Velocaption Is Born: A Local Mac Video Editor
I love creating videos, but I hate editing them.
Specifically, I hate the boring parts:
- Watching the whole footage just to cut out the awkward silences.
- Typing out captions word-by-word (or fixing the terrible auto-generated ones from cloud tools).
I looked for tools to solve this. They all either:
- require a monthly subscription (I hate renting software).
- upload my heavy video files to a cloud server (slow and privacy-invasive).
- have clunky, non-native UIs.
So, I built Velocaption.
What is Velocaption?
It’s a native macOS app (Apple Silicon only) that automates the tedious parts of video editing.
Smart Silence Removal It listens to your video and cuts the quiet parts. You can adjust sensitivity and padding in real time before exporting.
Automatic Captions It generates captions locally using the Neural Engine. No uploads. No waiting for servers.
🔒 100% Local & Private Your video never leaves your Mac. Everything happens on-device.
Technnology Stack
For the nerds out there (like me), Velocaption is built with:
- Rust & Tauri for the backend and window management.
- React for the UI.
- CoreML / Metal for hardware-accelerated AI inference.
- FFmpeg for high-speed audio/video processing.
Get it now
I’m releasing version 1.0 today. It’s a one-time purchase. You buy it, you own it. Includes 1 year of updates.
Keep the edit on your Mac.
Choose a license to record, clean, caption, and export without moving private footage into a browser editor.