# Cutaway: Video Editor with AI — AI makes the cut. You edit it.

> AI-powered video editor with manual timeline control and extensive features. (iPhone/iPad app by Yazan Aesmael.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cutaway-video-editor-with-ai/id6799499137 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Yazan Aesmael](https://appshunter.io/developer/1882806268)
- Category: Photo & Video, Graphics & Design
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 9+
- Requires: iOS 18.2 · 145 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-07
- Data updated: 2026-10-16
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cutaway-video-editor-with-ai/id6799499137/reviews.md

## What is Cutaway?

Tell Cutaway what you want, and it makes that cut.

"Start with me talking, cut to the coffee break, then back again. Black and white, and caption every line." That is the instruction, and Cutaway follows it. Not a button that guesses at your footage: a sentence you wrote, or said, applied to your clips.

Then it hands you the timeline. Every cut, caption, grade, effect and transition it made is an ordinary edit you can drag, retime, restyle or delete. A first cut you cannot argue with is worse than no first cut at all.

WHAT YOU CAN ASK IT FOR

• A cut from 15 seconds to five minutes, paced to what is actually in the footage
• A style to follow: short film, vlog, montage, old film, or let it decide
• Captions written to the cut and timed to the speech, in a style you pick
• A color grade, described rather than dialed in
• Transitions and effects chosen per cut, landing on the beat
• Your screenshots, photos and video clips placed inside the shot
• A green screen taken off one clip, or off every overlay at once
• Narration in a chosen voice, written for the edit it is making
• Music and sound effects generated for this video
• Quick changes that land almost instantly: "mute the music", "make the title bigger"

Type it, or say it: the AI chat takes voice typing.

OR EDIT IT ALL YOURSELF

• Timeline editing: split, trim and reorder
• Speed ramps: slow a moment, rush the rest, or draw your own curve
• Move, scale and rotate any clip, or give it a ready-made move: Ken Burns, drift, handheld, crash zoom
• Keyframe any move so the frame drifts, pushes in, or settles
• 47 transitions: dissolves, slides, whips, spins, glitches, cubes and more
• Effects: CRT, VHS, film grain, glitch, speed lines and more
• Film-style color filters, with intensity you can animate across a clip
• Green screen on any clip, video or photo: it finds the screen's own color and sets the strength for you, or keeps just the person with no screen at all, with any picture you like behind
• Captions, text in 292 fonts, stickers, and photos or videos over your video, at any opacity or blend mode
• Voiceover recorded with the in-app mic, as many takes as you need, and the in-app camera
• Portrait, square or landscape: one project, any shape
• Export to Photos at full quality

FREE, AND NOT A DEMO

The whole manual editor is free. No watermark on your exports, no ads, and no trial that expires. Most editors that hand you a timeline take something back at export; this one does not.

The AI features run on credits, bought or subscribed. Importing, editing, recording voiceover, the camera and export never cost anything.

YOUR FOOTAGE STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE

Editing and export run on the device, so there is no upload step and no render queue waiting on someone else's servers. Your video files never leave your iPhone or iPad. When you use an AI feature, it sends only what that feature needs, and none of it is used to train AI. We take no rights to anything you make.

Made for people who post often and would rather describe the edit than build it.

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://cutaway.design/privacy

## Key features

- AI-driven video editing from text/voice commands
- Manual timeline editing with split, trim, and reorder
- Speed ramps and keyframing for dynamic motion
- 47+ transitions and various visual effects
- Green screen removal and compositing
- AI-generated captions, narration, and music
- Export in portrait, square, or landscape formats

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Creator Monthly | $22.00 | per month |
| Pro Monthly | $45.00 | per month |
| Creator Yearly | $193.99 | per year |
| Pro Yearly | $409.00 | per year |
| Studio Annual | $1000.00 | per year |
| Studio Monthly | $119.00 | per month |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 120 Credits | $4.99 | one-time |


## Is Cutaway safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Cutaway.

## Is Cutaway legit?

Cutaway: Video Editor with AI appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Cutaway is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

## Recent user reviews (1 of 1)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cutaway-video-editor-with-ai/id6799499137/reviews.md

### 5/5 — User friendly

*2026-10-06*

Every mobile editor should give it a try

**Developer response:** Thank you so much! We built Cutaway to make editing on your phone feel easy, so this means a lot. We're shipping improvements every week, so keep your app updated for what's next. Happy editing! 🎬

## Frequently asked questions about Cutaway

### What is Cutaway's core functionality?

Cutaway's core functionality is to use AI to automatically edit video clips based on user instructions, and then allow users to manually refine these edits on a timeline.

### Does Cutaway have ads?

No, Cutaway does not contain advertisements. The app is free to use with no watermarks on exports or expiring trials.

