Turn ASS subtitles into TXT. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop ASS files here
or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V
from Photos or Files
Ready · other file types work too0 bytes uploaded, ever
Drop ASS (SSA, SubStation Alpha) files onto the box above, or click it to choose them. ToAny reads the file's contents to detect the type, so a wrong extension does not matter.
Press Convert. There is nothing else to set. The work happens in this tab.
Save the TXT, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The ASS to TXT converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your subtitles are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so the conversion starts the moment you press Convert, even on a slow connection.
No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.
ASS styling is not understood by simple players, and it is lost when converting to plain formats. Plain text opens on every device and is easy to search or paste elsewhere. ASS is at home in anime and karaoke subtitles with fonts, colours and positioning; TXT is the usual choice for notes, logs and text that must be read by anything.
The text is read as UTF-8 or UTF-16, whichever the file is. An older file in another code page is read using the charset it declares, or as Windows-1252 if it declares none, so accented letters in an unlabelled legacy file can come out wrong. A file that is not text, such as the picture-based subtitles of a DVD, is refused instead of being converted to nonsense. Each line takes its italic, bold, underline and alignment from its style and from override tags; drawing commands and karaoke effects are ignored. The result is a transcript with one cue per line, without times; a cue's own line breaks become spaces.
ASS adds styles to subtitles: fonts, colours, outlines, shadows, exact screen positions and animation effects. Fan-subbed anime and karaoke use it heavily. SSA is the earlier version, and the .ssa extension is read as the same format.
Opens in VLC, mpv, Aegisub and most fan-subtitling and media-server software; not browsers
ASS converterA TXT file is characters and nothing else: no fonts, no images, no layout. That makes it the most portable document there is, and the easiest to search, diff or feed into another program.
Opens in Every device and every text editor
TXT converter| ASSASS/SSA subtitles | TXTPlain text | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Advanced SubStation Alpha | Plain text |
| Type | Styled subtitles | Unformatted text |
| Compression | None | None |
| Introduced | The 2000s, by the SubStation Alpha program and the Aegisub community | The 1960s, by no single author |
| Opens in | VLC, mpv, Aegisub and most fan-subtitling and media-server software; not browsers | Every device and every text editor |
| Best for | Anime and karaoke subtitles with fonts, colours and positioning | Notes, logs and text that must be read by anything |
| File extension | .ass, .ssa | .txt, .text, .log |
No. The ASS to TXT conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
The content is carried over as faithfully as TXT allows; features that TXT does not have are left out.
Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.
The steps are the same everywhere because ToAny runs in the web browser: open this page in a current version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, add the ASS file, press Convert and save the TXT. There is nothing to install.
Yes, but a subtitle file is small. Files up to 50 MB are accepted, far more than any real subtitle file. Beyond that the limit is your device's memory, since nothing is uploaded; a computer copes with large files better than a phone.