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Machete vs VidCutter: catalog facts
Machete	VidCutter
Freemium Offered as a full edition and a reduced Lite edition.	Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0 or later.
Windows	Windows, Linux
Lossless cutting and joining without re-encoding Works on modest hardware	Straightforward cut and join workflow Available on Flathub for Linux
Windows only Joining requires files with identical formats	Slow development, with mostly maintenance commits recently Not a full video editor
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: GPL-3.0-or-later
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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