🎬 Open source, transcript-based video editor that lives in the browser. Edit videos by simply editing the transcript text. Runs fully in the browser: Local, free and offline!
Descript costs $24/mo, I built this over a single weekend with Fable to jump on the personal software bandwagon.
Introducing Rescript: edit videos by simply editing the transcript text.
→ Github https://github.com/wassgha/rescript
Runs fully in the browser: Local, free, offline and open source!
Editing video by just fixing typos in the transcript feels like cheating in the best way. Loved that it runs offline with zero setup.
the transcript editing idea is honestly so smart, cut a sentence and the video just trims to match. loaded a clip and it ran fine without any setup.
Editing a transcript instead of a timeline is one of those ideas that feels obvious only after someone builds it. Keeping everything local makes the pitch much stronger for interviews and personal footage. And a weekend project that puts a real workflow on the table is more interesting than another polished roadmap.
Running fully in-browser is a strong differentiator for this category, since the thing that makes people hesitate about editing tools is uploading raw footage of themselves to someone else's server.
The tradeoff I'd want measured is where the tab gives up. Browser memory limits are real, and a 90-minute recording is a very different ask than a 5-minute one. Do you have a rough ceiling in practice? And does transcription run locally too, or does that step reach out — because if it does, the privacy story quietly changes for the part people care about most.
How do you handle longer videos or really dense transcripts in the browser? I'm curious if there's a practical file size limit before things start getting sluggish, since everything's running locally.
Transcript-based editing in the browser is a strong idea, especially with everything staying local.
How does Rescript handle edits beyond cuts, such as removing filler words or tightening pauses without making the final video feel unnatural?
love that this is a weekend project and fully local, that's a rare combo for video editing tools. curious how it holds up on longer source files though, like an hour long podcast recording. is the transcription and scrubbing still snappy on a mid-range laptop at that length, or does the in-browser part start to strain once the timeline gets long. either way nice work shipping this solo.
Some editing products reduce the video quality when we export the edited clip. Does this retain it as is?
So for example, if the video is in 4K, it exports back 4K, right?
Does it have all features of DeScript or only the transcript based editing feature?
About Rescript on Product Hunt
“A free, open source, Descript alternative. Runs in-browser.”
Rescript launched on Product Hunt on July 27th, 2026 and earned 120 upvotes and 11 comments, placing #9 on the daily leaderboard. 🎬 Open source, transcript-based video editor that lives in the browser. Edit videos by simply editing the transcript text. Runs fully in the browser: Local, free and offline!
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