FriCut turns your video into a transcript. Edit the words, and the video edits itself. Nothing leaves your device. No accounts, no cloud, no monthly minutes.
How it works
Import from Files, Finder, or Photos. FriCut copies it into the app sandbox. Your original is never touched.
Apple's on-device speech engine transcribes. For English, a bundled wav2vec2 acoustic model tightens every word to the exact frame.
Select a sentence, hit delete, watch the timeline collapse. Short audio ramps clean up the seams. Export to MP4.
Words are aligned to the waveform so deletes land on the exact frame. No nudging. No scrubbing. Just the cut you meant.
Airplane mode the whole flight. Transcribe and cut a full podcast before you land. No Wi-Fi needed.
Audio never touches a server. Models run locally on Apple Silicon.
Transcribe and cut as much as you want. No per-minute fees like cloud transcribers.
A bundled wav2vec2 acoustic model aligns every word to the waveform with forced alignment.
Import .mp4, .mov, .mp3, .m4a, .wav, and anything else AVFoundation recognizes.
Clean MP4 out, ready for any app. Short audio ramps around every cut so seams never pop.
iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Universal app, one purchase.
The annoying parts
Filler words
FriCut spots hard fillers like um, uh, and hmm, plus false starts and clustered phrases like "you know" and "I mean." One tap to remove. Conservative on purpose, false positives delete real content, and you can always do it manually with a word tap.
Long pauses
Find long silences in the waveform and trim them in one move. Your cut feels paced, not chopped.
Mistakes
Every delete, every trim, every filler sweep is undoable. The original video stays untouched in the app sandbox. Nothing here is destructive.
Seams
FriCut applies short, clamped volume ramps around every cut, in both preview and export, so the audio rejoins cleanly.
Privacy by architecture
Apple's SpeechAnalyzer runs on-device. The wav2vec2 alignment model is bundled in the app. The whole pipeline, transcription, alignment, filler detection, preview, export, runs on the metal you already paid for.
Everywhere you work
Universal purchase. Buy once, use everywhere.
Pricing
No per-minute fees. No usage anxiety. No surprise overage emails. Every tier unlocks the whole app on every Apple device you own, and what you pay funds the one human (hi) who designs, builds, and maintains FriCut. No investors, no ads, just users keeping the lights on.
Monthly
Try it for a project. Cancel any time from the App Store.
Yearly
Two months free vs monthly. Best if FriCut is in your weekly rotation.
Lifetime
Pay once. Use forever. The friendliest deal we can offer.
FriCut is heading to the App Store. No waitlist, no email capture, just check back soon.