CapCut users can’t edit videos without a pro feature

“[CapCut] ★ 1/5 (v19.6.0) — In April 2026, I purchased a CapCut Standard subscription because the auto captions feature was available to me at the time of purchase. Now CapCut began requiring a Pro subscription to use it. I consider this misleading. How can I trust your app or the features you advertise if you change what is included after I have already paid?”

“[CapCut] ★ 1/5 (v19.6.0) — CapCut was my go to editing app, but now practically everything in the app is the pro version which is a monthly subscription including using your own sounds!! Such a shame :/”

“[CapCut] ★ 1/5 (v19.6.0) — After deleting all of my videos in my space and emptying the trash this app still won’t let me upload anything to my computer without a pro subscription. At this point there is nothing taking up space because i deleted EVERYTHING. So they literally just want money. Don’t even bother with this app it isn’t worth it.”

“[CapCut] ★★ 2/5 (v19.5.0) — All the best features are being added to a pro feature or a standard feature, which makes editing impossible now”

“[CapCut] ★★ 2/5 (v19.4.0) — So if you use it with no pro they will make your video a template and people can steal it (most times) and they don’t have good resources and has bad quality”

“[CapCut] ★ 1/5 (v19.4.0) — I’ve used CapCut for years, marked as the first ever editing app I discovered when I first decided to begin editing simple clips on TikTok, but since such an era, it has completely fallen off and has become just another pay to use application. For starters, CapCut’s many features such as various effects and transitions that had once been free are now blocked by a paywall which requires you to have some form of CapCut Pro. There’s generally nothing wrong with paid fea”

“[CapCut] ★★ 2/5 (v9.4.0) — I love CapCut, it’s what I use to edit all my videos. It’s been great until more and more features have to be on Pro like auto- captions! I would have emailed instead of writing a review but there’s no email…. I can’t justify paying for CapCut Pro to only use one or two “pro” features. Ive tried using my 3 free uses and it doesn’t work so I’ve been on the hunt to find another editing app just as easy as CapCut. Like I said I really like CapCut but I wish basic things w”

“[CapCut] ★ 1/5 (v19.4.0) — I’ve had this app for years and all of a sudden with one update they take all the pro features and now put a pay wall up so that you can “unlock” the editing tool so you can download the video. When being prompted to pay for the pro subscription none of this is disclosed. What is actually provided under the pro features is not true because they force you to pay additional micro transactions for each edit filter used. This is false and misleading because they don’t disc”

“[CapCut] ★★ 2/5 (v19.3.0) — CapCut was great, then AI came around and they suggest weird freaky Ai things and weird Ai stuff they just beg for money now…”

“[CapCut] ★ 1/5 (v19.3.0) — Everything I need for editing is now pro… this app sucks now.”

“[CapCut] ★★ 2/5 (v19.2.0) — I love CapCut. You can make good edits through templates, the problem is, it's hard to make edits yourself without pro. The features you have without it suck and you are very limited. I bought standard so that way I could use the smooth slo mo feature that it has which is a very important tool, I was promised it through standard. I bought it and I could only use the feature one time. It didn't say this was going to happen and if I want to upgrade to pro, I have to pay”

“[CapCut] ★ 1/5 (v19.2.0) — I love how easy it is to edit videos but seriously…CapCut has gotta be one of the most money hungry editing apps out there. A free feature gets popular on TikTok? You have to pay money for it now. Genuinely any time something goes good for this app the devs think “let’s make them pay for it”🤦‍♂️ The greed is actually sickening”

“[CapCut] ★ 1/5 (v19.2.0) — everything on this app i can go to another for is pro”

“[CapCut] ★ 1/5 (v19.1.0) — Okay I use to LOVE capcut and make many edits and post, but now you have to pay for like everything. A day ago I was able to use extract audio then the next day it was pro. I liked it when I was actually able to use the app and not pay for fonts and effects. Like a few things as pro that’s okay but slowly making everything pro? That’s terrible! I request that you perhaps stop making everything pro before people start deleting this app. Please, I use CapCut daily for ed”

“[CapCut] ★ 1/5 (v19.1.0) — So I had a standard account but wanted to recreate a dream my mon had using the ai video feature. That’s a pro feature so I upgraded to pro. Just for it to ask me to upgrade to pro when I clicked the feature I had already upgraded to pro for. No biggie maybe it takes time to adjust, nope next day still wants me to upgrade to pro, which I still have until 9/21/26 because yep I completely cancelled my account you aren’t even getting standard from me anymore! SCAM SCAM S”

“[CapCut] ★★ 2/5 (v9.3.0) — CapCut for years was my video editor of choice and frequently recommended. I bought it outright but now it’s a subscription service and only basic editing is possible for the free version. Since all I needed was opacity and volume settings, I was good with the limitations. Now however they throw a watermark on all exports unless you buy their subscription. Removed the app and moved to another editor.”

