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Tell it what to cut. Or what to create.
Generate whiteboard explainers, stock montages, interview edits, and animated scenes from a single prompt, or chat to edit on a real multi-track timeline.
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Why switch
HakoCut vs. typical AI editors
What HakoCut is
Not another AI wrapper.
A real editor with a brain.
AI agent
It edits your timeline, not a side toy
Type what you want. HakoCut returns a step-by-step workflow: remove silence, beat sync, add transitions, then runs each step on the real timeline.
- Execute All or step-by-step
- Vision reads your clips
- 80+ action types
Pro editor
CapCut easy. Premiere depth.
Multi-track timeline, keyframes, graph editor, masks, multi-scene projects. 23 GPU effects and 37 transitions via a Rust compositor.
- Ripple & split edits
- Multi-scene
- Graph easing curves
Create from zero
Start with a prompt, end with a video
Stock footage montage, whiteboard explainer, or animated explainer. Full pipelines that fetch assets, generate narration, and build the timeline.
- Stock + TTS + music
- Whiteboard animation
- Character scenes
Create from scratch
Three ways to start with a prompt
Stock Footage
Pexels & Pixabay clips + AI narration + background music on your timeline.
Whiteboard Explainer
Hand-drawn animation with typewriter text, generated locally on desktop.
Animated Explainer
Character images, scene generation, Ken Burns motion, built for explainers.
Timeline
Workflow engine
You approve the plan.
Then it runs.
Most AI editors hide what they're doing. HakoCut shows every step before touching your timeline.
- Structured workflows you review before running
- Vision model reads frames in your clips
- Silence removal, beat sync, highlight reels
- Create stock, whiteboard, or animated videos from a prompt
Templates that ship videos
One prompt in. A real video out.
Every template runs a full pipeline: fetch assets, generate narration, animate, score, and drop it on the timeline.
Whiteboard explainer
Hand-drawn scenes with stroke animation and typewriter text. Generated locally.
Stock montage
Pexels + Pixabay clips, AI narration, music bed, beat-synced cuts.
Interview edit
Silence removed, jump cuts tightened, lower thirds and chapters added.
Animated explainer
Generated character, scene transitions, Ken Burns motion, layered audio.
Who it's for
Built for people who actually ship videos.
Same editor, four very different workflows. Pick a prompt, run it, polish what you want.
Episodes in one prompt
Podcasters
Remove silence, tighten cuts, add chapter markers and beat-synced reels. Export a 1-hour show and a vertical highlight at the same time.
Cut the dead air and pull 3 highlight reels for shortsPitch videos from a prompt
Founders & marketers
Generate a stock montage, voiceover, and music bed for your pitch. No camera, no editor needed. Drop logo and ship.
Make a 60s stock montage for our seed pitch with VODaily uploads, less burnout
Social creators
Beat sync to trending sounds, auto-caption in 60+ languages, jump-cut talking heads. Built for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts on day one.
Beat sync this clip and add captions in SpanishWhiteboard videos without a graphics team
Educators & explainers
Type a script and watch HakoCut hand-draw the scenes, animate strokes, and sync narration. Works offline on your Mac.
Make a whiteboard video about the Krebs cycleEverywhere you edit
Desktop power.
Mobile everywhere.
Same project format, same AI agent, same timeline on Mac, PC, iPhone, and Android.
- Multi-track timeline with ripple edit
- Graph editor for easing curves
- Local AI (MLX), keys stay on your machine
- MP4 & WebM export with quality presets
- Jamendo music & Freesound SFX libraries
- Multi-scene project switcher
iPhone, iPad & Android
iPhone & iPad
- On-device AI agent (~78MB model)
- Beat Sync auto-cut to the music
- Record Hub: camera, screen, teleprompter
- Speed curves + optical flow slow-mo
- Templates: TikTok, Cinematic, Beat Sync Vlog
Android
- Native multi-track timeline
- AI chat + workflow execution
- Generative video & image fill
- Filmstrip thumbnails & waveforms
- Same project sync as Mac & iPhone
Agentic editing, fully on your phone
Download ~720 MB of GGUF weights once and the entire AI agent runs locally. No round trips, no quotas, your media never leaves the device.
Chat to edit
"Remove every clip with a car" → automatic cuts
Vision-aware plans
Finds scenes, reframes subjects, smart thumbnails
Private & offline
Models stay in app storage. Nothing shipped in the APK
Workflow skills
Cut, reframe, caption, voiceover. 80+ tools.
Download for your device
Teams & version history
Producers review.
Editors keep editing.
Share a project with your team. Every edit becomes a checkpoint. One click rewinds the timeline on every device — iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows, and the web.
