What is OpenCut?
Timeline editor with auto captions, masks and keyframes that keeps every file on your device.
Who is OpenCut best for?
OpenCut is best for social video creators who edit in the browser and want their footage kept on their own device.
Private edits
Editing and processing happen on your device, and projects are saved in your browser's storage rather than on OpenCut's servers.
Captioned short clips
Auto captions run in the browser on an on-device model, or you can import a transcript file instead.
Motion and effects
Version 0.3.0 added masks, a graph editor for keyframe curves, speed and volume controls and custom canvas sizes.
How much does OpenCut cost?
OpenCut is free: the MIT-licensed editor at opencut.app needs no account, and you can run the classic version on your own machine with Docker.
- Docker Compose runs the full classic app
- Database and Redis included in the Compose file
- Served on localhost port 3100
- Early beta of the web editor
- No account or sign-in
- Projects saved in your browser
OpenCut has no paid plan or cloud subscription; the project is backed by sponsors such as fal.ai. Full pricing on github.com. We checked these prices on .
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Is OpenCut open source?
Yes. OpenCut's code is public under the MIT licence, so you can run it on your own server.
On GitHub
98,215stars
+4,212 (+4.5%) in the last 30 days
- Last commit
- 24 Sep
- Repository age
- 17 months
- Latest release
- 15 Apr
- Licence
- MIT
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Repository
- OpenCut-app/OpenCut
What are the best OpenCut alternatives?
OpenCut is an open source alternative to CapCut, Clipchamp and Filmora.
Questions about OpenCut
What is OpenCut?
Timeline editor with auto captions, masks and keyframes that keeps every file on your device.
Who is OpenCut for?
OpenCut is best for social video creators who edit in the browser and want their footage kept on their own device.
Is OpenCut free?
Yes. OpenCut has a free Self-hosted plan: docker Compose runs the full classic app.
Is OpenCut open source?
Yes. OpenCut's code is public under the MIT licence, so you can run it on your own server.
What are the best OpenCut alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are CapCut, Clipchamp and Filmora.
Where can I try OpenCut?
On its official website, opencut.app.
Is OpenCut still being developed?
Yes. OpenCut is being rewritten from the ground up on a Rust core for web, desktop and mobile. The classic codebase still runs opencut.app until the rewrite at new.opencut.app is ready to replace it.
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