Podcasts and voice memos
Trim silence off the front, splice multiple takes together, drop in a sponsor read. Two-track timeline means the audio stays in sync as you reorder.
Cut. Without the suite.
Native Mac audio + video editing for the trims, splices, and frame grabs you make every week. Open a clip, chop it, ship it.
Rec
Screen recordings
Cut the umms, slice out the moment you fumbled the demo, park the playhead and grab the thumbnail. The empty state has one button: Choose Files.
Music and audio loops
Trim a track for a radio cut, splice multiple takes into a master, prep clean loops for production. Frame-precise edges let you land exactly between the beats.
Social media mashups
Pull clips from any platform, any format. ChopShop converts oddball codecs on import, mixes aspect ratios on the same timeline, and ships the cut in seconds.
Linked, or not.
Audio and video arrive linked. Drag a clip and both halves move in lockstep, the way a real edit should behave. Press ⌘⌥L to unlink when you want the audio to lead or trail the video, slide one half, link back when you're done.
Most "lite" editors flatten audio and video together. ChopShop keeps the rails honest so you can do real edits without leaving the everyday workflow.
Trim like Final Cut.
Grab a clip edge and drag. The source preview seeks to the new in or out point per frame as you go. Filmstrip thumbnails on the clip itself, so you can see what you're cutting into.
I and O snap the boundaries to the playhead, frame-precise. The trim experience of a pro editor in the app you'd reach for anyway.
Delete. Drag. Reflow.
Hit ⌫ and the selected clip vanishes. Every later clip on both tracks slides left to close the gap. Grab a clip and drag it somewhere new, and the clips around it shift to make room. Linked audio and video pairs stay aligned with each other through every move.
Most cuts are this: realize a section needs to go, delete, expect the rest to clean itself up. Drag B somewhere else, expect A, C, and D to ripple along. ChopShop does that part for you.
Speed. Reverse. Crop.
Drag the speed slider for slow-mo or fast-forward. Flip a clip to play backwards with a click. Drop a crop frame to shave letterboxing or zoom in on the action. Every clip remembers its full extent, so you can re-crop, re-time, or restore it any time.
The fun edits, in the everyday tool. No effects browser to open, no render to wait on.
Lossless
Lossless when it can be
Every export tries passthrough first. Same file in, same file out, no quality loss, no waiting on the GPU. ChopShop only re-encodes when you've actually changed pixels.
IO
Frame-precise I / O
Park the playhead, press I for in, O for out. The clip boundaries snap to the playhead, frame-precise.
MKV
.mp4
One-pass format import
Drop a Matroska, WebM, Ogg, or Opus file in. ChopShop converts on import and caches the result, so the timeline appears as fast as for an MP4.
Mixed-aspect timelines
Drop a 16:9 GoPro clip next to a portrait phone clip next to a square ad. Each shows at its native ratio in the preview. No project-resolution dialog.
.png
Single-frame PNG export
Park the playhead, Export Frame, get a clean PNG at full resolution. Thumbnails, bug screenshots, and social posters all live in the same timeline.
.chop
A real project format
Save the cut as a .chop document. Reopen it tomorrow, hand it off, drop it in source control. Every trim, link, and edit decision is in there.
Get ChopShop
On the Mac App Store, on Setapp, or a notarized direct download with a free trial that auto-updates via Sparkle.
macOS 15 Sequoia · Apple Silicon and Intel · 7-day trial