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Open-source alternatives to DaVinci Resolve

3 open-source projects are offered as replacements for DaVinci Resolve. Shotcut is the most starred. Running one yourself trades the subscription for your own hosting and upkeep, so the table below leads with what decides that trade: whether the project is alive, what its licence lets a business do, and whether there is a container command to start from.

2 / 3

Pushed in the last 90 days

0 / 3

With a container command

0 / 3

Permissive licence

DaVinci Resolve’s own site ↗

Side by side

Open-source alternatives to DaVinci Resolve
Project	Stars	Activity	Licence	Self-host	Language
Shotcut	15,450	Active	Copyleft	○	C++
Kdenlive	5,888	Active	Copyleft	○	C++
Natron	5,587	Slowing	Copyleft	○	C++

Each one, briefly

Shotcut15,450 stars · copyleft · active
cross-platform (Qt), open-source (GPLv3) video editor
Also replaces Adobe Premiere Pro
Kdenlive5,888 stars · copyleft · active
Free and open source video editor, based on MLT Framework and KDE Frameworks
Also replaces Adobe Premiere Pro
Natron5,587 stars · copyleft · slowing
Open-source video compositing software. Node-graph based. Similar in functionalities to Adobe After Effects and Nuke by The Foundry.

Where this comes from

Which projects are offered against DaVinci Resolve comes from opensourcealternative.to, re-read weekly. Every figure in the table is read from the project’s own repository. We have not run these projects, and we hold no price for DaVinci Resolve. Browse every open-source alternative.