CapCut: Photo & Video Editor

The CapCut APK is the official Android build of the free video editor from Bytedance, the company behind TikTok, and it has grown into a full editing suite that stands on its own. The editor is a proper multi-track timeline: trim, split, reorder, layer video over video, add text and stickers, and animate anything with keyframes. Transitions, filters, speed curves, chroma key and a licensed music library are included, and nothing in the core toolset is locked behind a paywall.

Editing with the CapCut APK

Projects start from clips in your gallery or from a template. The timeline supports several video and audio tracks, picture-in-picture, masks, blend modes and curve-based speed ramps, and every property can be keyframed for movement and fades. Text comes with hundreds of fonts, animated presets and a text-to-speech voice-over, and stickers, overlays and effects are searchable. Audio tools cover trimming, fade, voice changers, noise reduction and beat detection so cuts land on the music.

Automatic tools

The automatic tools are the reason people choose CapCut over heavier editors. Auto-captions transcribe speech into editable, styled subtitles in a few seconds. Background removal cuts a person out without a green screen, and a retouch panel smooths skin and adjusts features. Templates turn a handful of clips into a finished short with transitions and music already timed, and a script-to-video tool drafts a storyboard from a line of text. Most of these run in the cloud and need a connection; ordinary timeline editing works offline.

Export and sharing

Exports go up to 4K at 60 frames per second with adjustable bitrate, and there is no watermark on the video itself; only the optional ending clip carries the CapCut logo and it can be removed before export. Finished videos share straight to TikTok, Instagram and other apps, and projects can be synced to CapCut's cloud space for editing on a second phone or on the desktop version.

Free and Pro

The editor, timeline, captions and the large majority of effects are free. CapCut Pro is an optional subscription that unlocks some premium effects, filters and fonts, raises cloud storage and removes limits on a few AI tools. It is never required to export a video, which is what separates CapCut from most mobile editors.

About this build

This is CapCut version 19.7.0, about 306 MB, and it needs Android 6.0 or later. It is the stock release matching the Google Play listing linked below, with nothing altered. An account is optional for editing and only needed for cloud sync, templates and Pro features.