Free online video editor

Yes. You do not need an account, exports carry no watermark and have no limit, and there is no paid tier or advertising. The editing and the export both run on your own device, so there are no servers to pay for. It is a one-person project with an optional tip jar.

No. Your files are opened, edited and exported inside your browser, and no server receives them. The editor does fetch two things from other sites: the code library that reads and writes video files comes from jsDelivr, and a font is loaded from Google Fonts when you pick one for a text clip. Nothing from your video is sent with either request.

You can put videos, photos and audio on a timeline, then trim, split, reorder, duplicate and delete clips, with undo for every step. The main track closes gaps for you, and extra lanes hold overlays, text and audio. Each clip has position, scale, rotation, flip, crop, opacity and a speed from 0.25x to 4x. You can add text with about 50 Google Fonts, six presets and simple animations, and set the canvas to 9:16, 16:9, 1:1, 4:5 or 3:4 with a black, coloured, blurred or picture background.

Yes. A video's sound starts out linked to its picture, so a split or trim cuts both at the same point. Detach or unlink the audio and it becomes its own clip that you can split, trim, move or delete while the picture stays where it is. That is how you remove a cough, mute one section, lay music under part of a clip, or let the sound start before the picture. Each piece has its own volume and fades, and you can link the two back together afterwards.

It opens MP4, MOV, WebM and MKV video, MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, OGG and FLAC audio, and JPG, PNG, WebP and GIF pictures (a GIF comes in as a still). Whether a particular video plays depends on your browser's decoders, and the editor tells you if a file uses a codec your browser cannot read, which mostly happens with HEVC video from phones on older computers. Export is an MP4 with H.264 video and AAC sound at 480p, 720p or 1080p and 24 to 60 frames per second, plus 1440p and 4K where your device can encode them. You can also export the audio alone or save the current frame as a PNG.

We recommend a Chrome-based browser such as Google Chrome, Brave or Microsoft Edge, because that is where the editor has been tested. It relies on WebCodecs, the browser feature that decodes and encodes video. Other browsers may work if they support it, and the page will tell you if yours cannot run the editor.

Yes. Chrome on Android is the recommended browser on a phone. The layout changes to a preview on top, a timeline you slide under a fixed playhead, and tools along the bottom. Phones have much less memory than laptops, so keep projects short, around ten minutes or less, and export at 1080p or below.

There is no fixed limit. Speed and memory depend on your device, because your device does all the work. A recent laptop handles projects up to about an hour, and the editor warns you past that point. Export of a 1080p video usually runs faster than real time on a recent computer.

In your browser's own storage on your device. The editor saves as you work, keeps a copy of the media you import, and lists your projects under Recent projects when you come back. Nothing is stored online, so a project made on one device will not appear on another, and clearing your browser's site data deletes it. Deleting a project in the editor frees the space.

It covers the basics that early versions of CapCut were known for: a simple timeline, splitting and trimming, separate audio, text, speed, aspect ratios and export without a watermark. CapCut has templates, effects libraries, a music library and AI tools, and this editor has none of those. What it offers instead is that it opens in a browser tab with no app or account, and your files stay on your device.