Cardboard is an AI video editor that turns your raw clips into stories. Think of it as a creative collaborator that understands your footage, has taste to know what makes a great edit, and brings your vision to life.
I'm Saksham, Co-Founder & CEO of Cardboard (Backed by Y Combinator).
A few months ago, we launched Cardboard to make video editing as simple as describing what you want.
Today, we're excited to bring Cardboard to your desktop :)
Introducing Cardboard for Mac!
We've always believed that making a video shouldn't mean spending hours learning editing software or manually cutting clips on a timeline.
You should be able to upload your footage, describe the video you have in mind, and get a great edit in minutes.
And that's exactly what you can do with cardboard.ai
With the new desktop app, you can now:
- Edit videos for free: Get started with a free Lite plan, no credit card needed.
- Bring your own AI agents: Connect your existing Claude or ChatGPT subscription to edit videos.
- Keep your footage local: Your clips stay on your Mac instead of being uploaded to the cloud.
- Edit faster: Less uploading and waiting, with footage processed locally.
- Do more with video: Generate visuals, create motion graphics, and recreate edits from references.
Cardboard is for you if you're a creator, marketer, engineer, founder, designer, product manager, educator, a small business owner, or work in a team who need video without learning the complex timeline.
Would love for you to try the Mac app and tell us what you think!
We'll be here in the comments all day. Ask us anything :)
Won't say much, but this is mind blowing. The best part is how much of the learning curve it removes, even a 5th grader can create something that looks genuinely professional
It’s been more than 2 months I’ve been using Cardboard AI for my drone content and believe me it’s a real time saver, it used to take me 1-2 days to edit but cardboard gives me whatever I want within 10 mins !! believe me drone shots are hard to edit especially in 4K but cardboard has made it real easy for color grading and titles etc
Thanks for this amazing app !!
As someone building Mac apps, the local-footage + bring-your-own-Claude angle is what caught me — no upload wait and no extra AI subscription to manage. Curious how it holds up on longer footage locally on Apple Silicon, that's usually where desktop editors either shine or choke.
Now like a super vivid user of cardboard and have also recommended to my fellow creators.
Cardboard is one of the veryyy few delta 4 products I keep boasting about in my circle. Hardcore fan of the team and what they have achieved so far. If you haven't already, this is one of those gems thats bound to make your visual storytelling at least 10x better.
Cant wait for whats next. Great launch!
have been using for a month or so now, habitual to prompting it out and letting cardboard do the magic :)
AI agents combined with local processing is an interesting technical direction. Would love to know more about the architecture
Local processing plus Ai powered editing is a combination worth exploring. Congrats on shipping!
keeping the footage on the mac removes a pretty annoying upload step
using an existing ai subscription is a useful option too
Desktop makes sense for serious video workflows. Browser editors can get limiting when projects become bigger.
Bringing existing footage into a desktop workflow is a practical starting point. A reviewable list of the agent's proposed cuts would help a creator keep control of the story before exporting.
Social media teams could benefit a lot from this. Repurposing
footage into multiple formats is still unnecessarily time consuming
This has become my go-to-tool for all video editing requirements, have been using it for past 2 months and it never disappoints me.
About Cardboard AI on Product Hunt
“Best way to edit videos with AI”
Cardboard AI launched on Product Hunt on November 9th, 2026 and earned 114 upvotes and 24 comments, placing #10 on the daily leaderboard. Cardboard is an AI video editor that turns your raw clips into stories. Think of it as a creative collaborator that understands your footage, has taste to know what makes a great edit, and brings your vision to life.
Cardboard AI was featured in Marketing (470.6k followers), Artificial Intelligence (483.3k followers) and Video (2.1k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 231.7k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Cardboard AI?
Cardboard AI was hunted by Garry Tan. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Garry Tan
Hey Product Hunt,
I'm Saksham, Co-Founder & CEO of Cardboard (Backed by Y Combinator).
A few months ago, we launched Cardboard to make video editing as simple as describing what you want.
Today, we're excited to bring Cardboard to your desktop :)
Introducing Cardboard for Mac!
We've always believed that making a video shouldn't mean spending hours learning editing software or manually cutting clips on a timeline.
You should be able to upload your footage, describe the video you have in mind, and get a great edit in minutes.
And that's exactly what you can do with cardboard.ai
With the new desktop app, you can now:
- Edit videos for free: Get started with a free Lite plan, no credit card needed.
- Bring your own AI agents: Connect your existing Claude or ChatGPT subscription to edit videos.
- Keep your footage local: Your clips stay on your Mac instead of being uploaded to the cloud.
- Edit faster: Less uploading and waiting, with footage processed locally.
- Do more with video: Generate visuals, create motion graphics, and recreate edits from references.
Cardboard is for you if you're a creator, marketer, engineer, founder, designer, product manager, educator, a small business owner, or work in a team who need video without learning the complex timeline.
Would love for you to try the Mac app and tell us what you think!
We'll be here in the comments all day. Ask us anything :)