# Install subtitle-edit with Homebrew Cask Subtitle editor. Version 5.3.0 via Homebrew Cask; verified from local package data. ## Install ```sh sudo av install cask:subtitle-edit ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew Cask (100%): ```sh brew install --cask subtitle-edit ``` Evidence: local Homebrew cask metadata ## Package facts - **Package key:** cask:subtitle-edit - **Package manager:** Homebrew Cask - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 5.3.0 - **Source summary:** Subtitle editor - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **Source archive:** - **Generated:** 2026-11-04T12:20:42+00:00 ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: not available ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-11-04 - Package-manager version: 5.3.0 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit - info: No package-manager update timestamp was available. - info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available. ## Project history and usage Subtitle Edit is a free, open-source application for creating, editing, synchronizing, converting, transcribing, translating, and OCR-processing video subtitles. ### Project history Subtitle Edit was developed as a free, open-source editor for video subtitles and accumulated support for hundreds of text, binary, and image-based subtitle formats. The project later undertook a ground-up Avalonia rewrite. Subtitle Edit 5 retained the core editing workflow while adding a shared cross-platform codebase, a JSON settings format, and bundled media components in selected packages. ### Adoption history Subtitle Edit became a mature open-source Windows subtitle workstation with extensive format support and workflows for timing, waveform editing, OCR, spell checking, and conversion. Subtitle Edit 5.0.0, released in June 2026, brought the project to Windows, Linux, and macOS through one Avalonia-based codebase. The project continued to offer Subtitle Edit 4 for older Windows systems and specialized workflows not yet present in the rewrite. ### How it is used Users open or create subtitle files, align text with video or waveforms, repair timing and formatting, convert among more than 380 formats, and save or export the result. Optional workflows can generate subtitles through speech recognition, translate text, OCR image-based subtitle streams, or burn subtitles into video. Some integrations use third-party online providers, but the core editor operates offline. Subtitle Edit 5 stores settings in Settings.json within its platform data folder. Official documentation provides an in-application shortcut for opening that folder. ### Why package nerds care Subtitle Edit combines work often split among several media tools: format conversion, timing repair, waveform synchronization, OCR, speech recognition, translation, and subtitle rendering. The fifth-generation rewrite is especially notable to packagers because it replaced the Windows Forms architecture with a cross-platform application and added native macOS and Linux distributions while retaining portable builds. ### Timeline - Before 2026: Subtitle Edit developed into a feature-rich Windows subtitle editor with broad format and media-tool support. - 2026: Subtitle Edit 5.0.0 introduced a rewritten Avalonia application for Windows, Linux, and macOS. - 2026: Subsequent Subtitle Edit 5 releases continued expanding the new cross-platform generation while Subtitle Edit 4 remained available. ### Related projects - FFmpeg supplies media inspection and audio/video processing used by many Subtitle Edit workflows. - mpv supplies the default video-player backend on Linux and macOS. - Tesseract, Whisper-family implementations, and other optional engines support OCR and speech-to-text workflows. - SeConv is the project's related headless subtitle conversion utility built from the same core libraries. ### Sources - - - - - ## Security Notes No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for subtitle-edit. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL. ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: ~/.config/Subtitle Edit/Settings.json - Windows: %APPDATA%\Subtitle Edit\Settings.json ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew cask API - **Tap:** homebrew/cask - **Full Token:** subtitle-edit - **Names:** Subtitle Edit - **Depends On:** Macos: >=: 12 - **Artifacts:** App: 1, Target: 1, Zap: 1 - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no ## Related links - [Homebrew Cask packages](https://pkg.so/homebrew-cask-packages/) - Generated from Homebrew Cask package-manager metadata. - [Homebrew Cask applications](https://pkg.so/homebrew-cask-applications/) - Cask artifact metadata includes an app bundle. - [Desktop app packages](https://pkg.so/desktop-app-packages/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts. - [subtitle-studio](https://pkg.so/cask/subtitle-studio/) - Package names and metadata indicate a similar tool family. Shared terms: subtitle. - [4peaks](https://pkg.so/cask/4peaks/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: edit, editor. - [adze](https://pkg.so/cask/adze/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: edit, editor. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/subtitle-edit.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/subtitle-edit.yml) ## Sources - package-page enrichment - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - package version freshness - package relationship graph - cross-ecosystem install command graph