# Cuts — Edit With Words — Delete a word. It's cut. > Delete a word. It's cut. (iPhone/iPad app by Brenno Castro.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cuts-edit-with-words/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 · 453 MB - Languages: American English, Brazilian Portuguese - Released: 2026-05-14 - Data updated: 2026-09-09 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cuts-edit-with-words/id6768734392/reviews.md ## What is Cuts? “Cut the part where I said basically.” That is how everyone edits: in words, in their head, before any app opens. Cuts makes that first cut real. Your take becomes a page of text. Delete a word and the video loses exactly that. No timeline, no handles, nothing to drag. Whisper transcribes every take on your iPhone the moment it lands. The cuts, the subtitles and the render happen there too. Nothing is uploaded. 01 · THE WORDS YOU DIDN'T MEAN 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 PAGE 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. Stickers, emoji and lines of text sit on the film too, anchored to the words they belong with — moved, sized and trimmed on the film or on a card. 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. They live in the Library beside your projects, and you can save your own. 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, and a music bed — or several — can be laid under the voice on the Timeline lane. 06 · EXPORT Render on device, in the background. Save to Photos or Files. Source, 4K, 1080p, 720p or 540p — the resolution you pick is the resolution you get. H.264, HEVC or ProRes, audio only or GIF, at the frame rate you choose, with an optional .srt sidecar. 07 · NOTHING LEAVES YOUR IPHONE 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) ### 2.6.0 — 2026-09-09 Cuts speaks Portuguese. Set your iPhone to Brazilian Portuguese and the whole app follows — every tab, verb, dock level, readout, help sheet and export receipt. English stays the default everywhere else. What's new: • Brazilian Portuguese, across the app. The transcript is still your take, in whatever language you spoke; the interface around it is now yours too. • Look names stay as they are — Portra 400 is Portra 400 in any language. Requires iOS 17 or later. Cut to length and AI refinement require iOS 26 and Apple Intelligence. ### 2.5.0 — 2026-09-05 Cuts 2.5 adds an editor that reads the film. Tell it how long the cut should be and it proposes the cuts, on your iPhone, with Apple Intelligence. Nothing is applied until you say so. What's new: • Cut to length. Open the Editor (¶) and pick a target — 0:15, 0:30, 1:00, 2:00 or any length. Apple Intelligence reads the transcript and proposes which stretches to drop; the proposals arrive as marks you review, undo and accept. Long films queue and finish in the background, with a notification when they land. Requires an iPhone with Apple Intelligence turned on; without it the Editor stays visible and says what it needs. • AI refinement for filler and retakes. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, the filler and retake marks get a second pass from it; the vocabulary pass still shows immediately. Switch it off in Settings if you prefer the plain vocabulary. • One editing surface. Lane, both or text — swipe between them and the surface morphs under your finger. The verbs live in a glass dock; menus point at what they act on; Add and Edit share one drawer with a vertical trim. • A new sticker collection. All 36 stickers redrawn in one language — dimensional, die-cut, one silhouette each. A sticker picks up under your finger: it lifts, grows a tenth and casts a shadow while you carry it, the way a strip does on the Timeline. A selected sticker no longer wears a frame; the film shows through. • The Timeline lane, finished. The sticker column trims on the lane, two stickers at the same time get two columns, and the sticker's mark sits on its own chip. The music bed's Replace is back on its card. Improvements: • After transcription, the app suggests a filler cleanup when it finds a lot of filler — one tap to try it, undo stays available. • The Library shows what each export gave you. • The dock's buttons answer a 44pt finger; a lit toggle reads as a pill. • The project's name in the top bar stops before the buttons instead of running under them. • The preview: a dot-matrix letterbox, bigger thumbnails, tap play to expand, pinch a sticker to resize it. • Zoom marks no longer cut the film, and "yes" and "no" are not filler. • Trimming, splitting and moving on the lane got a round of visible fixes on both lanes, and the lane's axis stopped re-measuring while you scroll. Requires iOS 17 or later. Cut to length and AI refinement require iOS 26 and Apple Intelligence. ### 2.4.0 — 2026-08-19 Cuts 2.4 rebuilds fullscreen editing as one surface. The transcript and the film stop being two panes you switch between: the Timeline lane sits beside the words, each piece's filmstrip stands as tall as the text spoken over it, and a cut is simply the gap between two pieces. What's new: • The unified fullscreen editor. Enter