Every feature.
Running natively.
The whole Smoothy workspace as a real app — and everything a browser tab can't reach.
SmoothyDesktop does everything SmoothyEdit does, then adds the heavy local work: on-device Whisper captions, hardware-accelerated transcoding, silence removal, multicam auto-switch — and a built-in bridge that pushes cuts, markers, and captions straight into Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve.
Local captions
On-device · whisper.cpp · medium.en
Why it exists
The browser is a great place to start.
You paste a transcript and have shorts, hooks, and titles in seconds — before your editor is even open. But the tab hits a wall the moment the work gets heavy or touches your timeline.
It can't reach your timeline
A web app can hand you timestamps, but it can't drop a marker or a cut onto the sequence open in Premiere or Resolve.
Heavy work makes a round-trip
Captions, transcodes, and compression all have to upload, process on a server, and come back — metered and slow.
Your machine sits idle
The GPU and encoder in your computer do nothing, while you wait on someone else's queue and pay per minute.
What you get
Everything SmoothyEdit does.
Plus everything it couldn't.
Everything you already use
The full SmoothyEdit toolset — running locally
Paste a transcript and every SmoothyEdit tool is right there: find shorts, write hooks, generate titles and descriptions, plan thumbnails, suggest SFX and music, spin up a blog or a Twitter thread. Same models, same outputs, same account — plus your history, projects, AI Photos, and the Organizer. Nothing is left behind in the browser.
- Every AI tool, the same as the web app
- Your history, projects, and Organizer come too
- One sign-in — work syncs with your Smoothy account
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42:18 · “Welcome back — today we're rebuilding the export pipeline from scratch so your renders finish before…”
Run on this video
The part a browser can't do
A bridge straight into Premiere Pro & Resolve
A built-in plugin opens a local connection to your editor over ws://127.0.0.1:3457. Shorts markers, multicam cuts, caption tracks, and chapter markers land on the exact timeline you're already cutting in — no export, no re-import, no copy-pasting timestamps. Both Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve are first-class destinations.
- Push markers, cuts, and captions to the active sequence
- Premiere Pro (UXP) and DaVinci Resolve, both native
- A backup sequence is saved before edits are applied
connected · ws://127.0.0.1:3457
12 shorts markers
→ timeline markers
Multicam cut
8 angle switches
Caption track
SRT, time-aligned
6 chapter markers
with titles
On your hardware
The heavy media work, at full speed
Because it runs natively, the expensive jobs happen on your machine instead of someone else's server. Transcode and compress with the hardware encoder your GPU actually has — VideoToolbox, NVENC, AMF, or QuickSync — at multiples of realtime. Caption with whisper.cpp on-device, detect and trim silence, and auto-switch multicam by who's speaking.
- Hardware-accelerated HEVC — NVENC / VideoToolbox / AMF / QSV
- Local Whisper captions — no upload, no transcription credits
- Silence removal & multicam auto-switch, exported for your NLE
Hardware encoder
Encoding · 78% · 3.4× realtime on your GPU
The local toolbox
Four jobs the cloud kept charging you for.
Local Whisper captions
Word-level SRT/VTT generated on-device with whisper.cpp. No upload, no rate limits, no API bill.
Hardware-accelerated encoding
Batch HEVC transcode using the encoder your GPU has — full speed instead of CPU-bound.
Silence removal
Detect dead air with configurable thresholds and export cuts as a Premiere-ready FCP7 XML.
Multicam auto-switch
Drop one audio file per camera and get a cut sequence that follows whoever's speaking.
The workflow
From transcript to timeline, without the export.
Build the edit locally
Find shorts, generate a rough cut, caption, and compress — all on your machine, in one app.
The bridge connects to your NLE
The Premiere UXP panel or Resolve script links over a local WebSocket. The badge turns teal when it's live.
It lands on your timeline
Markers, cuts, and caption tracks drop onto the sequence you're editing — ready to refine, not retype.
Why running local matters
It changes the economics of every job.
Private by default
For local features, media never leaves your computer — built for client work, NDA footage, and unreleased projects.
No rate limits
On-device processing isn't throttled by a per-minute quota. Caption a hundred videos or one.
Full speed
Hardware acceleration means exports and transcodes run as fast as your machine allows — no round-trip.
Part of the Smoothy suite
How it fits with the others
Overlaps
- Includes every feature of SmoothyEdit — same AI tools, same outputs, same account.
- Hosts the Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve plugins — the bridge lives here.
- Imports SmoothyRec recordings directly as a multi-track project.
- Drops in SmoothyStudio titles as transparent PNG layers.
Not in this one
- —Designing titles and overlays from scratch — that workflow lives in SmoothyStudio.
- —Recording the original screen + camera footage — that's SmoothyRec's job.
The native home for everything Smoothy.
Every SmoothyEdit tool, the local-only features a browser can't offer, and a direct line into your editor — in one app. SmoothyDesktop is in active development, coming soon to the Smoothy suite.