Free and open source · video editor for Mac
Delete a word. Watch the cut.
Cutscript turns your recording into a script you can edit. Strike the ums, the retakes and the long pauses, and the video is cut to match. Then let the AI direct the rest: captions, zooms, graphics, music. Free, open source, and yours to read.
- Open source · no account
- Notarized by Apple
- Bring your own AI
- 0.1 beta 14 · Apple silicon
Edit by text
These are the fillers in this take. Click one to cut it.
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0.1 beta 14 · built 17 Oct 2026 · release notes
macOS
For Macs with Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later. Signed and notarized by Apple.
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Cutscript is funded by the people who use it.
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Edit by text
Delete a sentence. The video is cut with it.
Your recording becomes a script with word timings. Select words and press Delete: the picture, the sound and the timeline are cut together, and the seam says how much went.
- Remove every filler, or set and shorten pauses
- Fix a word, ignore words, re-transcribe in another language
- Notes in the script that are never spoken
- Undo, redo and restore anything you cut
The AI Director
It reads the take, cuts it, then makes the graphics.
Ask it to direct the video. It reads the whole recording, asks a few questions, and writes a plan with a price for each step and a total. Approve it and it works through the cut: fillers and pauses out, graphics designed in your brand kit, zooms, captions and sound.
- Nothing is spent until you approve the plan
- Asks before each task, or runs on Auto up to the total
- A checkpoint before every task, each with Restore
- Designs from scratch, from the Design pack, or a mix
- Always uses the brand kit you picked
- Its playbook is a skill you can read and edit
Your AI, your subscriptions
Use the Claude, ChatGPT or keys you already pay for.
Cutscript is the editor; the AI runs on your plan or your key, billed by the provider. Pick a model for each job, and every paid step shows its price before it runs. There is no Cutscript account and nothing added on top.
Read the guide
Your Claude plan
Sign inThe AI director writes with your own Claude Code, signed in with your Claude plan.
Your ChatGPT plan
Sign inSign in on OpenAI’s own page and the AI director writes with your ChatGPT plan. Cutscript never sees your password.
ElevenLabs
API keyTranscription with word timings, voiceover, music, sound effects and Enhance voice.
fal.ai
API keyPictures, transcription, music, sound effects, voiceover and Enhance voice.
OpenAI Whisper
Transcription modelWhisper Large v3, v3 Turbo and Whisper through OpenRouter, or Wizper (Whisper v3) through fal.ai.
OpenRouter
One API keyThe AI director, pictures, transcription, music, sound effects and voiceover from one key.
Keys stay encrypted in your Mac’s keychain. Logos and names belong to their owners; Cutscript is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
Branding
Your brand, on every frame.
Keep your colours, fonts and logo as a brand kit, by hand or captured from your website. Graphics, captions and the AI director all use the kit you pick, so a whole series looks like it came from one studio.
- Brand kits as searchable cards
- Capture a kit from a website
- Each colour has its role: primary, accent, text
- Repeating graphics designed once, reused with new details
Re-purpose
Turn any YouTube or social video into shorts.
Paste a link from YouTube, Shorts, Instagram, Facebook, X, Pinterest, TikTok or Vimeo, pick 9:16 and ask for clips. Cutscript downloads it, transcribes it, finds the strongest moments and makes each one its own vertical composition that follows the face or the cursor.
- Each clip has a title, a score and its opening hook
- Frames are checked by image before export
- Export one clip, or all of them at once
- Download only videos you have the right to use
Layouts
Two, three or four panels, switched as you talk.
Put the screen, your camera, a chart and b-roll side by side, and change the layout at any moment in the video. The change animates, and it renders exactly as the preview shows it.
- Layouts of two to four panels
- Screen, camera, images and b-roll in any panel
- Change layout anywhere on the timeline
Captions
Captions word by word, in your style.
Pick one of 24 caption presets with the spoken word highlighted, place them where you like, and they are burned into the export exactly as they look. Key lines can fill the whole screen, word by word, as you say them.
- 24 presets with word highlighting
- Drag captions anywhere on the preview
- Full-screen spoken text for hooks
- Fits portrait and square exports
Motion graphics and skills
Graphics, made from a sentence.
Describe a graphic and the AI design director storyboards it, builds it in real web code and checks its own frames. Or add one from the Design pack and type your words in. The director’s skills are files you can read, change, or write yourself.
