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VTT to ASS converter, without the upload.

Turn VTT subtitles into ASS. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.

Drop VTT files here

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How to convert VTT to ASS

  1. Add your VTT subtitles

    Drop VTT (WebVTT) 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.

  2. ASS is already chosen

    Press Convert. There is nothing else to set. The work happens in this tab.

  3. Download

    Save the ASS, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.

Why ToAny

  • Private by construction

    The VTT to ASS converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your subtitles are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.

  • No upload, no queue

    Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so the conversion starts the moment you press Convert, even on a slow connection.

  • Free, without an account

    No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.

VTT to ASS: what to expect

VTT is less widely accepted than SRT by desktop players and editors. ASS gives full control over how subtitles look. VTT is at home in captions on web pages and in HTML video players; ASS is the usual choice for anime and karaoke subtitles with fonts, colours and positioning.

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. Of the styling, only italic, bold, underline and the position on screen (top, middle or bottom, left, centre or right) travel between formats; fonts, colours, outlines and effects do not. WebVTT comments, STYLE blocks and region definitions are skipped; the cues, their text and positions are kept. The file is written with a single Default style (Arial, white with a black outline) that the player or Aegisub can restyle, and times are rounded to hundredths of a second, the precision ASS has.

VTT vs ASS

VTT

WebVTT subtitles

WebVTT is the caption format of HTML5 video. It looks like SRT with a WEBVTT header and a full stop in the timestamps, but also supports positioning, styling with CSS, chapters and metadata. Browsers display it natively.

Opens in Web browsers (the HTML track element), YouTube, Vimeo, VLC and streaming players

VTT converter
ASS

ASS/SSA subtitles

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 converter
VTT compared with ASS
VTTWebVTT subtitlesASSASS/SSA subtitles
Stands forWeb Video Text TracksAdvanced SubStation Alpha
TypeSubtitlesStyled subtitles
CompressionNoneNone
Introduced2010, by the WHATWG and W3CThe 2000s, by the SubStation Alpha program and the Aegisub community
Opens inWeb browsers (the HTML track element), YouTube, Vimeo, VLC and streaming playersVLC, mpv, Aegisub and most fan-subtitling and media-server software; not browsers
Best forCaptions on web pages and in HTML video playersAnime and karaoke subtitles with fonts, colours and positioning
File extension.vtt, .webvtt.ass, .ssa

Questions

Are my subtitles uploaded anywhere?

No. The VTT to ASS conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.

Is anything lost when converting VTT to ASS?

No further quality is lost: ASS stores the decoded audio exactly. The result is identical in content.

Can I convert several VTT files at once?

Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.

How do I convert VTT to ASS on Windows, Mac, iPhone or Android?

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 VTT file, press Convert and save the ASS. There is nothing to install.

Is there a file size limit?

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.