Cutfac vs OpusClip: an open-source alternative for making videos about your app
OpusClip starts from a long video you already have: its AI finds the moments worth sharing and turns them into captioned, reframed clips. Cutfac starts from your app: your own coding agent plans and renders a short video on your Mac, and you point at what's wrong to change it.
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At a glance
| Area | Cutfac | OpusClip |
|---|---|---|
| What it starts from | A brief and shot list your agent writes from what it learned about your app. | A long video you already have. |
| How you edit | Select a range or box an area, then say the change. | Its AI picks the clips; you adjust them in its editor or take manual control. |
| Who does the work | Claude Code or Codex, signed in with your own account. | OpusClip's own AI, which clips, captions and reframes. |
| Where it runs | macOS only. | In the browser, with an API on Pro and Business. |
| Where your footage goes | A plain folder on your Mac. Cutfac doesn't receive it; your agent sends what it reads to its provider. | Its privacy policy says it runs on Google Cloud servers in the United States. |
| Rights over your videos | Cutfac's terms claim none. | Its terms ask for a royalty-free, perpetual, sublicensable, irrevocable, worldwide license to operate the services. |
| Price | Free for 3 videos per Mac, then $19 a month or $180 a year. | A free plan, then $15 a month for Starter or $29 a month for Pro, billed monthly. Business is priced on request. |
| What free leaves out | Only more videos. Every feature works and nothing is watermarked. | Watermark-free exports. Free clips are kept for 3 days, at up to 1080p. |
| Source code | Open, under AGPL-3.0. | Closed. |
| Coding agents | Built around Claude Code and Codex. | An official MCP server you add to Claude Code with one command, on a free trial and then Pro. |
Clipping a long video, or making a short one
OpusClip is built for repurposing. You give it a podcast, a webinar or a stream, and its AI finds the moments worth sharing, captions them and reframes them for each platform. You can let the AI handle the edit or take manual control in its editor, then publish to social platforms from the same place. If you already make long videos, that's the fastest way to get shorts out of them.
Cutfac doesn't need a long recording. Your agent reads what Cutfac learned about your app and the format you picked, writes a brief and a shot list for you to okay, renders the video and checks its own frames. Then you play it, select the range or box the part of the frame you mean, and type what's wrong. You play the old and new versions side by side and keep one.
What happens to your footage
OpusClip's privacy policy says it runs on Google Cloud servers in the United States, and lists your videos, images and transcripts as used to provide its features and to improve its products and services. It describes an opt-out from its AI research, by email, for people in the EU and EEA. Its terms ask for a royalty-free, perpetual, sublicensable, irrevocable and worldwide license to your submissions to operate the services, and let it use what you share publicly for its marketing.
Cutfac keeps each video as a folder of plain files and YAML on your Mac. Cutfac doesn't receive your videos, and its terms claim no rights to them. Your agent does send what it reads to its own provider, Anthropic or OpenAI, under that provider's terms.
An agent on either side
OpusClip has an official MCP server. One command adds it to Claude Code, you sign in with OAuth, and your agent can clip, caption, reframe and schedule through OpusClip's tools, which run on OpusClip's servers. Its page says a free trial covers clipping through the MCP, and more than that needs Pro, with metered pricing per render minute.
In Cutfac, the agent is the editor. Claude Code or Codex runs on your Mac and edits plain files there with ffmpeg, on the Claude or ChatGPT plan you already pay for. Cutfac adds no AI charge, and every render is checked against upload rules and its format: length, resolution, aspect ratio, codec, frame rate and audio sync.
Which to pick
Pick OpusClip if
- You have long videos, like podcasts, webinars or streams, and want shorts cut from them.
- You want the AI to find the best moments for you.
- You want to publish to social platforms from the same tool.
- You need it in the browser, on any computer.
Pick Cutfac if
- You want new short videos about your app, not clips of an old recording.
- You already use Claude Code or Codex and pay for Claude or ChatGPT.
- You want your footage to stay in a folder on your Mac, as plain files.
- You want to point at the exact frame and say what to change.
- You want source code you can read and build yourself.
Sources
Questions
Partly. OpusClip clips long videos you already have, and Cutfac has your agent make short videos about your app. If you need highlights from a podcast or a stream, OpusClip fits better.
OpusClip's MCP server lets Claude Code or another client run OpusClip's tools on its servers, on a free trial and then Pro's per-render-minute pricing. With Cutfac, your agent edits plain files on your Mac, and Cutfac adds no AI charge.
No. Cutfac renders 9:16 videos to a folder on your Mac, and you post them yourself. OpusClip can publish to social platforms for you.
Yes. They do different jobs: OpusClip for clips from your long videos, Cutfac for videos about your app. Cutfac's renders are ordinary video files, so they go anywhere.