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A video editor built by an editor

Advanced editing
made easy

LiteSplice is a free desktop video editor built to give you powerful editing, animation, effects, compositing, color, and AI tools without the complexity of other professional editors.

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Now in beta on iPhone, iPad and Android

The LiteSplice editor with a multi-layer timeline, the preview and the Properties panel

What it does

Depth, without the clutter

A look across the editor. The full list lives on the features page.

A timeline that keeps up

Stack as many layers as the edit needs, cut fast on a magnetic main track, and nest anything inside anything.

  • Unlimited stacked layersVideo, image, text, shape and audio, as many as the edit needs.
  • Magnetic main trackClips close up on the main track; layers above stay where you put them.
  • PrecompositionsNest any group of layers at any depth, and open it back up later. A precomp edits like any clip: speed, effects, animations, transitions and its own sound. Convert one to a video clip in a click.
  • Adjustment layersAn effect, grade or camera shake that applies to everything below it. Drag an effect onto the timeline to make one.
All editing features
Editing on the LiteSplice timeline

Smart tools

AI that stays in your hands

LiteSplice's AI features run locally on your computer. Your footage isn't uploaded to a cloud service, and every AI-assisted action leaves editable data behind, like a mask, keyframes or audio clips, instead of an opaque result.

Smart Brush masking a person from a single stroke in LiteSplice

Smart Brush: paint once, cut out through the whole shot.

A tracking box around a moving skateboarder in LiteSplice

Tracking

Beat markers found on a drum track in LiteSplice

Beat detection

  • Smart BrushPaint over a person or object once; it is cut out through the whole shot, with edge refinement, at Best quality or a quicker Fast. Where it slips, fix that frame and track on from there. It works on pictures too.
  • Auto captionsSpeech becomes ordinary, editable captions in about 90 languages, as subtitle lines or word by word, broken where you naturally pause. Words can fade in as they are said. Style them all at once.
  • Object SelectHover over a person or object and the whole of it lights up as one solid shape. Click to select it.
  • Object and mask trackingMasks, blurs and titles follow a face or an object, and Reframe holds a subject still in the frame. The track stays on what you boxed through a long clip, and Precise brings it back if the subject is hidden for a moment.
  • StabilizationMeasured in seconds, even on 4K, and it zooms only as far as it needs to.
  • Frame interpolationSmooth slow motion at Best quality or a much quicker Fast, and a Smooth motion tick at export that turns 24 or 30fps footage into a true 60 or 120.
  • Stem separationVocals, drums, bass and other. Take out just the stems you want.
  • Voice isolate / removeKeep only the voice on a clip, or everything but it.
  • Beat detectionA marker on every beat, so cutting to the music becomes an ordinary cut.
  • Smart relightLight a subject after the fact, following them through the shot.

AI should accelerate the workflow without taking control away from the editor.

4K footage on the LiteSplice timeline

Performance & export

Built for 4K

Smooth scrubbing and playback are treated as requirements, not polish. And the export is drawn by the same renderer as the preview, so what you see is what you get.

4Kup to 120fps
H.264 · H.265hardware encoded
PresetsYouTube, TikTok, Reels, Shorts
StillsPNG / JPEG frames

Pricing

Actually free

LiteSplice is free to use. No account. No trial. No watermark.

The core LiteSplice editor is free and will continue to grow with new features, effects, presets, and performance improvements.

LiteSplice Studio is a future paid edition focused on advanced professional capabilities, including a full 3D workspace. Today's LiteSplice features are not being placed behind a Studio paywall.

  • Every feature on this site
  • Exports without a watermark
  • No sign-in, ever

Why LiteSplice

Stop choosing between
simple and powerful

Simple editors are easy to start with, and eventually you hit their limits. Advanced editors have enormous power, and a steep climb to reach it. LiteSplice is designed for the space between.

Simple editors

Easy to learn

Eventually hit limitations

Traditional professional editors

Powerful

Steeper learning curve

LiteSplice

Easy to learn

Powerful

Continually improving

The story

Built because limitations shouldn't be permanent

“LiteSplice started from a simple frustration: why should getting more control require accepting a much harder workflow?”

I edit every day. One channel is PUBG Mobile: fast, formulaic short-form edits that go out daily. The other is movie edits, with many layers, stacked audio, keyframes, effects and compositing.

I used CapCut constantly and knew it inside out. I tried After Effects, and found myself going back. One was quick until it ran out of road; the other had the road and made every step of it harder.

So instead of accepting the limitation, I started building the editor I wanted to use.

Built by an editor, for editors.

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Philosophy

Full control,
nothing locked away

01

Every parameter can be animated

LiteSplice isn't limited to a small selection of keyframeable properties. Effect settings, transforms, color and text. Every parameter can be keyframed directly.

Keyframes on effect and transform parameters in LiteSplice
02

Fine control when you need it

Every keyframe is a bezier curve from the start. Open the graph editor on any of them and shape the motion exactly: ease, overshoot, hold.

Scaleease in · ease out
Every keyframe is a bezier curve. Drag the handles to shape the motion.
03

Presets aren't magic

Effects are modular building blocks. A preset is simply a stack of effects and keyframes. Apply it, then open it up and change any part of it.

If something moves, you can see what moved it

Preset“Bad signal”
Bad TV◆ ◆ ◆
RGB Split◆ ◆
Scanlines & CRT·
Transform · Scale◆ ◆ ◆ ◆

= ordinary effects + keyframes · all editable

Nothing should happen
without a reason

If something moves
there is a keyframe.
If an effect exists
it can be opened and modified.
If AI helps
it leaves editable data behind.
If something is automated
you still understand and control the result.

Privacy

Your footage stays yours

LiteSplice's installer is large because its AI models run on your computer rather than being processed in the cloud. That's the point.

  • No account requiredDownload, install, edit.
  • No sign-inNot now, not later.
  • No analyticsThe app doesn't report what you do.
  • AI runs locallyThe models run on your computer, not in the cloud.
  • Footage isn't uploadedIt never leaves your machine.

Free now · Studio later

A complete editor today
Room to go further

LiteSplice is already a complete editor. Studio is for people who eventually want to go further.

LiteSplice

Free

Available now

The current editor, with everything described on this site.

  • No account
  • No trial
  • No watermark
  • Keeps getting new features
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LiteSplice Studio

Future paid edition

In the future · no date

For substantially more advanced professional work, built around a full 3D workspace. Directions being explored:

  • Full 3D workspace with a 3D camera
  • 3D camera tracking, to attach text and graphics into real footage
  • Advanced AI enhancement and upscaling

Today's LiteSplice features stay in LiteSplice. Nothing is being moved behind a paywall.

Community

Build LiteSplice with us

The Discord is where LiteSplice gets talked about, broken, and made better.

  • Discuss LiteSplice
  • Report bugs
  • Request features
  • Give feedback
  • Testing information, when there is some
  • Meet other editors
Join the LiteSplice Discord

Powerful when you need it
Simple when you don't

Free for Windows and Apple Silicon Macs.

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