OpenCut is a free, MIT-licensed video editor with no watermark or subscription gate, built as an open alternative to CapCut.
Yes, OpenCut is open source under the MIT license.
Free, MIT-licensed, no account or subscription required to export without a watermark. (free).
Yes, OpenCut can be self-hosted (the source is available under the MIT license).
A free, MIT-licensed video editor built as an open alternative to CapCut: multi-track timeline, GPU-accelerated compositing, masks, and auto-captions, with no watermark or subscription gate standing between a creator and an exported file.
Short-form video is now table stakes for GTM content, and most free editors earn back the "free" by paywalling the export or stamping a watermark on it. OpenCut's bet is the opposite: MIT-licensed, no watermark, no account wall. The honest read: the project is mid-transition — the publicly hosted app currently runs an older, archived build while the actively developed Rust rewrite catches up — so teams evaluating it today should check which codebase they're actually testing, and go to the canonical OpenCut-app/OpenCut org rather than one of the several copycat repos or the unofficial lookalike domain circulating under the same name.