Instagram announced on Thursday that it\u2019s bringing Edits, its short-form video editing app, to desktop on Mac. The desktop version is designed for more complex video-editing projects that benefit from a larger screen, mouse, and keyboard, the company says.<\/p>\n
The move puts Edits in more direct competition with ByteDance\u2019s CapCut, the video-editing app Meta sought to challenge when it launched Edits last year. CapCut, which is a massively popular tool for creators, has been available on desktop for Windows and Mac since 2021.<\/p>\n
Instagram notes that the desktop app includes licensed and royalty-free music, sound and video effects, and automatic captions in multiple languages. Audio and text styles that creators saved on the mobile app sync over to the desktop app, and users can customize keyboard shortcuts or import them from other editing software.<\/p>\n
It also features a full multi-track timeline, keyframes for transitions, audio waveforms for accurate cuts, and more. Additionally, creators can import their own font files.<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of creators have described the same moment to us: a project gets too big for your phone,\u201d Brett Westervelt, head of Edits, said in a blog post. \u201cYou\u2019ve got a dozen clips going, you\u2019re trying to land a cut on the exact beat, and your thumb covers the part of the timeline you need to see. Your work is growing, and your tools should grow with it. We\u2019re expanding Edits to take on your most ambitious projects on desktop.\u201d<\/p>\n Creators can publish from the desktop editor directly to Instagram with native features like tagging and location built in. The company says this gets rid of the need for creators to edit on desktop, download the file, move it to mobile, and then make more edits before posting it.<\/p>\n Edits will also support horizontal and vertical video formats, with watermark-free exports in 4K resolution for sharing across platforms or personal use, Instagram says. <\/p>\n The company plans to ship weekly updates to improve the desktop editor, noting that it\u2019s currently working to make it possible for creators to edit one project across both desktop and mobile seamlessly. <\/p>\n Instagram also said it\u2019s going to continue to grow the mobile Edits app for the more than 50 million creators who use it. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/11\/05\/instagram-brings-edits-to-desktop-to-take-on-capcut\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Introducing-Edits-on-desktop_.png?resize=1200,726″] Instagram announced on Thursday that it\u2019s bringing Edits, its short-form video editing app, to desktop on Mac. The desktop version is designed for more complex video-editing projects that benefit from a larger screen, mouse, and keyboard, the company says. The move puts Edits in more direct competition with ByteDance\u2019s CapCut, the video-editing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,62],"class_list":["post-2240885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-techcrunch-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2240885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2240885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2240885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2240885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/A-full-creative-studio-designed-for-creators_.png?w=680\")