Amara

Teams and volunteer communities producing captions and translations collaboratively

Amara is the long-running collaborative subtitling platform with deep roots in accessibility and education. The Amara Public Workspace — the free volunteer space — closes on April 30, 2026, which changes the calculus for hobbyists. Paid tiers continue, and the workflow remains more thoughtful than anything in the social-caption category.

Amara is a long-running collaborative subtitling platform with deep roots in accessibility, education, and nonprofit work. The web-based editor supports multiple contributors working on the same video, with reviewer roles, version history, and translation flows across most major languages. For institutions producing captions at scale across many videos with volunteer or staff contributors, the workflow is more thoughtful than anything in the social-caption category. The single biggest change in 2026 is the closure of the Amara Public Workspace on April 30 — the free anyone-can-caption-anything tier. Videos already there must be migrated to a private team to remain accessible, and unmigrated subtitles need downloading by the deadline. Paid tiers continue. Amara Plus and Amara Enterprise provide private team workspaces, audit trails, and SSO. Amara Orders Workspace is the new entry point for single users post-migration. Amara On Demand provides access to human captioners and translators when teams need professional output. Amara is not an AI caption stylist — no animated word pops, no aggressive highlight behaviour, no TikTok template library. Captions are accessible by default with clean line breaks and reading-speed considerations. For accessibility compliance, education, and translation-heavy distribution, it remains a defensible platform. For solo creators chasing engagement, the fit is poor. Trusted by major broadcasters and universities for over a decade.