YuzuLingo vs Animebook (animebook)
YuzuLingo stays in the browser. You cover burned-in subtitles on the video you are already watching, including YouTube, Bilibili, and other web players. There is no file to drop in and no subtitle file to start from. Turn on Interact to read the burned-in line on your device, with furigana or pinyin when the language has them. Show that text always, on hover, or while you hold a hotkey.
Animebook is a webpage, in the repo animebook.github.io. The README says it is unmaintained and points you to asbplayer. You drop a local video and a vtt, srt, or ass file onto the page. The subtitle text sits in the browser, so a popup dictionary such as Yomichan can look a word up. You can replay a caption, copy the line, copy a screenshot, and retime the subtitles, then download them as an srt. A separate Chrome extension can add a screenshot, audio, and the subtitle line to the latest Anki card. Yomichan is what creates that card. The page can pause when a caption ends. Browsers often cannot play HEVC or AC3. The last push was about 2 years ago. MIT license.
GitHub - animebook/animebook.github.io: In-browser video player for learning Japanese with subtitlesWhere each one fits
| Feature | YuzuLingo | Animebook |
|---|---|---|
| Watch the web video you already have open, no file to drop in | ||
| Cover burned-in subs while a web video plays | ||
| No video file to start from | ||
| No subtitle file to start from | ||
| Read that burned-in line while the web video plays, on your device | ||
| Furigana or pinyin on that line | ||
| Show that text always, on hover, or while you hold a hotkey | ||
| Look up a subtitle word with a popup dictionary such as Yomichan | ||
| Copy the subtitle line | ||
| Retime the subtitle and download it as an SRT | ||
| Add a screenshot, audio, and the subtitle line to the latest Anki card | ||
| Add the line to an Anki deck |