Recut
Recut is a Mac and Windows desktop app that automatically removes silence from video and audio for creators and podcasters, exporting either a finished file or a cut list to your usual editor. One-time purchase or monthly subscription.
What is Recut?
Recut is a single-purpose desktop application for macOS and Windows, published by Tiny Wins LLC, whose entire job is to take the silence out of a recording. It analyses the audio track, marks every segment falling below a volume threshold, and generates a cut list in seconds. The publisher's benchmark puts a 10-minute 3-second video through in roughly 2.3 seconds on a 2014 MacBook Air, and claims a 6x advantage over TimeBolt when reading the audio of a 20-minute recording. The approach is non-destructive. Silences show in red on the timeline, kept material in blue, and the edit can be previewed without the silences before anything is committed. Four controls shape the result: Threshold (0 to 1, with an Auto mode), Minimum Duration, Padding and Remove Blips. Any individual decision is overridable by selecting a clip and pressing Backspace, and an automatic volume ramp at each cut boundary prevents clicks. From there you choose the exit. Recut renders a finished file in MP4, WAV, M4A or MP3, or hands off an XML/FCPXML timeline to Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, ScreenFlow or CapCut, so the real edit continues in the tool you already use. Multitrack projects are treated as a unit: cuts propagate across several cameras and microphones with sync preserved, and chosen tracks can be excluded from detection while staying audible. There is history behind the product. It launched in early 2021 as a Mac-only, one-video-at-a-time app, was rewritten in 2022 for both platforms with multitrack support, and reached v4.4.8 on 28 June 2026. A command-line interface arrived in v4.4 in March 2026, with quality, speed, CRF and preset flags. It is built and supported by one person, Dave Ceddia, who answers support email himself, and the publisher points to more than 70 customer reviews on a dedicated testimonials site. Recut is explicit about its own boundary: it is not a full-featured editor. It sits upstream of one, doing a single repetitive task quickly so that editing time goes somewhere more useful.
What it does
- Analyses the audio track and detects every silent segment.
- Builds a cut list automatically, in seconds.
- Exports a finished video or audio file in MP4, WAV, M4A or MP3.
- Exports an XML or FCPXML timeline to Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, ScreenFlow or CapCut.
- Cuts across every track of a multicam project while preserving sync.
- Plays the edit back without the silences before anything is exported.
- Runs from the command line for unattended or repeat processing.
When to use Recut / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Recut is the right fit.
When to use Recut
- Talking-head YouTubers, whose long takes are mostly pauses: one testimonial reports two to four hours of manual cutting reduced to a few seconds.
- Podcasters and audio-only producers who need dead air stripped out before mixing.
- Screencast and tutorial makers, the workflow the app was originally built around.
- Editors working multicam or external-microphone sessions, where every track has to stay in sync through the cuts.
- People already settled in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, ScreenFlow or CapCut who want to automate the rough cut without changing editor.
When not to use Recut
- Anyone looking for a full editor: Recut does one job and expects the rest of the cut to happen elsewhere.
- Creators who need transitions, titles or effects, since the app only applies an automatic volume ramp at cut boundaries.
- Users after captions, transcription, content generation or a built-in screen recorder, none of which Recut offers.
- Teams wanting shared or multi-seat licensing: each person needs their own licence or subscription, and there is no team management.
- Buyers whose legal review requires a data processing agreement or documented GDPR commitments before purchase.
How to use Recut
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Download the installer from the site: a universal .dmg for Mac (Intel and Apple Silicon M1 or later), or an .msi for Windows.
- Install it: drag Recut into Applications on Mac rather than running it from the .dmg window; double-click the .msi on Windows.
- Open your recording in Recut; silent stretches appear in red on the timeline.
- Press Play to hear the edit without the silences straight away.
- Adjust Threshold, Minimum Duration and Padding if the pacing feels too tight or too loose; the publisher suggests 0.4 to 0.5 seconds of padding for a natural rhythm.
- Turn on Remove Blips to strip short stray noises sitting inside the silence.
- Override the automatic choices clip by clip: select a segment and press Backspace to flip it between kept and cut.
- Export either a finished video or audio file, or an XML/FCPXML timeline to open in your usual editor.
