Amara
Add subtitles and captions to videos online with professional editing and translation tools
- Also known as
- amara
What is Amara?
A cloud-based video captioning and subtitling platform with collaborative editing, translation capabilities, and professional services. Features team workflows, quality management, and integrations with major video hosting platforms.
What Amara does
The capabilities that matter for subtitle captioning, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Architecture model
- Managed cloud saas browser
- Hardcoded video burn in stylized social captions
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- Fcc ada broadcast compliance closed captioning srt vtt
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- Dynamic karaoke style animated word highlighting
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- AI auto translation for multi language tracks
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- Timeline based millisecond timestamp nudging
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- Human in the loop premium proofreading service tier
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- Custom font upload and brand color templating
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- B roll and emoji auto injection based on context
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- Direct xml export to premiere pro final cut
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- SOC2 type ii
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- Mit or apache permissive oss license
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- Pricing model
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Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (2)
Independently observed- YouTube•
- Vimeo•
Amara FAQ
Common questions about Amara, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Amara?
A cloud-based video captioning and subtitling platform with collaborative editing, translation capabilities, and professional services. Features team workflows, quality management, and integrations with major video hosting platforms. It is indexed under Subtitle Captioning.
Source: https://amara.org
What platforms does Amara support?
We have confirmed browser-based access to Amara. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.
Source: https://amara.org
Can Amara be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Amara, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
Source: https://amara.org
Amara alternatives
Other subtitle captioning we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- Submagicmedium · 51%
- Opus ClipAI-powered video clipping and editing for content creatorshigh · 75%
- CaptionsAutomatically add styled captions to videos using AI transcriptionmedium · 74%
- CaptionHubAI-powered platform for creating subtitles and voiceovers in multiple languageshigh · 76%
- AegisubDesktop software for creating and timing subtitles with professional styling toolslow · 31%
- MacWhisperA local audio transcription desktop application for Mac using AI modelsmedium · 52%
Compare Amara
Side by side against other subtitle captioning, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Amara, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Integrations | 14 | 0.05 | 0.7 | ✓ |
| Price level | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
| Capabilities | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
| Pricing transparency | 0 | 0.08 | 0.0 | - |
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All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 3 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 60% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Architecture model: managed_cloud_saas_browser | mediumsource · 2026-09-01 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 2 | mediumsource · 2026-09-01 · 60% |
Pricing
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Model | commercial | mediumsource · 2026-09-01 · 60% |
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