CapCut review
8.2/10★★★★★ByteDance's popular video editor, with Seedance 2.0 AI video generation built in
- Best for
- Social creators who want to generate clips and edit them into finished short videos in one app
- Price
- Freemium · from $19.99/month
Free: Full editor with 1080p export and some AI credits; some templates 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 free video editor for phones, desktop and the web, with a large set of AI tools for captions, voices, effects and templates. It now includes ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 model for text-to-video and image-to-video, so you can generate clips and edit them in the same app.
Latest: CapCut added ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 video model, launched in February 2026.
What the AI does
- Seedance 2.0 text-to-video and image-to-video
- AI auto-captions and translation
- AI voices and voice effects
- Script-to-video
- Vocal isolation and camera tracking (Pro)
- Templates and effects for TikTok-style videos
Pros and cons
- Generation and a full editor in one place
- Seedance 2.0 ranks in the Artificial Analysis top five
- Apps on every platform
- Generous free plan
- Its terms grant CapCut a broad, perpetual licence to content you upload
- Pro doesn't make AI generation unlimited
- Android rating is low (3.6)
How it scores
Seedance 2.0 gives strong output inside an editor millions already use; AI generation is credit-limited and secondary to editing.
Feature checklist · 4 of 9
- Text-to-video (from a prompt or script) (yes)
- Image-to-video (yes)
- Native audio, speech or sound generation (yes)
- Consistent characters or avatars across videos (no)
- Edit existing footage with AI (restyle, extend, swap or remove objects) (no)
- 4K output or upscaling (no)
- Commercial use allowed on a paid plan (no)
- iOS and Android apps (yes)
- Developer API (no)
Alternatives
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- Google Veo (Flow) 8.9/10Anyone who wants top-quality clips with synced sound, especially people already paying for Google AI
- Kling AI 8.7/10Creators who want near-top quality and realistic human motion on a budget
- HeyGen 8.6/10Marketers and creators making talking-head, explainer and translated videos at scale
- Runway 8.5/10Filmmakers and marketers who want fine creative control and editing, not just one-shot clips