What this is

moansubs is a shared subtitle database for Stash libraries. Someone subtitles a scene once; everyone else who has that scene gets the subtitle too — even though their copy is a different encode with a completely different filename.

That works because subtitles here are matched to the video itself, not its name. Stash already computes a fingerprint for every scene — a cheap file-identity hash (oshash) and, once you turn it on, a perceptual hash (phash) that survives re-encoding. moansubs keys subtitles on those fingerprints, so a re-rip, a different container, or a renamed file still finds the same subtitles.

Every subtitle in the catalogue is released under CC0 — public domain, no attribution required, do what you like with it. Using the site to search or download costs nothing and needs no account.

Three doors, one catalogue

• The Stash plugin adds a Subtitles panel to every scene page, plus a badge on scene cards that already have something. This is the easiest way in if you use Stash — see Installing the plugin.
• MoanDrop is a desktop app — a drag-and-drop window plus a command-line tool — for everyone else: no Stash, no account needed just to find and download. See Installing MoanDrop.
• The website lets you browse, search, upload, and vote without Stash or MoanDrop open at all — useful from a phone, or for a file nothing else has scanned yet. See Browsing and registering.

Download something through any of the three and it's there through the others too — they're all windows onto the same server.