SubExtractor vs AxiSubs Simple Subtitle Editor

SubExtractor makes it effortless to capture and use subtitles directly in Safari. Whether you’re studying, researching, or just following along, SubExtractor turns captions into clean, usable text in seconds. Key Features • Instant Detection – Grab captions instantly from supported sites in Safari. • Clean Reading View – Read subtitles without clutter or distractions. • Copy & Export – Copy to clipboard or save for later study. • Flexible Formatting – Choose flowing paragraphs, a single block, or keep original timestamps. • Privacy First – All processing happens on your device. Nothing leaves Safari. Why SubExtractor? Captions improve focus, comprehension, and accessibility. SubExtractor helps you take better notes, study more effectively, and enjoy videos anywhere—whether in a noisy environment or a quiet one. Designed to be simple, fast, and intuitive, it works seamlessly across iOS and macOS.

AxiSubs is a simple subtitle editor built for touch. Open an ASS or SRT file, or start from a blank project, then time, style and animate every line against your video. When it looks right, burn the subtitles straight into the video, right on your iPhone or iPad. Made for content creators, fansubbers, translators and anyone adding captions to their videos for accessibility or social media. What you see is what you export The live preview is drawn by libass, the same subtitle engine that renders your final video. Outlines, shadows, fonts, positions and transitions look in the preview exactly the way they will in the exported file. A timeline that fits your thumb • The playhead stays in the center: swipe to scrub, pinch to zoom • Tap a block to select it, drag it to move, pull the trim handles to change start and end • Overlapping lines stack in their own lanes so nothing hides behind anything else • Set start or end to the playhead with one tap for fast, accurate timing Every line under control • See every subtitle with its timing and text in one list • Edit text, and nudge timings back or forward by 500 ms • Select many lines and change their style, color and position at once, with the result live in the preview • Undo and redo for every edit Advanced subtitle styling • Font, size, text, outline and shadow colors • Outline and shadow thickness, bold, italic, alignment and margins • Per-word styling: select a single word in a line to give just that word its own color or shadow Transitions Give lines an entrance and an exit with adjustable durations: Fade, Slide up, down, left or right, Zoom, Pop, Blur, Wipe, Spin, Flip, Tracking and Typewriter. Apply them to one line or many. Fonts for every script • 37 free font families included, with coverage for Arabic, Hindi (Devanagari), Thai, Korean, Japanese, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese • Import your own TTF and OTF fonts • Get a warning when a font is missing characters your text needs Burn subtitles into video FFmpeg is built into the app, so there is no extra app or server to set up. Export to MP4, MKV or MOV, choose Fast, Standard or Quality, and keep the original audio as is. You can also save your work as an .ass file. Private and offline Editing, preview and export all run on your device. No account, and your videos are never uploaded. Never lose your work AxiSubs backs up your project automatically as you edit and offers to pick up where you left off when you come back.