Convert SRT subtitles to WebVTT

Drop your .srt file and get a .vtt that any browser can play. No upload, no account, no watermark.

Your file never leaves this tab: the conversion happens in your browser, and nothing is sent to us.

Result

There's nothing to convert yet.

A browser cannot read an SRT file. If you drop one into an HTML5 `<track>` element, nothing shows up — no error, no subtitles, nothing. What browsers read is WebVTT, and the two formats are close enough that the conversion is mechanical: the same timings, the same text, a header on top and a dot instead of a comma in the milliseconds.

That's why almost every online converter for this is three lines of code — and why almost every one of them breaks on the same files. A subtitle downloaded from a real site carries a byte-order mark, Windows line endings, positioning settings and the odd ampersand that WebVTT reads as markup. Ours deals with all of that before writing anything.

What we handle that others don't

  • Byte-order marks and Windows line endings, cleaned before writing the header. A BOM in front of WEBVTT is enough for a player to reject the whole file.
  • Ampersands and angle brackets escaped, so a «Tom & Jerry» doesn't eat the rest of the line.
  • Italics, bold and underline kept: both formats understand them.
  • Timings kept to the millisecond. What comes out is the same file, in another format.

How it works

  1. 1

    Drop the .srt

    Or paste the text straight in. It's read in your browser; nothing travels anywhere.

  2. 2

    Check the result

    You'll see how many subtitles came through and how long they run, plus the converted file.

  3. 3

    Download the .vtt

    Ready for a <track>, for a player, or for anything that expects WebVTT.

Questions

And if what you have is the video?

Upload it and you'll get the transcript with timestamps, the speakers separated by name and a summary with the key points. First 45 seconds free, no account needed.