10 of the Best Adobe Premiere Alternatives in 2025

Adobe Premiere may be the king of professional video editors but here we check out 10 of the best free Adobe Premiere Alternatives.

Windows Movie Maker is the official video editor Microsoft developed and aimed at the home user. Windows Movie Maker provides many video effects that can be easily applied and has a preview option to check changes made to the video in real-time. One of the standout features of Windows Movie Maker is that it supports importing music and synchronising it with video. The software also supports video cropping and rotating.

Although Windows Essentials 2012 is no longer supported and Microsoft has deleted all download links and references to the downloads, you can still find the offline installer on the Internet Archive links below.

Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor for Windows, Mac and Linux. Primary features include:

1. Support for a wide range of formats.
2. No import is required, meaning native timeline editing.
3. Blackmagic Design supports input and preview monitoring.
4. Resolution support to 4k.

Kdenlive is an acronym for KDE Non-Linear Video Editor. It is primarily aimed at the GNU/Linux platform but also works on BSD and MacOS. It is currently being ported to Windows as a GSOC project.

Non-linear video editing is much more powerful than beginners' (linear) editors. Hence, it requires more organisation before starting. However, it is not reserved for specialists and can be used for small personal projects.

With a streamlined design and intuitive editing features, iMovie lets you enjoy your videos and tell stories like never before. Browse your video library, share favourite moments, and create beautiful movies you can edit at resolutions up to 4K. You can even start editing movies on an iPhone or iPad and finish them on a Mac. And when your movie is ready for its big premiere, you can enjoy it on all your devices in iMovie Theater.

Although it is mainly known for animation, Blender includes a non-linear video editing system. The Video Editor allows you to perform basic actions like video cuts and splicing and more complex tasks like video masking. Its features include live preview, luma waveform, chroma vectorscope and histogram displays, audio mixing, syncing, scrubbing and waveform visualisation.

Blender is cross-platform and runs equally well on Linux, Windows, and Macintosh computers. Its interface uses OpenGL to provide a consistent experience.

VirtualDub is a free and open-source video capture and video processing utility for Microsoft Windows written by Avery Lee. It is designed to process linear video streams, including filtering and recompression. It uses an AVI container format to store captured video.

It lacks the sheer editing power of Adobe Premiere but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video, so if all you need is a few essential tools to edit video, this is a good option. It also has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files. It can be extended with third-party video filters.

Behind every YouTube star is a video editor. Twenty years ago, editing videos was a hobby that involved exotic software. Today, this humble piece of software is essential for all communication & the fortunes of billions.

Cinelerra is intended to be functional and fast, representing the essential features from 20 years of editing, but not compare in eye candy to the leading commercial editors. By modern standards, it's very minimalist but quick to boot up.

ffDiaporama is an application for creating video sequences consisting of titles, fixed or animated, images or photos, movie clips and music. These sequences are assembled into a slide show using transitions to produce complete videos.

PhotoFilmStrip creates movies out of your pictures in just three steps. First, select your photos, customise the motion path and render the video. Several output possibilities exist for VCD, SVCD, and DVD up to FULL-HD.

The effect of the slideshow is known as "Ken Burns". Comments on the pictures are generated into a subtitle file. An audio file can be specified to set up the background music for the slideshow.

Kinovea is a free video player created especially for sports professionals and their trainers. Users can upload videos of them practising different sports to analyse their sports moves and gain the insight they need to push their performance to the next level.

The action can be slowed down to analyse certain moves quickly. There are numerous helpful features, such as the opportunity to compare two sporting videos simultaneously, graphs, and tracking to show the exact angles and measurements of various movements.