Video Apps for MAC
19 free Mac apps in Video, including Kap, cTiVo, and CartCut. Each app page lists its version, size, macOS requirement and what’s new, and the download button leads to the developer’s official source.
19 apps
KapKap is a free, open-source screen recorder for Mac. Choose the whole screen, a window or any area you draw, record, and then export the clip as a GIF, an MP4 or WebM video, or an animated PNG. You can include audio, highlight your mouse clicks and trim the recording before you export it, which makes Kap handy for bug reports, tutorials and short demos. Kap is made by Wulkano and released under the MIT license.Video
cTiVocTiVo is a free Mac application that downloads shows from your TiVo and converts them to many popular formats and devices. It finds the TiVos on your network by itself, shows you what is on them, and lets you queue shows by dragging them. Once you subscribe to your regular shows, new episodes download and convert without further work, so they can be waiting on your iPhone or iPad in the morning.Video
CartCutCartCut is a video editor designed for motion effects and versatility. It was formerly called Nugget, and its GitHub repository still uses the name nugget-app. Alongside cut editing, it offers animation, sound mixing, text, external extensions and project files. It uses layer-based editing instead of traditional tracks, which makes it easier to apply several effects to a single asset. Its makers say their goal is to let creators produce motion graphics without relying on heavy software like After Effects.Video
SublerSubler is a Mac app for muxing and tagging MP4 files. It puts video, audio, chapters, subtitles and closed captions from MOV, MP4 and MKV files together into one MP4, and it also accepts raw H.264, AAC, AC3, Scenarist and VobSub files. It creates TX3G and WebVTT subtitle tracks that work on Apple devices such as iPhone, iPad and Apple TV, and in QuickTime.Video
KodiKodi is a free and open-source media player and entertainment hub for your own digital media. It plays almost all popular audio and video formats, and it was designed for network playback, so you can stream your media from anywhere in the house or directly from the internet. Point Kodi at your media and it scans it and creates a personal library complete with box covers, descriptions and fanart.Video
MKVToolNixMKVToolNix is a free, open-source set of tools to create, alter and inspect Matroska (MKV) files. The MKVToolNix GUI brings them together in a graphical app with a multiplexer and a chapter editor. Under it, mkvmerge joins the streams of several media files into one Matroska file, mkvinfo shows what a file contains, mkvextract pulls parts out of a file into other useful formats, and mkvpropedit changes the properties of an existing file without a complete remux. mkvmerge can also create WebM files and read CUE sheets as the input for chapters.Video
OpenShotOpenShot is an award-winning free video editor that is easy to use and quick to learn, yet surprisingly powerful. Drag your videos, music and images onto the timeline, then trim, cut, resize, rotate and snap clips into place on unlimited tracks. Add transitions with real-time previews, titles from templates, 3D animated titles, watermarks and image overlays, and animate almost anything with curve-based keyframes. It supports many video, audio and image formats through FFmpeg.Video
QuickLook VideoQuickLook Video, also known as QLVideo, teaches your Mac to understand many more audio and video files. Out of the box, Finder, Quick Look and Spotlight only handle a limited set of formats. With QuickLook Video installed you get Finder thumbnails, Quick Look previews and details in the Get Info window for files such as Matroska (MKV), WebM, AVI, Windows Media, Ogg, Flash Video and Real Media, with codecs including VP8, VP9, AV1, HEVC, Theora, DivX and many more.Video
GifskiGifski turns your videos into beautiful animated GIFs. Drop in a video, such as a screen recording, and Gifski converts it using the gifski encoder, which picks thousands of colours for every frame instead of the usual few hundred, so GIFs look smooth and sharp. You can trim the video, crop it, change the size, frame rate and quality, and see the result and the file size before saving. Gifski is made by Sindre Sorhus, using the gifski encoder by Kornel Lesiński.Video
mpvmpv is a free, lightweight media player that plays almost any video and audio format, from MP4 and MKV to HEVC, AV1 and HDR video. It focuses on picture quality and speed: video is rendered on the GPU with the libplacebo engine, with high-quality scaling, colour management and HDR tone mapping. mpv has a minimal on-screen controller instead of a big window full of buttons, and is mostly controlled with the keyboard and mouse. It is so capable that other Mac players, such as IINA, are built on top of it.Video
LosslessCutLosslessCut is a free tool for quickly cutting video and audio files without losing quality. Normal video editors re-encode the whole file for every change, which can take hours and lowers the quality each time. LosslessCut instead cuts the data stream and copies it over directly, so trimming a large recording takes seconds. It is ideal for cutting out commercials, trimming phone or camera clips, or pulling a single track out of a file. It is built on FFmpeg and made by Mikael Finstad.Video
PermutePermute is a media converter for Mac that turns video, audio, images and PDFs into the format you need with drag and drop. It handles virtually any format, from AVI, WMV, MP4, HEVC, ProRes, WebM and AV1 to MP3, AAC, FLAC, HEIC, AVIF and WebP, and it can trim, crop, resize, rotate, merge and split files on the way. Newer tools include on-device transcription of audio to text and subtitles. Permute is made by Charlie Monroe Software.Video- KeyCastrKeyCastr is a free, open-source keystroke visualizer for Mac. It shows the keys you press, and optionally your mouse clicks, on the screen, so viewers can follow along when you record a screencast, give a presentation or work with others. You choose whether it shows only command keys, all modified keys or every keystroke. KeyCastr is developed by its open-source contributors and released under the BSD-3-Clause license.Video
VLC media playerVLC media player is the free, open-source media player for Mac that plays almost anything you give it. Movies, music, DVDs, audio CDs and live streams all open in the same window, without hunting for codec packs or paying for add-ons. It is made by VideoLAN, a non-profit organisation, and in VideoLAN's own words it has no spyware, no ads and no user tracking.Video
ShotcutShotcut is a free, open-source video editor for Mac, Windows and Linux. It edits most video, audio and image formats directly on the timeline, without a separate import step, and handles everything from quick trims to multitrack projects in 4K and 8K. Shotcut is made by Meltytech and released under the GPLv3 license, with no watermarks, no subscription and no paid version.Video
OBS StudioOBS Studio is free, open-source software for recording your screen and streaming live video. You build scenes from your display, app windows, cameras, images, text and web pages, mix their audio, and then record to a file or stream to platforms such as YouTube and Twitch. It is made by the OBS Project and its contributors and released under the GPLv2 license, with no watermarks, no time limits and no paid version.Video
KdenliveKdenlive is a free, open-source video editor made by the KDE community. It offers a full non-linear editing workflow, with a multitrack timeline, multicam editing, hundreds of effects and transitions, color correction tools and automatic subtitles. Kdenlive is developed by a mostly volunteer team, released under the GPLv3 license, and has no watermarks, no subscription and no paid version.Video
IINAIINA is a free, open-source video player made only for the Mac. It is built on mpv, one of the most capable playback engines available, and wraps it in an interface that looks and behaves like a native macOS app, with trackpad gestures, picture-in-picture and Live Text. IINA is released under the GPLv3 license and costs nothing, with no in-app purchases.Video
HandBrakeHandBrake is a free, open-source video converter for Mac. It takes video from nearly any format and converts it into modern, widely supported files: MP4, MKV or WebM, encoded with H.264, H.265 (HEVC), AV1 or VP9. It is made by volunteers of the HandBrake Team and released under the GPLv2 license, with no ads, watermarks or paid upgrades.Video