← Snagcast

Watch videos with captions in your language

Snagcast is a free app for Windows and Android that puts captions in your language on the videos you watch, translated in real time as they play.

It translates a video's own captions or subtitles into any of 49 languages. When a video has none, Snagcast makes them from what is said (100 spoken languages) and translates those. It works on the videos of the websites you open in Snagcast, YouTube included, and on video files you add. Captions and translation are made on your device: your videos are not sent to Snagcast.

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How to

  1. Open the video in Snagcast: go to its website, or paste its link. A video file works too.
  2. Turn on captions: Captions beside the video on Windows, CC on Android.
  3. In the caption settings, turn on Translate captions and choose your language under Translate to.
  4. Under Show, choose your language, the line as spoken, or both.
Snagcast on Windows: an English film with Spanish captions.

Languages

Snagcast hears 100 spoken languages (Cantonese with the Pro speech model) and translates captions into English, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian, Arabic, Hindi, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Turkish, Dutch, Polish, Bengali, Urdu, Persian, Marathi, Tamil, Malay, Tagalog, Romanian, Greek, Czech, Swedish, Hungarian, Hebrew, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Danish, Finnish, Slovak, Norwegian, Croatian, Catalan, Albanian, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Latvian, Estonian, Galician, Afrikaans and Icelandic.

Free, or Pro

Each phone and computer 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, adds Pro translation on your computer, and translates into up to 5 languages at once there.

Questions

Does it work on YouTube? Yes. Snagcast captions the videos of the websites you open in it, YouTube included, and uses a video's own captions when it has them.

Does it translate as the video plays? Yes, in real time: each line is translated as the video plays. See real-time translation.

What if the video has no captions? Snagcast makes them from the speech, on your device, then translates them. See captions for a video that has none.

Can I see the original line too? Yes: tick your language and Original under Show. See two captions at once.

Can I keep the translated captions? Clip a moment with them drawn into the picture (clip with captions). Export .srt… keeps them as subtitle files, one for each language.

Do my videos leave my device? No. There are no Snagcast accounts, no ads and no tracking. Privacy says exactly what leaves your device.

Mac and iPhone? Coming soon.