Observed arrival · 2026-09-30
SubtitleFixer: six repairs for subtitles that have gone wrong
A free browser-based set of tools for shifting subtitle timing, correcting drift or garbled text, and converting between SRT, VTT, and ASS formats.
- For
- People repairing subtitle files for video playback
- Worth noticing
- Its ASS-to-SRT conversion says it removes styling tags while keeping italics and bold, converts line breaks, and merges duplicate layered lines.
Field notes
The page organizes its tools around symptoms rather than file extensions alone: a constant delay calls for a shift, while subtitles that grow increasingly out of sync call for drift correction. Its encoding tool describes comparing previews before selecting a language and saving as UTF-8. For format conversion, the site says ASS-to-SRT can preserve italics and bold while removing other styling; these capabilities are described on the homepage, not independently tested here.
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