# Bazarr

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Bazarr and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free tool that downloads subtitles in many languages for a media library, and it is widely used alongside the *arr stack.

## Why people recommend it

- Gets subtitles in several languages (2 comments): "I personally use Bazarr instead, because I also want to download subtitles for different languages." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605707)) "That's been the final fix for me with subtitles" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605721))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Sonarr](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sonarr.md): 38 recommend
- [Radarr](https://hackerapproved.com/p/radarr.md): 33 recommend
- [*arr stack](https://hackerapproved.com/p/arr-stack.md): 21 recommend
- [Overseerr](https://hackerapproved.com/p/overseerr.md): 11 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Bazarr", https://hackerapproved.com/p/bazarr/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).