- For repeat work, drive the same process from the command line, available since v4.4.
- Remember the trial needs no account and no credit card: three full exports are enough to test it on real work.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Measurable speed: about 2.3 seconds to process a 10-minute video on a 2014 MacBook Air.
- A genuine one-time purchase at 129 USD with updates included, uncommon in a market that has moved to subscriptions.
- A trial that is actually usable: every feature unlocked, no watermark, no time limit, no account and no card.
- Non-destructive by design: the cut list leaves for your usual editor instead of locking the project into another tool.
- Multitrack cutting that keeps several cameras and external microphones in sync.
- Automation you can correct, with fine-grained settings, clip-by-clip override, and local processing on your own machine, no upload of rushes being described.
- Straightforward commercial terms: full 30-day refund with no reason required, support answered by the developer himself within about 24 hours, a public dated changelog since 2021, and a published list of what the product deliberately does not do.
Cons
- Deliberately narrow scope: one task, desktop only, with no mobile or web version, so a real editor is still needed alongside it.
- 129 USD one-time is a high entry ticket for a single-task utility, and the trial stops at three exports, which leaves little room to test across several projects.
- No GDPR information at all: no legal basis, no described rights, no data processing agreement, no EU representative.
- No data hosting country is declared, and the sub-processor list is left open-ended by the phrase "such as Sentry and Posthog".
- A one-person publisher and no published postal address, which is a continuity and diligence risk for a company purchase.
- No multi-seat licensing and no team management: one licence or subscription per person.
- Inconsistent pricing communication: the /subscribe/ page still calls the subscription "in the works" while the homepage sells it, and the annual price is given only as "56% less".
Pricing & Plans
There is no permanent free plan. The application is sold either as a one-time purchase of 129 USD for a single user, updates included and covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee, or as a subscription at 15.00 USD per month for a single user, cancellable at any time; an annual subscription is advertised at "56% less" than monthly, but its amount is not published. The lowest paid entry point stated on the site is therefore 15.00 USD per month. A free trial at 0 USD provides three full exports with every feature unlocked, no watermark, no time limit, no account and no credit card. Payment is taken through Stripe and PayPal for the one-time purchase, and through Stripe for the subscription. Team use requires one licence or one subscription per person. The publisher's companion web tools are free and require no account.
- automatic silence removal
- export to Premiere
- DaVinci Resolve
- Final Cut Pro and others
- multitrack support
- 1 user
- 30-day money-back guarantee.
- the same features for 1 user
- cancellable at any time.
- advertised at "56% less" than the monthly plan
- with the amount not published on the site.
- fully functional with every paid feature unlocked and no watermark
- limited to 3 exports.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Recut handles your data.
GDPR overview
There is no GDPR information on this site. Across the twenty-one pages collected, privacy policy and terms included, the words GDPR and CCPA do not appear once. No legal basis for processing is stated, no data subject rights (access, rectification, erasure, portability) are described, no Article 27 EU representative and no data protection officer is named, no data processing agreement is published or offered on request, and no international transfer safeguard such as standard contractual clauses is mentioned. Security is covered in general terms only: "appropriate technical and organizational measures", with no certification cited. The single privacy contact is hi@getrecut.com, given in the policy's contact section. The publisher is US-based and its terms are governed by Massachusetts law. This is an absence of documentation, and should be read as neither compliance nor non-compliance.
Who owns the data?
The terms reserve the Recut software and all intellectual property in it to Tiny Wins LLC and its licensors, and claim nothing over the footage you process. The privacy policy addresses only three collections: licence validation data (name, email address, unique device identifiers), crash reports and usage analytics. It never mentions your video or audio files, which a desktop application handles locally, with no upload described anywhere. The indemnity clause refers to content you submit, store or transmit through the software without asserting any right over it. No licence to reuse, publish or exploit customer content appears in either document, which are dated March 2023 and May 2024.
