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schneidi

Fast, light open-source video editor you can edit with an AI – chat in the app (Claude, OpenAI-compatible, Ollama), MCP server and CLI, offline subtitles. Linux AppImage/.deb.

  • Completely free
  • Windows and Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

schneidi is a video editing program, available on Windows and Linux.

Features described in its GitHub repository: choice of several models and providers.

Services and protocols mentioned: Ollama and OpenAI.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Fast, light open-source video editor you can edit with an AI – chat in the app (Claude, OpenAI-compatible, Ollama), MCP server and CLI, offline subtitles.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Fast, light open-source video editor you can edit with an AI – chat in the app (Claude, OpenAI-compatible, Ollama), MCP server and CLI, offline subtitles.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

schneidi is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (AGPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 10 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub OnkelTheorie/schneidi (AGPL-3.0-only)

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