About

About MyFreeVideoTool

MyFreeVideoTool is a full multitrack video editor and twenty-two focused video tools — trimming, compressing, converting, GIF-making, green-screen keying, subtitling and more — running entirely in your web browser. It's built and maintained by one person, and here's the story.

Who's behind this

Hi — I'm Rob Sawant, an engineer and project manager. Like most people, I'd occasionally need to trim a clip or shrink a video for email, search "free video editor", and land somewhere that wanted me to upload my file to their server, wait, create an account, and then either watermark the export or hold the full-quality version behind a paid tier. "Free" tools that treat your own file as the hostage. I got tired of it and built the tool I actually wanted — then kept going.

The mission

MyFreeVideoTool is one of five apps I run, and they all follow the same rules: genuinely free, no accounts, no watermarks, and privacy by architecture — your files are processed in your browser and never touch a server. That last part isn't a policy promise, it's how the software is built: there's no upload endpoint to send your video to, so there's nothing to store, leak, or train on. It also means no server bills, which is exactly why nothing needs a paywall.

The suite

The same no-upload principle powers all five sites: MyFreePDFEdit for PDFs, MyFreeImageTool for image editing, conversion and OCR, MyFreeAudioTool for audio work and multitrack recording, MyFreeVideoTool — this site — for video, and MyFreeInvoiceTool for invoices and billing documents. One person, five apps, zero servers touching your files.

The technology

The editor composites layers on a canvas in real time, mixes audio through the Web Audio graph, keys green screens with a WebGL shader on your GPU, and exports via your browser's recording APIs — with FFmpeg (compiled to multithreaded WebAssembly, self-hosted) handling conversions and the compatibility MP4 path. The single-purpose tools use the same engine with fast paths where possible: lossless trims and mutes are stream copies that finish in seconds.

Honesty corner

Editor exports run at playback speed — every frame is composited on your machine, so a 3-minute project takes about 3 minutes. Auto-AI subtitles aren't built yet (manual entry + SRT import are). When something has a trade-off, I say so on the page where it matters.

Get in touch

Found a bug, hit a file that won't process, or have an idea? Email me at sawantrob@gmail.com — I read everything. The contact page has tips on what details help me fix things fast.