A local AI video editorfor Windows.
Edit by hand, or let the AI you already use cut, caption and grade. It all runs on your PC.
One time licenseWindows 10 and 11Works without AI too
Edit by hand, or just ask.
96 tools, and your AI reaches every one you do. What it makes lands on the timeline, yours to change.
- Reframe to 9:16Set the project to 9:16, turn on subject tracking, and let the crop follow your face.
make this a vertical short and keep me in frame
- Word-level captionsTranscribe on your machine, pick one of 27 styles, then fix any word in the caption editor.
add captions in the bold style and fix my name
- Cut the dead airOpen smart editing, set a silence threshold, and run it over the clip.
cut the silences and the filler words
Reading each tool's manual first, then reframing to 9:16 on your face. Captions and the silence cuts after that.
Bring the AI you already use.
Cutroom speaks MCP, the open standard. One paste connects it on your own account, so there is no AI bill from us.
How to connect each one- Claude Code
- Claude Desktop
- OpenAI Codex
- Google Gemini
- Cursor
- Windsurf
- VS Code
- Cline
Your footage stays on your disk.
The editor, the transcription and the background removal all run on your own machine.
Read the privacy note- Your originals are never modifiedCutroom edits from proxies and writes a new file at the end. The file you dragged in is the file you still have.
- Transcription runs on your machinewhisper.cpp, offline, word-level timing. Your voice is not sent anywhere to be turned into text.
- Background removal runs on your machineLocal ONNX matting. No green screen, and no round trip to somebody's cloud.
Connect an AI and it does read frames and audio, because that is how it checks its own work. Anything you ask it to generate goes to the provider whose key you brought, and image-to-video and the voice tools upload the specific frame or clip audio you point them at. None of that comes to us.
Everything a pro editor has.
Anything you can do by hand, your AI can do by asking.
- 96tools your AI can reach
- 27caption styles
- 39transitions
- 7export presets
Others make you give something up.
A Mac, a 16GB NVIDIA card, or a second editor bought separately. Cutroom asks for none of that.
| Product | Platform | Runs locally | Price model | AI provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CutroomThe whole editor, on its own. | Windows 10 and 11 | Yes | One time | Bring your own: Claude, Codex, Gemini |
| Descript | macOS, Windows, web | No, your footage uploads | Subscription | Built in |
| Opus Clip | Browser | No, your footage uploads | Subscription | Built in |
| Palmier Pro | macOS only, Apple Silicon | Partly, generation is cloud | Free editor, subscription for AI | Your own agent, or bundled models |
| ReelifyPhone apps too. The local editor is the Mac one. | macOS only, Apple Silicon | Yes, on the Mac | Subscription, or a one time deal | Built in, on device |
| LTX DesktopFree and open source. Generation first: its own repo calls it an app for generating videos. | Windows and Linux, NVIDIA only |
Good to know before you buy.
Questions before you buy?
What is Cutroom?
Cutroom is a complete video editor for Windows that runs on your own PC. Edit it by hand like any timeline app, or connect an AI and ask for the edit in plain words.
Which AI can drive Cutroom, and how?
Anything that speaks MCP, the open standard: Claude Code, Claude Desktop, OpenAI Codex, Google Gemini, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, and Cline. One paste connects it, and you bring the account, so there is no AI bill from us.
Does Cutroom work without an AI?
Yes. It is a full manual editor on its own, with the whole timeline, captions, color, and export. The AI only speeds you up, so you can connect nothing and still do everything by hand.
Does my footage get uploaded?
Not by us. Editing, transcription, and background removal all run on your machine. If you connect an AI it reads frames and audio to check its own work, and anything you ask it to generate goes to the provider whose key you brought. None of your files come to us.
Is Cutroom a one-time purchase?
Yes, one payment, no subscription, and no fee per export. The key is tied to your account rather than to a machine, so it works on every computer you own with no device limit.
Can Cutroom transcribe and caption in Arabic and other languages?
Yes. A multilingual speech model ships inside the app and transcribes Arabic and more than 90 languages on your own machine, auto-detecting the spoken language or the one you pick. Arabic and Hebrew captions render right-to-left with a bundled Arabic font, in the editor and in the exported video. Cutroom fits the model to your machine's memory, so it works on modest PCs too, and it all runs offline.
Buy it once. It is yours.
No subscription and no fee per export. One key, on every computer you own.
See the system requirementsCutroom · lifetime license
- Lifetime license key
- Every computer you own
- Every update in this version
- No per export fees
The AI is one you bring yourself, like Claude, Codex, or Gemini, so that cost is between you and them. Cutroom is a full editor without it, and the editing always runs on your machine.