Subtitles
Private, offline captions for any audio your Mac plays
Subtitles launched on August 31, 2026 with 2 votes, #5,788 of 23,274 launches that month.
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 app for Mac: calls, videos, podcasts and lectures, captioned above every window. On-device, no upload, no account. Sixteen languages, translated live. Free 7-day trial, no card.
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. Hold ⇧ and drag the captions to move them, as you would in the app. Point at the captions and they dissolve under you, as they do in the app. Click in the menu bar: items marked Try all work in this demo. In a meeting, second language or not, one missed word costs you the next three. Subtitles captions whatever your Mac is playing, in real time, so you keep up without asking anyone to repeat themselves. Hold ⌥ to rewind and search through past captions. Whether you are deaf or hard of hearing , hearing but not…from subtitles-live.com
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