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Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses OpenShot Video Editor? It's an open-source video editing tool for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS users. OpenShot adds 3D animated titles, audio mixing/editing, frame accuracy, clip resizing, and desktop integration. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.3/5** | 176 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support Software | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: OpenShot Studios - **Location**: Rockwall, US - **Founded**: 2008 ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: Flat Rate (Free version available) - **Pricing Details**: OpenShot Video Editor is free and open-source software. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop), Chromebook (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese - **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium and 208 more ## Features - Animations & Transitions - Content Management System (CMS) Software - Video Editing Software ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Phone Support ## Category - [Video Editing Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/20022/video-editing/software) ## Related Categories - [Video Editing Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/20022/video-editing/software) - [Video Management Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/30754/video-management/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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[Adobe Creative Cloud](https://www.capterra.ca/software/48969/adobe-creative-cloud) — 4.7/5 (7337 reviews) ## Reviews ### "The best open-source video editor software\!" — 5.0/5 > **Amos** | *November 13, 2025* | Entertainment | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: It is one of the few open-source software I trust to actually install in my computer, because it offers a lot of creative tools to edit your videos and keep your projects organized. > > **Cons**: Honestly, there is nothing bad I can say about it, it is an open-source software so it's free, so nothing to complaint about. > > Ever since I started using OpenShot to edit my youtube videos I've had more watch time and subscribers, it has helped me improve the quality and edition of my videos. So it's been good. ----- ### "A Beginner Friendly, Free Video Editor in the Best Way." — 5.0/5 > **Mehmet Ali** | *May 26, 2026* | Entertainment | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Has enough community guides to look into. You can easily find answers to questions you havei when you couldn't figure it out by yourselves. > > **Cons**: Figuring out to video output formats in order to use in specific social media format can be a bit obscure. > > I used it for a series of comic-style story telling in a project belongs to my friend. I just hopped to train to learning it for my future projects. for a free software, it is beginner friendly in a way that satisfies the user. ----- ### "TRUSTWORTHY VIDEO EDITING SOFTWARE" — 5.0/5 > **Jade Anthony** | *November 25, 2024* | Events Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: The thing I love the most about OpenShot is that you have an unlimited tracks that you can place during editing your videos. > > **Cons**: There is no much help fron an AI if you are finding one. > > Overall it is user friendly and if you are a beginner to video editing this is a perfect tool for you\! ----- ### "Open Source Video Editor" — 5.0/5 > **Kendel** | *June 18, 2024* | Graphic Design Software | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Being open-source, OpenShot is completely free to use, which is a significant advantage for creators on a budget. > > **Cons**: OpenShot's stability can be unreliable, often crashing when handling large projects or processing large video files. ----- ### "OPENSHOT IS SIMPLY THE BEST VIDEO EDITOR" — 5.0/5 > **Abid** | *April 4, 2020* | Banking | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: I am using OpenShot for last 2 years in editing videos and found it very simple and easy to understand. With the help of this software i can add desired sounds to any of video and also trim the videos to find perfects moments. I can easily drag and drop the videos, audios and images from file manager into OpenShot for editing. There are lots of builtin background videos in OpenShot which makes it very easy to add titles and rearrange it according to the need. Unlimited layers allowed the users to add watermark, sound track and more. You can also add 3D animations such flying text, snow and many other things to your videos to make them looks nice and beautiful. The videos can be speed up and slow down with help of OpenShot and the user interface is so simple that one can easily understand their features in first use. > > **Cons**: OpenShot video editor has all the necessary features and have excellent user interface with all the essential buttons but i would love if they add some external plugins for 3D animations. By adding some extra plugins user can takes some more benefits from this remarkable software. > > OpenShot video editor is incredibly easy to use and poweful video editing software which are helping professionals all over the world with its excellent features. OpenShot supports multiple operating systems like Mac, Linux \& Windows and it is absolutely free of cost and can be downloaded easily from its website. We can save a video in any of above mentioned OS and can be open it on another. OpenShot can read and wirte most image and videos formats and with the advanced tabs users can use any FFmpeg format. ----- Page: 1 / 8\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.ca/software/173466/openshot-video-editor?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.ca/software/173466/openshot-video-editor) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-AR | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-CR | | | es-DO | | | es-EC | | | es-MX | | | es-PA | | | es-PE | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | | it | | | nl | | | nl-BE | | | pt | | | pt-PT | | ----- ## Structured Data