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German and English captions, translated as the video plays

Snagcast is a free app for Windows and Android that captions the videos you watch and translates the captions in real time, on your device. These screenshots show it turning German speech into English captions and English speech into German captions, on Windows and on Android.

A German video with English captions

Snagcast on Windows: a German video with English captions, “Many might only know Berlin” over “Viele kennen vielleicht nur Berlin”.
Windows: Viele kennen vielleicht nur Berlin → Many might only know Berlin

Video: WIKITONGUES- Gereon speaking German by Bogreudell, CC BY-SA 4.0, on Wikimedia Commons.

An English video with German captions

Snagcast on Windows: a English video with German captions, “Ich bin Catherine Trautmann.” over “I am Catherine Trautmann.”.
Windows: I am Catherine Trautmann. → Ich bin Catherine Trautmann.
Snagcast on Android: a English video with German captions, “Ich bin Catherine Trautmann.” over “I am Catherine Trautmann.”.
Android: I am Catherine Trautmann. → Ich bin Catherine Trautmann.

Video: Trautmann, Catherine (en) by Manuel Schneider, CC BY 3.0, on Wikimedia Commons.

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. Under Spoken language, keep Auto-detect or choose the language spoken.
  4. Turn on Translate captions and choose German or English under Translate to.
  5. Under Show, tick Original too to see both lines, as here.

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Snagcast translates captions into German on Windows and Android, and makes captions from German speech on both. See every language.

Shot on November 1, 2026 with Snagcast Pro switched on, the captions as Snagcast made them. Other speech and translation models' captions can differ. Each phone and computer translates 30 minutes of video for free.

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