Open Source Video Editors Apps
Compare open-source video editors for cutting, trimming, and assembling footage into finished videos, without subscriptions, watermarks, or proprietary lock-in.
Apps in Video Editors
auto-editor
Video Editors · Developer Tools
A command-line video and audio editor that automatically cuts silence, motionless footage, and other dead space using loudness, motion, and scene-detection analysis, then exports directly to Premiere, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and more.
Recordly
Design Tools · Developer Tools · Productivity
Free, open-source screen recorder and editor for macOS, Windows, and Linux that auto-adds zooms, cursor polish, webcam overlays, and styled frames to your screen captures without any motion-design skills.
VideoHighlighter
Video Editors
Local AI desktop tool that scores, explains, and cuts the moments that matter in raw footage — scene, motion, audio, object, and action detection, fully offline via Ollama and Whisper.
Screenity
Productivity · Video Editors
Free, privacy-first Chrome screen recorder with real-time annotation, AI camera blur, and a built-in video editor — no sign-in or limits required.
LTX-Desktop
Video Editors · AI Design Tools
An open-source Electron app that runs LTX-2 text-to-video, image-to-video, and video editing models locally on your GPU, or via a cloud API when your hardware can't keep up.
OpenCut
Design Tools · Social Media · Video Editors
Free, open-source video editor for web, desktop, and mobile — no watermarks, no subscriptions, built with a Rust core and plugin-first architecture
OpenReel Video
Video Editors
A browser-based, GPU-accelerated video editor with multi-track timelines, color grading, and 4K export — no uploads, no installs, no watermarks.