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CapCut: Photo & Video Editor
ByteDance's free video editor with keyframes, chroma key, auto captions and 4K 60fps export.
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- Developer
- BYTEDANCE PTE. LTD.
- Score
- 4.6
- Downloads
- 1M+ ratings
- Age
- Rated 12+
- Version
- 19.9.0
- Price
- Free
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About this app
Keyframe animation, chroma key, stabilisation and optical-flow slow motion are the headline tools in CapCut, and they're the reason it gets used for far more than quick social clips. The basics are all there too: trim, split and merge, speed from 0.1x to 100x with speed curves, zoom animations, freeze frames and transitions, laid out on a multi-track timeline. The automated features save the most time. Auto captions transcribe speech into subtitles, text-to-speech reads captions back in a choice of languages and voices, and background removal works without a green screen. Text can use imported fonts and preset templates. Filters and effects are refreshed weekly, including glitch, blur and 3D looks, and there's a large library of music and sound effects, plus audio extraction from clips. Exports go up to 4K at 60fps with HDR, sized for TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, WhatsApp or Facebook.
CapCut: Photo & Video Editor: the full guide
What the app is
ByteDance's video editor earns its reputation on the advanced tools: keyframes, chroma key, stabilisation and slow motion driven by optical flow, all on a multi-track timeline. The basics are present too, from trim and split to speed ramps between 0.1x and 100x, freeze frames and transitions.
Automation is the other half. Speech becomes subtitles, captions can be read aloud by synthetic voices in several languages, and backgrounds come out without a green screen. Effects are refreshed weekly, the music and sound effect library is large, and exports reach 4K at 60fps with HDR, pre-sized for the major social platforms.
How it works day to day
A day with it usually begins by dropping phone footage onto the timeline, cutting the dead air, then layering text, a filter and a track from the library. Auto captions run while you do something else. For more ambitious edits you keyframe a zoom or key out a background.
Export is a last tap, choosing the platform preset. People who publish daily settle into a rhythm of shoot, edit in ten minutes, post, and the weekly effect refresh keeps giving them something new to try.
Why people look for it
TikTok creators search for it because it's the editor built by the same company and it handles the formats they post. Beyond that crowd, the draw is getting keyframes and chroma key without paying for desktop software. A 4.6 rating over a million-plus reviews puts it slightly below rivals in this batch, which might reflect how many casual users it has.
Look and feel
The five screenshots likely show the timeline, a caption screen and an effects gallery. Mobile video editors of this kind use a dark interface with a horizontal multi-track timeline and a scrolling toolbar underneath; CapCut follows that pattern, and the effects and templates give finished videos a recognisable social-media polish.
Updates and upkeep
Version 19.9.0 is a high major number for a mobile editor and suggests frequent, sizeable releases, consistent with the listing's claim of weekly effect updates. BYTEDANCE PTE. LTD. is the publisher of record. The rating is 4.6 from 1M+ reviews, a strong result at that volume. Only an App Store link appears here.