### What are the subscription options for Cutaway's AI features?

Cutaway offers several subscription plans, including Creator, Pro, and Studio tiers, available on both monthly and yearly billing cycles, with prices ranging from $22.00/month to $119.00/month or $193.99/year to $409.00/year.

### Can I use Cutaway offline?

Yes, editing and export run on the device, meaning your footage stays on your device and does not require an upload step. This allows for offline editing capabilities.

### What devices does Cutaway support?

Cutaway is supported on iPhone and iPad devices.

### How does Cutaway handle user privacy with its AI features?

When using an AI feature, only the necessary data is sent, and it is not used to train AI. The app also states it takes no rights to anything users create.

### What is the age rating for Cutaway?

Cutaway has an age rating of 9+, making it suitable for a wide range of users.

### How frequently is Cutaway updated?

The app was last updated on October 12, 2026, indicating a commitment to ongoing development and improvements.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.6.1 — 2026-10-12

Fixed: the Split tool was greyed out in the editor. You can split clips, music, voiceovers, captions, texts and overlays at the playhead again.

### 1.6.0 — 2026-10-10

Ask for several cuts at once, then watch and compare them. And a much bigger library: 292 fonts, new text motions and looks, filters, effects, transitions, stickers and sounds.

SEVERAL CUTS
• Ask for up to four versions in one message, like a 15, 30 and 60 second cut, and they are made at the same time
• Watch and compare them, then carry on with the one you like
• Each set is named from your footage, the chat names itself, and your project shows one card for the chat
• Change a plan before you start it: "add one more cut". The plan underlines only what the AI chose, never your own words
• Talk to one cut afterwards, like "make the second one longer", and its answer appears in the chat
• While cuts are being made, the time runs at the foot of the card
• A cut that doesn't finish says why, with Try again
• Edit a cut by hand and you work on a copy, so the cut stays as it was made
• Ask for several videos with Several cuts off, and the AI offers to turn it on
• Ask for one more cut after a set has started, and it joins that set with its own Start
• When you change a plan, the old one folds into one line and the new one is shown again

MORE TO CHOOSE FROM
• 292 fonts in 13 groups
• 61 text motions, a new Loop tab, and 17 ready-made in-and-out pairs
• 55 caption looks and 16 title looks
• 41 filters, 60 clip effects, 39 moves and 47 transitions
• 167 stickers, with a new Location group in six styles
• New 3:4 and 21:9 shapes
• New speed shapes: Stutter, Ramp up, Ramp down, and Hold & go
• Eight new AI templates: Travel, Food, Product, Workout, Event recap, How-to, Before & after, and Day in my life

CAPTIONS
• Captions keep speech that has noise behind it, where whole lines used to go missing
• Ask for two languages and each gets its own row, sized to fit the frame and kept off faces
• Your caption style applies to every caption by default, and the looks follow the colour you pick

SOUND
• A sound library: 63 ready ideas for sound effects, in 9 groups
• 13 voice effects, 11 beat effects and 18 music moods
• Music is made at the length you ask for, up to two minutes

EDIT IT YOURSELF
• Undo and redo remember your steps after you leave a video, export it or close the app, and the editor and the AI chat share them
• Ease the move between two keyframes with a Curve: ten presets, or shape your own
• Blend a sticker, title or overlay into the picture with 15 blend modes, and its opacity on the same tile
• Layers: what you add last sits on top, and the timeline's rows show the order. Long-press a row to move it
• Fade a sound in, out, or both at once
• Remove the pauses cuts the gaps between words and keeps your shots with no talking
• A sound's waveform on the timeline follows its speed changes
• When your cuts follow the music, the AI's later freezes, effects, speed changes and trims keep them on the beat
• Arabic captions and titles read right to left

ON iPAD
• The AI chat is made for iPad: sideways, your video sits beside the conversation; upright, it plays across the top

BETTER
• Video cards show each video's true length, with an AI button that opens its chat
• In the editor, AI sits right before Captions, and ↗ opens the full chat
• An @ tag stays in your message, in blue, and typing a file's whole name tags it too
• Open the editor while the AI is still working: its AI sheet shows the run as it goes
• Exporting straight after changing every transition no longer fails while their previews are still being made
• Exporting a long video with captions is about twice as fast and no longer runs out of memory
• A big request to the AI is done in parts, and it tells you so
• Every sheet fits on smaller screens
• Status words are easier to read in light mode
• More quick changes: "make all stickers last the whole video" and "fade the music in and out"

Tell us what breaks: support@cutaway.design

### 1.5.0 — 2026-10-05

iPad support is here, Queue several AI jobs, see what each change did, lock what the AI must leave alone, and point it at any clip or file.

