100% Free. No catch. No paywall. Ever.

Video editing
should be free

Pro-grade editing that runs entirely on your device. No uploads, no subscriptions, no watermarks. Just your creativity, unleashed.

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Available on iPhone · iPad · Mac — anything with Apple Silicon

✦ Video editing should be free ✦ No watermarks ✦ No uploads ✦ No subscriptions ✦ 100% on-device ✦ Pro features for everyone ✦ Video editing should be free ✦ No watermarks ✦ No uploads ✦ No subscriptions ✦ 100% on-device ✦ Pro features for everyone
The Honest Comparison

ByteWave vs CapCut

They went from free to $20/month. We went the other direction.

Feature
ByteWave
CapCut Pro
Price
$0 forever
$19.99/mo
Watermarks
✓ None
✗ Free tier has them
On-device processing
✓ 100% local
✗ Uploads to servers
Slow motion / frame interpolation
✓ Video Toolbox
✓ Basic
Motion blur
✓ Built-in
✗ No
Temporal noise reduction
✓ Built-in
✗ No
Resolution super scaler
✓ On-device AI
✓ Cloud-based
Unlimited audio tracks
✓ Unlimited
✗ Limited
Voice synthesis
✓ Any text
✓ Pro only
Auto captions
✓ Free
✓ Pro only
Hackable filters / shaders
✓ See & edit code
✗ Black box
Subject mask for filters
✓ Built-in
✗ No
Data privacy
✓ Never leaves device
✗ Uploaded to servers
Built Different

Everything you need. Nothing you don't.

🎬

Video Toolbox

Frame rate conversion, motion blur, temporal noise reduction, and resolution super scaling — all powered by Apple Silicon, all on your device.

🎵

Unlimited Audio Graph

Layer as many audio clips as you want on a visual audio graph. Built-in sound effects library. No track limits, ever.

🗣️

Voice Synthesis

Type any text, get natural-sounding voice. Auto-generate captions from your audio. All processed locally.

✨

Custom Text Effects

Sparkle, glitch, solar system, and more. Animated text effects that make your content pop without a motion graphics degree.

🔧

Hackable Shader Filters

See the code behind every filter. Edit it. Copy the shader reference, describe what you want to ChatGPT, paste it back. Your filters, your rules.

🎭

Subject Masking

Extract subjects and pass masks to filters. Impressionist background with a sharp subject? Blur everything but a face? One tap.

🔒

Your videos never leave your device

The first step in a CapCut edit is uploading your video to their servers. The first step in a ByteWave edit is... editing. Everything runs locally on Apple Silicon. Your memories, your content, your data — it stays yours. Period.

For the Curious

Filters you can actually understand

Every filter in ByteWave shows you its shader code. Edit it directly, or copy the reference and use AI to create something entirely new.

// 🎨 Impressionist background filter
// Copy this to ChatGPT: "Make it more like Monet with warmer tones"

uniform sampler2D inputImage;
uniform sampler2D subjectMask;
uniform float brushSize = 4.0;

vec4 main(vec2 uv) {
  float mask = texture(subjectMask, uv).r;
  vec4 color = impressionist(inputImage, uv, brushSize);
  return mix(color, texture(inputImage, uv), mask);
}

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Requires Apple Silicon · iOS 26+ · macOS