Workspace
Seats
4 / 5
Teams plan
Version history
Timeline
Listening for changes
Listening for changes
How it flows
From rough cut to director-approved, on one project
Share a project
Move it from your personal space into a team workspace. Permissions snap to the workspace's roles.
Edit & checkpoint
Edits become versions automatically. Hit ⌘S "Save a checkpoint" at milestones — like "v3 — director cut".
Review in Manager Mode
Producers scrub the activity feed, scan diff summaries, compare versions. No video canvas in the way.
Restore on any device
One click rolls the project back. The banner reaches iPhone, Android, and every other editor on the team.
Producer-grade Manager Mode
A canvas-free chrome for team leads. See every project, every version, every change without the timeline getting in your way.
Version history that thinks like an editor
Snapshots — not commits. Named checkpoints for milestones, automatic captures between them, and human-readable diff summaries.
One-click restore
Pick a version, hit Restore. The timeline jumps to it on every signed-in device. Nothing is destroyed; the previous state is one click away.
Roles & seats
Owner, admin, editor, viewer. Invite by email, billed per seat, audit-friendly activity feed for every action.
Cross-platform fan-out
A restore on the web shows up as a banner on iPhone and Android within a sync tick. Same project, same history, every device.
Conflict-safe writes
Optimistic concurrency under the hood. If two people save at the same time, the loser gets a prompt — never a lost edit.
Roles & seats
Built for the way post-production actually works
Director sets the structure, editors push the cut, reviewers leave a checkpoint. Audit-friendly activity feed shows who did what, on which device, when.
Free to download. Teams workspace from $19/seat/mo.
Under the hood
Built like a pro tool. Used like a phone app.
AI workflow engine
Fine-tuned model outputs structured steps: trim, split, silence removal, stock fetch, export. Review the plan, hit Execute All.
Chat editing
Natural language on the timeline. Vision model analyzes frames when you ask about what's in a clip.
GPU effects & transitions
Glitch, kaleidoscope, chromatic aberration, vignette, duotone: 23 effects. Push, wipe, iris, geometric: 37 transitions.
Timeline & keyframes
Multi-track, bookmarks, masks, clip animation presets. Graph editor for custom easing.
Cross-device sync
Sign in with Apple or Google. Same project on Mac, PC, iPhone, and Android. Opt-in, local-first by default. Teams plans add shared workspaces and version history.
Export & share
H.264 MP4 on every platform. Quality presets, no watermark on free tier. Native share on mobile.
How it works
Raw clip to posted video
Four steps. No rabbit holes.
Import or record
Drop files on desktop or pull from your camera roll on mobile.
Edit or ask AI
Manual timeline edits, or chat a workflow and review the steps.
Execute & polish
Run the plan, add captions, effects, transitions, color.
Export & sync
MP4 out. Optionally sync the project to another device.
Free forever
Editing is free.
Generation is fair.
Use the timeline, effects, transitions, and export as long as you like. AI generation uses credits, and you get a stack just for signing in.
Get HakoCut free- Editing is free, on every platform
- No watermark on export, ever
- AI credits to start, no card needed
- Local-first, your media never leaves your device
FAQ
Questions, answered
All four apps are live: Mac, Windows, iPhone, and Android. Same editor, same AI agent, same project format.
You chat in natural language. The model returns a JSON workflow with steps like remove_silence, trim_clip, add_transition. You review and execute. Each step mutates your real timeline.
On mobile, the agent runs on-device after a model download. On desktop, local MLX models handle inference when available. Cloud is fallback for generative features.
Yes. Pick Stock Footage, Whiteboard Explainer, or Animated Explainer in chat. Each runs a full pipeline: asset fetch, TTS, timeline assembly.
Editing is free, no watermark on export. AI generation uses credits, and you get some to start.
CapCut paywalls basics and keeps desktop shallow. HakoCut gives you a real multi-track timeline, 80+ AI workflow actions, and the same project everywhere.
Yes, when you sign in. Rough cut on Mac, caption fix on Android, same project. Sync is opt-in; files stay local by default.
Yes. Teams plans add shared workspaces with roles (owner, admin, editor, viewer), an activity feed, and a video-editor-friendly version history with one-click restore. Restores fan out to every signed-in device — iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows, and the web.
No. Every checkpoint and every unnamed edit is kept. Restore picks an existing version as the new head and your timeline jumps to it; the previous state is still in the timeline and one click away. If you were mid-edit, the app shows a conflict-safe prompt before swapping.
Start cutting for free
Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android. No watermark on export. Pick your platform and go.
Cut. Create. Share.