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Open Source Photo & Video Editors Tools

Open source photo & video editors tools

projects 85 combined stars ★ 675K refresh nightly
Photo & Video Editors is one of the most active slices of the open source world — the 10 projects below are ranked by GitHub stars, which makes this page roughly a community-voted shortlist rather than a vendor-curated catalogue. Every card shows the license and the last-commit date, so you can filter out the two failure modes of free software in one glance: restrictive licensing that blocks your use case, and abandonment that leaves you maintaining a fork. When two projects look comparable, prefer the one with more recent activity and the more permissive license (MIT/Apache-2.0 over AGPL) unless copyleft specifically serves your goals. Hover into any project for its full README — the documentation quality is usually the honest tell of engineering quality.

All Photo & Video Editors tools

OpenCut ★ 97K

Open source video editor that runs in your browser

rank001 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typePhoto & Video Editors
photocraft ★ 76K

An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop in pure Rust

rank002 licenseApache-2.0 written inRust typePhoto & Video Editors
LosslessCut ★ 46K

Cut and trim video without re-encoding or quality loss

rank003 licenseGPL-2.0 written inTypeScript typePhoto & Video Editors
sharp ★ 33K

High performance Node.js image processing, the fastest module to resize JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and TIFF images. Uses the libvips library.

rank004 licenseApache-2.0 written inJavaScript typePhoto & Video Editors
rembg ★ 25K

Rembg is a tool to remove images background

rank005 licenseMIT written inPython typePhoto & Video Editors
Audacity ★ 19K

Professional audio editing made simple and free

rank006 licenseNOASSERTION written inC++ typePhoto & Video Editors
filmcraft ★ 17K

An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Premiere Pro built in pure Rust.

rank007 licenseApache-2.0 written inRust typePhoto & Video Editors
filepond ★ 16K

🌊 A flexible and fun JavaScript file upload library

rank008 licenseMIT written inJavaScript typePhoto & Video Editors
Shotcut ★ 16K

A free, open source, cross-platform video editor

rank009 licenseGPL-3.0 written inC++ typePhoto & Video Editors
lightcraft ★ 15K

An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Lightroom in pure Rust.

rank010 licenseApache-2.0 written inRust typePhoto & Video Editors
ImageToolbox ★ 15K

🖼️ Image Toolbox is a powerful app for advanced image manipulation. It offers dozens of features, from basic tools like crop and draw to filters, OCR, and a wi

rank011 licenseApache-2.0 written inKotlin typePhoto & Video Editors
palmier-pro ★ 15K

macOS video editor built for AI

rank012 licenseGPL-3.0 written inSwift typePhoto & Video Editors
Concat ★ 14K

The truly free, and open-source cross-platform CapCut replacement (supports MCPs).

rank013 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inRust typePhoto & Video Editors
Darktable ★ 13K

Professional RAW photo editing and workflow management

rank014 licenseGPL-3.0 written inC typePhoto & Video Editors
libvips ★ 12K

A fast image processing library with low memory needs.

rank015 licenseLGPL-2.1 written inC typePhoto & Video Editors
imgproxy ★ 11K

Fast and secure standalone server for resizing, processing, and converting images on the fly

rank016 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typePhoto & Video Editors
RapidRAW ★ 11K

A beautiful, non-destructive, and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor built with performance in mind.

rank017 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inTypeScript typePhoto & Video Editors
Krita ★ 11K

Professional digital painting made accessible to everyone

rank018 licenseGPL-3.0 written inC++ typePhoto & Video Editors
thumbor ★ 11K

thumbor is an open-source photo thumbnail service by globo.com

rank019 licenseMIT written inPython typePhoto & Video Editors
google-images-download ★ 8.7K

Python Script to download hundreds of images from 'Google Images'. It is a ready-to-run code!

rank020 licenseMIT written inPython typePhoto & Video Editors
effectcraft ★ 8.3K

rank021 licenseApache-2.0 written inRust typePhoto & Video Editors
Final2x ★ 7.4K

a cross-platform image super-resolution tool

rank022 licenseBSD-3-Clause written inTypeScript typePhoto & Video Editors
TagStudio ★ 7.3K

