FilmCraft
storytold/filmcraftReviewed by Radar
What it does
FilmCraft is a desktop video editor with a multi-track timeline, color grading, over 90 effects, titles, captions and an audio mixer. Its panels and shortcuts follow professional editors, and it can exchange timelines with other editors through XML, AAF and EDL files. AI agents can also control it through a command-line tool. The project is less than a month old, and its README calls it alpha and estimates it is about 56% ready for real production work. Windows has ready .msi installers and portable .zip files.
How easy it is to install
A · download and open · Windows
Each release has Windows .msi installers and portable .zip files for x64, ARM64 and 32-bit PCs (about 80–96 MB), so you download, install and open it.
Numbers on GitHub
- Stars
- 17,088on Oct 31, 2026
- Downloads
- 2,086,863337,118 this week
- Growth
- +669stars in 5 days
Stars over time
Facts
- Runs on
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- You need to install
- Nothing extra
- To build from source
- Rust, FFmpeg
- Disk space
- 80 MB–239 MB · from the installer
- Accounts or keys
- None
- Cost
- Free · Open source under MIT or Apache-2.0.
- License
- Apache-2.0 (Permissive)
- Can replace
- Premiere Pro
- Last update
- Nov 1, 2026
Risk signals (3)
- AttentionVery new repository with many stars
16415 stars in 26 days
automatic check
- Infounusual fork and issue counts
GitHub API: 6858 forks for 16415 stars (about 42%) and 1838 open issues, all within 26 days of the repository being created on 2026-09-30.
AI review
- Inforeadme lists files not in releases
README.md says "every release ships it as filmcraft-web-<version>.zip" and lists a filmcraft-<ver>-freebsd-x86_64.tar.gz build, but neither file appears in the v0.11.0, v0.12.0 or v0.13.0 release file lists.
AI review
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What Radar could not check
- How stable it is for real editing work, given the README's alpha status and how new the project is
- How well it handles real camera and phone footage on Windows, which the README says gets far less testing than macOS
- Whether the Windows installers are really code-signed, as the README states
- What the built-in update check (craft-update library) connects to
- Whether the very fast growth in stars and forks reflects real use