SurfLingo turns a subtitled video into an interactive language lesson. Submit a film, a documentary, a series or a podcast: listing is free, and you decide whether it is given away, pay-what-you-want, or paid.
Submit a workFree · No exclusivity · Withdraw at any time
What you get out of it
Your subtitles stop being text at the bottom of the screen: every word is defined, graded by CEFR level, and lands in the viewer’s vocabulary notebook. A documentary from 2019 becomes usable again.
Our users pick a title for its level and its subject, not its release date. A back catalogue is an asset here, where it is a blind spot everywhere else.
You allow us — or not — to translate your subtitles into our other languages. It is one checkbox, it can be undone, and nothing is translated without it.
The terms
We charge nothing for submission, hosting, or subtitle generation. There is no creator subscription, and there will not be one for the first wave.
You remain free to distribute your work anywhere else, at the same time. A title can be pulled from the catalogue on request, within 30 days.
You keep every one of your rights. We use your work only within the agreed scope, never resell it, and derive no training dataset from it.
Your price
The model is chosen per work, and can be changed later. Nothing forces you to monetise.
Your work is available at no charge. A good choice to find an audience again, or to restore access for viewers who already bought the film from you elsewhere.
The viewer pays what they like. You set the minimum: zero — they can then watch without paying — or a floor, if you prefer a threshold.
A single amount, set by you. This is the closest thing to what a Vimeo On Demand storefront used to do.
As of today, SurfLingo does not yet collect payments on your behalf and does not pay out automatically. The model you state here commits the catalogue and is what we use to build the payment chain; we will write to you before the first euro is collected. We would rather say so now than let you find out later.
What to provide
MP4 preferred, MKV and MOV accepted. For a podcast, an MP3 is enough. We work from the link you give us — nothing to upload here.
In .srt, in the spoken language. That is what makes a work usable straight away: with no text, there is no word to click.
Free of charge, with our transcription models, and we send them to you for review before anything goes live. You keep the final say on the text.
How it works
The form below. Allow five minutes.
Every submission is read by a person: nature of the work, rights, subtitle quality. We answer all of them, including when the answer is no.
We generate or proofread the subtitles, then send them back for your approval.
Your work joins the catalogue with the pricing model you chose.
To be clear
If you are looking to replace a VOD storefront like for like, these four points should stop you before you fill in the form.
Submit a work
A well-filled submission saves three rounds of email. We answer every request.
Would you rather write to us directly? support@surflingo.app
FAQ
Nothing. Not the submission, not the hosting, not the subtitle generation. Were that ever to change, it would apply to new submissions only, never retroactively.
Yes. There is no exclusivity, no territory and no minimum term. You can pull your work from the catalogue on request, within 30 days.
No. Tick the relevant box and we produce them at our expense, then send them to you for review. Nothing goes live before you have approved the text.
It is stored on European servers and played inside the app, never redistributed and never downloadable by the viewer. We derive no training dataset from it.
On that title, it is a blocker: we only list works whose submitter holds the distribution rights. Nothing stops you from starting with the part of your catalogue that is clear.
Not yet, and we will not give you a date we could not keep. The payment chain is being built; the model you state on submission is what we size it against. You will be told before the first collection.
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