CapCut review
8.3/10★★★★★ByteDance's free video editor for phone, desktop and web, packed with AI tools
- Best for
- Social creators who want a free, full-featured editor on every device
- Price
- Freemium · from $19.99/month
Free: Full editor with 1080p export; some templates and exports add a watermark - Platforms
- Web, iOS, Android, Desktop app
- Made by
- ByteDance, Beijing, China · since 2012
- App store ratings
- iOS 4.6★ (1.1M) · Android 3.6★ (13.1M)
What it is
CapCut is ByteDance's popular video editor, available as a mobile app, desktop app and web app. Its AI tools add auto-captions and translation, AI voices, vocal isolation, camera tracking and flicker removal, alongside a huge library of templates and effects made for TikTok-style videos.
What the AI does
- Auto-captions and caption translation
- AI voices and voice effects
- Vocal isolation (Pro)
- Camera tracking and flicker removal (Pro)
- Script-to-video and templates
Pros and cons
- Generous free plan
- Apps on every platform
- Huge template and effects library
- Very easy to learn
- Its terms give CapCut a broad, perpetual licence to content you upload
- Best AI tools sit behind Pro
- Android rating is low (3.6)
How it scores
The most complete free editor across platforms; content-licence terms and paywalled AI tools are the trade-offs.
Feature checklist · 3 of 9
- Automatic captions with styles (yes)
- Turns long videos into short clips automatically (no)
- Edit video by editing the transcript (no)
- Removes silences and filler words automatically (no)
- AI translation and dubbing into other languages (no)
- Adds AI-generated or stock B-roll automatically (no)
- AI audio clean-up and noise removal (yes)
- Editing apps for iPhone and Android (yes)
- Free plan exports without a watermark (no)
Alternatives
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- Kapwing 7.9/10Social and marketing teams who want a fast, collaborative editor in the browser
- Descript 7.8/10Podcasters, YouTubers and teams who edit talking-head video
- Wondershare Filmora 7.8/10Hobbyists who want a full desktop editor with AI help at a low yearly price
- OpusClip 7.7/10Podcasters and streamers who want lots of short clips from long videos
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