Your take becomes a transcript. Swipe out the words you don’t want and the cut lands exactly there — 20 minutes of editing, done in under 60 seconds, on your phone.
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You talked at your phone for 7 minutes and the good part was over. Then the timeline opens: scrub, guess, undo, scrub again. By the time the reel is clean, the idea has gone cold.
Back and forth over the same 5 seconds until the cut finally sits.
One frame late clips the next word, one early swallows the last.
Forty pauses in a 3 minute take, each found by ear and dragged out by hand.
On a timeline
20 min
scrub, guess, undo
With slicecut
< 60 s
swipe, done
Editing time for one 7-minute take
One editor, built around the transcript. Everything you would drag on a timeline, you do in the text.
The transcript knows where every word starts and ends, so striking one out is a frame-exact cut. No scrubbing, no zooming into a waveform, no clipped syllables.
Transcript
Okay, so, um, today uh, I’ll show you something — like, real quick — worth posting.
3 cuts, each on the word
Timeline editors are built for visual content. Spoken content is a different job: the thing you want to remove is a word, and a word is easier to find in a paragraph than in a waveform. Desktop tools worked that out years ago, and kept you at a desk.
| App | Cuts by text | On your phone |
|---|---|---|
| CapCut | ||
| Edits (Meta) | ||
| Descript | ||
| slicecut |
Editing and rendering run on the device. The footage is never uploaded; the extracted audio track goes to servers in Germany for transcription and is deleted after seven days.
4K in, 4K out. Untouched stretches are copied bit for bit, so there is no generation loss. You pay for the minutes of footage you bring in, never for features.
Free
€0
Yes, with 30 minutes of imported footage a month. Paid plans raise the allowance; the editor and the full-quality export are never locked.
iPhone with iOS 16 or newer, and Android via Google Play. Mobile only on purpose: no desktop app to open, no cloud round trip.
Transcription handles every language the model supports. Record in whatever you speak.
No. Only the extracted audio track goes to servers in Germany for transcription. Editing and rendering happen on your phone.
Up to 15 minutes per source video, up to 20 minutes for a finished project. Several takes can be merged into one.
No. Every plan, including free, exports clean video at full source quality.
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