Comparison

Cut Silence vs RoughCut

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Cut Silence

Features
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Long, awkward pauses make your videos and podcasts drag. Cut Silence finds the silent gaps and removes them automatically, so your talking-head clips, vlogs, and voice recordings get tighter and more watchable — in one tap. No ads. No subscription. Pay once and trim forever. • AUTO-CUT SILENCE — detects the quiet gaps and splices them out, keeping your speech intact. • THREE LEVELS — Light, Balanced, or Aggressive, so short natural pauses stay and dead air goes. • KEEPS QUALITY — full-resolution export, audio and video stay in sync. • 100% PRIVATE — everything happens on your iPhone. Your videos are never uploaded. • NO ADS, NO SUBSCRIPTION — pay once, and that's it. No watermark, no weekly fee. Perfect for podcasters, YouTubers, course creators, and anyone who records themselves talking. Pick a video, choose how aggressively to cut, tap Remove Silence. Done.

About

RoughCut

Features
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Stop scrubbing through hours of footage looking for the boring parts. RoughCut turns a rambling talking-head recording into a tight, captioned, clean-sounding video in minutes: it cuts silence and filler words, adds animated captions and cleans up your audio. Drop in a podcast, vlog, tutorial or Reel and let RoughCut do the tedious first pass. You review every cut before you export, so the edit is always yours. No account, no sign-up. AUTO CUT SILENCE AND DEAD AIR • Finds and removes silent gaps, dead air and awkward pauses automatically, like a jump-cut edit done for you • Fine-tune the silence threshold, minimum pause length and padding around each cut so the result feels natural, not choppy • Boost the volume of quiet recordings • Tap any part of the timeline to keep it or cut it by hand REMOVE FILLER WORDS (PRO) • Detects "um", "uh" and other hesitations and cuts them out • Turn it on or off per video and check every cut on the waveform AUTO CAPTIONS AND SUBTITLES (PRO) • Automatic captions in 14 languages • Animated word-by-word styles: Pop, Karaoke, Bold, Minimal and Classic • Burn captions into the video or export an SRT subtitle file STUDIO CLEAN AUDIO (PRO) • Reduces background noise and room hum behind your voice • Levels loudness so every clip sounds consistent READY FOR EVERY PLATFORM • Reframe to 9:16, 1:1 or 16:9 for Reels, TikTok, Shorts, feed posts and YouTube • Export in 1080p for free, or up to 4K with Pro • Import videos from Photos or Files, or audio-only recordings • Batch processing: queue several clips and let RoughCut cut, caption and export them in one pass (Pro) • Save your favorite settings as presets and apply a whole look in one tap • Works on iPhone and iPad PRIVATE BY DESIGN Silence detection, audio cleanup, reframing and export all run on your device, and your videos are never uploaded to our servers. Captions use Apple's speech recognition, which runs on-device for supported languages. PERFECT FOR • Podcasters cutting dead air between thoughts • YouTubers and vloggers editing talking-head footage • TikTok, Reels and Shorts creators who need fast, clean cuts • Teachers and course creators trimming tutorials and lectures • Anyone who records long and wants to post short FREE AND PRO Free: silence removal, manual edits, reframing, presets and 1080p export. RoughCut Pro: auto captions, filler-word removal, Studio Clean Audio, batch processing, 4K export and SRT subtitles. Pro is available as a weekly or annual auto-renewinfor your country is shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end ocan manage or cancel it at any time in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://lumiq.art/roughcut/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Download RoughCut and turn your next recording in minutes.

Screenshots

Cut Silence4 screens
RoughCut4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Cut Silence at fortnightly against RoughCut's every 3 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Cut Silence sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and RoughCut sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cut Silence ships an update fortnightly, RoughCut every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Cut Silence versus RoughCut: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCut SilenceRoughCut
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJhomar Maravillaserdem caygor

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Cut Silence

One-time1
  • Unlock Unlimited$4.99
2 purchases

RoughCut

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly$2.997 Days
  • Annual$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Cut Silence free?
Cut Silence is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RoughCut free?
RoughCut is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cut Silence or RoughCut have ads?
Neither Cut Silence nor RoughCut shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cut Silence or RoughCut?
Cut Silence ships an update fortnightly, and RoughCut every 3 months. Most recently, Cut Silence was updated on October 25, 2026 and RoughCut on October 24, 2026.

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