We spent the last three months rebuilding the subtitle editor around one principle: your edits and your content come first. Everything you type now lands instantly, stays safe through reloads and shaky connections, and exports exactly as you see it.
TL;DR
Every keystroke, split, merge, and undo now applies instantly on your device and syncs in the background — no more waiting on the network.
Your text has one source of truth. The old glitches — disappearing characters, text lost while splitting a cue, stale translations — are gone at the root.
Redesigned preview and Timeline, a Source track switcher for multi-source projects, cross-track Find and replace, dependable Version history, and faster, more faithful exports.
Editing at the speed of typing
The old editor confirmed many edits with the server before they fully settled — on a slow connection, undo after splitting a cue could hang for seconds. The new engine commits every change to your device first and syncs quietly behind the scenes. Typing, splitting, merging, and undo/redo are now immediate, every time, even mid-sync.
Built to never lose a word
Subtitles are your content, and the editor's first job is to keep every word safe. The new engine stores your track as a single authoritative document: edits survive page reloads, offline moments, and flaky networks, and each change is recorded exactly once — no duplicates, no silent drops. The bug classes that used to bite — deleted characters reappearing, text vanishing during a split, translations going stale — were all symptoms of the old architecture, and they're gone with it.
Preview and Timeline, redesigned
Drag a cue on the Timeline and its neighbours now shift out of the way instead of blocking you. Seeking is precise, and playback follow no longer yanks the cue list around while you're editing. The preview stays true to what your export will look like.
Every track, one editor
Projects with multiple sources now open every track in the same editor — switch between them with the Source track selector. Find and replace works across tracks, so one pass can clean up a term everywhere.
Version history you can rely on
Version history snapshots both your content and your track lineup. Restoring a version brings back the project exactly as it was then — including which tracks existed — and nothing is ever truly lost: any version remains recoverable.
Sharper, faster exports
A new rendering engine powers subtitle export. Rendered videos match the editor preview more closely and finish faster.
Why a three-month rebuild?
We could have kept patching glitches one by one. But every fix was fighting the same root cause: the old editor kept several copies of your subtitle text and synced them by hand, and every gap between copies was a chance to lose your work. That's not good enough for the place where your content becomes final. So we rebuilt the editing core on the same collaborative-editing technology that powers modern shared documents — one owner for every character, offline-safe by design. It took three months to do it right, and it's the foundation the next year of editor features will stand on.
This is just the beginning
The new engine unlocks what we hear asked for most — real-time collaboration is now on the horizon. To try the new editor: open any subtitle project. It's already on for everyone.