Paste video from anywhere, burn-in subs, cut, crop, share
Cut/Storm is a self-hosted video editor for short clips. Drop a file or paste a URL, transcribe with Whisper locally, edit the transcript, style captions (karaoke, drag/resize), crop, trim, auto-remove silences, mix extra audio, export MP4 or GIF with burned-in subtitles. Runs as a single Docker container on Linux / macOS / Windows. No cloud, no account, no subscription. 13 fonts baked in. Open source, MIT.
Greetings, Hunters.
Cut/Storm is a small video editor that lives in one Docker
container. Drop a file or paste a URL, Whisper transcribes
locally, you style the captions and trim/crop/audio-mix in a
browser, export MP4 or GIF with subtitles burned in.
It exists because the captioning space is split in two: cloud
SaaS that want your credit card and your footage on their
servers (Submagic, Opus Clip, Captions.ai, CapCut), or
heavyweight NLEs overkill for a short video (Kdenlive,
DaVinci Resolve).
Cross-platform (Linux, macOS, Windows), free, MIT licensed.
Nothing uploads anywhere. No account, no subscription.
Please, enjoy.
About Cut/Storm on Product Hunt
“Paste video from anywhere, burn-in subs, cut, crop, share”
Cut/Storm launched on Product Hunt on April 22nd, 2026 and earned 63 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #36 on the daily leaderboard. Cut/Storm is a self-hosted video editor for short clips. Drop a file or paste a URL, transcribe with Whisper locally, edit the transcript, style captions (karaoke, drag/resize), crop, trim, auto-remove silences, mix extra audio, export MP4 or GIF with burned-in subtitles. Runs as a single Docker container on Linux / macOS / Windows. No cloud, no account, no subscription. 13 fonts baked in. Open source, MIT.
On the analytics side, Cut/Storm competes within Social Media, GIFs, GitHub and Video — topics that collectively have 157.2k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Cut/Storm performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Cut/Storm?
Cut/Storm was hunted by Sergei Vorniches. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Cut/Storm including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Sergei Vorniches