AIEraDev/Clypra

Clypra is a hardware-accelerated video editor built on Rust, Tauri v2, and React 19.

The tool addresses the need for professional video editing without paywalls or feature restrictions. It achieves sub-10ms frame decoding through GPU-native rendering powered by native Rust and platform-specific hardware decoders including VideoToolbox, D3D11VA, and VAAPI. The architecture combines a Rust/Tauri v2 backend for video operations with a React 19 frontend, enabling frame-accurate timeline editing with multi-track support, real-time waveform rendering, text compositing, and multi-format import and export across MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV, MP3, WAV, and PNG formats.

Clypra suits developers and creators seeking a free, open-source alternative to commercial video editors without watermarks or subscription requirements. It runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux desktops, with mobile support planned via Capacitor for iOS and Android. The tool is particularly valuable for workflows requiring frame-accurate editing, hardware acceleration across diverse GPU configurations, and zero-overhead performance monitoring without compromising privacy—the telemetry system collects only numerical timing data and hardware identifiers while explicitly excluding video frames, media assets, project titles, file paths, or user identities.

The project maintains active development with comprehensive technical documentation covering runtime performance architecture, native performance contracts, and performance telemetry specifications. Development activity shows attention to cross-platform GPU driver compatibility through adaptive sampling that captures dropped frames and driver fallbacks at full fidelity while sampling smooth playback at reduced rates to avoid impacting frame pacing. The team has established a Studio Admin Console for analyzing aggregated performance metrics across hardware configurations.