Auto captions, word-timed
one call transcribes and lays word-synced captions on the whole cut.
AI-native vertical video editor · 1080×1920
AI edits your video.You keep the final cut.
Tell your AI what you want. vidcut cuts, captions and scores a real timeline you can still edit — nothing ships without your sign-off.
Start creatingfrom $8.99/moConnect your own AI (MCP)bring Claude, or any MCP agent
7-day full refund · Open source core (AGPL) · Self-host free forever
0:12 / 0:45tiktok preset
THIS ONE TRICK CHANGED MY SHORTS 🔥
SimulatedKaraoke captions · word-level
0:07 / 0:45mograph
Alex MorenoFOUNDER · VIDCUT
128DAYS IN
SimulatedMotion graphics · name card + counter
0:31 / 0:45typewriter
shot on a phone. cut by an agent. ✨
SimulatedTypewriter reveal · word by word
Every video ships with its recipe. Nothing is a black box.
Simulated demo — launch version ships with a real session recording.See how it gets madeHow it gets made
One prompt. A finished edit.
Watch the ask land on a real timeline: clips trim, caption blocks grow, a name card drops in. Then it stops and waits for you.
Done — 45.0s, 12 captions, name card added. Review when ready.
Rendering… 1080×1920
Timeline1:58
Video · 4 clips
Motion graphics
NAME CARD
Captions · word-level
Audio
Simulated demo — launch version ships with a real session recording.
The numbers
The math on doing it yourself
Time
- Rough cut by hand: ~2 hours
- Captions, synced word by word: ~1 hour
- Learning a pro editor's every hidden switch: weeks
vidcut: one prompt, then minutes of review.
Typical figures for a talking-head short; your mileage varies.
Money
$0.30 / one 60-second short
Hiring the same short out: $50–150 market rate ↗
vidcut Solo: $8.99/mo — cutting, captions and motion graphics, one subscription.
Math: Solo $8.99 over its 30 render minutes, one-minute shorts, one render each. On Solo the AI chat runs on your own Claude.
See the plansNot a black box. A real timeline.
One prompt gets you a full edit — but it lands as clips, captions and tracks you can drag, trim and restyle. Change your mind mid-way, undo, or take over entirely. The AI proposes; the timeline stays yours.
Watch it land on the timelineStructured tools, not prompt loops.
Your agent drives 36 MCP tools that return structured project state — no pasting transcripts back and forth, no burning tokens re-describing the video. BYO-Claude is billed by Anthropic directly and never touches your vidcut credits.
What “bring your own AI” meansThe loop
Ask → Review → Ship
01ASK
Say it plainly
“Cut this to 45 seconds, TikTok captions, a name card on the intro.” Your AI works through 36 MCP tools on a real timeline.
02REVIEW
The gate is yours
It stops and asks. You scrub the timeline, approve — or send it back with notes it picks up from.
03SHIP
Out at 1080×1920
Render at 1080×1920. Burn captions in, embed them toggleable, or ship a sidecar .srt.
You get the final cut.
Where it sits
Open-core, MCP-native, review-gated.
The closed platforms bring their own AI. vidcut lets you bring yours — and keeps the source open.
| Capability | vidcut | ChatCut | Descript | CapCut | A human editor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bring your own AI (open MCP) | ✓ any MCP agent | ChatGPT only | ✗ | ✗ | — |
| Open source · self-host | ✓ AGPL, free forever | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | — |
| Real editable timeline | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Built-in human review gate | ✓ approve / send back | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ (that's you) |
| Word-level captions | ✓ 5 presets | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | extra work |
| AI motion graphics | ✓ 8 templates + HTML | ✓ | limited | templates | costs extra |
| Starts at | $8.99/mo | $25/mo | from $16/mo | free + paid Pro | $50+ per video |
Competitor details from their public pages, Aug 2026. Tell us if something's out of date.
Start creating — from $8.99/moIn the box
Everything that makes it look finished.
Every card is a CSS impression of what the renderer actually does — playing on loop.
Word-level karaoke captions
five presets: tiktok, bold-yellow, youtube, netflix, outlined.
Typewriter reveal
captions that type themselves.
Caption in/out motion
slide, fade, pop per line.
Color emoji in captions
real color, not tofu.
Stroke, shadow, plate, spacing
per-caption stroke width, drop shadow, background plate and letter-spacing.
A style per line
mix presets line by line — the hook loud, the aside quiet.
Smart line breaks
captions wrap to a pixel budget, not a character count.
What you preview is what ships
caption cards render pixel-identical in preview and export (karaoke strokes aside — see below).
Lower third
name and role, slid in and out on cue.
Chapter card
full-frame section titles that wipe in.
Counter
numbers that roll up to the point.
Circled annotate
a hand-drawn ring around what matters.
Bar chart
data that grows in, bar by bar.
Progress ring
a percentage that sweeps to its mark.
Countdown
three, two, one — timed to the beat.
Parametric templates
swap words, colors and values in place — the template redraws itself.
Mograph library, 373 pieces
searchable across 13 categories; your agent drops them straight onto the timeline.
8 clip transitions
the xfade family, duration-safe.
Blur fit
landscape footage on a vertical canvas, no black bars.
Three subtitle outputs
burn them in, embed them togglable, or ship a sidecar .srt.
BGM with auto-ducking
music dips under speech by itself; voiceover and fades included.
Freeze frame
stop on a frame mid-clip, then keep rolling.
Pick the cover
choose the exact frame your video leads with.
Detach audio
pull a clip's sound onto its own track and shape it.
Undo everything
full history — step back through any AI edit.
Volume and fades
per-track volume with fade-ins and fade-outs.
Karaoke highlighting previews with a slightly heavier stroke than it exports — the export is the correct one.
Get all of it for $8.99/moSkills
What your agent learns next.
Roadmap
Talking-head
hand it raw footage; get a cut, captioned, scored short.
Roadmap
Long-form → Shorts
mine an hour of video for the best 45 seconds.
Roadmap
Find your niche
position your channel before you post.
Roadmap
Trend radar
what's moving in your lane this week.
Roadmap
Hook writer
first-3-seconds variants, ready to test.
Roadmap
Auto B-roll
cutaways matched to what you're saying.
Roadmap
Podcast clipper
episodes into clip stacks.
Roadmap
Brand kit
your fonts, colors and name card on every video.
Dozens more skills on the way.
Start creating todayBuild your brand today.
In the AI era, publishing yourself isn't optional — it's how you're found. vidcut makes it light: you create, AI handles the video.
Start creatingfrom $8.99/mo
You get the final cut.
Tell your AI what you want. vidcut cuts, captions and scores a real timeline you can still edit — nothing ships without your sign-off.
Start creatingConnect your own AI (MCP)bring Claude, or any MCP agent
7-day full refund · Open source core (AGPL) · Self-host free forever
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