Cut like it costs
three hundred dollars.
It costs nothing.

The whole editor — timeline, colour, audio, captions, effects, 4K export — free on your Mac, Windows or Linux machine. Your footage never leaves your disk. AI is the only thing that costs money, and only when you use it.

Download for your device Open it in the browser →

v2.9.0 · 124 MB · signed & notarised

The CNEX Cut editor: media library, cinematic preview with a title over it, clip inspector, and a multi-track timeline with filmstrips, keyframes and an audio waveform — The actual app. Nothing here is a mockup.

Free. Actually.The whole editor, no watermark, no trial clock.

Nothing uploadsEdit straight off your own disk.

4K on your hardwareUnlimited local rendering. $0.

AI when you want itCredits from $2. They never expire.

The editor

Not a lite version.
The whole thing.

Multi-track timeline, keyframed motion, speed curves, colour with tone curves, per-clip EQ, transitions, effects, templates, captions, recording, and export up to 4K. There is no tier where these unlock, and no watermark to remove.

A multi-track timeline: a text clip on its own layer, four video clips with filmstrip thumbnails, dissolve markers between them, keyframe diamonds along the third clip, and a music track with a waveform and fade ramps — Fig. 01A timeline that behaves like oneLayers, magnetic snapping, ripple close, per-clip fades, transitions and keyframes — visible on the clip, not buried in a dialog.

The preview panel showing a graded shot of a figure on a coastal cliff at blue hour with a title across the lower third — Fig. 02A preview you can trustTitles, grades, motion and effects composited live, with crop guides for 9:16, 1:1 and 4:5 over the same edit.

The clip inspector showing Edit, Color and Motion tabs, a speed control, a zoom control at 102 percent, an "animating over time" row and a still-duration control — Fig. 03One clip, all of its propertiesSpeed curves, zoom and pan, tone curves, EQ, fades. The Color and Motion tabs mark themselves once a clip has either.

The library panel with AI video, AI image and AI voiceover generators, an add-media button, a this-device button and a record button — Fig. 04Generation and recording, in the libraryAI video, stills and voices sit beside your own footage. Screen, camera and device audio record straight onto the timeline.

The whole CNEX Cut window: library, preview, inspector and timeline together — Fig. 05And all of it at onceOne window, no mode switching, no seven-page interface to learn before the first cut.

Local-first

Your rushes never go anywhere.

CNEX Cut opens footage where it already is. A shoot is on the timeline the moment you drop it — no upload bar, no queue, and no copy of your work sitting on someone else's server. Cloud storage becomes what it should always have been: backup and sync, not the price of entry.

Your drive is the library — no sync, no quota
Private by architecture, not by policy
Works on a plane, a train, and a bad hotel connection

A browser editor40:00 remaining

Nothing can be cut until the upload finishes.

CNEX Cutopening…

The files never move. The timeline opens on them where they are.

12 GB of rushes over a 40 Mbit/s upload. Your connection, your maths.

Rendering

Export 4K until your hard drive complains.

When a project can be rendered on your own machine, it is — your CPU, your GPU, no queue, no upload, no meter, no cost. Anything the local renderer cannot express goes to the cloud instead, and the app tells you which reason applies rather than silently charging you for it.

4Kon the free plan, on your hardware

∞local exports a month

$0.00what those exports cost

A sixteen-second cut: a figure on a coastal cliff at blue hour, a rain-slick neon street, a filmmaker in a dark studio, and an aerial over misty mountains, joined by dissolves under a title — Exported from the timeline in the hero, by the app itself Four shots, keyframed drift on each, dissolves, a title and a music bed. This one went to the cloud renderer, and the app said exactly why: *“Text and titles; extra audio layers.”* Being told is the point.

Cloud rendering on Free: 20 minutes a month, up to 1080p. Studio raises it to 4K with priority. Local rendering is uncapped on every plan.

Your assistant, on your timeline

Say what you want.
Watch it happen.

Connect Claude — the subscription you already have — and it drives the real timeline. Not a copy, not a render queue: the same composition your mouse edits, so every change appears live in front of you, and one instruction is one undo.

