Final Cut Pro vs LosslessCut
Final Cut Pro and LosslessCut are both video editing software. Final Cut Pro is a commercial product from Apple Inc. LosslessCut is open source under GPL-2.0, with 46k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Final Cut Pro when
- You edit video on a Mac and want speed and a one-time price rather than a subscription.
- Pick LosslessCut when
- You need to cut large recordings quickly without losing quality.
Side by side
Apple's professional video editor with a magnetic timeline, tuned for fast performance on Apple Silicon.
A desktop FFmpeg front end for trimming, cutting, merging and remuxing video and audio without re-encoding.
Mac and iPad only, and collaboration with Premiere or Resolve shops needs export tools.
Cuts snap to keyframes, so frame-exact edits need re-encoding elsewhere.
Production-ready (both)
Desktop app and mobile app
Desktop app
Not published
TypeScript, Electron, React and FFmpeg
Closed source, sold by Apple Inc.
Open source, GPL-2.0 (strong copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
1.7k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
46k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 10 years ago, latest release v3.70.2.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.