Turn SBV captions into CSV. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop SBV 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 SBV 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 CSV, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The SBV to CSV converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your captions 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.
SBV is understood mainly by YouTube and a few caption tools. CSV is plain text that every spreadsheet, database and script can read. SBV is at home in uploading and downloading YouTube captions; CSV is the usual choice for moving tabular data between systems.
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. The result has the columns index, start, end and text, with times as HH:MM:SS.mmm, and starts with a byte-order mark so Excel reads accented letters correctly.
SBV is the plain caption format YouTube exports and accepts: a time range such as 0:00:01.000,0:00:04.000 followed by the text. It carries no styling and few other programs read it.
Opens in YouTube Studio and some caption tools; few media players
SBV converterCSV is a table written as text: one row per line, values separated by commas. Every spreadsheet and database can import and export it, but it holds one sheet only and no formatting, formulas or data types.
Opens in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, databases and any text editor
CSV converter| SBVYouTube SBV subtitles | CSVCSV spreadsheet | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | YouTube caption file | Comma-Separated Values |
| Type | Subtitles | Plain-text table |
| Compression | None | None |
| Introduced | The late 2000s, by Google (YouTube) | The 1970s, by no single author (described in RFC 4180) |
| Opens in | YouTube Studio and some caption tools; few media players | Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, databases and any text editor |
| Best for | Uploading and downloading YouTube captions | Moving tabular data between systems |
| File extension | .sbv | .csv |
No. The SBV to CSV 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 CSV allows; features that CSV 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 SBV file, press Convert and save the CSV. 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.