Clean
Cuts on bars, whole moves
Cuts on the bar with straight cuts and no effects, so the footage carries it.
Your clips, cut to the beat
DriftEdit is a video editor that runs in your browser tab. Give auto mode a song and your footage and it cuts an edit to the music, which you can then change in every detail. Your files stay on your device.
Free, no account needed. Desktop and phone.
Auto mode reads the song first
It finds the tempo, the bars and the drop, then places your sharpest, liveliest shots where the music lands. Pick one of seven styles, change anything, and remake the rest around what you changed.
Cinematic
Long holds, slow push-ins
Long shots on the bar, slowed in calm passages, with dissolves and a film grade.
Smooth
Flowing transitions, no hard cuts
Every cut on the bar flows into the next shot through a dissolve, a zoom, a blur or a slide.
Hype
Cuts on kicks, punch on the drop
Cuts on the kicks of the drop, with a zoom on every one, flashes on new sections and whip pans.
Velocity
Speed ramps into every hit
Speeds up in the drops and slows down between them, with zoom transitions and a vivid grade.
Chaos
Shakes and flashes on every kick
Cuts on every kick, with glitches, colour splits, shake and strobe.
Reverse
Footage that plays back on the beat
Cuts on the kicks, with shots that play backwards, rewinds on the beat and a rewind into the drop.
Hatched shots play backwards. A notch is a soft cut, a transition.
A full editor under the auto edit
Auto mode only fills the timeline. What it makes is ordinary clips, effects and keyframes, for a 15 second short or a longer video.
Keyframes and speed
Scale, position, rotation and opacity keyed on the timeline, with easing. Speed ramps, reverse and rewind per clip, and automation lanes for volume, pan and filters.
Effects at the cut
160 effects and 81 transitions drawn on your graphics card, previewed live on the selected clip, with every parameter in the inspector.
Text and captions
106 text styles, 53 caption styles and 40 animations. Import SRT or WebVTT, restyle every line at once, export them again.
MP4 with sound
Exports at 720p or 1080p on the free plan, any offered frame rate, saved where you choose; or the sound alone, or one frame as a picture. 4K at up to 120 fps comes with Pro.
Your footage never leaves your device
Decoding, cutting and encoding happen in the browser tab, on your own processor and graphics card. There is no upload, no render queue and no credits to spend.
- 0 bytes
- Of your footage sent anywhere.
- 57
- Sounds and beats in the Library, made in code, free to use.
- 26
- Typefaces for titles and captions, every one under an open licence.
Pricing
Free
€0
- Every editing feature, auto mode and captions
- Exports up to 1080p at 60 fps, with a light DriftEdit mark
- Projects stay open for 48 hours after their last edit, then lock until Pro opens them
- Project files to move an edit between devices
Pro
Coming
- Everything in Free
- Exports up to 4K at 120 fps, without the mark
- Projects never lock
Questions
Where are my videos kept?
On your device, in the browser's own storage. Decoding, editing and exporting all happen in the tab, so nothing is uploaded. A project file moves an edit, with its media if you like, between your phone and your computer.
Do I need an account?
No. The free plan works signed out. An account keeps your plan and preferences on every device, and it is needed to pay once Pro is on sale.
Can I use any song?
Any audio file you have. DriftEdit does not host or sell music. The Library has its own sounds and beats, made in code and free to use in anything you export.
What does the free mark look like?
The DriftEdit mark at 25% opacity, 10% of the frame's shorter side, inside the area TikTok, Reels and Shorts leave clear of their buttons.
What happens after 48 hours?
On the free plan a project locks 48 hours after its last edit. Every edit restarts the clock, and the time left is always shown. A locked project stays on your device with its media, and Pro opens it again. Your exports are your files and never expire.
Which browsers does it work in?
Current Chrome and Edge on desktop and Android, where the studio is tested today. Safari and Firefox support is being measured device by device; where a browser cannot do something, the option says so.
Make your first edit
It opens in this browser, with nothing to install.