The Best Online Video Editors for 2025

If you want to put out a polished social post with minimal effort, Adobe Express is a top option. This template-based design app helps you create still images and offers a modicum of video editing capabilities. It's a good choice for graphic designers who use Creative Cloud apps but also need some video editing tools. Not every task requires the power of Adobe Premiere Pro.

With Express, you can add background music and narration, though there are some template-based restrictions. For example, it didn't let me extend a video clip longer than the template entry. It doesn't include multitrack timeline editing either, only storyboard thumbnails. You can, however, crop, reverse, slow down, and speed up videos. A background remover and Firefly AI image generator are recent additions. Adobe Express also offers helpful design tips, like how to use negative space effectively. Free accounts get 5GB of cloud storage, basic editing, and thousands of design assets and templates. Premium subscribers ($9.99 per month) get 100GB of cloud storage and a full selection of premium assets and templates.

Canva is suitable if you need to create videos for promotional use and social media. Though it's mostly about template-driven graphics creation, it also has some video editing capabilities. A video project type helps get you started. You get basic abilities to crop, resize, trim, speed up, and split clips, but no multitrack timeline editing—just storyboard thumbnails. As you might expect, the software has good support for social media aspect ratios, especially vertical ones. Free users get 5GB of online storage and more than a quarter million templates, while Pro subscribers get 1TB of storage, more than 610,000 templates, and social media post scheduling. Canva for Teams adds branding, reporting, and workflow features.

You don't need to create an account or enter an email address to get started with Clideo. It offers user-friendly multitrack editing in either horizontal or vertical modes, along with stock content, such as audio, shapes, and video (categories include Animals, Food, and Travel). The site has a freeze-frame option and lets you record your screen and webcam. It's possible to adjust the brightness, contrast, opacity, saturation, and speed of clips, as well as apply effect filters, but you don't get any AI effects or transitions. A text-to-speech generator has dozens of voice types to choose from, while text titles are easy to add. An attractive selection of fonts is available. Clideo exports projects at up to 720p if you don't opt for a subscription. If you do, you can export projects at up to 4K. Free users can upload up to 500MB of video, while premium users get 100GB for storage.

Microsoft Clipchamp is now the default video maker for Windows, and it's also available on the web for free. It's best if you need to create template-based social videos, though it also has fairly powerful timeline editing. You can start with a template or from scratch, either uploading clips or connecting your OneDrive account. The app lets you record your screen with or without your webcam image and can perform speech-to-text and, more impressively, text-to-speech AI translations.

Stock video and photos are available for b-roll, and there's a good selection of background music, sound effects, and title styles. Many options, however, require a subscription. Free users get unlimited watermark-free exports up to 1080p, while Essentials subscribers ($11.99 per month) get 4K support, a brand kit for managing logos and colors, content backup features, and premium filters and effects. 

FlexClip is for small businesses that want to create marketing videos for social media. You start either from a template or from scratch, and you can upload multiple clips at once. The interface lets you use timeline or storyboard modes and vertical or horizontal aspect ratios. As with most video editors, you can drag clips from the source panel onto the timeline (or storyboard) and stretch the timeline to fit the program window. You get all the trimming, transition, text, and overlay options you could want, along with a decent selection of background audio tracks sorted by mood. We're not impressed with the AI text-to-full-video generation, but the image, text-to-speech, and script AI generators are better. More New AI photo tools include image stylization and motion tracking.

FlexClip comes in three levels: Free, Plus, and Business. The Free account limits you to 720p resolution, a maximum of 12 projects, and a video length of 10 minutes. All your videos also get a FlexClip watermark. The Plus level ($9.99 per month with an annual commitment, $19.99 without) removes the watermark and gets you 1080p output, unlimited projects, and unlimited video length. The Business plan ($19.99 per month billed annually, $29.99 monthly) gets you 4K downloads, 100GB of cloud storage, and 1TB for video hosting. The plans also vary in the amount of stock footage (one for Free, five for Plus, and unlimited for Business) and AI prompts (from five times per month for free to 6,000 for Business) you can use. Though the company is based in China, its privacy page states that it complies with GDPR.

Kapwing is surprisingly slick and powerful. Along with Veed, it's among the best options if you want full-power video editing without the hassle of downloading and installing a local application. It lets you add transitions, combine video clips, generate subtitles, overlay text and images, split, trim, and upload music. You can drag clips around and up and down in the timeline. Kapwing also allows you to crop and move images, even using keyframes for things like pan and zoom.

You get access to stock background music, photos, and video, but there's no fancy stuff like chroma keying, motion tracking, or video effects. Video for free users shows a watermark and tops out at four minutes in length and 720p resolution. A $16-per-month Pro subscription removes the watermark, lets you make high-res projects up to two hours long, and gives you branding tools.

Veed is an impressive multitrack timeline video editor that features a clear and simple design. It's best if you want a full replacement for local video editing software. You start with formats suitable for all output types, social and otherwise. Use either one of the predesigned templates or create a custom one. Then, you can upload or record your media or use some of Veed's stock music tracks, sound effects, or video content. The site provides speech-to-text for automatic subtitles, or you can upload a subtitle file. AI tools include audio cleanup, background removal, and eye contact. Free users can try these once.

Veed distinguishes itself with effect filters. You get a choice of stickers or shape overlays but only 29 transition styles. That's all in addition to the standard joining, splitting, and trimming of clips. Free users get watermarked 720p output up to 10 minutes long but with no limit on the number of projects. The $24-per-month Lite plan removes the watermark, increases the quality to 1080p, and allows for an unlimited video length. The $55 Pro account adds unlimited use of branding tools and stock media.

Streamlabs Video Editor (formerly Oslo) targets professional video editors more than most products here and emphasizes collaborative project editing. It provides multitrack timeline editing with the standard join, split, and trim tools. You also get a few filters à la Instagram and a good set of transitions and text fonts, but no shape or sticker overlays. Its comment feature helps teams work together on projects. You can record your screen with or without a webcam view. It's even possible to apply a few animations and basic image corrections, change speeds, crop, and zoom. Streamlabs automatically saves everything you do.

Free users can export videos of up to 30 minutes at 1080p without watermarks. You also get 15GB of online storage, a maximum file upload size of 5GB, and collaboration features at no cost. The paid plan ($10 per month or $100 per year) increases storage to 250GB, the upload size to 20GB, and the maximum export length to one hour.