EasyClip

A simple, cross-platform desktop media trimmer for non-technical users. Trim video and audio without learning complex software: drag the side anchors to trim the ends, click the timeline to remove middle sections. Every cut is lossless via FFmpeg stream-copy / concat-demuxer — zero re-encoding.

Bilingual English + Hebrew with full right-to-left (RTL) layout.

Status: pre-1.0, in active development.

Features

• Lossless trimming — FFmpeg stream-copy + concat-demuxer, no re-encode
• Drag side anchors to trim ends; click the timeline to cut middle sections
• Keyframe-aware cut placement
• Visual playback preview with a decorative waveform
• Bilingual EN / HE with full RTL layout
• macOS and Windows

Install

Download installers from the latest release.

macOS (Apple Silicon only)

Via Homebrew:

brew install --cask lifebugz/tap/easyclip

Or download the .dmg from the latest release and drag EasyClip into Applications.

Builds are ad-hoc signed and not notarized by Apple, so Gatekeeper blocks the first launch. Open the app once to trigger the block, then approve it under System Settings → Privacy & Security → "Open Anyway". On older macOS you can instead right-click the app and choose Open. You can also clear the quarantine flag from a terminal:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/EasyClip.app

There is no Intel (x86_64) macOS build.

Windows (x64)

Download and run the *-setup.exe (or the .msi) from the latest release. The installers are unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen may warn on first run. Choose More info → Run anyway to continue.

Linux

Unsupported. CI attaches .AppImage / .deb artifacts to each release, but they are untested. Use at your own risk.

Built with

Tauri 2 · Svelte 5 / SvelteKit · Bun · Tailwind CSS v4 · FFmpeg (LGPL sidecar)

Build from source

Prerequisites: Bun (latest), Rust stable via rustup (with clippy + rustfmt), and the platform webview toolchain (see CONTRIBUTING.md for the per-OS dependency list).

bun install --frozen-lockfile
bunx svelte-kit sync          # generates the gitignored .svelte-kit/tsconfig.json
bun run setup:ffmpeg          # fetches the SHA-256-pinned LGPL FFmpeg sidecar (never committed)
bun run dev                   # run the app in development
bun run build                 # build a release bundle

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md. PRs use Conventional Commits and are squash-merged into main; CI runs on the macOS / Windows / Ubuntu matrix. Substantial features get a dated design doc (docs/*-design.md).

Security

See SECURITY.md. Report vulnerabilities privately via GitHub's Security tab — please do not open public issues for security reports.

License

EasyClip's source code is licensed under the MIT License.

Distributed builds bundle FFmpeg / ffprobe as separate sidecar executables, which are licensed under the GNU LGPL-2.1-or-later — see NOTICE and THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.md.

Acknowledgements

FFmpeg · Tauri and the upstream FFmpeg build mirrors (ffmpeg.martin-riedl.de, evermeet.cx, BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds).