Local AI Video Generators and Editors

MacWhisper turns recordings into editable transcripts for people working with interviews, lectures, podcasts and meetings. Local transcription works offline and keeps the audio on your Mac.

Subtitle Edit is an offline desktop application for people creating captions or revising subtitle files alongside video. Editing, format conversion and playback run on your computer. Optional translation and speech services send requests to external providers.

LocalVocal turns speech into live captions inside OBS for streamers and people recording video. It processes speech on your computer, so transcription can work offline without sending audio to a cloud service.

SwarmUI is a self-hosted AI image generation interface for people who want both straightforward generation controls and access to detailed ComfyUI workflows. You can use it with models running on your own hardware.

ASUS MuseTree is an on-device AI image creation app for designers and people developing visual concepts. It works offline and brings prompts, sketches and reference images into a workspace for exploring and saving ideas.

WhisperSubTranslate is a free desktop app for creating translated SRT subtitles from video speech. It's for people who want to subtitle videos on their own computer, with offline transcription and translation after downloading the models.

TranscriptionSuite is a speech-to-text app for people recording lectures, transcribing conversations or dictating documents on their own hardware. Transcription works offline after the app and model downloads, keeping audio and transcripts local.

Real-ESRGAN is a local AI upscaler for people enlarging images or restoring degraded images and video. It builds on ESRGAN, with dedicated models for general images, anime illustrations and animated video.

Whisper Mate is a local-first transcription app for people who need text from recordings, calls or audio playing on their Mac. It brings transcription and subtitle work into one editor, with media processing that can stay on the Mac.

Audapolis is an editor for recordings where spoken words are the main material. Podcast producers, radio editors and people cutting interviews can work with a transcript through an interface similar to a word processor.

biniou brings AI chat and media creation into one browser interface on your own computer or server. It's for people who want to work with several kinds of generative AI without switching between separate apps.

LLPlayer is a media player for language learners who study through video and audio. It pairs playback with tools for reading dialogue, checking unfamiliar words and revisiting scenes.

Speech Note lets you dictate, read aloud and translate multilingual notes on Linux and Sailfish OS. It's for people who want speech and text processing to stay on their device and work offline.

VACE is an AI video model for creators and developers who want to generate footage or edit existing clips locally. It combines reference-based generation and video editing, including changes limited to masked areas.

LivePortrait animates a portrait with facial expressions and head movements taken from a driving video. It's for creators who want to animate still faces or edit portrait videos on their own hardware.

YouDub-webui is a self-hosted video translation and dubbing app for creators and small teams making videos available in another language. Its most established workflow is English-to-Chinese dubbing for YouTube; it also supports Chinese-to-English dubbing for Bilibili.

WhisperJAV generates subtitles for Japanese adult videos on your own computer. It targets difficult audio with quiet dialogue, loud vocalisations and long stretches that can cause speech recognition models to invent or repeat words.

SeedVR is an AI video restoration project for developers and researchers processing real-world footage or AI-generated video on their own GPUs. Its SeedVR2 model restores footage in a single diffusion step, with substantial hardware demands in the supplied implementation.

Vibe is a desktop app for people who need transcripts or subtitles from recordings without uploading them to a transcription service. It handles audio and video locally, including interviews, meetings and material in different languages.

CodeFormer restores degraded faces in photos and videos for people working with damaged images and researchers developing face restoration tools. Its quality control lets you balance a cleaner result against fidelity to the input face.

Unsloth is a desktop app for people who want to chat with models, train them on their own data, and create media on their own hardware. Its no-code interface brings these tasks into one workspace.

OpenShorts turns podcasts, interviews and other long videos into short clips for TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts. It's for creators and social media teams who want AI to select excerpts and prepare them for posting.

Vibe Workflow is a visual AI workflow builder for creators and developers who want repeatable image and video pipelines on their own server. Its editor is self-hostable, but the included generation features use MuAPI and require an account, API key, and internet access.

ComfyUI is a visual AI workflow editor for creators who want control over generation and editing. Its node canvas lets you connect models and processing steps, inspect their settings and reuse the resulting workflows without writing code.

HyperWhisper is a desktop speech-to-text app for Windows and Linux that keeps recordings on your computer. It's for people captioning videos, transcribing interviews or podcasts, or turning recordings into searchable text. The interface brings transcription, editing and subtitle export into one place.

SnapOtter is a self-hosted application for people and teams who need to edit or convert private files without uploading them to an online processing service. It combines media, document and local AI tools in a browser interface.

Utsuwa is an AI companion for people who want a virtual character that remembers their conversations. It combines a 3D avatar with voice chat and optional relationship progression inspired by dating sims.

Video2X processes video on your own hardware to increase resolution or add frames for smoother motion. It's for people improving existing footage, with several processing methods suited to anime and other video.

Practical-RIFE generates intermediate video frames to increase frame rates. Built on RIFE and SAFA, this Python project is aimed at engineers and developers incorporating interpolation into video processing workflows, including animation and some diffusion-generated footage.

local-transcriber is a free, open-source app for turning audio and video recordings into text on your own computer. It's aimed at people handling private interviews, client calls or long talks who want transcription without uploading recordings to a cloud service. It runs fully offline once the required models are downloaded.

Waifu2x-Extension-GUI is a Windows desktop app for enlarging artwork, photos and video with AI. It combines multiple processing engines in one interface for people working with both drawn and photographic media.

VideoCrafter generates video on your own hardware from written prompts or still images. It's aimed at researchers and people exploring video generation for personal use; the toolbox limits use to personal, research and non-commercial purposes.

WhisperBuddy is a native macOS app for people who need transcripts, subtitles, or voice dictation while keeping their recordings on their own computer. It transcribes audio and video files, listens to live input, and translates transcripts offline. Audio and text stay on your Mac.

Super Agent Party is an AI companion platform for people who want a desktop character that can also carry out tasks. It combines character conversations with agents that operate applications and interact through messaging or live streams.