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Create and translate subtitles entirely on your Mac
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Turn recordings into subtitles, translate SRT/VTT files, and export readable transcripts on your Mac. Polyglot keeps media and AI processing local, with editing, bilingual exports, batch translation, video enhancement and compression in one native app. Try unlimited transcription and translation for 7 days without an account. Pro is €29.99 once; editing, conversion, exports and video tools stay free. For Apple Silicon, macOS 14.4+.
PH · launched Sep 25, 2026 · 58 upvotes (top 3%) · 0 views
Niche: audio and video transcription tools · 195 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -27% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Artificial Intelligence
- Video
- Vercel Day
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More like this: all 195 launches in audio and video transcription tools →
Could you build this?
Partial Running local on-device transcription, translation, and video processing on macOS requires native CoreML/Metal optimization for models like Whisper and local LLMs alongside FFmpeg integration.
What it would actually take: Requires a native macOS app (Swift/SwiftUI) bundled with an optimized local inference engine (such as `whisper.cpp` running on Metal/Apple Neural Engine) and local machine translation models. Developers must handle complex native media pipelines with FFmpeg or AVFoundation for video enhancement, compression, and sub-millisecond subtitle timing alignment.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 528 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #31 of 529 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 272 days after the earliest competitor.
- Subti · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- ClipGlobe · ph · 2026-10-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Tipword · ph · 2026-09-29 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Scribo · ph · 2026-10-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Sablate · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- VGLOT · ph · 2026-10-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- SubtitleGenerator · ph · 2026-08-22 · 216 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Alison Workspace · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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