A User-Focused Photo & File Management System

rank023 licenseGPL-3.0 written inPython typePhoto & Video Editors
OpenShot ★ 6.7K

Free, cross-platform video editor that's easy to learn

rank024 licenseNOASSERTION written inPython typePhoto & Video Editors
photoview ★ 6.6K

Photo gallery for self-hosted personal servers

rank025 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inGo typePhoto & Video Editors
GIMP ★ 6.6K

Professional image editing without the price tag

rank026 licenseNOASSERTION written inC typePhoto & Video Editors
remove-ai-watermarks ★ 6.3K

Remove visible and invisible AI watermarks and provenance metadata from images and video. Python library and CLI for SynthID, C2PA, EXIF, IPTC, XMP, and common

rank027 licenseApache-2.0 written inPython typePhoto & Video Editors
imaginary ★ 6.1K

Fast, simple, scalable, Docker-ready HTTP microservice for high-level image processing

rank028 licenseMIT written inGo typePhoto & Video Editors
Kdenlive ★ 6.0K

Professional video editing without the price tag

rank029 licenseGPL-3.0 written inC++ typePhoto & Video Editors
openscreen ★ 5.9K

Record your screen, ship a demo. Free and open-source, GPU-accelerated, no watermarks, no subscriptions. Windows, macOS, Linux. Actively maintained.

rank030 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typePhoto & Video Editors
PermissionsKit ★ 5.8K

Universal API for request permission and get its statuses.

rank031 licenseMIT written inSwift typePhoto & Video Editors
thumbnailator ★ 5.4K

Thumbnailator - a thumbnail generation library for Java

rank032 licenseMIT written inJava typePhoto & Video Editors
chafa ★ 5.4K

📺🗿 Terminal graphics for the 21st century.

rank033 licenseLGPL-3.0 written inC typePhoto & Video Editors
PySceneDetect ★ 5.3K

:movie_camera: Python and OpenCV-based scene cut/transition detection program & library.

rank034 licenseBSD-3-Clause written inPython typePhoto & Video Editors
PhotoEditor ★ 4.5K

A Photo Editor library with simple, easy support for image editing using paints,text,filters,emoji and Sticker like stories.

rank035 licenseMIT written inKotlin typePhoto & Video Editors
openfilm ★ 4.3K

The open source AI video agent: turns any coding agent into a video agent, with an editor to change anything it makes.

rank036 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typePhoto & Video Editors
RawTherapee ★ 4.3K

Professional raw photo processing made free and powerful

rank037 licenseGPL-3.0 written inC++ typePhoto & Video Editors
geemap ★ 4.1K

A Python package for interactive geospatial analysis and visualization with Google Earth Engine.

rank038 licenseMIT written inPython typePhoto & Video Editors
imagor ★ 4.1K

Fast, secure image processing server and Go library, using libvips

rank039 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typePhoto & Video Editors
soundcraft ★ 4.0K

An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Avid Pro Tools in pure Rust

rank040 licenseApache-2.0 written inRust typePhoto & Video Editors
photon ★ 3.9K

⚡ Rust/WebAssembly image processing library

rank041 licenseApache-2.0 written inRust typePhoto & Video Editors
spritefusion-pixel-snapper ★ 3.4K

A tool to snap pixels to a perfect grid. Designed to fix messy and inconsistent pixel art generated by AI.

rank042 licenseMIT written inRust typePhoto & Video Editors
Clypra ★ 3.3K

A hardware-accelerated video editor built on Rust, Tauri v2, and React 19. Sub-10ms frame decoding, GPU-native rendering, and a frame-accurate timeline — all fr

rank043 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typePhoto & Video Editors
nomacs ★ 3.3K

nomacs is a free image viewer for windows, linux, and mac systems.

rank044 licenseGPL-3.0 written inC++ typePhoto & Video Editors
sherloq ★ 3.2K

An open-source digital image forensic toolset

rank045 licenseGPL-3.0 written inPerl typePhoto & Video Editors
basis_universal ★ 3.1K

