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VTT to SRT converter, without the upload.

Turn WebVTT captions into SRT for players and editors. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.

Drop VTT files here

or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V

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How to convert VTT to SRT

  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. SRT is already chosen

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

  3. Download

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

Why ToAny

  • Private by construction

    The VTT to SRT 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 SRT: what to expect

Captions downloaded from a website or exported from a web video platform usually arrive as WebVTT, but desktop players, TVs, video editors and many upload forms ask for SRT. SRT is the lowest common denominator of subtitle formats: plain text with numbered cues. WebVTT's CSS styling and metadata have no equivalent in it.

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. Positioned lines are written with {\an} codes, which many players honour; players that do not simply show them at the bottom.

VTT vs SRT

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
SRT

SubRip subtitles

SRT is the plain subtitle format nearly every player accepts: a number, a time range such as 00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:04,000 and one or two lines of text. It has no official specification and only basic styling, which is why it travels so well.

Opens in VLC, YouTube, Plex, most players and video editors

SRT converter
VTT compared with SRT
VTTWebVTT subtitlesSRTSubRip subtitles
Stands forWeb Video Text TracksSubRip subtitle
TypeSubtitlesSubtitles
CompressionNoneNone
Introduced2010, by the WHATWG and W3CAround 2000, by the SubRip program (no formal standard)
Opens inWeb browsers (the HTML track element), YouTube, Vimeo, VLC and streaming playersVLC, YouTube, Plex, most players and video editors
Best forCaptions on web pages and in HTML video playersSubtitles that must work almost everywhere
File extension.vtt, .webvtt.srt

Questions

Are my subtitles uploaded anywhere?

No. The VTT to SRT 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 SRT?

No further quality is lost: SRT 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 SRT 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 SRT. 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.