Auto-Editor
Effort free video editing!
The Lens
By Erik Loyd, SaaS CEO and former COO/CFO of an AWS Premier Partner.
Updated Aug 2026
Auto-Editor cuts the dead air out of a video in one command. Point it at a file and it measures loudness across the timeline, finds the silent stretches, and removes them. That is the most tedious pass in any talking-head or gameplay edit. Public domain under the Unlicense.
No server, no GUI, no dependency tree. Grab the binary from GitHub releases, Homebrew, or the Arch AUR. Silence is not the only trigger: motion detection removes still frames, and margin settings keep the cuts from feeling clipped. It renders the result or hands off a timeline to Premiere, Final Cut, Resolve, Kdenlive, or ShotCut.
Solo creators should install it today. Teams can drop it into a render pipeline since it is a CLI. It does not transcribe, so it cannot cut filler words by name the way Descript or wassgha/rescript can. It only knows loud from quiet.
The catch is installation. Auto-Editor dropped its Python packaging at version 30, so the newest release on PyPI is two majors behind and anyone who installed with pip is silently running old code. The paid GUI at app.auto-editor.com is a separate product from the same author, one-time from $23.99, commercial use only at $179.
Free vs Self-Hosted vs Paid
fully freeFree
The CLI is free and public domain under the Unlicense. Unlimited files, unlimited length, unlimited exports, no watermark, no account, no attribution required. Silence cutting, motion-based cutting, custom dB thresholds, margin padding, multi-label edit expressions, subtitle text on the timeline, file concatenation, and timeline export to Premiere, Final Cut, DaVinci Resolve, Kdenlive, and ShotCut are all in the free CLI. Install from the GitHub release binaries, Homebrew (brew install auto-editor), or the Arch AUR.
Paid
The paid product is a separate desktop and browser GUI sold by Basswood-io at app.auto-editor.com, built by the same author. One-time purchase with three years of updates, after which a renewal is required to use newer versions. Personal is $23.99 (unlimited exports, 4K and above, full timeline editing and effects, software encoders, clip-sequence export). Pro is $75 (adds hardware-accelerated encoders and full NLE round-trip export). Studio is $179 (adds full-resolution proxy preview, premium support, and a commercial-use license). Upgrading a tier costs only the difference.
Self-Hosted Costs
None beyond a terminal. It is a single static binary with ffmpeg libraries built in, so there is no Python environment, no Docker, and no service to keep running. Processing time scales with file length and CPU; motion detection is meaningfully slower than audio analysis because it decodes frames.
When to Pay
Buy the GUI only if you want a visual timeline or you want the commercial-use license bundled into the $179 Studio tier. Note the asymmetry: the CLI is public domain and carries no commercial restriction whatsoever, so a business can script it into a render pipeline for free. If you want filler words removed by transcript rather than silence removed by volume, this is the wrong tool. Look at wassgha/rescript for personal work, or Descript at $16/month billed annually if the work is commercial.
The CLI is public domain and does all the actual cutting; the $23.99 to $179 tiers buy a GUI from the same author, not more editing power.
What to do by team size
- Solo
- free; the CLI does the whole job, and the $23.99 GUI is only worth it if you hate the terminal
- Small team
- free; script it into the render step and skip the license question entirely
- Medium team
- free in pipelines; buy Studio at $179 per seat only if editors want the GUI for client work
- Large team
- free at any scale, but budget a human pass since loudness-based cuts still need review
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