# Cuts — Edit Video Like Text — Tap a word — the cut is made. > Tap a word — the cut is made. (iPhone/iPad app by Brenno Castro.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cuts-edit-video-like-text/id6768734392 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Brenno Castro](https://appshunter.io/developer/1896142126) - Category: Photo & Video, Productivity - Price: Free with in-app purchases (on sale, was $4.99) - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 422 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-05-14 - Data updated: 2026-08-27 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cuts-edit-video-like-text/id6768734392/reviews.md ## What is Cuts? Cuts turns your video into a page of text. Whisper transcribes every take on device, the moment it lands — then you edit by tapping words, not dragging clips. Tap a word — the cut is made. The video follows. 01 · AUTO Silences, fillers and retakes, cut for you — each with three levels: minimum, medium, maximum. Every removed word stays on the page, struck through and colored by the reason it was cut. Nothing is hidden, and one tap brings any word back. 02 · THE TRANSCRIPT IS THE TIMELINE Record inside the app or pull clips from Photos — one take or a whole batch. Each file becomes a paragraph of a single, continuous transcript. Select words to remove them, change their speed, zoom into the moment, or lay B-roll over exactly the words it should cover. When you'd rather work by hand, the Timeline lane holds the same edit: trim a piece by its edges, split it, reorder it, pinch to zoom, scrub frame by frame — and undo covers all of it. 03 · SUBTITLES Burn in subtitles in eleven styles — modern, classic, bold, neon, minimal, block, caption, handwritten, editorial, typewriter, tape. Highlight tints only the keywords that carry meaning, picked on device. Captions can be translated at export. 04 · PRESETS One tap sets the whole pipeline: TikTok, Reels, Stories, Shorts, YouTube, Podcast or Audio Only — tight cuts, vertical 9:16 with auto-reframe, 1080p, burned-in captions. A starting point; switch off anything you'd rather keep. 05 · COLOR & SOUND Film looks and full grading — temperature, brightness, exposure, contrast, saturation. A look can cover the whole film or a single clip, and the preview and the exported file agree. Auto-reframe follows the speaker's face for vertical video. Equalize voice and noise reduction clean the audio on the same screen. Each project also takes a color from its own footage, and the editing pages carry it — a switch in Settings turns that off. 06 · EXPORT Render on device, in the background. Save to Photos or Files, MP4 or ProRes, source quality or 1080p/720p/540p — the resolution you pick is the resolution you get — with an optional .srt sidecar. 07 · PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE Nothing leaves your iPhone. The transcription model and the language model ship inside the app — no account, no cloud, no analytics, no tracking. Cuts works on a plane. FREE TO START Try Cuts for free. Pro is a single purchase — once, forever. No subscription. Made by Brenno Castro, film director. He got tired of the timeline and went back to the sentence. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Cuts Pro | $9.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 2.2.0 — 2026-07-29 A film look no longer has to cover the whole film. In Refine there is now an All clips / This clip switch: pick one clip, give it its own look, and everything else keeps the project's. And what you see is what you get — a look scoped to a single clip used to be honored in the preview and quietly dropped at export. It reaches the file now. The Timeline grew hands. Drag a piece by its edges to trim it, long-press a piece for its verbs, pinch to zoom the lane, scrub frame by frame — and undo now covers reorder and split, not just the words. 720p means 720p. The export frame used to be set by whichever clip happened to sit first, so a three-second insert could shrink an entire film and crop it to its shape. The frame now follows the clip that owns most of the film, so the resolution you ask for is the resolution you get. Also in 2.2: each project takes a color from its own footage and the editing pages carry it, with a switch in Settings; color and framing edits autosave, so a crash can no longer take a grading session with it; exports use less memory, because no preview keeps running behind a render; and the app clears out the temporary files it used to leave behind — hundreds of megabytes of them. ### 2.1.0 — 2026-07-16 Film looks are now a drawer of vintage film cards — flick through, tap to apply. Subtitles got the same care: eleven styles, each on its own collectible card. Also in 2.1: preview and export keep the correct orientation, crop and face tracking across mixed portrait and landscape footage; audio stays in sync at different