Open the recording
Drop in the recording. GraceCut builds a fast preview and you trim it down with simple cuts — every edit is non-destructive and undoable, so nothing is ever lost.
Sermons · Lectures · Conferences · Podcasts
Sunday’s sermon, ready to publish.
GraceCut turns a raw recording into a finished video — cuts made, scripture on screen the moment it’s read aloud, captions, thumbnail and podcast audio. Built for church media teams, and just as at home with a lecture, a conference session or a podcast.
- Runs entirely on your Mac
- Nothing to upload
- Free in early access
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Three steps to a finished video
Scripture appears by itself
Transcribe the talk, and when scripture is read GraceCut hears it — “First Corinthians thirteen, verse four” — then places the full passage on screen, timed to when it was read aloud, in the translation that was actually used.
Export everything at once
One Publish Pack renders the week’s output into a single folder: the edited video, podcast MP3, a thumbnail, YouTube chapters and a draft blog post.
Built around what a long recording actually needs
Scripture overlays
Type a reference and the full passage loads instantly from four bundled translations — KJV, NKJV, NIV and NLT — styled as broadcast lower-thirds. What you see in the preview is exactly what burns into the export.
Automatic scripture detection
The transcript is matched against real verse text, so a passing mention doesn’t become an overlay and a preacher pausing to comment doesn’t cut one short. Every placement stays editable.
Captions that know their place
Word-timed captions from the transcript, burned in if you want them — and they always yield to scripture, moving aside or clearing while a passage is on screen.
Vertical clips that follow the speaker
Export 9:16 for phones and GraceCut’s virtual camera pans the crop to keep the speaker in frame — steady, eased movement, not a jittery auto-crop.
The whole week in one export
Publish Pack writes the video, the podcast MP3, a composed thumbnail, YouTube chapter markers and a draft blog post into one folder, in one press.
Broadcast-level audio
Loudness normalised to −16 LUFS, background music mixed under the sermon at the right level, and hardware-accelerated exports that don’t tie up the machine all afternoon.
The recording never leaves the building.
GraceCut edits and exports entirely on your Mac. If you choose cloud transcription, only a small compressed audio file is sent — never the video — and on-device transcription keeps even that at home.
Download GraceCut
Free while in early access. A free account is all you need.
Mac
Apple silicon (M1 or later) · macOS 11+ · about 50 MB
Download for MacEarly-access build — macOS may warn on first launch. See the one-time fix.
Windows
In development.
Create a free accountWindows builds will reach account holders first.
Questions
Is GraceCut only for churches?
No. It edits any long-form talking video — lectures, conference sessions, seminars, podcast recordings. The scripture features are there when you need them and stay out of the way when you don’t; everything else — cuts, captions, vertical clips, the publish pack — is the same for any talk.
Is GraceCut free?
During early access, yes — everything. Longer term the editor stays free, and an account includes a monthly allowance of cloud AI minutes for transcription; heavy cloud use will become a paid plan. You can also transcribe on-device, or bring your own Gemini API key, at no cost.
Does my video get uploaded anywhere?
No. Editing, rendering and export all happen on your Mac. Optional cloud transcription sends a small compressed audio file only — never video — and on-device transcription sends nothing at all.
Why do I need an account?
Your account carries your cloud-AI allowance and, later, your plan. The editor keeps working for two weeks between checks, so a bad connection on a Sunday morning never stops a service being edited.
macOS says the app “is damaged” or “can’t be verified”
Early-access builds aren’t yet notarised with Apple, so macOS quarantines the download. After moving GraceCut to Applications, run this once in Terminal, then open it normally:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/GraceCut.appWhich Bible translations are included?
KJV, NKJV, NIV and NLT ship inside the app with full text, so overlays and automatic detection work offline. You can also paste any text as a custom overlay.
When is Windows coming?
It’s on the roadmap and under active development. Create a free account — Windows builds will land with account holders first.