Cut videos
on the fly.

CutterFly knows your footage — every word, every shot, every take. Choose what you're making and it builds the cut, yours to change, and ready to finish in Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve.

macOS · Apple Silicon · no AI subscription needed · your footage stays on your Mac
CutterFly: an editor in front of a wall of sorted clips
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01 — IT KNOWS YOUR FOOTAGE

Every word.
Every shot. Every take.

Drop in a folder or a whole drive. Your files stay where they are; it reads them once and comes back knowing what was said, who said it, and what every shot holds.

02 — CHOOSE WHAT YOU'RE MAKING

A deliverable.
Not a blank timeline.

A story from the interviews. A teaser from the strongest line. Vertical shorts. A multicam that cuts to whoever is talking. Choose, and it builds while you do something else.

03 — IT'S YOURS TO SHAPE

Change anything.
It rebuilds around you.

Drag a turn, drop one, swap a shot, pull the music down. The cut follows you.

04 — OPENS IN PREMIERE OR RESOLVE

A finished timeline.
Not a folder of clips.

The cut lands on your timeline with your own media. Nothing re-encoded, nothing uploaded.

05 — EVERYTHING YOU'VE SHOT, IN ONE PLACE

One library.
Every project you've made.

What it learns about a clip it keeps. Search by what was said or what is on screen, across every project, long after the shoot.

Every project, clip and person stays searchable on this Mac
Music cut on the song's own parts
Shorts, chapters and montages out of the same footage
THE PROBLEM

The hard part isn't the cut.
It's everything before it.

Watching every take twice. Hunting the one clean delivery. Skimming hours of b-roll for four usable seconds. That's the work that eats your week, and that's the work CutterFly does for you. Cutting silence was never the problem.

WHAT IT HANDLES

An assistant editor's whole job.

One project, many cuts

Analyse once, then make a story, a teaser and a set of shorts from the same footage. Each cut keeps its own turns, settings and versions.

B-roll on the words

Shots are chosen for the words they cover. A clip never follows itself and a moment is used once per edit.

You stay the editor

Drag a turn, take one out, swap a shot, go back to any version. Undo takes back anything.

No AI setup

The AI is ours and it runs in the EU. No subscription, no key, nothing to choose.

Music that fits the cut

Pick a song and which of its parts play. The music is cut on the song's own parts and ends with the cut.

Your sets and saved searches

Gather clips into a set across projects, or save a search and it stays live as new footage arrives.

Most languages

Most languages. It detects the language of each clip and transcribes it on your Mac.

Drives come and go

Clips are recognised by content, so moved and copied files stay the same clip. Unplugged drives stay searchable.

Your work stays yours

Transcripts, takes, people and cuts live on your Mac, in files you can open and back up. Nothing about your footage is kept in our cloud.

S

"I edit client videos for a living. The hard part was never the cut. It was the hours of watching, sorting, and hunting for the right take. I built CutterFly to be the assistant editor I always wanted: it does the watching, I do the directing."

SUNNY — FOUNDER, CUTTERFLY.AI · EDITOR FIRST

Questions, answered straight.

What do I need to run it?
An Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later) on macOS 14 or newer, about 1.5 GB of disk for the app and 5 GB free for a run. And Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve, where you finish the edit. No AI subscription and no API key: the AI is ours and it runs in the EU.
Does my footage get uploaded?
No. Your footage and its sound never leave your Mac, and neither do faces, the names you give people, or voices: your Mac transcribes and recognises them itself. For one analysis our servers in the EU receive the words that were said and small stills of each clip for the AI to look at — all deleted when the analysis ends. The details are in our privacy policy.
Does it work with Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve?
Yes. CutterFly writes the cut to a folder and you import it (File › Import). With it, if you want them: captions from the words, each clip's measured colour correction in Premiere, and the whole project — every turn and moment in folders, and a sequence per topic and per person. The media stays linked to your original files.
Which languages does it understand?
Most languages. It detects the language of each clip and transcribes it on your Mac.
Will it replace my editing?
No. It replaces the work before the edit. You decide what you're making and stay in charge of every cut; CutterFly gets you to a timeline worth opening.
What will it cost?
Pricing comes after the BETA, set from what CutterFly actually costs to run. People on the BETA list hear first.
What do you keep about me?
Your account and how much you analysed this month. Everything about your footage lives on your Mac; deleting a project removes its analysis from the app, and the backups on your Mac stay yours.
Stays on your Mac

Your footage never leaves it.

Your footage and its sound, faces, the names you give people and voices all stay on your Mac. Results are stored there as files you can open.

No AI setup

No subscription, no API key.

The AI is ours and it runs in the EU.

Deleted when it ends

One analysis, then gone.

What goes up for an analysis — the words and small stills — is deleted when that analysis ends.

Cut the rushes.
Keep the film.

We invite people in small groups. No spam — you'll hear when it's your turn. Privacy.