Giel Cobben

Giel Cobben is an independent developer whose open-source utility Caption focuses on a single, everyday pain point: locating and syncing subtitles for movies and TV episodes. Built with Electron and deployed for Windows, Caption acts as a lightweight search hub that queries several major subtitle databases in parallel, returning results ranked by language, release name, and user rating. Users drop a video file onto the minimalist interface, and the program hashes the audio track to pinpoint the exact TV or cinematic release; within seconds it lists matching subtitle files that can be previewed, downloaded, and automatically renamed to sit alongside the video. Because the client stores no metadata locally, it remains portable and privacy-friendly, while still offering optional post-download tasks such as UTF-8 conversion and timing offset correction. Typical scenarios include journalists who need quick captions for source footage, language students who want dual-language subtitles for self-study, and home-theater enthusiasts curating libraries for Plex or Kodi. By limiting itself to one well-defined workflow, Caption avoids the feature creep common in larger media suites and instead delivers a fast, keyboard-driven experience that complements existing media players. The software is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always providing the latest release and allowing multiple applications to be installed in one batch operation.