LVE — Lightweight Video Editor for Mac

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Lightweight video editor · macOS 14+

Edit the story.<br>Not the software.

A fast, focused editor for people who need a sharp cut—not another production suite to manage.

Get LVE · $14.99<br>See what it does ↓

One-time purchase. No account. No subscription.

Untitled Recovery saved

Aspect16:9 9:161:1

LVE<br>▣＋▸♪▧Aa▤

A SMALL FILM ABOUTGOING<br>FURTHER

▶00:08.14 / 00:18.20<br>INOUT⊞ ◫ ✂ ⌫ ◇

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● VIDEO 1

COAST_01.MOV

CLIFF_02.MOV

● AUDIO 1

ORIGINAL AUDIO

Magnetic snap08.14 s

On-device captions

The promise

“Everything needed for<br>a polished edit.<br>Nothing that turns editing<br>into administration.”

01 No account

02 No subscription

03 No tracking

04 No feature maze

Built to stay light

12.4 MB.<br>That’s the point.

A video editor should leave room for your footage. LVE keeps the download deliberately small while covering the essential editing workflow.

Mac download size<br>July 23, 2026

Editor<br>App size<br>vs LVE

LVE<br>12.4 MB<br>Baseline

CapCut<br>2,260 MB<br>182×

DaVinci Resolve<br>4,240 MB<br>342×

iMovie<br>4,310 MB<br>348×

Final Cut Pro<br>7,850 MB<br>633×

Native Mac App Store package sizes, normalized to MB for a like-for-like comparison. Installed size and optional downloads may differ. A size comparison—not a claim of feature parity.

The complete edit

Small footprint.<br>Serious workflow.

LVE stays deliberately narrow: assemble, trim, layer, caption and export—with fewer decisions between intent and result.

01 / Timeline<br>A timeline that gets out of your way.

Drop a folder of clips, append them in one move, and make the cut. Clips magnetically meet the playhead and each other. Push one clip into another and the touched edge trims cleanly.

Fast multi-import and append

Simple magnetic snapping

Ripple-free edge trimming

Multiple video, audio and overlay tracks

00:12.08 / 00:24.18＋ ◫ ✂ ⌫

8s12s16s20s

● VIDEO 1INTRO.MOV

DETAIL.MOV

● VIDEO 2LOGO.PNG

● AUDIO 1INTERVIEW.WAV

SNAP

02 / Canvas<br>One edit. Every useful shape.

Switch between landscape, portrait and square. Move and scale directly on canvas, use Crop when you need precision, then Reset without hunting through an inspector.

16:9, 9:16 and 1:1 projects

Direct manipulation and crop mode

Visible Crop and Reset controls

Click away for a clean, box-free preview

CANVAS16:9 9:16 1:1

THE WEEKENDESCAPE

CropResetFit · 100%

03 / Captions<br>Captions generated where the edit lives.

Download the optional Whisper model once, then transcribe locally. Select the source, language and style; LVE builds editable caption cards aligned to the timeline.

On-device speech recognition

Seven supported languages

Editable timing, wording and styles

Nothing spoken is sent to LVE

MAKE THE CUT<br>THEN MOVE ON.

SOURCEInterview_01.mov<br>LANGUAGEEnglish⌄<br>STYLEEditorial⌄<br>Generate locally

MAKE THE CUTTHEN MOVE ON

04 / Portfolio<br>Your reusable shots—and the missing one.

Search your personal Portfolio, or find free video and photos from Pexels without breaking the edit. Preview video on hover, filter by shape, add at the playhead or save for next time.

Searchable personal media library

Pexels video and photo search

Landscape, portrait and square filters

Your API key stays in macOS Keychain

PORTFOLIO STOCKYOURS×

⌕ocean road SearchVideosAny aspect

PEXELS0:18<br>Coastal road 3840×2160 · By Taryn Elliott＋ Add at Playhead

PEXELS0:12<br>Past the cliffs 1080×1920 · By Cottonbro＋ Add at Playhead

PEXELS0:09<br>Blue distance 2160×2160 · By Kelly＋ Add at Playhead

Free media · creator credit stays attached Media provided by Pexels

05 / Export<br>Finish cleanly.

Export the full timeline to H.264 MP4, or mark named sections and render them as a batch. Progress is explicit. Cancellation is always one click away.

Full-timeline MP4 export

Named multi-section batch export

Visible progress and current section

Safe cancellation and partial-file cleanup

EXPORTING MP403 — Product detail

68%3 of 4 sections<br>Cancel Export

✓ 01 — Opening.mp4✓ 02 — Context.mp4→ 03 — Product detail.mp4· 04 — Closing.mp4

Also includedThe expected things,<br>made properly.

Layers Video, stills, text, overlays and audio in the same clear timeline.

Undo / redo Experiment freely, with familiar keyboard shortcuts and recoverable projects.

In / out marks Set a precise working range and create reusable named export sections.

Autosave Recovery is quietly maintained while you focus on the cut.

Simple software. Simple price.

$14.99

One purchase. The complete editor.

All editing features included

No account or recurring fee

Local-first by design

For macOS 14 or later

Download on theMac App Store

© 2026 Tubiermont. All rights reserved.LVE is not affiliated with Pexels, Apple or Hugging Face.