AutoSubs by Tom Moroney
On-device subtitle generation with speaker labels that sends captions straight into DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro and After Effects.
Video assembly and rendering Open source
Price
Free
Free and open source; transcription runs locally.
Commercial use
Yes
MIT
Credit the author
Not needed
No credit needed
Agent access
Download only
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AutoSubs popularity
Downloads
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PyPI, last 7 days, None
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- AutoSubs (Video assembly and rendering). On-device subtitle generation with speaker labels that sends captions straight into DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro and After Effects. Price: free; commercial use OK; no credit needed. Connect: download from https://tom-moroney.com/auto-subs/ (no API). Get files: Download the installer for your platform from https://github.com/tmoroney/auto-subs/releases/latest (exe, pkg, deb, rpm). Not allowed: Keep the MIT license notice when you redistribute the code. Rule: Keep the MIT license notice when you redistribute the code. License: https://github.com/tmoroney/auto-subs/blob/main/LICENSE (checked 2026-10-19; details: https://agentgid.com/assets/auto-subs/)
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License
| License | MIT |
|---|---|
| Commercial use | Commercial use OK“to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software” github.com/tmoroney/auto-subs/blob/main/LICENSE |
| Credit | No credit needed“The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.” github.com/tmoroney/auto-subs/blob/main/LICENSE |
| Inside your app or game | Can ship inside your app Same clause as quoted for commercial use. |
| Monetized YouTube | OK in monetized YouTube videos |
| AI training | Not stated |
| Bots and bulk downloads | Not stated |
| Rules |
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Connect it to an agent
| How an agent gets files | Download the installer for your platform from https://github.com/tmoroney/auto-subs/releases/latest · no sign-in |
|---|---|
| File formats | exe, pkg, deb, rpm |
| Not allowed |
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| MCP server | None found |
| API | No public API: download by hand |
| GitHub | tmoroney/auto-subs |
Pricing
| Free | Free and open source; transcription runs locally. |
|---|---|
| Paid from | — |
| Usage price | — |
| Good to know | Open source (MIT). Transcription runs on your own machine. |
Sources
Read on Oct 19, 2026: github.com/tmoroney/auto-subs, github.com/tmoroney/auto-subs/blob/main/LICENSE.
Not confirmed: Terms of the speech and language models each tool downloads or calls are separate from the MIT code license.
Not legal advice. Check the license page before you ship.
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