palmier-pro

Palmier Pro is a native macOS video editor with AI wired directly into the timeline. The editor itself is open source under GPLv3 and free to use with no login. Where it gets interesting: you can generate video and images from models like Kling and Seedance right inside your edit, and it hooks into AI agents (Claude, Codex, Cursor) over MCP so an assistant can edit the project alongside you.

There's not much to "host" here, it's a desktop app you install and run. The setup catch is hardware: it's Apple Silicon only and requires macOS 26 (Tahoe), so it won't run on older Macs or anything non-Apple. The core editing, the MCP server, and the agent chat are all in the open source build.

The free editor is a capable tool on its own. The generative AI features are the paid part: those run closed source and need a login and a subscription. So the split is clean, free editing forever, pay only when you want in-timeline generation. Solo creators and developers curious about agent-driven editing: the free build is worth a look. If you'd lean on the AI generation daily, price the subscription against how much you'll actually use it.

The catch is that the headline feature, the AI generation, is exactly the piece that's closed and paid. The open source part is a solid editor; the "built for AI" magic is a subscription. That's a fair way to monetize, just know going in that "open source AI video editor" is half the story.