What’s new
in KakuCut.

A look for every clip.

Give each clip its own filter, choose a project cover, and see each clip’s original audio on the timeline.

• Filters: give each clip its own look (Vivid, Crisp, Portrait, Warm, Cool, Film, Cinema, Black & White or Noir) with adjustable intensity, or apply it to all clips.
• Project covers: pick a frame from your video or a photo as the project’s cover.
• See each clip’s original audio as a waveform on the timeline and set its volume.
• A roomier editor: an edge-to-edge timeline, playback time up front, and tap empty space to clear a selection.
• Fixed: unselected text now moves on the first drag, and long audio waveforms draw reliably.

Edit right on the preview.

Pinch, twist, and drag captions and text directly on your video, with two new caption styles.

• Pinch, twist, and drag captions and text directly on your video. The size slider and pinch now stay in sync.
• New Handwritten and Documentary caption styles.
• Text now has the same font and style tools as captions.
• Generated captions break at natural phrases.
• Fixed: a white canvas showed black bars at the edges.
• Fixed: stickers could appear rotated in exported videos.
• Better Japanese and Korean caption spacing, plus other fixes.

Karaoke captions, word by word.

Captions can now highlight each word as it is spoken, with six short-form caption styles to choose from.

• Karaoke captions highlight each word as it is spoken.
• Choose from six short-form caption styles, plus custom colors and translucent caption boxes.
• Search caption fonts; Traditional Chinese caption fonts are now included.
• Timeline thumbnails stay available after you reopen the app.
• Export is smoother, and long captions shrink instead of dropping lines.
• Smoother timeline playback and scrubbing.
• Fixed caption timing edits and timeline trim handles.

How to make word-by-word karaoke captions

A steadier timeline for captions and overlays.

This update fixes timing edits so captions, text, and stickers move and resize more reliably on the timeline.

• Fixed captions that could fail to move or resize correctly on the timeline.
• Fixed unexpected jumps while dragging captions, text, and stickers.
• Improved edge-handle controls for short captions, text, and stickers.

A smoother caption editing experience.

Caption editing now keeps the keyboard and your text more dependable as you work between lines.

• Fixed editor resizing while moving between captions.
• Double-tap a caption to open the full-height editor for easier keyboard editing.
• Fixed an issue where merged captions could lose text.

Caption backgrounds preview correctly.

Fixed an issue where changing a caption background color could still show a black background in the editing preview.

A clearer, smoother editing flow.

This update makes caption editing easier to control and brings your editing tools into a more consistent workspace.

Edit text with a simple double tap.

Text editing now supports double-tap interaction, making it easier to enter and refine text while you work.