You say what you want. Local tools work out what's in your footage. Your AI makes the creative calls, and every cut lands on a real timeline you can change by hand.
Bring your Claude Code or Codex subscription. Everything else runs free on your own PC. Pay once and it's yours forever.
For every kind of video, from a 15-second Short to a 40-minute tutorial. Your style rules tell the AI how you like it cut.
Phone clips, camera files, screen recordings, songs, clips from AI video generators. Then drop the folder into letitedit. Your originals are only read, never changed.
Start from a style template, let Auto choose one from your footage, or use your own saved style.
Type it or say it out loud. Your AI is the Claude Code or Codex you already use.
Every word, every pause, the beat of your music and where shots change. Free models on your PC do this. Nothing is uploaded.
It picks takes, trims pauses and lands cuts on the beat. Pick a hook, drag an edge, or ask for changes. One Undo takes back each step.
YouTube, Shorts, Reels and TikTok sizes, with captions, a thumbnail and chapters. A final check catches black gaps and text under the app buttons.
Any kind of video, any request. A few things people ask for:
Make a first cut from this folder.Vlog
Turn this 40-minute podcast into five Shorts.Podcast
Cut my AI clips to the beat of this song.Music video
Remove every um and long pause.Talking head
Make the intro hit in the first two seconds.YouTube
Add captions in my style, then a Spanish track.Any video
Put b-roll over every part where I talk about the engine.Repair & DIY
Find the funniest 30 seconds.Gaming
Make 9:16 copies for TikTok and Reels.Shorts
Add YouTube chapters.Tutorial
Duck the music under my voice.Any video
Pick the best take of each line.Interview
Make a 60-second recap of the trip.Travel
Cut it like my last video.Your style
Give me five title ideas and a thumbnail.YouTube
Add a voice-over intro.Explainer
Each one sets the pace, captions, music and hook for a kind of video. Your AI follows it, and you can save your own.
Reads your footage and picks the closest style.
Problem, fix, payoff. Clear before and after.
Standalone moments, hook first, big captions.
Cuts on the beat, best shot on the chorus.
Tight steps, screen zooms, chapters.
Quick b-roll, music under talking.
Verdict up front, close-ups on details.
Save your own look and pace. Use it on every video.
letitedit reads nearly any video or audio file through FFmpeg, so clips from AI video generators, phones, screen recorders and cameras go straight onto the timeline.
Already have an edit? Import it as an EDL, OpenTimelineIO or JSON file, or as the ffmpeg command your AI wrote, and it opens as a real timeline you can keep editing.
These are the jobs people open CapCut, Descript or Opus Clip for. letitedit does each of them on your PC, with your AI.
| Feature | Known from | In letitedit |
|---|---|---|
| Edit by chatting with an AI | Descript | Type or hold a key and talk. Your AI reads the timeline, watches frames and listens before it edits. |
| Remove pauses and filler words | Descript, CapCut | Gentle, Normal or Tight. Cuts lone "um"s and keeps a beat after each sentence. Music is never chopped. |
| Long video to Shorts | Opus Clip, CapCut | Your AI picks moments that stand alone and makes vertical Shorts with a hook and captions. |
| Auto captions with styles | CapCut, Descript, Opus Clip | Local speech to text, four looks for tall or wide video, and a word list for names you spell your way. |
| Caption translation | CapCut, Descript | A new caption track in another language with the same timing. |
| Resize for every platform | Opus Clip, CapCut | 9:16, 1:1, 4:5 and 16:9 copies, filled or over a blurred background. |
| Music that fits | CapCut | Suggests songs from your own folder that fit the length, ducks them under speech, or makes a bed with a local music model. |
| Cut to the beat | CapCut | The beat grid of your song is one of the facts your AI cuts against. |
| AI voice-over | CapCut, Descript | Text to speech that runs locally, labelled as generated. |
| Brand style | Opus Clip, Descript | "My style" saves your caption look, word list, music level and pause length. Your AI reads it too. |
| Thumbnails and titles | CapCut | Six sharp frames to pick from, big words in three styles, and five title ideas from your AI. |
| YouTube chapters | Descript | Chapter markers become description lines, checked against YouTube's rules. |
| Full multitrack editing | CapCut, Descript | Tracks, filters, transitions, keyframes and export presets, all still there by hand. |
"Known from" names apps that offer a similar feature, based on their public product pages as of October 2026; their features change often. CapCut, Descript and Opus Clip are trademarks of their owners. letitedit is independent and not affiliated with them.
letitedit never rewrites a source file. Every change lives in the project and the export.
Transcription, vision, voice and music run locally. Only what you choose to share goes to your AI.
Local models are free to run. Your AI usage comes from the subscription you already have.
We may add optional cloud extras later, like faster rendering or processing raw footage. They'll be extras. The editor you bought stays yours.
The price is set by people who have edited with letitedit. A few quick questions first.
Price votes are for people who've tried it. Join the beta, edit a video or two, and come back to vote.
Join the betaThe beta opens around November 6, on Windows only. Email us with what you make, what you edit with today, and your PC's graphics card.
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