Subtivals
Built by cinema and theater subtitle professionals
Intuitive Interactions
No user manual required to get started! Install, play and go live in one moment! Keyboard shortcuts can be customized too!
Multiple Formats
Support of Advanced SubStation Alpha (SSA, ASS, .ass), Subrip (.srt), DCP (.xml), and simple text (*.txt) subtitles.
Crash proof
Its reliability has been proven at hundreds of film festivals, opera houses, and theaters since 2011 — live subtitle projection should never fail during a performance!
Automatic & Manual
Subtivals excels at live subtitle projection control, seamlessly blending automatic and manual modes to handle any situation on stage or screen.
Its semi-automatic mode without timecodes lets you project supertitles at opera houses and theaters — as well as ballets, concerts, speeches, museum installations, guided tours, and any other live event.
Professional subtitle styling
Fine-tune colors, fonts, size, outline, and styles — with multi-line support for the best on-screen readability in any venue.
Advanced positioning lets you faithfully reproduce music cues, ambiance, and dialogue for multilingual, deaf, and hearing-impaired audiences.
International character sets are fully supported — Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, and more.
Used worldwide
"Our association is focused on events for hearing impaired: Subtivals is the best tool for accessibility!"
Camille — Sens Dessus Dessous (France)
"Using Subtivals feels like driving a convertible Mustang!"
Francisco Baudet — Professional subtitler (France)
"We are very happy to have found your software, last year we did everything manually… that was a nightmare!"
Tom Lukaszewicz — BLACK BEAR FILMFEST (Poland)
"We've found it so much more practical than any other tool we had ever tried."
Simona Marino — Sud.titles (Italy)
Operas, Theaters & Events
- Cinema Multisala Odeon (Pisa, Italy)
- Macerata Opera Festival (Italy)
- TEDx Toulouse (France)
- Finger Lakes Opera (State University of New York, USA)
- Opera Curlew River (Lírica Lado B, Argentina)
- Teatr Narodowy (Warszawa, Poland)
- Theater Osnabrück (Frankfurt, Germany)
- Les Cinémas du Grütli (Genève, Switzerland)
- Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, USA)
- Film Forum (New York, USA)
- Frascati Theater (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Teatr Śląski (Katowice, Poland)
- Teatr Norwida (Jelenia Góra, Poland)
- Kinodvor (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
- Brooklyn Academy of Music (New York City, USA)
- Cinema Akil (Dubai)
- La Grange, Centre Arts et Sciences / UNIL (Switzerland)
Companies & Organizations
- Le Joli Mai (France)
- Fila13 (Barcelona, Spain)
- Lycée Français Sainte Pulchérie (Istanbul, Turkey)
- Racti Production (Lebanon)
- Filmoteca UNAM (Mexico)
- Gutek Film (Poland)
- CALF Studio (Japan)
- Sens Dessus Dessous (France)
- MultiSignes (Spain)
- Lab 80 (Italy)
- Cinémathèque Québécoise (Québec, Canada)
- French Institute Alliance Française (New York, USA)
- SudTitles (Roma, Italy)
- Favoriz Productions (France)
- Institut Français du Vietnam
- National Audiovisual Institute (Finland)
- Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences (USA)
- Fundacja Katarynka (Wrocław, Poland)
- Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava
- 24Frame Kinoprojektion (Hamburg, Germany)
- Iguale Accessibility Communication (São Paulo, Brazil)
- Subbabel (Las Palmas, Spain)
- Hein?! Subtitles (Porto, Portugal)
- Metrograph (New York, USA)
Cinema Festivals
- Lisbon Arab Film Festival (LAFF) (since 2024)
- Festival Courtmétrange (since 2024)
- Cinematik Film Festival (since 2023)
- Festival de Cine Fantástico de Bilbao (since 2023)
- Curtas Vila do Conde (since 2012)
- Monstra Festival, Portugal (2020)
- Festival Internacional Cervantino, Mexico (2019)
- El Gouna Film Festival, Egypt (2019)
- Lucca Film Festival, Italy (2019)
- American Film Fest, Spain (2019)
- Cineteca di Bologna, Italy (2018)
- Doclisboa, Portugal (2018)
- Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia (2015)
- Sicilia Queer, Italy (2015)
- Bergamo Film Meeting, Italy (2015)
- Olhar de Cinema, Brazil (2015)
- Cinélatino de Toulouse, France (2013, 2012, 2011)
- Résistances à Foix, France (2013, 2012)
- Transilvania International Film Festival, Romania (2014)
- Festival Cine sordo, Ecuador (2012)
- Festival International du film d'Amiens (2012, 2011)
- Festival de Cinéma d'Amérique Latine de Biarritz (2011)
Subtivals in action
Live Subtitle Projection at Film Festivals, Theaters & Operas
Subtivals is the most widely used live subtitle projection software at cinema festivals — trusted for both international captioning and deaf accessibility.
Real-time electronic subtitle projection — also called soft-titling, surtitling, or supertitling — displays synchronized captions alongside or above the projected film, stage production, or live performance.
One-click installers
Mac OS X
- Help and support
- Unlimited computers
- Software updates
Windows 10/11/12
- Help and support
- Unlimited computers
- Software updates
Note: Subtivals remains a Free and Open Source Software, released under the GNU Public License.
We sell the one-click installers on proprietary operating systems to finance development and promote GNU/Linux!