A fast, native video editor with multitrack compositing, styled titles and lossless export. No account, no cloud, no waiting.
Trim a clip and the packets are copied straight into a fresh container, not decoded and encoded again. A simple cut finishes in seconds.
Place, scale, rotate and flip clips on a real canvas. Picture in picture, split screen and overlays from one transform.
A font, weight, colour, alignment and outline. The export draws the same file, so the title lands exactly where you placed it.
Step frame by frame, split at the playhead, trim both edges. The timeline runs at the fastest clip rate.
Lift a clip's audio onto its own track, then mix, mute and fade with waveforms and audio scrubbing.
Hit Ctrl K for the command palette, or use the shortcuts already in your fingers.
A Tauri shell around a bundled FFmpeg. No Electron, no runtime download, no telemetry. It opens, edits and exports with the network off.
SarahEditor probes the source, finds the cut points and copies the compressed packets into a fresh container. Nothing is decoded frame by frame unless it has to be. That is why a trim is bound by your disk, not your CPU.
Drop a file or pick one from the native dialog.
ffprobe reads the codec, rate and keyframes.
The trim snaps to the nearest keyframe.
Packets move across with -c copy.
The container is written straight to disk.
Stream copy applies when the source codec already matches the target, such as H.264 or H.265 into MP4. Other combinations fall back to a fast encode.
How SarahEditor lines up with the editors you might otherwise open.
| Feature | SarahEditor | Clipchamp | OpenShot | Shotcut |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free, no watermark | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| No account or sign in | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Tiny native app | Yes | No | No | No |
| Multitrack compositing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Lossless stream-copy export | Yes | No | No | No |
| Works fully offline | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Comparison reflects each editor in 2026. SarahEditor is built for 64-bit Windows 10 and 11.
Free for 64-bit Windows 10 and 11. Every build bundles its own FFmpeg, so export works the moment it opens.
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. The installer includes FFmpeg; there is nothing else to download.
Everything you need ships inside the app. These are the questions that come up before the first cut.
See it in actionYes. It is free to download and use: no paid tiers, no watermark and no sign up.
Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit only. The installer comes as an NSIS setup or an MSI. macOS and Linux are not available.
No. SarahEditor is a native desktop app that runs fully offline. No login, no cloud, no telemetry.
MP4 with H.264 or H.265, WebM with VP9, MOV with H.264, and GIF. When a clip needs no re-encode, the stream is copied for a lossless export in seconds.
Yes. Add a styled title with a font, weight, colour, alignment and outline, then place, scale and fade it on the timeline like any other clip. The export draws the same fonts, so titles look identical to the preview.
A small JSON document with a .saraheditor extension. It holds source paths, trims, placement and text styling. Older .animeeditor and .katana projects still open.
