Get AI Video Editor

One editor, two doors: buy the ready-to-run Mac app, or compile the same code yourself for nothing.

Buy the app: $79, once

A signed and notarized Apple Silicon build with everything bundled: FFmpeg, the render engine, the caption pipeline. Download, drag to Applications, and the setup wizard takes it from there. All 1.x updates included, no subscription ever.

Buy for macOS · $79

Secure checkout by Stripe. Your download starts right after payment. Requires an Apple Silicon Mac on macOS 14 or later.

Build it from source, free

The full source lives on GitHub under the PolyForm Noncommercial license: if you're comfortable in a terminal, you can run the exact same editor without paying for any personal or noncommercial work. That's the deal, and we mean it. Commercial use is what the one-time purchase covers. You'll need Bun and FFmpeg installed.

git clone https://github.com/tjameswilliams/ai-video-editor.git
cd ai-video-editor
bun install
bun run dev            # dev mode at localhost:5176
# or package your own Mac app:
npm run package:mac

Buying the app skips the toolchain, gets you a notarized build with everything bundled, and funds the roadmap.

First run

On first launch the app walks you through connecting an AI model, with presets and step-by-step directions for OpenRouter, Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek, GLM, LM Studio, llama.cpp, and vLLM, then it offers a starting template: record-and-caption, ComfyUI cinematics, a brand styleguide, or an infographic video. From there, you just tell it what you want.