Amara
The easiest way to caption and translate video.
Overview
Amara is a project by the Participatory Culture Foundation, designed to make it easy for individuals and teams to manually caption and translate videos. It provides a user-friendly, award-winning subtitle editor that works with videos from platforms like YouTube and Vimeo. While it doesn't have AI transcription, its strength lies in its collaborative workflows, allowing teams of volunteers or professionals to work together on subtitling projects. They offer a free public platform as well as paid enterprise solutions.
✨ Key Features
- Free, public platform for subtitling
- Collaborative subtitle editor
- Customizable team workflows for review and approval
- Integration with YouTube, Vimeo, and other platforms
- Supports hundreds of languages
- Professional subtitling services available (Amara On Demand)
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Focus on collaboration and community.
- Excellent, user-friendly manual subtitle editor.
- Non-profit mission focused on accessibility.
Unique Value: Amara empowers teams and communities to collaboratively create high-quality, manual subtitles and translations through an intuitive and free-to-use platform, making video content more accessible to all.
🎯 Use Cases (4)
✅ Best For
- A community of volunteers translating TED Talks into multiple languages.
- A university team captioning their entire library of lecture videos.
- A non-profit creating subtitles for a documentary to be shared globally.
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Users who want automatic, AI-powered transcription.
- Individuals looking for a quick, one-click captioning solution.
- Video editing beyond subtitling.
🏆 Alternatives
Unlike AI tools, Amara is for manual work, which can result in higher quality. Compared to desktop software like Subtitle Edit, Amara is cloud-based and built for team collaboration.
💻 Platforms
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Dedicated Support (Enterprise tier)
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
✓ 14-day free trial
Free tier: Unlimited for public, community-created subtitles on public videos.
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