How it works
Still preparing your next take? Read your script with the free online teleprompter, then return here to tighten the recording. For a finished clip, add subtitles for freewith the same local processing approach.
Choose a video
Pick a talking-head video from Photos, Files or your computer. MP4 and MOV both work. The page reads it on your device and never uploads it.
Pick how hard to cut
The page finds where you speak. Choose Natural, Tight or Punchy, and the preview plays the trimmed version straight away by skipping the pauses.
Save the video
Save an MP4 at up to 1080p with no watermark. On a phone it opens the share sheet, so you can keep it in your photos. On a computer you can also download a timeline for Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Premiere.
Speech detection, not a volume threshold
Most silence removers measure loudness: anything quieter than a threshold counts as silence. That works in a quiet room. Add a fan, traffic or an air conditioner and the pauses are no longer quiet, so nothing gets cut. Raise the threshold and your softer words start to disappear instead.
This tool listens for speech. It runs Silero VAD, an open-source speech-detection model, inside the page, so it can tell your voice apart from steady background noise. In our test recording with a fan-like hum underneath, a −40 dB volume threshold found none of the four pauses between sentences; speech detection found all four.
The model runs on your device, and its engine (about 6 MB) loads only after you choose a video. It is built on Silero VAD, ONNX Runtime Web and Mediabunny; see theirlicences.
Natural, Tight or Punchy: how hard to cut
Every preset keeps a little room around your words so nothing sounds clipped. They differ in how long a pause has to be before it goes, and in how much room stays:
- Natural. Cuts pauses longer than 2 s, keeping 0.2 s before and 0.35 s after your words. Only the dead air goes. Good for interviews, tutorials and anything that should still breathe.
- Tight. Cuts pauses longer than 1 s, keeping 0.1 s before and 0.2 s after. The default. Most talking-head videos sit here.
- Punchy. Cuts pauses longer than 0.6 s, keeping 0.07 s before and 0.12 s after. Fast, YouTube-style pacing with frequent jump cuts.
Tight and Punchy use the tightening levels from CoProd, the Mac app this tool comes from. Switching presets replays the preview at once, so try all three before you save. Pauses aren’t the only thing worth cutting: CoProd also leaves unused retakes and false starts out of the edit, as the guide to editing YouTube recordings on a Mac shows.
Export to Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Premiere
On a computer you can take a timeline instead of a finished video. The cuts arrive in your editor as ordinary edits on your original file: nothing is re-encoded, and every cut can still be moved.
- Final Cut Pro: Choose File › Import › XML and pick the Final Cut Pro file. The clips arrive offline: select them and choose File › Relink Files, then pick your original video.
- DaVinci Resolve: Import your original video into the Media Pool first. Then choose File › Import › Timeline, pick the Resolve file and untick “Automatically import source clips into media pool”, so Resolve uses the clip you just imported.
- Premiere Pro: Choose File › Import and pick the Premiere file. When the Link Media dialog asks for the missing video, locate your original file.
The timeline points at a placeholder path with your file’s name, because a browser never learns where a file lives on your computer. Relinking once connects every cut. Recordings from dedicated cameras that write a start timecode land early in the timeline, because a browser can’t read that timecode; for those, save the MP4 instead.
Want the whole edit, not just the pauses? CoProd Premium’s editor export hands Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve a project with your footage, captions, graphics and sound already laid out. If you’re weighing up transcript editors, see how CoProd compares with Descript.
Frequently asked questions
Is it really free? Is there a watermark or a length limit?
Yes, it’s free: no signup, no plan, and no watermark on the video it saves. We don’t cap the length either. Your phone or computer does all the work, though, so a very long video can run out of memory, especially on a phone. If one won’t save, try a computer or a shorter clip.
Is my video uploaded?
No. The page reads your video and makes the new file on your device; the video is never sent anywhere. To check, wait until it starts finding the speech, then switch on airplane mode: previewing and saving keep working. The only requests the page makes are for this site’s own files, plus one anonymous pageview if you allow analytics.
How do I remove silence in Final Cut Pro?
Final Cut Pro has no built-in silence removal; the usual options are a paid plugin or cutting by hand with the Blade tool. With this tool, choose your clip on a computer, pick a preset, and download the Final Cut Pro timeline. Import it with File › Import › XML, then use File › Relink Files to point it at your original video. Every cut arrives as an ordinary edit you can still adjust.
Does DaVinci Resolve have a remove-silence feature?
Yes. Blackmagic’s release notes for DaVinci Resolve 20.2 list an option to ripple delete silence for a selected clip. This tool works before you open Resolve: it finds the pauses with speech detection rather than loudness, and it can give Resolve a timeline that’s already cut: import your video into the Media Pool, then bring the timeline in with File › Import › Timeline.
Will it cut off my words or breaths?
It’s built not to. It never cuts inside detected speech, and it keeps a little room around every phrase: 0.1 s before and 0.2 s after on Tight. Breaths aren’t speech, so a long pause goes even if you breathe in it, while the short gaps between words stay. Choose Natural if you want gentler cuts.
What’s the difference between removing silence and jump cuts?
Removing silence takes the pauses out. In a talking-head video, each place it cuts becomes a jump cut, where the picture jumps slightly as one phrase follows another. Punchy makes many jump cuts for a fast pace; Natural makes few, only where there’s dead air. In an editor timeline you can cover any of them with a zoom or B-roll.
Does it remove retakes and filler words?
No. It only finds pauses, so a stumble, a repeated sentence or an “um” stays in. CoProd, the Mac app this tool comes from, lines your recordings up with your script and leaves unused retakes and false starts out of the cut.
Does it work on iPhone and Android?
It’s made for phones as much as computers. It has been tested in Chrome-based browsers on Android and on a Mac. It needs a browser with built-in video encoding (WebCodecs), which current Chrome, Edge and Safari have; on an iPhone, use Safari on a recent iOS. The page checks your browser before it starts and tells you plainly if it can’t run there.
Which files and lengths work?
Video files your browser can play, usually MP4 or MOV from a phone, camera or screen recorder, as long as they have sound. It saves an MP4 (H.264 video, AAC audio) at up to 1080p, upright as you shot it, at the original frame rate up to 60 fps; HDR video is saved in standard colour. Short clips have been tested, including 4K from an Android phone. There is no fixed length limit, but a long 4K video can be too much for a phone’s memory.
Updated October 20, 2026