Video Editor GitHub Repositories (2026) · Open Source Tools

Beta: The truly free, open-source, local-first, cross-platform video editor. Scriptable through a JSON-RPC API & MCP.

FilmCraft: An open-source, nonlinear video editor written by scratch in pure Rust

Write HTML. Render video. Built for agents.

Record your screen, ship a demo. Free and open-source, GPU-accelerated, no watermarks, no subscriptions. Windows, macOS, Linux. Actively maintained.

Open-source, local-first conversational AI video editor with a professional multi-track timeline, Agent Skills, MCP integration, and Remotion rendering.

The open source AI video agent: turns any coding agent into a video agent, with an editor to change anything it makes.

macOS video editor built for AI

Clips Kitty: Free open-source AI video clipper. Local Opus Clip alternative (also Klap & Vizard) that turns Twitch, Kick & YouTube streams into auto-captioned Shorts, Reels, and TikToks, and can auto-post them 24/7 from a mini PC. Local AI (Ollama, Whisper): no usage or subscription fees. Or OpenRouter: a 2-hour VOD cost 11 cents in my testing.

The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing

cross-platform (Qt), open-source (GPLv3) video editor

Zero-dependency browser video editor that AI agents can drive — JSON timeline, MCP + REST, live-reloading UI

🎬 Ultimate AI Auto-Clipper — Transform long-form videos & podcasts into viral shorts! Features smart face-tracking, kinetic karaoke subtitles, contextual B-roll, AI voice-overs, and auto-uploaders (YouTube/FB). Powered by Whisper, Gemini, MediaPipe, & Pyannote.

Open-source, local-first video editor where creators and AI agents edit the same real timeline.

Record and clip your games. Open-source, built on OBS. Replay buffer, clip editor and auto highlights for CS2, Valorant, Overwatch, League, R6, Wardogs and more.

A hardware-accelerated video editor built on Rust, Tauri v2, and React 19. Sub-10ms frame decoding, GPU-native rendering, and a frame-accurate timeline — all free and open source under MIT.

Free, open-source screenshot tool, screen recorder, and video editor for Mac. Auto-zoom, smooth cursor, captions, OCR, scrolling capture, and annotations. Native, private, no account.

Free, open-source macOS screen recorder for creators — smart zoom, cursor effects, built-in editor. Built with Tauri + Rust + ScreenCaptureKit.

Fast, deterministic, open-source Windows non-linear video editor built with C#/.NET 10, WPF, and a C++20/Direct3D 11 media engine

Browser-based screenshot & video beautifier — backgrounds, device frames, shadows, text and annotations, exported on-device as PNG, WebP, or MP4

A fast, no-nonsense clip recorder and trimmer for macOS, Windows and Linux