3★ from 9 ratingsUpdated 9 days ago10 permissions
    • About 133× fewer users than Substital
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for more permissions (10 vs 5)
    • Listed under Education
  6. 6

    Subtitle Overlay: Add Subtitles to Any Video

    Load or search subtitle files. No file? Turn English speech into subtitles on your device (Beta, free). Fix the timing as you watch.

    ≈4K users4.5★ from 19 ratingsUpdated 4 days ago6 permissions
    • About 100× fewer users than Substital
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for more permissions (6 vs 5)
  7. 7

    Subtitles for Youtube

    Use this extension to add subtitles available to user to any YouTube video

    ≈20K users2.9★ from 602 ratingsNot updated for 4+ years2 permissions
    • About 20× fewer users than Substital
    • Rated 1.3 stars lower
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 5)
    • Listed under Workflow & Planning
  8. 8

    Trancy - AI Translator & Dual Subtitles

    Trancy provides bilingual subtitle for platforms like YouTube, Netflix, as well as AI translator for websites.

    ≈300K users4.3★ from 2.8K ratingsUpdated 6 days ago4 permissions
    • A similar number of users to Substital
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for fewer permissions (4 vs 5)
    • Listed under Education
  9. 9

    Vi Subtitle: Add Live Captions to Any Webpage

    Vi Subtitle - Add Live Captions for your watching video or speech with AI

    ≈10K users2.6★ from 22 ratingsUpdated 6 days ago7 permissions
    • About 40× fewer users than Substital
    • Rated 1.6 stars lower
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for more permissions (7 vs 5)
    • Listed under Tools
  10. 10

    Better YouTube Subtitles

    Adds more customization options to YouTube subtitles.

    ≈4K users4.1★ from 26 ratingsUpdated 5 weeks ago3 permissions
    • About 100× fewer users than Substital
    • Asks for fewer permissions (3 vs 5)

Substital alternatives: questions

What is the best alternative to Substital?

By users, the most popular alternative is Trancy - AI Translator & Dual Subtitles with ≈300K users and a 4.3-star rating. The closest match by what it does is Movie Subtitles.

Which Substital alternative has the best rating?

Trancy - AI Translator & Dual Subtitles has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.3 out of 5 from 2.8K ratings.

Is there a Substital alternative that asks for fewer permissions?

SubStream: Add Subtitles to Videos asks for 1 permissions, against 5 for Substital.

How many alternatives to Substital are there?

We list 10 close alternatives to Substital on the Chrome Web Store, picked by what they do and ranked by how close they are.

Users and ratings are the figures shown on the Chrome Web Store, re-checked continuously. Alternatives are matched on name, description, category and topic. Browse best-of lists by niche.