Captions in your language on any Android phone
Snagcast is a free app for Windows and Android that captions the videos you watch on your phone and translates them into your language in real time.
Android's Live Caption captions up to 15 languages on a Pixel 6 or later and selected phones, fewer on older ones, and if a phone has no Live Caption, Google says to ask its maker (checked on November 1, 2026). Snagcast brings its own speech and translation, whatever your phone's make: it hears 100 spoken languages and translates them into any of 66 (see each one), on your phone, for the videos of the websites you open in it, YouTube included, and video files.
Live Caption and Snagcast
- Languages: Live Caption, up to 15, depending on the phone. Snagcast hears 100 and translates into 66.
- Translation: on Pixel phones, Live Translate adds translation, and what it translates depends on the model. Snagcast translates captions on any phone it runs on.
- What it captions: Live Caption, sound in most apps, calls included. Snagcast, the videos you open in it.
- Where it is done: both hear on your phone, and Snagcast translates there too.
- Only in Snagcast: the line as spoken with its translation under it, captions kept as .srt files, and a moment clipped with its captions drawn in.
How to
- Get Snagcast for Android and open the video in it: go to its website, or paste its link. A video file works too.
- Tap CC.
- In the caption settings, turn on Translate captions and choose your language under Translate to.
- Play the video: the translated captions appear as it plays. Under Show, choose your language, the line as spoken, or both.
Free, or Pro
Captions are free. Each phone also translates 30 minutes of video for free, with no account and no card. Snagcast Pro (US$29.90, one payment, no subscription) translates without limits and adds the most accurate speech models (the most accurate needs 4 GB of memory or more).
Questions
Does Snagcast caption other apps or calls? No. Snagcast captions and translates the videos you open in it: websites and video files. Live Caption captions sound in other apps.
Does it work on YouTube? Yes, and on the videos of the other websites you open in Snagcast. See real-time translation.
What if the video has no captions? Snagcast makes them from the speech, then translates them. See translate a video that has no subtitles.
Do my videos leave my phone? No. There are no Snagcast accounts, no ads and no tracking. Privacy says exactly what leaves your device.
Mac and iPhone? Coming soon.