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Work · August 31, 2026

Subtitles

Private, offline captions for any audio your Mac plays

What it does

Private, offline captions for anything your Mac plays: meetings and calls, videos, podcasts and lectures, drawn as an always-on-top overlay that stays put while you switch apps. Transcription runs locally on-device. 16 languages, no upload, no account. Optional translations in 16 languages. UX is a real caption experience, not in the notch or hidden behind an icon you have to hover, so that it's always easy to read while multitasking.

Live captions for calls, videos, podcasts and lectures on your Mac, drawn above every window. On-device, no upload, no account. Sixteen languages, translated live. $9 once.

Calls, videos, podcasts and lectures, transcribed as they play and drawn in an overlay that stays above every window. Translated live if you want it. Nothing leaves the Mac. Switch apps and the captions stay: the overlay is above every window, and lets clicks through. Click a window to bring it forward. Hold ⇧ and drag the captions to move them, as you would in the app. Point at the captions and they dissolve under you. Hold ⌥ to stack the last few back up. Both work here exactly as they do in the app. In a meeting, second language or not, one missed word costs you the next three. Subtitles captions whatever your Mac is playing, in the app it is playing in, so you keep up without asking…from subtitles-live.com

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