Basis Universal GPU Texture Codec

rank046 licenseApache-2.0 written inC++ typePhoto & Video Editors
postprocessing ★ 2.9K

A post processing library for three.js.

rank047 licenseZlib written inJavaScript typePhoto & Video Editors
OpenChatCut ★ 2.9K

Open-source, local-first conversational AI video editor with a professional multi-track timeline, Agent Skills, MCP integration, and Remotion rendering.

rank048 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inTypeScript typePhoto & Video Editors
exifcleaner ★ 2.9K

Cross-platform desktop GUI app to clean image metadata

rank049 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typePhoto & Video Editors
images ★ 2.9K

Source code of wsrv.nl (formerly images.weserv.nl), to be used on your own server(s).

rank050 licenseBSD-3-Clause written inC++ typePhoto & Video Editors
OSS-DocumentScanner ★ 2.6K

Document scanning app

rank051 licenseMIT written inC++ typePhoto & Video Editors
better-shot ★ 2.4K

Screenshot, screen recording, and video editor for macOS. Native SwiftUI app with capture deck, 75+ customizable shortcuts, URL scheme automation, and self-host

rank052 licenseNOASSERTION written inSwift typePhoto & Video Editors
OpenImageIO ★ 2.4K

Reading, writing, and processing images in a wide variety of file formats, using a format-agnostic API, aimed at VFX applications.

rank053 licenseApache-2.0 written inC++ typePhoto & Video Editors
gowall ★ 2.3K

A tool to convert a Wallpaper's color scheme / palette, OCR with VLM's Traditional & Hybrid, Image Compression ,color palette extraction, image upsacling with

rank054 licenseMIT written inGo typePhoto & Video Editors
freecut ★ 2.3K

FreeCut is a professional-grade video editor that runs entirely in your browser. Professional video editing, zero installation. Create stunning videos with mult

rank055 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typePhoto & Video Editors
webp_server_go ★ 2.0K

Go version of WebP Server. A tool that will serve your JPG/PNG/BMP/SVGs as WebP/AVIF format with compression, on-the-fly.

rank056 licenseGPL-3.0 written inGo typePhoto & Video Editors
vidcutter ★ 2.0K

A modern yet simple multi-platform video cutter and joiner.

rank057 licenseGPL-3.0 written inPython typePhoto & Video Editors
chronoframe ★ 2.0K

Self-hosted personal gallery application with online photo management and albums, supporting Live/Motion Photos, EXIF parsing, geolocation recognition, and an e

rank058 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inTypeScript typePhoto & Video Editors
pymatting ★ 1.9K

A Python library for alpha matting

rank059 licenseMIT written inPython typePhoto & Video Editors
was-node-suite-comfyui ★ 1.9K

WAS-NS v3 Reborn; Tools for image processing, filters, masking, text, logic, numbers, latents, files, 3D scenes, and animation.

rank060 licenseMIT written inPython typePhoto & Video Editors
govips ★ 1.7K

A lightning fast image processing and resizing library for Go

rank061 licenseMIT written inGo typePhoto & Video Editors
image-actions ★ 1.6K

A Github Action that automatically compresses JPEGs, PNGs, WebPs & AVIFs in Pull Requests.

rank062 licenseGPL-3.0 written inTypeScript typePhoto & Video Editors
pireel ★ 1.3K

The open-source alternative to Capcut、ChatCut. Drivable by any AI agent over MCP.

rank063 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inTypeScript typePhoto & Video Editors
PicImpact ★ 1.3K

自部署的摄影作品网站,支持多种功能特性。PicImpact,分享你和世界!

rank064 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typePhoto & Video Editors
autoshade ★ 1.3K

AI-assisted RAW photo developer: GPT vision advisor proposes an EditRecipe, a deterministic Rust engine renders it — Lightroom-compatible XMP sidecars, 24 RAW f

rank065 licenseMIT written inRust typePhoto & Video Editors
beutl ★ 1.2K

Cross-platform video editing (compositing) software.

