Best Open Source Video Editing Tools in 2026
Applications for cutting, editing, and producing video content for creators, studios, and businesses.
The most popular pick this year is OpenCut with 49,369 GitHub stars, but all 1 options below are worth considering depending on your needs.
1 open source video editing tools — ranked by GitHub stars. Browse all
How we rank these tools
Tools are ranked by GitHub stars as a proxy for community adoption and trust. Stars reflect how many developers found a project valuable enough to bookmark — a reasonable signal for quality in the open source world. We only list tools that are actively maintained and open source.
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