WordCut — Free Video Editor for Windows

I built WordCut — a free Windows desktop app that lets you edit video by editing text. Transcribe speech with Whisper, click words to remove, and export a trimmed MP4. No subscription. No account. Open source on GitHub.

Flat illustrated graphic of a friendly robot with scissors editing a video transcript — red words are cut from the export — WordCut — click words in a transcript to cut them from your video.

This is the tool I hinted at in my vibe coding post — Whisper, FFmpeg, and pywebview shipped as something real people can download and run.

What it does

Load a local MP4 or paste a YouTube URL
Transcribe with Whisper (word-level timestamps)
Click words you want removed from the video
Export YourVideo_edited.mp4 in the same folder — original untouched

Free to use

WordCut is free and open source under the MIT License. Use it, share it, modify it, build your own version. The standalone Windows build bundles FFmpeg and Whisper so users do not need Python installed.

Built with

Python + pywebview — desktop UI
faster-whisper — speech-to-text
FFmpeg — audio extract, cut, stitch
yt-dlp — optional YouTube import
PyInstaller — standalone WordCut.exe

Get it

github.com/stevel4857/wordcut — source, build instructions, and the Windows release zip.

More detail on the WordCut project page.