Transcriptcut
Edit videos by editing the transcript. Local & open source.
Details
- External ID
- 1258985
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- TranscriptCut
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 26, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Open Source, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub, Video
- Fetched at
- Sept. 28, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 28, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Edit videos by editing the transcript. transcriptcut is a local-first, open-source video editor where deleting words or sections automatically cuts the matching video. It also detects filler words and long pauses, supports captions, filters, effects, logos, and MP4 export. No cloud account, no AI chat bar — just explicit, predictable editing with focused AI assistance.
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI video creation and editing tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open-source text-based video editor for creators
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While wrapping local Whisper and FFmpeg in an Electron or desktop app is feasible, building a tight timeline sync engine between word-level transcripts and video frames requires advanced media pipeline programming.
What it would actually take: The stack would typically use Electron/Tauri with Whisper.cpp (or faster-whisper) for local transcription with word-level timestamps, combined with an embedded FFmpeg/WebCodecs engine. The difficult part is building a responsive video playback and non-destructive cutting timeline that aligns text edits with frame-accurate video cuts and audio crossfades without full re-encodes until export.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 273 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #55 of 274 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 329 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Caption & Cut · ph · 2026-09-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Cutline · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Cutroom · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend · hn · 2026-07-27 · 39 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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