OpenShot
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
8recommend
1warn against
Nov 9, 2025first mention
Aug 31, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“you can just install it from your distro's software repos or as a flatpak”
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“OpenShot is simple, Shotcut works everywhere”
“OpenShot is however significantly easier to use and does what you need for casual editing.”
“Nice, looks like a great release.”
Caveats and dissent
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
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Also written as Openshot. Data: openshot.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 12
“great job!”
Sourceforge works or Github https://github.com/mean00/avidemux2/releases/tag/2.8.1
“you can just install it from your distro's software repos or as a flatpak”
“Like the animated GIF on the landing page?”
“OpenShot is simple, Shotcut works everywhere”
“OpenShot is however significantly easier to use and does what you need for casual editing.”
“Nice, looks like a great release.”
“Just check the documentation: https://zh.openshot.org/files/user-guide/color.html”
“much more robust and performant than openshot”
“I use it 'cos it's super simple and so easy to use”
“FOSS options (KDEnlive, Openshot, Shotcut, Avidemux etc)”
“Nowadays I use Openshot on Windows”