# Amara Translation and Subtitling

> Amara is a nonprofit video accessibility platform and language-services operation run by the Participatory Culture Foundation. It combines a browser-based subtitle editor, team workflows, AI-assisted captions and professional human captioning and translation for creators, educators, publishers and community organizations.

- **Founded:** 2010
- **Headquarters:** Boston, United States
- **Founders:** Nicholas Reville (Co-founder), Dean Jansen (Co-founder)
- **Products:** Amara Subtitle Editor, Amara Personal Orders Workspace, Amara Plus, Amara Enterprise, Amara Integrated
- **Notable:** 2011 Tech Award recipient., FCC accessibility award recognition., UNAOC/BMW Intercultural Innovation Award recognition.

## Products & services

- **Amara Subtitle Editor** — Browser-based creation, timing, translation and review of subtitles; manual editing supports more than 400 languages.
- **Amara Personal Orders Workspace** — Single-user private workspace; current plan page lists a $5 minimum order and pay-as-you-go captions.
- **Amara Plus** — Private small-team workspace, advertised at $24/month for two users, $12 per additional user, with 60 AI caption minutes per month.
- **Amara Enterprise** — Custom-priced team management, permissions and configurable review workflows.
- **Amara Integrated** — Embeds the editor into an existing website or content management workflow; custom pricing.
- **Amara On Demand** — Professional captioning, translated subtitles, transcription and text translation in 50+ languages; project quotes apply.
- **AI Captions** — Automatic draft captions in 30+ languages, advertised from $0.35/minute; human proofreading is separately available.

## Achievements

- 2011 Tech Award recipient.
- FCC accessibility award recognition.
- UNAOC/BMW Intercultural Innovation Award recognition.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — October 21 blog post advocated pairing machine translation with professional linguistic judgment.
- **2026-10** — October 8 blog post explained managed multilingual subtitling workflows.
- **2026-04** — Announced public-workspace uploads would close April 30; extended existing public subtitle viewing and download deadline to May 15.

## Links

- Website: https://amara.org/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/amara-subtitles/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Amara_PCF
- GitHub: https://github.com/pculture
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/amarasubs
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/amara-pcf.bsky.social
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amara_pcf
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/Amara.PCF

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Last updated: 2026-10-25