- Titles, lower thirds, charts, maps and quotes
- 29 chart types, maps lit by time of day, 13,000+ icons
- Edit any graphic without AI: a form or the code
- Add your own skill and the director uses it
Made by the director · and from the graphics library
The top row was made by Cutscript’s AI design director from one-line requests. The two below are the built-in Design pack, ready to add and make yours. Hover to pause.
Blur and tracking
Blur an email once. It stays blurred as it moves.
Press Track and a blur follows a face, a window or an email address through the recording. Blur all emails and Blur all faces find them for you with Apple’s Vision on your Mac. Or drag an area blur or pixelate box over anything.
- Tracking blur with corrections on any frame
- Blur all emails and Blur all faces
- Area blur or pixelate boxes
- Runs on your Mac, no upload
Drawing tools
Draw on the screen while you talk.
Every drawing you make while recording is kept and replayed in the edit and the export, so you can move, restyle or delete it later. Each colour and tool has its own shortcut key.
Camera, screen and cursor
Every option for how the recording looks.
Shape the camera, frame the screen and smooth the pointer. Zooms follow your clicks. What you set in the preview is exactly what renders.
Read the guide
Camera
- Nine bubble shapes with borders
- Size, position and zoom
- Chroma key removes a plain backdrop
- Full-screen camera passages
- Layouts of two to four panels
Screen
- Gradients, Mac wallpapers or your image
- Padding, corners and shadow
- Crop and aspect ratios
- Portrait reframing that follows the cursor
- Automatic zooms from clicks and selections
Cursor
- Your Mac’s pointer or six styles
- Size, smoothing, sway and spring
- Ripple, spotlight, echo, circle, zoom pop, highlighter
- Five click sounds with their own volume
- A live demo while you tune it
Timeline and export
A real timeline, and the file you expect.
A multitrack timeline with linked picture and sound, transitions on any cut, and Premiere-style track order. Export MP4, HEVC, ProRes or WebM on your Mac’s hardware, or hand the whole edit to another editor.
- Final Cut Pro, Premiere, DaVinci Resolve and EDL
- Transcripts as TXT, MD, HTML, DOCX or RTF
- Subtitles as SRT or VTT
- Audio as M4A, WAV, MP3 or FLAC
Compare
Free, and it does more than most paid editors.
Cutscript against Descript, Screen Studio, Camtasia, CapCut, OpusClip and Loom, row by row, with their current prices.
| Checked 21 Oct 2026 | CutscriptFree | Descriptfrom $16/mo | Screen Studiofrom $9/mo | Camtasiafrom $179/yr | CapCutfrom $19.99/mo | OpusClipfrom $15/mo | Loomfrom $18/user/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | |||||||
| Free plan | ✓ Everything, free | 1 hr/mo, 720p | No free export | Trial, watermarked | 1080p; Pro assets locked | 60 min/mo, 1080p | 25 videos, 5 min each |
| Cheapest paid plan | $0 | $16/mo (Hobbyist) | $9/mo, billed yearly | $179/yr (Essentials) | $19.99/mo (Pro) | $15/mo (Starter) | $18/user/mo (Business) |
| Top plan | $0 | $50–65/mo (Business) | $29/mo | $599/yr (Pro) | $79/mo (Ultra) | $29/mo (Pro) | $24/user/mo (Business + AI) |
| Watermark on the free plan | None | Yes | No free export | Yes | With Pro assets | Yes | No (player branding) |
| Platform and code | |||||||
| Platforms | Mac (Apple silicon); Windows and Linux coming | Mac, Windows, web | Mac | Mac, Windows, web | Mac, Windows, web, mobile | Web | Mac, Windows, Chrome, mobile |
| Open source | ✓ Yes | ✕ No | ✕ No | ✕ No | ✕ No | ✕ No | ✕ No |
| Editing and AI | |||||||
| Edit video by editing the transcript | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Essentials and up | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Business + AI |
| AI director that plans the whole edit | ✓ Plan with prices; you approve | ◐ Underlord; cost shown after | ✕ No | ✕ No | ◐ Makes a new video | ◐ AI Producer | ✕ No |
| Use your own ChatGPT or Claude plan or API keys | ✓ Yes | ? Not found | ? Not found | ? Not found | ? Not found | ? Not found | ? Not found |
| Choice of transcription, including Whisper | ✓ ElevenLabs, fal.ai, OpenRouter | ◐ Models unnamed | ✓ Whisper on device | ? Not found | ? Not found | ? Not found | ✕ No |
| Recording and looks | |||||||
| Screen recording | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | ? Not found | ✓ Yes |
