A handful of devs got tired of paying for basic export and built OpenCut instead — free, watermark-free, and already past 85,000 GitHub stars.
CapCut slaps a watermark on your export now, locks basic features behind a paywall, and still wants a subscription on top. A crew of devs got fed up and built the open alternative: OpenCut.
Use it right now, zero install: opencut.app — full timeline, multitrack editing, no watermark, no paywall, MIT licensed, straight in your browser.
→ Real timeline + multitrack editor
→ No watermark, no subscription, no locked features
→ MIT license — do whatever you want with it
→ 85K+ stars on GitHub, backed by fal.ai
And there’s more coming: the team’s already mid-rewrite of the whole engine — plugin architecture, a shared Rust core for web/desktop/mobile, an MCP server so AI agents can drive the editor, headless batch rendering. Watch it build live at new.opencut.app or the GitHub repo.
The CapCut CEO, watching a couple of devs rebuild his own editor for free with zero watermark — and there’s nothing he can do about it, because none of it’s illegal 
I’ll stick with CapCut for now. OpenCut looks interesting, but it still has a long way to go before I’d choose it over CapCut.
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