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Video Editing

Video editors, ranked by what free and Pro really give you.

Rank editors by the export, not the demo. Compare what the free plan ships without a watermark fight, what Pro costs at the current checkout after the 2026 price resets, how fast AI credits burn on real projects, and what the terms claim over your footage.

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CapCut

Video Editing

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7 days of CapCut Pro for you and 7 days for your friend, per qualifying friend (up to 70 days across 10 friends)

IpT6sh10781055 - 7 days of CapCut Pro free for both sides per install

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Our take

The timeline is where AI stopped being a demo.

Video editing absorbed AI faster than any other craft on this site: captions write themselves, backgrounds vanish, whole clips generate inside the project, and the newest editors take a written instruction and return a first cut. That makes the category exciting and its pricing slippery - credits, tiers and Pro labels that changed twice in a year.

So this hub judges editors the way a working creator feels them: what the free plan exports without a watermark fight, what Pro costs at the current checkout rather than in last year's videos, how fast the AI credit meter runs on real work, and what the terms of service claim over the footage you upload - the clause that decided more than one professional's verdict in 2025.

CapCut founds the category here because it is the reference point: the editor a generation learned on, owned by ByteDance, priced like a utility until its 2026 reset, and running the most generous invite in the catalog - a week of Pro for both sides of an install. Its review carries the ownership and licensing caveats in the open, where they belong.

How we picked:

  • Free plan export terms stated (resolution, watermark, length)
  • Current Pro price from the product's own pages, dated
  • AI credit allowances and what burns them
  • Content license and ownership terms summarized before you upload

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Best starting points.

Match what you want to do with the app that fits it best.

IntentStart hereWhy
Edit short video with AI doing the repetitive partsCapCutAuto captions, background removal, AI generation and an editing agent inside the free editor that TikTok made standard; Pro unlocks the full suite and 1 TB of cloud storage.
Try Pro without a credit cardCapCut invite code IpT6sh10781055A friend's install of CapCut Desktop with the code gives both sides 7 days of Pro - no card, no auto-renewal, stacking to 70 days over ten friends.
Keep Pro after the free daysCapCut Pro subscriptionThe US list price is $19.99 a month or $179.99 a year after the February 2026 reset; the review tracks the current figure and the cheaper Standard tier.

U.S. picks

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CapCut

CapCut is the rare referral where both sides win the same prize and neither side pays anything: 7 days of a $19.99-a-month Pro tier for an install. The editor itself is the standard of the short-video era and its AI stack is genuinely deep. The deductions live outside the timeline: ByteDance owns it, its terms claim a broad license over uploaded content, Pro's annual price doubled in 2026, and the invite is a revocable campaign that CapCut interprets finally. Take the free days; keep your masters exported.

CategoryVideo Editing
You get7 days of CapCut Pro for the new user and 7 days for the inviter, per friend who installs CapCut Desktop and enters the code
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Questions about this list

Who is this page for?

Every editor now claims AI; the differences that matter are duller and more decisive: what the free plan actually lets you export, what Pro costs after the 2026 price resets, how the AI credits meter out, and what the terms claim over your footage. This hub ranks video editors on those four things, checked against each product's own pages and dated.

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No. Offers, eligibility, state availability, payout timing, and required actions can change. Always confirm the official terms before signing up.

How were these apps picked?

Each app has a full review with a score built from nine published factors, its current new-user offer checked against the company's own terms, and its main risks. We may earn a referral reward from some links; that is not a scoring factor.