| Camera options | ✓ 9 shapes, layouts, chroma key | ◐ Some | ✓ Yes | ◐ Some | ◐ Some | ✕ No | ✓ 4 shapes |
| Screen options (background, padding, corners) | ✓ Yes | ? Not found | ✓ Yes | ◐ No padding found | ? Not found | ✕ No | ◐ Some |
| Cursor options (styles, smoothing, click effects, sounds) | ✓ Yes | ◐ Some | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | ? Not found | ✕ No | ◐ Some |
| Automatic zoom on clicks | ✓ Yes | ? Not found | ✓ Yes | ✓ SmartFocus | ? Not found | ✕ No | ? Not found |
| Draw on screen while recording | ✓ 12 tools | ? Not found | ✕ No | ? Not found | ? Not found | ✕ No | ✓ Paid plans |
| Repurpose and polish | |||||||
| Long video to 9:16 clips | ✓ Reframed to face or cursor | ✓ Yes | ✕ No | ✕ No | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | ✕ No |
| Import from a YouTube or social link | ✓ Yes | ◐ Some | ✕ No | ? Not found | ◐ Some | ✓ Yes | ? Not found |
| Captions | ✓ 24 presets, word highlight | ✓ Yes | ◐ Basic | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | ✓ 20+ styles | ◐ Basic |
| Brand kits | ✓ Yes | ✓ Business | ✕ No | ✓ Yes | ◐ Teams | ✓ Yes | ◐ Some |
| Motion graphics and templates | ✓ AI-made and 32 designs | ◐ Some | ✕ No | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | ◐ Some | ✕ No |
| Tracking blur, auto-blur faces and emails | ✓ Yes | ◐ Some | ◐ Static mask | ◐ Manual | ◐ Some | ? Not found | ◐ Some |
| Export | |||||||
| Hand off to Final Cut, Premiere or Resolve | ✓ Final Cut, Premiere, Resolve, EDL | ✓ Creator and up | ✕ No | ? Not found | ✕ No | ◐ Premiere XML, Pro | ✕ No |
Prices in US dollars before tax, from each company’s own pricing page on 21 October 2026. Where a company shows two prices for a plan, the range is given. A question mark means we could not find it in their published docs, not that it is missing. CapCut figures come from search summaries of its official pages, which blocked our checker, and a CapCut sale runs 20–30 October. Names are trademarks of their owners; Cutscript is not affiliated with them. Seen something out of date? Tell us in the forum.
Open source
Read it. Change it. Ship it.
Cutscript is free and open source under the AGPL-3.0. The code is on GitHub: read it, build it, and send a fix. Or download the app, report what breaks and help with the docs.
TypeScript and Swift. An Electron app with native macOS capture, a bundled LGPL ffmpeg, and an AI director you can extend with skills.
- Latest release
- 0.1 beta 14
- Found a bug
- Bug reports
- Have an idea
- Feature requests
- Want to build
- Contributors
Yes. Cutscript is free and open source. Downloading and using it costs nothing and needs no account or licence key, and exports carry no watermark. Donations are optional and unlock nothing.
Only for the AI features you use, and you pay your provider directly. Transcripts, the AI director, graphics, music and voiceover run on your own ElevenLabs, fal.ai or OpenRouter account, or your ChatGPT or Claude plan. Cutscript adds nothing on top, and the AI director shows its plan and price before it runs. Recording, timeline editing, zooms, cursor effects and export need no AI.
Yes. Sign in with your ChatGPT plan on OpenAI’s own page, or let Cutscript use your own Claude Code signed in with your Claude plan. The AI director then writes with that plan.
ElevenLabs, fal.ai and OpenRouter models, including OpenAI Whisper Large v3 and v3 Turbo through OpenRouter. There is no on-device transcription yet.
No. There is no Cutscript account. The forum has its own sign-in with GitHub or Google, only if you want to post.
The Mac app is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, and the download page lists the SHA-256 so you can check the file.
Not yet. Cutscript runs on Macs with Apple silicon and macOS 14 or later. Windows and Linux are coming; follow Announcements in the forum or the changelog to hear first.
Donate any amount, answer someone in the forum, or report a bug or an idea there. The contributing guide lists every way to help. For custom work, Kwebby, the team behind Cutscript, takes client projects at kwebby.com/services.
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Free and open source, for Macs with Apple silicon and macOS 14 or later. Windows and Linux are coming.