Watching movies on your Android phone has its advantage. Since phones are portable, you can watch movies anywhere. The portability is attractive, but it also means you may end up watching movies in a crowded area. And if you don’t own a noise-canceling headphone, the hubbub will drown the audio. This is where subtitles help. Since you can read the dialogues in real-time, even if you missed something in audio, you won’t lose the context.

Here, we have added four different methods using multiple video players so you have many options at your disposal. Based on your preference, you can click on the link below and move to the corresponding method easily.

  • Add Subtitles on Android Automatically Using VLC
  • Add Subtitles on Android Automatically Using MX Player
  • Add Subtitles to a Movie on Android Manually
  • Use a Dedicated Subtitle Downloader For Android (Automatic)

Add Subtitles to Movies on Android Using VLC

  1. First of all, download VLC for Android app (Free, offers in-app purchases) on your smartphone.

  2. Subtitles will be instantly added to the movie on your Android device instantly. If you find there is a delay in subtitles then you can customize it from the same menu or you can download a new subtitle.

  3. Another player that offers online subtitles is MX Player (Free, Contains ads) so just go ahead and install it on your Android device.

  4. After that, click on “Online subtitles“.

In this method, we need to download the subtitle file manually on our smartphone. There are many websites that will let you download subtitles for movies, TV shows, and music videos. Most of them are completely free to use and offer subtitles in different languages. Some of the popular websites are mentioned below:

  1. Once you have downloaded a subtitle, locate it on your smartphone using a file explorer and extract it. You should get a SRT file and that’s your subtitle file.

Use a Dedicated Subtitle Downloader For Android (Automatic)

Now that you know how to add subtitles to a video, it is time to automate the process. It can be quite difficult to go through the process mentioned above for each video. This is why Play Store is full of apps that will let you download subtitles in just a single tap and even in batch mode. Most of these apps can integrate with your current video player (if you are using a popular one) and automatically add subtitles to it.

Get Subtitles is an ad-supported app with a simple interface. It will automatically look for videos on your phone and show them in the main interface. However, it doesn’t work well with external storage, but you can manually search for the video if it isn’t picked up. We have to say the app is quite fast and accurate when it comes to finding subtitles.

Install (Free, offers in-app purchases)

GMT Subtitles is a completely free-to-use app without any kind of ads. The app will search for all the videos on your phone and display them on the main interface. From there, all you need to do is tap on the video for which you need subtitles and they will be immediately displayed.

3. Subtitle Downloader

Subtitle Downloader is an ad-supported app with a premium version that unlocks all features. The free version is actually quite limited, but the paid version is definitely worth the money. Like other apps, it will also automatically search for all the videos on your phone, but the manual search feature is only available in the paid version.

So these are the 4 best ways you can add subtitles and sync them with movies instantly. Personally, I use VLC as it supports both automatic and manual methods and there are customizable options too. Not to mention, there are no ads whatsoever. Anyway, that is all from us. But what about you? Do tell us about your favorite method and which one do you find more reliable.