speeds; unavailable media is handled more safely; and VoiceOver and Reduce Motion support got better. ### 2.0.0 — 2026-07-13 · Projects — the library now holds folders of takes; drop a batch in and cut it as one transcript. · Faster on-device transcription and smoother preview scrubbing. · Fixes and polish throughout. ### 1.2 — 2026-05-25 Cuts 1.2 brings multi-clip projects, voice cleanup at export, and full background processing — start a long transcription or render, switch apps, and Cuts finishes the work for you and saves your edit to Photos when iOS lets it. What's new: • Multi-clip projects — add more clips into an existing project from the library, reorder paragraphs across all of them, and mix portrait + landscape clips in the same edit (each one renders upright, landscape clips center-crop into the portrait frame). The new clip transcribes in the background with a progress row inline in the transcript. • Voice cleanup on export — two new toggles in Effects. "Noise reduction" strips background hum with the RNNoise model; "Equalize voice" runs a high-pass + presence bell + soft compressor so the voice sits at a consistent level. Both apply to the exported audio. • Background processing — kick off a long transcription or render, leave the app, get a notification when it's done. Works for the initial import too. • Speed picker — a Speed card in the transcript footer opens a dropdown with multipliers from 0.5× to 2×. The chosen value is applied at render. • Per-clip preview frame in Effects — when a project has more than one clip, pick which clip's still the Effects pane previews. Filter, grading, and enhance apply to whichever clip you choose. • Karaoke word highlight — the currently-spoken word is highlighted in the transcript while the edit preview plays. • Library clip preview — selecting a source file in the Project tab plays it raw in a preview tile above the file list. • Brightness slider in Grading replaces Tint. Improvements: • Tap a project row to open it — no more "Open" button; the active project's row is shaded so you can spot it at a glance. • Launches straight into your most recent project (Transcript tab); the import hero only shows when the library is empty. • Transcript footer scrolls horizontally so the new Speed card fits without shrinking the others. • Custom rename and delete confirmation cards replace the system popovers that used to point at nothing, matching the rest of the app's flat look. • Renaming a project no longer reverts other projects' names on the next save, and renaming a clip now reflects in the Effects clip picker immediately. • The Effects still preview now loads when you reopen a saved project (it used to be blank until you re-imported). • A corrupt or missing source clip no longer freezes the preview on "Preparing preview…" — the build skips the bad slice and plays the rest. • Switching projects mid-build no longer drops the previous project's composition into the new one's preview. • The preview tile pauses when you switch tabs so audio doesn't keep playing under the new tab. • Multi-clip preview now plays every clip on device — was silently dropping the second clip when its codec format differed from the first. • The "N clips" count on the library row, the file list, and the transcript header always agree now. • Reorder badges correctly label paragraphs from the second clip onwards in multi-clip projects. Requires an iPhone running iOS 16.4 or later. ### 1.1 — 2026-05-19 Cuts 1.1 brings a live edit preview, an inline word-level editor, and background renders that survive switching apps. What's new: • Live edit preview — see exactly how your cut will look before you commit to a render. Silence trims, captions, color filter, and Smart Zoom apply in real time as you adjust the preset. • Inline transcript editor — the full transcript now sits on the home screen. Tap any word to mark it for removal; long-press to scrub the preview to that moment. Your selection is saved per video so you can come back later. • Background renders — long edits that exceed the foreground time limit now finish in the background. A notification fires when your edit lands in Photos so you don't have to keep the app open. • Transcription bundled in the app — no model download on first launch. Pick a video, tap once, and the cut starts immediately. • Brand-new app icon, redesigned for iOS. • Refreshed brand palette — Cobalt, Swiss Red, Golden, and Forest tints make silence, filler, retake, and zoom marks instantly readable. • IBM Plex Mono typography for a cleaner read on the transcript. Improvements: • Foreground render cancel now propagates cleanly to the export pipeline, so backgrounding the app mid-render no longer leaves the export task spinning. • Three-dot menu and the reorder side panel both got UX polish — smoother slide-in, cleaner drop shadow, tap-outside to dismiss. 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