Rescript — Edit video like you edit text<br>626Try on webDownload
Open source · Free foreverEdit videos like you, um, edit text.<br>Rescript transcribes your video and audio on-device, then cuts the footage as you delete words.<br>Download desktop appOpen in browser<br>macOS · Windows · Linux
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How it works<br>Three steps, none of them a timeline scrub.<br>01Drop in your media<br>Whisper transcribes on-device with word-level timestamps and speaker labels. Already have captions? Import your own SRT, VTT, or JSON instead.
02Delete the words you don't want<br>Select text, hit delete, and the matching footage is cut. Strip fillers and silences in one click. Playback skips every cut in real time.
03Export the cut<br>Video, audio, transcript, or subtitles — rendered with ffmpeg on your own machine. Nothing is uploaded at any point.
Delete a word, cut the footage<br>So um, the thing about floating point is you know, it was $31,000 that Apple paid uh, for that.<br>Struck-through words are already removed from the render. Preview plays the cut, not the original.
Features<br>Everything you need to cut speech-driven media.<br>Word-level editing<br>The transcript is the timeline. Delete a phrase and the cut lands exactly where those words were spoken.
One-click cleanup<br>Remove “um”, “uh”, and every silence over 0.3s across the whole file without scrubbing a waveform.
Speaker detection<br>Automatic diarization groups the transcript by speaker, so multi-person interviews stay readable while you edit.
A real timeline<br>Waveform, word bar, split, cut regions, and draggable handles. Zoom, pan, and nudge timings by hand when you need to.
Private by design<br>Transcribing, editing, and exporting all run on your machine — no account, no upload. After the model downloads once, you can pull the network cable.
Export anywhere<br>MP4 and WebM up to 4K, M4A/MP3/WAV audio, TXT/MD transcripts, and SRT/VTT/JSON captions.
Privacy<br>Your media never leaves your machine.<br>Interviews, therapy sessions, legal recordings, unreleased footage — none of it is ours to see. Transcribing, editing, and exporting all happen on your device, and none of it needs an account.<br>Transcription<br>Whisper runs locally through WebGPU, falling back to WASM. Models are fetched once, then cached.
Editing<br>Cuts, timings, and speaker labels are saved locally in your browser or app, no servers.
Export<br>ffmpeg.wasm re-encodes on your CPU. The finished file is written straight to your disk.
Read the sourceDon't trust it — verify it
Export<br>Save your cut in any format.<br>One edit, every deliverable — the cut video, an audio-only version, a clean transcript, and burnable captions.
VideoMP4 · WebM · up to 4K<br>AudioM4A · MP3 · WAV<br>TranscriptTXT · Markdown<br>SubtitlesSRT · VTT · JSON
Download<br>Free, open source, and yours in one click.<br>Desktop builds auto-update from GitHub Releases. Prefer zero install? The same editor runs in your browser.<br>macOS · Apple SiliconmacOS · IntelWindowsLinux · AppImageLinux · .deb
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FAQ<br>Straight answers.<br>Still stuck? Ask in Discord or open an issue.
Is Rescript free?Yes, for noncommercial use, under the PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 license. The web app and every desktop build are available immediately — no account, no trial, no usage meter. Everything that runs on your own device stays free. Commercial use requires a paid license, and we may later add optional paid features that run on our servers.<br>Does my media ever leave my device?No. Transcription, editing, and export all happen locally, and your video and audio files are never uploaded to do any of them. The only network request is the one-time download of the Whisper model from Hugging Face, which is then cached. If we ever ship a feature that needs a server, it will be opt-in and clearly labelled as such.<br>Do you collect any analytics?The app reports anonymous page views and app opens so we can tell roughly how many people use Rescript — no file names, no transcripts, no audio, no account, nothing that identifies you. It's ordinary web analytics, it's visible in the source, and any content blocker stops it.<br>Do I have to install anything?Not unless you want to. The full editor runs in the browser. Desktop builds for macOS, Windows, and Linux exist for when you'd rather have an offline-first install that auto-updates from GitHub Releases.<br>Which browsers work best?A Chromium-based browser is recommended. Rescript needs SharedArrayBuffer, and uses WebGPU for transcription when it's available, with a WASM fallback otherwise.<br>Can I bring my own transcript?Yes. Skip transcription entirely and import an existing SRT, VTT, or JSON caption file, then edit the media against it.<br>How accurate is the transcription?It uses Whisper Base or Small, which handle clear speech well. Word timings and text are both editable, so you can correct anything the model gets wrong and the cuts follow your correction.<br>Does it identify different speakers?Yes. Speaker diarization runs locally via pyannote-segmentation-3.0 and labels...