YuzuLingo vs VideoSubFinder
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 desktop app to download and no video file to download. 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.
VideoSubFinder is skosnits’s program on SourceForge. It finds frames with hardcoded text in a local video and saves the timing, then makes images with the background cleared so another program, such as FineReader, Subtitle Edit, or Google Drive, can read the text. It runs on Windows and Linux. The last update on the page is 1 May 2023. It does not cover a web video while it plays, and it does not write the subtitle text itself.
VideoSubFinderWhere each one fits
| Feature | YuzuLingo | VideoSubFinder |
|---|---|---|
| Install in the browser, no desktop app to download | ||
| No video file to download | ||
| Cover burned-in subs while a web video plays | ||
| Read that line while the video plays, on your device | ||
| Furigana or pinyin on that line | ||
| Show that text always, on hover, or while you hold a hotkey | ||
| Read the burned-in text without a second OCR program | ||
| Find hardsub frames and their timing in a local video | ||
| Clear the background so another program can read the line | ||
| Add the line to an Anki deck |