How to edit a video online for free

Updated 25 October 2026 · about 10 minutes

The Online Video Editor has a timeline with video and audio tracks, text, captions and exports, and it saves your project in your browser as you work.

Free tool used in this guideOnline Video EditorEdit with a multi-track timeline: clips, text, music, captions. No signup, nothing uploaded.Open

Step by step

1. 1

   Add your media

   Open the editor and choose videos, music and images. They appear in Media; click one to add it at the playhead or drag it onto a track.

2. 2

   Cut and arrange

   Drag clips on the timeline, pull their edges to trim, press S to split at the playhead and Delete to remove a piece.

3. 3

   Add text and captions

   Use Text for titles (12 one-click styles) and Captions to generate subtitles from the speech. Captions get their own timeline row, and you can click any word on the video to style it on its own.

4. 4

   Adjust clips

   Select a clip to change volume, fades, speed, size and position.

5. 5

   Export

   Press Export, choose MP4 or WebM and the quality, and download.

Tips

• Your project autosaves on this device: you can close the tab and continue later.
• On a phone, use the bottom tabs: Media, Text, Captions, Edit and Project.

Questions

Also useful: Word-Level Automatic Subtitles, Video Merger, Add Text to Video