Open a tab and start cutting: timeline, keyframes, titles, captions, 4K export — free, no account, no watermark. Everything runs on your machine, so your footage never uploads anywhere. And when you'd rather not do the busywork, your AI agent can drive the same editor.
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What's in the box
All of it opens right in the browser — no trial clock, no watermark. Only the six marked Pro are paid.
See it work
One click in the editor — or one command from your AI agent. Same recipe, same result.
Every pause, cough and dead stretch found and cut, gaps closed — the whole talking-head cleanup in one pass, and one undo if you change your mind. (A pure RMS analysis driving one undoable op batch.)
$ picut cut-silencesYour words appear on screen, timed and burned into the export — transcribed on your machine, or from your own SRT. Unlimited, no per-minute meter. (Whisper speech-to-text feeding a caption track.)
$ picut analyze --transcribe && picut captions buildIllustrated above. Screencasts rendered with PiCut land at launch.
For AI agents
PiCut ships a CLI and an MCP server, so Claude Code — or any MCP agent — edits the very project you see: 21 typed ops, each one validated, applied atomically, and undoable. There's no LLM inside PiCut; your agent brings the brain.
Install in 60 seconds
Perceive — PiCut analyzes media into time-indexed facts — silences, scenes, transcripts — read back as plain JSON your agent can reason over.
Act — Your agent emits a batch of typed ops. PiCut validates every one, applies them atomically, and rejects bad input with an error the agent can retry.
Prove — A deterministic engine renders the result to a real MP4 on your machine — WebCodecs via headless Chrome, bit-identical to the web preview.
[{ "op": "splitClip", "clipId": "c1", "atSec": 12.4 },
{ "op": "removeClip", "clipId": "c1b" },
{ "op": "moveClip", "clipId": "c2", "startSec": 12.4 }]Why PiCut
No LLM, no API key, no planner inside PiCut. Your agent brings the intelligence; PiCut is the typed hand it edits with. The op schema plus a project summary is the whole contract.
All decode, render, and analysis run locally through WebCodecs. Nothing leaves your machine except the audio slice you explicitly send to hosted captions.
Because compute is local, there are no per-minute credits to meter. The CLI and web editor are free — one subscription unlocks hosted AI (captions + translation) and smart edit across both.
Edits are typed ops appended to a log; undo is deterministic replay. It doubles as an audit trail of exactly what the AI did.
Rivals meter render minutes and transcription. PiCut runs that compute on your machine, so it stays flat and unlimited. The free tier is fully usable — the op surface is never gated.
$19/mo· free tier, no login wall