Subtitle Maker

Subtitle Maker is an approachable and portable software tool that enables you to easily put together subtitles for movies, as the name suggests.

As long as you have .NET Framework installed on your PC, you don't need to set up anything else. This means that you can save the executable file anywhere on the disk and just click it to run.

There's also the possibility to copy it to a pen drive or other removable storage unit to directly launch it on any PC effortlessly. Unlike most installers, it doesn't modify Windows registry settings.

The GUI is user-friendly and invites you to open a video file to view it in the main window, in order to accurately attach subtitle lines to the correct frames.

It's possible to adjust the volume level, pause video playback at any time, seek a particular position using a slider, type or paste subtitle lines in a dedicated dialog beneath the clip, as well as add the current time to a list to review it later and edit text.

The program also lets you open external subtitle files that you want to edit while keeping an eye on the corresponding movie frames. Just keep in mind that only the .srt format is supported. Whether you have imported a subtitle file or written one from scratch, you can save the changes to a .srt file.

No error dialogs popped up in our tests, and the utility didn't hang or crash. Unsurprisingly, it had a good response time and low impact on computer performance, using low CPU and memory.

Although it doesn't integrate rich features, Subtitle Maker offers a straightforward solution for putting together subtitle files with the .srt format, and it can be handled by anyone, even users with no previous experience in such software.