Checksub vs Zubtitle Comparison 2026
Zubtitle does one job: burn in captions, crop to square or vertical, done, with a free plan that actually costs nothing forever for 2 videos a month. Checksub does a bigger job, subtitling, translating and dubbing a video with a cloned voice, and charges for all of it from day one: there is no free tier, only Junior at $12 a month billed yearly. A creator who wants captions on a handful of clips a week and nothing more is paying for features Zubtitle does not have if they buy Checksub instead.
At a glance
- Checksub starts cheaper, at $12.
- Only Zubtitle has a free tier.
Side by side
Checksub | Zubtitle | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $12 | From $19 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free trial, then paid | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier (they differ) | No | Yes |
| Billing | Not stated | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | None |
| API |
Checksub
Subtitles, dubbing and voice cloning
Checksub subtitles a video, translates the result and will dub it in a cloned voice with lip sync, which puts the whole localisation sequence behind one credit balance instead of three services. Credits are issued for the year rather than the month, so a batch of back catalogue does not need spreading across quarters. Subtitle files export as SRT and VTT for anybody who wants to burn them in elsewhere. The entry plan carries a watermark and one translation per project, which is the ceiling most people meet first.
Our note
The watermark is the real difference between the two plans, so price Starter as the entry point if the output is going anywhere public. Count your hours across the whole year before choosing, because credits do not reset monthly and a batch of archive footage will eat the Junior allowance in one sitting.
Only on this side
- Covers transcription & show notes
Zubtitle
Captions and resizing for social video
Why people weigh these two
- Zubtitle instead of Checksub
- Zubtitle captions and resizes social video from $19 with a free tier, enough for short vertical clips that do not need dubbing or voice cloning.
- Checksub instead of Zubtitle
- Checksub adds dubbing and voice cloning on top of subtitles, at $12, more than Zubtitle does but without its simple upload-and-download flow.
Which one should you pick
Choose Checksub if the video needs to reach a second language, dubbed and lip synced in a cloned voice, not just captioned. Starter at $48 a month billed yearly is the plan that actually delivers that, and Zubtitle has no translation or dubbing feature at any price.
Choose Zubtitle if captions, a crop and a watermark-free export are the entire requirement. The free Bootstrapper plan really does run forever for 2 videos a month, no card needed, which is more than Checksub offers at any tier. Guru at $19 a month raises that to 10 videos in up to 4K, still with no translation or dubbing feature, because that is simply not the job this tool does.
Common questions
- Which one has a genuinely free plan?
- Zubtitle does: Bootstrapper runs forever at 2 videos a month, watermarked, with no card required. Checksub has no free tier at all; its cheapest plan is Junior at $12 a month billed yearly.
- Which one can dub a video into another language?
- Checksub can, with a cloned voice and lip sync in beta, from its $48-a-month Starter plan. Zubtitle's listing has no translation or dubbing feature; it burns in captions and crops the frame, nothing else.
- How many videos does each plan actually cover?
- Zubtitle counts videos directly: 2 free a month, 10 on the $19 Guru plan, 30 on the $49 Agency plan. Checksub counts credit hours issued once a year, 24 on Junior and 60 on Starter, which cover subtitling, translation and dubbing together rather than a simple per-video count.
- Does either cap the resolution of the export?
- Zubtitle's free plan caps at 720p; paid plans go up to 4K. Checksub's listing does not state a resolution cap on either of its tiers, only that the entry plan carries a watermark.
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