rank066 licenseMIT written inC# typePhoto & Video Editors
flyimg ★ 1.2K

Dockerized application that resizes and crops images on the fly, delivering optimized images in formats such as AVIF, WebP, MozJPEG, or PNG using ImageMagick, w

rank067 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inPHP typePhoto & Video Editors
home-gallery ★ 1.2K

Self-hosted open-source web gallery to view your photos and videos featuring mobile-friendly, tagging and AI powered image discovery

rank068 licenseMIT written inJavaScript typePhoto & Video Editors
pho ★ 1.2K

A serverless application for viewing and synchronizing photos to cloud storage

rank069 licenseGPL-3.0 written inDart typePhoto & Video Editors
Foxel ★ 1.1K

A highly extensible private cloud storage solution for individuals and teams, featuring AI-powered semantic search.

rank070 licenseMIT written inPython typePhoto & Video Editors
NegPy ★ 1.1K

Tool for processing film negatives.

rank071 licenseGPL-3.0 written inPython typePhoto & Video Editors
SimpleITK ★ 1.1K

SimpleITK: a layer built on top of the Insight Toolkit (ITK), intended to simplify and facilitate ITK's use in rapid prototyping, education and interpreted lang

rank072 licenseApache-2.0 written inC++ typePhoto & Video Editors
chevereto ★ 1.0K

The mature, battle-tested, high-end, OG self-hosted image and video hosting solution trusted since 2007. Build your own Flickr / Imgur media sharing platform wi

rank073 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inPHP typePhoto & Video Editors
FairScan ★ 1.0K

An Android app to scan your documents — simple and respectful

rank074 licenseGPL-3.0 written inKotlin typePhoto & Video Editors
ai-video-editor ★ 931

Open-source, local-first video editor where creators and AI agents edit the same real timeline.

rank075 licenseMIT written inJavaScript typePhoto & Video Editors
PixImagePicker ★ 871

Pix is a Whatsapp image picker replica. with this, you can integrate an image picker just like WhatsApp.

rank076 licenseApache-2.0 written inKotlin typePhoto & Video Editors
GimelStudio ★ 855

Non-destructive 2D graphics editor (POC)

rank077 licenseGPL-3.0 written inDart typePhoto & Video Editors
cartcut ★ 821

Video Editor for AI agents, built on the belief that open source can beat commercial tools

rank078 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typePhoto & Video Editors
FableCut ★ 775

Zero-dependency browser video editor that AI agents can drive — JSON timeline, MCP + REST, live-reloading UI

rank079 licenseMIT written inJavaScript typePhoto & Video Editors
FerrumPix ★ 744

FerrumPix is a desktop photo management and editing application for Linux, Windows and macOS.

rank080 licenseGPL-3.0 written inVisual Basic .NET typePhoto & Video Editors
photofield ★ 614

A self-hosted non-invasive single-binary photo gallery with a focus on speed and simplicity.

rank081 licenseMIT written inGo typePhoto & Video Editors
foldergram ★ 600

Self-hosted folder-based Instagram-style photo and video gallery app.

rank082 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inTypeScript typePhoto & Video Editors
fabric-video-editor ★ 574

Video editor that runs in the browser: timeline, text, image, video and audio layers, animations, filters, export with sound. Fabric.js + React + Next.js.

rank083 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typePhoto & Video Editors
vmodal_sdk_android ★ 562

Video Search SDK for Android Kotlin. Integrate in any video app

rank084 licenseApache-2.0 written inKotlin typePhoto & Video Editors
velorn ★ 520

AI-native video editing built around real creative timelines, generative workflows, and local agent control.

rank085 licenseGPL-3.0 written inJavaScript typePhoto & Video Editors

Frequently asked questions

How many open source Photo & Video Editors tools are there?

This registry tracks 85 open source Photo & Video Editors projects, with 674,735 combined GitHub stars. The list is ranked by stars and refreshed nightly.

What is the most popular open source Photo & Video Editors project?

OpenCut leads this category with 97,156 GitHub stars, followed by photocraft.

Are these Photo & Video Editors tools free?

Yes — every project listed here is open source. Some also offer paid hosted versions alongside the free self-hosted option; the licence for each project is shown on its card.