Reuse rights
The privacy policy states three purposes: validating licences, analysing and fixing crashes, and understanding usage in order to prioritise features. Named recipients are Sentry for crash reports and Posthog for analytics, each linked to its own policy, but the wording is "such as Sentry and Posthog", an open-ended phrasing rather than a closed sub-processor list. Information may also be disclosed where legally required, to enforce the terms, in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, or with the user's consent. Control left to the user is one checkbox inside the application, which turns usage analytics off. Nothing in the documents authorises the publisher to reuse your recordings: the files you edit and export remain yours to use without asking permission. No document mentions any training of AI models on customer data or customer content; the "your video never leaves your device" statement is published for the free variable frame rate web tool, not for the Recut application.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
The publisher declares no hosting country and no hosting region, in any of its documents. Recut is a desktop application: video and audio files are processed on the user's own machine, and no upload of media is described anywhere in the privacy policy. What does leave the machine, according to that policy, is licence validation data (name, email address, unique device identifiers), crash reports sent to Sentry, and usage analytics sent to Posthog, which can be switched off in the application; the policy does not say where those providers store the data. One observation, made during this review and not stated by the publisher: the marketing site resolves to 63.176.8.218, an Amazon address (AS16509) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. That describes where the website is served from, not where application or personal data is processed, and it should not be read as an EU hosting commitment. No hosting certification is cited.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Recut.
- No postal address is published anywhere on the site: only the company name Tiny Wins LLC appears, which limits what a buyer can verify about the publisher.
- No GDPR reference at all: no data processing agreement, no Article 27 representative, and no described access, rectification or erasure rights.
- The sub-processor wording is open-ended, "such as Sentry and Posthog", so the named list may not be complete; no data hosting country is declared, and the "your video never leaves your device" claim is published for the free variable frame rate web tool, not for the Recut application.
- The terms are dated 23 March 2023 and the privacy policy May 2024, with no refresh since.
- The terms impose binding arbitration in Massachusetts, conducted in English, which in practice means giving up a court hearing.
- The /subscribe/ page still describes the subscription as "in the works" while the homepage sells it, and the annual price is expressed only as a percentage discount, so the published pricing has to be read with care.
- One person builds, ships and supports the product, so continuity and response times depend on a single individual, and no security certification such as SOC 2 or ISO is cited.
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Low. Installation follows the standard desktop routine: drag the .dmg into Applications on Mac, double-click the .msi on Windows. The trial requires no account, no credit card, no server configuration and no API key. Onboarding is supported by an in-app tutorial, an installation guide, two video tutorials and nine articles. Two documented details matter: on Mac the app should not be launched from the .dmg window, and on Windows WebView2 must be present. Threshold, Minimum Duration and Padding stay optional thanks to Auto mode. The command-line interface assumes terminal familiarity but stays optional.
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Alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
Which platforms does Recut run on?
Does it work with my editor?
How much does it cost?
Is there a free trial?
Can I get a refund?
Can I use it on several computers, and what about a team?
Does it handle multicam footage and external microphones?
Are my videos uploaded to a server?
Is Recut GDPR compliant?
Who publishes Recut, and is it still maintained?
Should you pick Recut?
Recut is a mature single-task tool. Five years of development, a dense public changelog and a current build dated 28 June 2026 put it well past the prototype stage, and its value is unusually easy to measure: the time it takes out of an edit. Testimonials on the site put that at roughly 30% less editing time, or several hours a week, while the publisher's own benchmark processes a ten-minute video in about two seconds. The commercial terms are equally legible. A 129 USD one-time purchase with updates included is rare in a market that has moved almost entirely to subscriptions, and a 15 USD monthly plan exists for anyone who prefers it. A three-export trial that needs no account and no card, plus a 30-day refund with no reason required, make the decision close to risk-free for an individual buyer. The reservations are contractual rather than technical. The product is built and supported by one person, no postal address is published, the terms date from March 2023 and the privacy policy from May 2024, and there is no GDPR documentation whatsoever: no legal basis, no described rights, no data processing agreement, no EU representative, no declared hosting country. None of that is evidence of poor practice, but it is a gap some buyers cannot ignore. The practical reading is straightforward. For a creator, a podcaster or a small team cutting dialogue-heavy footage themselves, Recut is worth the trial: it does one repetitive job faster than a human can, then hands the result back to the editor they already use. Where a purchase has to clear a legal review that expects a data processing agreement and compliance documentation, that is where it will stop, and no amount of speed will change it.
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