CapCut Alternatives

CapCut provides a free video editor with AI tools like automatic captions, text-to-speech, and background removal, plus templates, effects, and royalty-free music. Users appreciate its mobile-friendly approach that makes trimming and merging straightforward, though some report more features being pushed behind paywalls recently and express privacy concerns related to Bytedance.

Kdenlive is the top-ranked alternative and offers open-source multi-track editing with AI subtitle generation for serious desktop workflows. Shotcut ranks second as an open-source option with multi-format timelines and frame-accurate seeking across platforms. Omniclip positions itself as fully free and open-source in the browser, targeting users tired of paying to unlock editor features.

Camtasia includes built-in screen capture plus editing, making it better suited for tutorials and demos that start with recording. The landscape spans from mobile-first social editors to pro desktop suites and open-source tools.

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Open source alternatives like Kdenlive, Shotcut, and OpenShot provide transparent licensing and full desktop timelines without relying on CapCut. Linux users have native options in Kdenlive, DaVinci Resolve, and Shotcut, giving desktop editors alternatives beyond mobile-centric workflows.

Web-based editors like Clipchamp, Omniclip, and Mastershot run in browsers, helpful when you can't install software on work or school machines. For privacy-focused users, Omniclip and OpenCut offer self-hosting options on your own infrastructure. Android users have mobile-first options in InShot, YouTube Create, and LightCut with effects, music, and captions for creators who rarely touch desktop editors. Windows-only desktop suites like VEGAS Pro, Pinnacle Studio, and Corel VideoStudio target users who want dedicated pro-style desktop workflows exclusively on Windows systems.

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  1. PixaPal icon
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    Use PixaPal to collaboratively create videos, graphics and documents right in your browser. Here's what you can do with PixaPal:

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  2. Piranha icon
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    Piranha 8 is a high performance end to end editing and finishing solution for film and video professionals. Edit, composite, retouch, color grade and output using Piranha's lightning fast GPU architecture.

    94 Piranha alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. macXvideo icon
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    Free edit, shrink, resize and encode 4K/5K/8K/HD/SD videos on Mac at 5X faster speed with no quality loss.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
  4. aicut icon
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    Generate viral short video content from any text in minutes. Publish directly to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram with zero editing effort.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Project Violet is a high performance, iOS-native video editing app written from the ground up for iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  6. VideoMakerFX icon
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    Game changing video creating software. Fast & Easy Video Creation Like Never Before! Sales Videos, Whiteboard, Explainer, 3D, Photo Slideshows, Lower Third Styles & More! No Restrictions On Your Created Videos! Works Natively on both Windows & Mac! Videos Are Beautif.

    98 VideoMakerFX alternatives

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    • Paid
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    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  7. Lomotif icon
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    Lomotif is the video app of choice for millions around the world. It’s the simplest editor around, and allows you to achieve amazing edits instantly!

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  8. muvee Reveal icon
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    muvee pioneered automatic movie making with the launch of muvee autoProducer in 2001. Since then, we have put in over 100 person-years of R&D and been granted 20 patents.

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    • Paid
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  9. Vaux icon
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    Video and Audio Editor.

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    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Android Tablet
     
  10. ffDiaporama icon
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    ffDiaporama is an application of creation of videos sequences established by

    • titles, fixed or livened up.
    • images or by photos, fixed or livened up.
    • movie clip
    • music

    These sequences are assembled in slide show by means of transitions of sequence to produce complete videos.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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