fullscreen and the transcript and the Timeline lane share one scroll. Each piece's filmstrip is drawn as tall as the lines it carries, so you can see which frames a paragraph owns without hunting for them. A removed stretch is not hidden — it is the gap. • The playhead rides the spoken line. While the preview plays, the line being spoken stays with the picture. Scrub the film and the text follows; edit the text and the film follows. • Pinch to scale the type. A pinch — or the ± controls — sets the transcript's size in fullscreen, from a working close-up to a whole page at a glance. • Edge to edge. The editor's content runs to the physical edges of the screen. A legibility band under the chrome keeps words readable over the film instead of capping the picture with a bar. • Stickers are placed on the film, in fullscreen. Drag a sticker onto the picture and it lands on the frame, not on a separate canvas. Two stickers alive at the same time are drawn as two ribbons side by side, not one pile. • The music lane is the selected bed's own surface. It appears when a bed is selected and goes away when nothing is. • The fullscreen verbs — close, undo, and the overflow menu — moved into the band beside the Dynamic Island, and the project's name left that surface. The film gets the screen. • Fullscreen arrives by fading rather than growing. Improvements: • A pinch on the lane can no longer reorder a piece by accident — the scale gesture stands the lane's drags down. • Dragging a piece takes the verb bar down with it, whichever verb it is. • Trim handles sit on the piece's own edge, with a grab area wider than the handle you see. • The "+n" overflow badge steps aside for a drag instead of hiding under it. • A sticker's card hangs off the ribbon you can actually see. • Press and hold a music bed to pick it up — holding no longer puts the lane away. • Starting playback no longer strands a sticker or B-roll placement mid-placement. • VoiceOver announces the Marked band's words as removed. • Crowded ruler ticks thin out instead of piling up, and the lane stops remounting while the transcript measures itself. Requires iOS 17 or later. ### 2.3.0 — 2026-08-17 2.3 is a new face and a steadier hand. THE LOOK. Cuts is drawn like an instrument now: paper and ink, one grey ramp in light and dark, mono labels, square buttons — and one wordmark, the same on the icon and in the app. Color is spent only where something is live: the caret, the playhead. The footage tint that 2.2 painted the pages with is gone; the pages are paper again. THE TRANSPORT. Play, the waveform and the tabs share one glass pill at the bottom. Hold the waveform for a precision scrub. Tap the preview to go fullscreen and keep editing there. Scroll and the preview folds into a corner thumb so the words reach the top; tap the thumb to bring the film back. Under the film, a reading: how long the take was, how long the cut is, what came out. STICKERS AND TEXT. Drop stickers, emoji or a line of text on the film. Drag to move, pull a corner to resize, or set the size on the card — the card also trims, fades, replaces and copies. The transcript, the Timeline and the film now agree about every one. MUSIC. Lay a bed under the film — more than one, moved and trimmed on the Timeline lane, mixed under the voice. EXPORT. Source, 4K, 1080p, 720p or 540p; H.264, HEVC or ProRes; audio only; GIF; the frame rate you choose. Presets live in the Library beside your projects, and the current one is marked. LIBRARY. Projects sort by what you touched last — and opening one no longer counts as touching it. PRO. Cuts is free to start and Pro is one purchase; the app says so now. A welcome, a short tour that points at the real controls, a Pro page that shows exactly what it unlocks, one paywall. Also: Reduce Motion is honoured everywhere; haptics report the hand's work; the Timeline's dock sits on the pill and fits any phone; VoiceOver reaches the stickers on the lane and in the text. ### 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. ## Apps similar to Cuts | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Teleprompter ·](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/teleprompter/id6746195062) | 4.9 (12) | Free | Photo & Video | | [Dehancer Film Emulation](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dehancer-film-emulation/id6443648413) | 4.3 (426) | Free | Photo & Video | | [Kino - Pro Video Camera](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kino-pro-video-camera/id6472380172) | 4.7 (1,944) | $9.99 | Photo & Video | | [Pearla - Pro Filmic Camera](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pearla-pro-filmic-camera/id6477783991) | 4.2 (305) | Free | Photo & Video | | [Moment Pro Camera II](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/moment-pro-camera-ii/id6748837351) | 4.4 (436) | $9.99 | Photo & Video | | [OpenCam: Open Gate Camera](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/opencam-open-gate-camera/id6743316690) | 4.5 (45) | Free | Photo & Video | --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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