Cut
Trim it, caption it, clip it. Entirely in the tab.
Live and free. Runs on your own machine.
What it does
Video trimming and automatic captions with no upload of any kind — the transcription model is downloaded once and runs on your machine.
Captions from a model on your own laptop
A 41MB model is fetched once and does the listening inside the tab. Nothing is sent, and there is nothing to send it to.
Trim without a round trip
Cut the clip, keep the quality, get the file back. No queue, no watermark, no export credits.
The absolute version of the promise
Every other product here has one honest exception. This one does not: no part of the file leaves the machine, at any point, for any reason.
How it got built
The problem
Trimming thirty seconds off a clip and putting captions on it means either paying a subscription or uploading a video you may not be allowed to upload. The work itself is trivial; the terms are the problem.
The constraint that shaped it
No upload meant no server-side transcription, which meant shipping a model to the browser and wearing the download. 41MB is a real cost paid once per machine, and it is the reason the product can have no limits at all.
Decisions
- Ship the model, don’t rent the API
An API call per minute of audio is a bill that scales with success, and it makes the privacy claim conditional. A bundled model is a fixed, visible, one-time cost — and it is what lets the page make an absolute claim rather than a careful one.
- Say what the download is for, before it happens
41MB arriving unannounced feels like something being installed. The page names the size and the reason first, which turns a suspicious pause into an understood one.
Where it landed
Live and free with no caps. The one product in the house whose privacy line needs no asterisk.
What it taught me
Positioning it as a tool was the mistake. It is better understood as cancelling a subscription — people do not want another video editor, they want to stop paying for the one thing they use once a month.
What I’d do next
A sample clip on the page, so someone can see the captions work before they hand it their own footage.