OpenCut-app/OpenCut

Health v2 · maintenance only

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86959 stars · 8589 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

OpenCut is a free, open-source video editor for web, desktop, and mobile, positioned as an open alternative to CapCut. It provides a timeline-based editor with multi-track video/audio, keyframe animation with a graph editor, masks, captions, stickers, and canvas controls, and is currently being rewritten from the ground up with a Rust core and plugin-first architecture.

Use cases

• edit videos in the browser without installing software
• find an open-source alternative to CapCut
• trim and arrange clips on a multi-track timeline
• add captions or subtitles to a video
• animate elements with keyframes and easing curves
• apply masks to video or image layers
• adjust audio volume and playback speed while preserving pitch
• use one video editor across web, desktop, and mobile

When to choose

• you want a free, no-watermark, open-source video editor that works on any platform
• you need browser-based editing for quick social-media style videos with captions, masks, and animations
• you want to self-host or contribute to an open-source creator tool

When to avoid

• you need professional-grade editing like multicam, advanced color grading, or heavy VFX (use DaVinci Resolve or Premiere)
• you need a fully stable production tool today - the main repo is mid-rewrite, so use the opencut-classic version
• you need scripted or batch video processing, where ffmpeg-style CLI tools are a better fit

Facets

application · maturity active

video-processing editor gui animation audio-processing media web-development browser cross-platform video-editor capcut-alternative timeline-editing keyframe-animation captions masks open-source typescript video desktop mobile

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