The minimalist video editor
A small, fast editor for people who just want to make videos.
One pass. Every dead pause, gone
Flint finds the dead air in a take and cuts all of it in a single pass, across video and audio alike, with the gaps closed behind it and nothing drifting out of sync.
Transcribed, styled, and burned in
Flint transcribes the audio on-device, then renders word-pop, karaoke, or plain subtitles straight into the preview. Font, size, fill, outline, and emphasis color all update live, with no round trip to another app.
Shorts, from the same timeline
Flint also makes vertical video. 16:9, 9:16, and 1:1 all come out of one project, with no nested sequences, no duplicate timeline, and no second app.
Try Flint free for 14 days
Windows and Linux today, macOS next. All features unlocked, no credit card required.
What's in Flint today, and what's next
Every update is free for license holders.
Timeline & cutting
- Multi-track video and audio at 60fps
- Ripple delete and slip trims
- Snapping, markers, in and out points
- Speed change, time remap, freeze frame
- Crop and safe-area guides
- Every hotkey remappable
Automatic, on your machine
- Silence cut in one pass, previewed before it commits
- Transcription on your own computer, not a server
- Word-pop, karaoke and plain subtitle captions
- Caption styling live in the preview
- Loudness leveling to a target LUFS
- Sidechain ducking: music under dialogue
Titles & effects
- Title presets and image overlays
- Fade, slide, pop and spin transitions
- Pan-and-zoom, shake and pulse motion
- Exposure, contrast, saturation, white balance
- Blur, glow, sharpen, vignette, pixelate
- Keyframes on any effect parameter
Mix, export & projects
- Per-track EQ, compressor, gate and limiter
- Peak and LUFS metering
- 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1 out of one timeline
- Export is the preview, frame for frame
- Renders faster than realtime
- Autosave, crash recovery and media relink
- No account, no cloud, no usage tracking
What we are building next
macOS build
Native for Apple Silicon and Intel.
Linux build
Native x86_64 AppImage and tarball, available now.
More visual effects
Further filters, transitions, and looks on top of the ones above.
More audio effects
Deeper EQ, compression, and cleanup.
Hardware encode and decode
NVENC, VideoToolbox and QuickSync picked automatically, for proxies and exports alike.
More caption presets
A library of ready-made caption looks.
Questions
Anything else, reach us through the links in the footer.
Is this a subscription?
No. $39.99 once, and the license does not expire. Every update we release is free for license holders — there is no monthly fee, no seat renewal and no account to keep alive.
What is in the free trial?
Fourteen days with every feature unlocked and no credit card. Nothing is watermarked and nothing is held back. When the trial ends, Flint still opens, edits and saves your projects — only exporting needs a license key. If it runs out mid-project, the app offers a one-time three-day extension.
Which platforms does it run on?
Windows 10 and 11 64-bit, and Linux x86_64 as an AppImage or a tarball. macOS for Apple Silicon and Intel is in progress. One license covers the devices you control, so a desktop and a laptop are fine.
What does my machine need?
Flint composites every frame on the GPU, so it needs Vulkan or DirectX 12 on Windows, Vulkan on Linux, and Metal on macOS. Any graphics hardware from roughly the last decade qualifies, integrated included; a DirectX 11-era card with no Vulkan driver does not. Fast storage helps more than a fast CPU does, because importing writes a proxy beside your footage.
What can it import and export?
In: MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI, M4V, TS, FLV, WMV and MPEG video; WAV, FLAC, MP3, M4A, OGG, AAC, Opus, WMA, AIFF and ALAC audio; PNG, JPEG, WebP, SVG, TIFF, BMP and GIF stills.
Out: MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM or animated GIF, carrying H.264, VP9 or 10-bit ProRes 422, with AAC, Opus or uncompressed PCM audio.
Does it modify my original footage?
Never. Editing is non-destructive: a project is a single .flint file that references your media by path and records your decisions, and everything derived from your footage — proxies, waveforms, thumbnails, transcripts — is cache that can be deleted and rebuilt. Your source files are only ever read.
Does it need an internet connection?
Only for three things, and you can edit and export with the network off. Flint asks whether a newer version exists on startup (switch it off in Settings › Updates); it verifies your license key at most once a week, and carries on working if that check cannot be made; and the first time you use automatic captions it downloads the speech-recognition model.
Do my videos go to a server for captioning?
No. Transcription runs on your own computer. Your projects, your footage and even your file paths never leave the machine, and there is no analytics or usage tracking in Flint at all. Crash reports are off until you switch them on. The Privacy Notice lists every connection the app makes, in full.
Can I use it for client and commercial work?
Yes — the license covers personal and business use, and you keep every right in the footage and the videos you make with it. See the Terms and the License Agreement that ships with the download.
How do updates work?
Flint checks for a newer version and tells you when one exists; you download it and install it yourself. It never swaps out its own binary behind your back. Updates are free for license holders for as long as we make them.
What if I buy it and it does not work out?
The fourteen-day trial exists so you can find that out before paying, and we would rather you used it. Purchases are handled by Polar as merchant of record, and refunds follow their terms and your statutory rights — the details are in our Terms. If something has gone wrong with a purchase, get in touch and we will look at it.