Recut
Recut vs CapCut: an honest comparison
CapCut is a manual video editor: you drag clips on a timeline and use its effects, templates and auto captions. Recut is an AI agent: you say what you want and it plans and runs the steps, including generating video, voice and music with models from many providers. If you like editing by hand, CapCut is the better fit.
What CapCut is
CapCut is a video editor from ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, with apps for phones and computers and a version in the browser. It has a multi-track timeline, a large library of templates, effects, filters, text styles and transitions, and AI features such as automatic captions. It is built around fast, hands-on editing for short social videos.
Where CapCut is the better choice
- Hands-on editing: cutting on a timeline, keyframes, transitions and effects are all things you do directly, frame by frame.
- Templates and trends: CapCut's template library follows what is popular on TikTok.
- Animated caption styles and text effects go well beyond Recut's two caption styles.
Where Recut differs
- You don't edit by hand in Recut. You ask in words ("make this vertical, add captions and an end card"), and Recut shows a plan before running it.
- Recut is built around generating with AI models from many providers: images, video clips, voices, music, lip sync, dubbing and 3D, found and priced for each step.
- Every result is kept as a version, so you can go back to any point and try another model.
Side by side
| CapCut | Recut | |
|---|---|---|
| How you edit | By hand on a multi-track timeline | By asking an AI agent in plain words |
| Generative AI | Built-in AI features | Models from fal, Replicate, ElevenLabs, Google, OpenAI and more, picked per step |
| Captions | Auto captions with many styles | Auto captions burned in, outline or boxed |
| Transitions and effects | Large library | None; clips play one after the other |
| Platforms | Phone, desktop and web | Mac, Windows (beta), Android and web |
Which to pick
Pick CapCut if you want to edit by hand and use trending templates and effects. Pick Recut if you'd rather describe the video and have an agent make it, especially when the job needs AI-generated scenes, voices or music.
About Recut
Recut is an AI creative agent: you describe what you want in plain words, attach your files, and it plans the steps, picks the models and runs them.
It runs on Mac (Apple silicon), Windows 10 and 11 (beta), Android and in the browser.
Plans start with 14 days free, then $10 a month or $100 a year; Recut Pro, with the top agent models, is $25 a month. Model runs are paid with Recut credits or billed by your own provider accounts at their prices, shown before you run.
CapCut is a trademark of its owner. This page describes CapCut as it was in October 2026 and isn't affiliated with or endorsed by it; check their site for what it does today.
See if Recut fits
Open Recut in your browser, attach a file and describe what you want. It shows the plan and the price before anything runs.
Open Recut in your browserRelated guides
- How to add captions to a video automaticallyAttach a video, type "add captions" and Recut times each word to the speech and burns captions in, styled to read on a phone.
- How to resize a video for TikTok, Reels and ShortsAsk Recut to export a video for TikTok, Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts: a 9:16 frame at 1080×1920, 30 fps and even loudness.
- How to make a short video ad with AI from a promptDescribe the ad in one sentence and Recut plans the scenes, makes each clip, the narration and the music, and assembles one finished video.