Recut
Recut vs Kapwing: an honest comparison
Kapwing is an online video editor that teams use together in the browser, with a timeline, subtitles, resizing and AI tools. Recut is an AI agent: you ask for the result in words and it plans and runs the steps, from generating clips, voices and music to captions and platform exports. For collaborative hands-on editing, Kapwing is the better fit.
What Kapwing is
Kapwing is a browser-based editor for video, images and GIFs, built for teams: several people can work in the same workspace, with shared brand assets. It has a timeline editor, automatic subtitles, resizing for social platforms, templates and a set of AI tools.
Where Kapwing is the better choice
- Editing together: shared workspaces and projects for a team.
- Hands-on timeline editing in the browser, with text, elements and layers you place yourself.
- Subtitle editing, where you correct words and timing by hand.
Where Recut differs
- Recut works from a request: "resize this for Reels, caption it and add our logo top left".
- Recut makes new media with AI models from many providers: clips from text or photos, voices, music, sound effects, dubbing, lip sync and talking avatars.
- Recut runs on Mac, Windows and Android as well as in the browser, and its finishing steps run on your own device.
Side by side
| Kapwing | Recut | |
|---|---|---|
| How you edit | By hand on a browser timeline | By asking an AI agent in plain words |
| Teamwork | Shared team workspaces | One person's projects |
| Subtitles | Auto subtitles you can edit | Auto captions burned in, timed to speech |
| Generative AI | A set of AI tools | Many providers' models, picked and priced per step |
Which to pick
Pick Kapwing if a team edits videos together by hand in the browser. Pick Recut if you'd rather describe the result and have an agent make it, with AI-generated scenes, voices and music when you need them.
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.
Kapwing is a trademark of its owner. This page describes Kapwing 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 change a video's aspect ratio (16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:5)Make a video vertical, square, 4:5 or widescreen with Recut: crop to fill the frame or keep the whole picture with bars. Runs on your device.
- How to add a logo or watermark to a videoAttach a video and a logo, and Recut places the logo in a corner or the centre at the size and opacity you choose. Runs on your device.