Claude · connected to CNEX Cut

Read the timeline and the spoken wordswith timings
Found and removed the dead air14 seconds, nine gaps, closed behind them
Trimmed the sequence to a minutefrom 1:47
Captions written from the audio, and styled38 lines
Every cut moved onto a beat112 bpm

⌘Zputs all of it back. One instruction is one undo.

The preview panel showing a graded coastal shot with a title across the lower third — Around eighty operations — every one a thing you could have done with the mouse.

The CNEX Cut timeline: a text clip, a video track of four filmstrip clips with dissolve markers and keyframe diamonds, and an audio track showing a waveform with fades — Around eighty operations — every one a thing you could have done with the mouse.

“Find the bit where she mentions the price”
“Make a 9:16 version that keeps the faces in frame”
“Take out every um”
“Cut the shots to the beat”
“Add captions in Spanish”
“Export 4K and save it to my desktop”

Needs the desktop app and an assistant you already pay for. Nothing is sent anywhere new.

How it works, and how to connect it →

AI, honestly priced

Money only ever buys machine time.

Generated video, generated images, voices, captions and translation run on somebody's GPUs, so they cost credits. Everything that runs on your hardware is free, for as long as you own the hardware.

Buy a pack once and it never expires. No monthly allowance to run out of on the 14th, and no subscription standing between you and the tool.

$5for 400 · never expires

A pack of credits, bought when you want them and spent when you generate something. There is no plan attached to it and nothing renews.

AI video, images, voices, captions and translation
The app quotes the cost before it spends anything
Unused credits sit there until you come back
No card on file required to keep editing

Bigger packs cost less per credit — 20,000 for $120; the app shows the rate.

What the paid doors are actually for

The subscription isn't for the editor.
It's for the business around it.

Studio opens the same timeline in any browser and keeps projects following you between machines. Business carries CNEX Flow, the platform your company runs on once the video is made — and the AI staff you can hire to run it. No other editor has anything like it.

Clients & CRMQuotes & invoicesProjects & tasksDocuments & proposalsMeetings & summariesVoice assistant

See the three doors →cnexflow.com ↗

Everything, written down

No asterisk you'll
find out about later.

Free is not a trial and does not expire. Here is the whole shape of it, limits first.

The same rows the app shows you in Settings → Plans
What you get	Free no card, no clock	Studio the cloud around it	Business the company around it
CNEX Cut — the editor
The whole editor, no watermark	✓	✓	✓
Render on your own device Unlimited. Uses your machine, so it costs nothing.	✓	✓	✓
Footage from your own disk Never uploaded.	✓	✓	✓
Editing in a browser Projects follow you between machines.	—	✓	✓
Cloud rendering	20 min / month	Priority	Priority
Cloud export resolution	Up to 1080p	Up to 4K	Up to 4K
AI video, images and voice Spends credits on every plan.	Buy credits	✓	✓
Credits included each month	—	1,000	2,000 a seat
Content Hub — publishing
Connected social profiles	1	5	Unlimited
Scheduling, auto-publish, drafted replies	—	✓	✓
CNEX Flow — the business platform
Clients, invoicing, projects, documents	✓	✓	✓
Clients	50	50	Unlimited
Invoices	5 / month	5 / month	Unlimited
Projects	2	2	Unlimited
Team members	1	1	Per seat
AI staff to hire Receptionist · Growth Manager · AI Engineer	—	—	✓
Storage
Cloud storage +100 GB is $3 a month on any plan.	1 GB	100 GB	100 GB + 50 GB a seat

The full comparison, including CNEX Flow →

It's a download.
That's the whole commitment.

No account needed to install. No card. No watermark waiting at the end of your first export.

Download for your device Open it in the browser →

v2.9.0 · 124 MB · signed & notarised

macOS 13+ · Windows 10+ · Linux AppImage · iOS and Android coming

Cut like it coststhree hundred dollars. It costs nothing.

Not a lite version.The whole thing.

Your rushes never go anywhere.

Export 4K until your hard drive complains.

Say what you want.Watch it happen.