ASK FOR IT
• Add another job: line up several requests, tap Start, and they run one after another while Cutaway stays open, each making its own version. Open, rename or export them from the Versions screen
• Each AI reply that edits your video lists what it changed, and a tap on a change jumps to it
• Lock a clip, title, sticker or effect from that list and the AI leaves it alone. A small padlock on the timeline shows what is held
• Point the AI at what you mean: tap its tile on a selected clip, title or sound, attach files from your project, or type @ to pick one
• Choose Auto or Always ask for each chat. In Always ask the AI can stop and ask you one question, with answers to tap, before it cuts. A question costs nothing
• Small suggestions in the editor when Cutaway notices something it can fix, like the pauses in your clips or a song with a beat. One tap, one credit, and you can undo it
• Give a project rules once, like "under 30 seconds", and the AI follows them in every edit
• More quick changes: "add a heart sticker top right", "add a glitch effect to clip 2", "split the music at 0:04", "move clip 3 to place 1"

OR DO IT YOURSELF
• Source: swap a clip's footage and keep every edit on it
• The Move sheet has its own Curve tab, and a sound's speed can be a curve too
• Turn a backdrop photo with two fingers
• Sync to beat is six tiles: tap one and your cuts land at once, and Off puts them back
• Beat effects now sit with the video's own tools, with a choice of song when you have two
• Describe a sound effect with its length, "for five seconds", and it is made that long

BETTER
• Your files are listed in the same sections wherever you pick one
• Long file names stay on one line
• If one clip's sound cannot be read, the other clips still get captions, and a note says which one
• The paywall says plainly what stays free: editing, your own voiceover and exporting

Tell us what breaks: support@cutaway.design

### 1.4.0 — 2026-09-30

Backdrops behind your video, curves on every keyframe, title styles, voice effects, and many more changes the AI makes almost instantly.

ASK FOR IT
• More quick changes land almost instantly: "fill the frame with clip 2", "make the title glow", "give the beach clip a deep voice", "make the video square", "remove the pauses from clip 1", "freeze the last clip at its middle"
• Ask for a speed ramp, a camera move, a new title or sticker, or a freeze, and it changes just that part
• A freeze the AI makes shows its place in the timeline at once, and the still fills in
• Use a gradient you saved by name: "use my Custom 1". A gradient the AI makes is saved as a tile you can edit
• Long chats remember what you asked at the start

OR DO IT YOURSELF
• Backdrop: a color, a gradient, a photo, a looping video, or a blurred copy of each clip behind your video
• Make your own gradients, straight or round, and pick any color right off the video
• Curves on every keyframe: moves, opacity, fades and volume ease in and out the way you choose
• Opacity keyframes on titles and overlays
• Title styles: outline, shadow, glow, bold and stacked looks
• Text, outline and shadow in any color, and backgrounds as lines, a block or a speech bubble
• Voice effects: deep, high or helium, on a clip or a sound
• One Fade button for any sound, with curves
• Remove silences cuts a clip's pauses by its own sound
• Sync your cuts to the beat, or put a zoom, punch-in or shake on the music's beats
• Fill or fit: a clip covers the frame or shows whole
• Export up to 4K, and the phone checks first that it can make that size
• Every sheet works the same way now, with one place for Apply to all and short tips you can dismiss

BETTER
• The location sticker's background fits around it again
• A photo you frame behind the video stays exactly where you leave it
• Keyed photo overlays pinch smoothly
• The video keeps playing when you switch between the AI chat and the editor
• Clearer messages when something goes wrong

Tell us what breaks: support@cutaway.design

### 1.3.0 — 2026-09-29

Green screen that tunes itself, video overlays, and simple changes that land almost instantly.

ASK FOR IT
• Simple changes land almost instantly: "mute the music", "make the title bigger", "remove the green screen"
• One request reaches every overlay: "remove the green screen from all overlays"
• When a request could mean two things, it asks with a quick choice instead of guessing
• Ask for something that's already done and it tells you, instead of doing it again
• Every AI reply shows what it cost
• It looks for a pause before it cuts, and sets the music under your voice from how loud you speak

OR DO IT YOURSELF
• Video overlays: put a clip inside the shot, not just a photo
• Green screen on any clip, video or photo: tap Key color and it picks the screen's own color, with strength and softness set for you, from the colors in your footage
• Keep just the person, no screen needed
• Put a picture behind the key
• Overlay opacity

BETTER
• Ten or more overlays at once stay on screen and export in full
• Titles no longer break in the middle of a word
• Caption backgrounds hug each line instead of spanning the frame
• 16:9 videos keep their shape when you come back to them
• Blends no longer move your captions
• Restoring on a new install brings your plan back

Tell us what breaks: support@cutaway.design

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