“[CapCut] ★★ 2/5 (v19.0.0) — I’ve been loving using this app and paid for a year subscription to pro because I love the features and the intuitive interface. I’ve made many videos with automatic captions and just made another but it says I have to subscribe to pro in order to use the captions. I’ve already subscribed and everything is paid for through December! I can’t find any help through the developer website or any other troubleshooting for this issue. Please help! (And I’ll change my”

“[CapCut] ★★ 2/5 (v9.2.0) — caput WAS good but now almost everything is paid. this only reason you should be using capcut is to put clips together, not editing.”

“[CapCut] ★★ 2/5 (v19.0.0) — Capcut is an amazing video editor and I love using it for my YouTube videos but they keep moving everything to standard or pro and most of my favorite features are now in standard and you're not even allowed to use remove background, tts, or curve which all used to be free. Capcut is trying to convince most of its users to buy standard or pro just for basic tools. Edit: there's been another update and it's starting to get ridiculous, capcut brought back remove bg”

“[CapCut] ★★★ 3/5 (v18.9.0) — if you have never edited on any app before, capcut is a good place to start out due to how simple it is. even if it is in fact a good place for beginners there are also other major flaws about the app. the export quality of capcut is just not very good and will make your video look pretty grainy. a downside of it being very beginner friendly is the limitations compared to some other apps. alight motion and blurrr both have better features installed into their apps (b”

“[CapCut] ★ 1/5 (v18.9.0) — Back in 2021-22 it was the best editing software, everything was free to use and has quickly now become a pay to edit app, basically everything in this app is pro so you have to pay to use. Even the most simplest things you need to use, you need pro to edit, do not recommend on getting if your willing to pay money.”

“[CapCut] ★ 1/5 (v18.9.0) — This app used to be great for edits and such but more recently a lot of features have become locked behind the pro version.”

“[CapCut] ★ 1/5 (v18.9.0) — Was great before. Now if you want to edit and save a video without the CapCut watermark you need a premium membership. Ridiculous…”

“[CapCut] ★★★ 3/5 (v18.9.0) — I’ve been using this app for around a year now to edit on my editing account and AS time passes I’ve noticed so many features that are used SO often have gone pro. Some of these include Pixelate, I remember when that wasn’t pro, I remember DELAY glitch not being pro, and even a FILTER I was using a LOT for edits recently became pro. Don’t get me wrong, I love this app because it’s easy for me to understand, but it just gets to a point it gets so annoying. I genuinely”

“[CapCut] ★★ 2/5 (v18.9.0) — This app is very easy to use and can be used to make some great projects, but everything now is pro. You can’t even download your video if you have a certain effect in there, so you either have to record it yourself or just leave it. Horrible way to try to ensure cash grab. 👎”

“[CapCut] ★ 1/5 (v18.9.0) — I can’t even do basic stuff that we used to do earlier without pro”

“[CapCut] ★ 1/5 (v18.9.0) — I have been a video editor for around 4 years and when i first installed cap cut it was a great app, was. You want to isolate a videos audio? Pay us money, you want to add this effect that used to be free, pay us money. You want to do the most basic video editing trick, buy our pro mode. This isn’t even my biggest issue with cap cut though, as someone who uses CapCut for desktop pc i can say it is garbage. You can’t speed up a video, can’t slow it down, you can’t even”

“[CapCut] ★★ 2/5 (v18.8.0) — I did like this app i use it for All types of stuff but now it says that I have to buy storage to edit my videos”

“[CapCut] ★ 1/5 (v18.8.0) — This used to be one of the best video editing apps. Sure, it wasn’t very well optimized for low-end devices, but it was still worth using. But now? Even basic features have been locked behind a paywall for no good reason (they’re free in many other editing apps btw). The watermark is also really frustrating. I understand that you want to make money—that’s completely reasonable. But this just makes the overall user experience much worse.”

“[CapCut] ★ 1/5 (v18.8.0) — Took 2 hours and never made a video. Kept having to repeat myself and it still never made a video. Uploaded clips 3 times. A waste of time and money.”

“[CapCut] ★ 1/5 (v18.8.0) — Im so frustrated with capcut right now. When I started editing only some features were pro but now capcut is making literally everything pro, so you have to pay monthly to be able to use it. To whoever is running Capcut: you own Tiktok and are a BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY for gods sake, and now you’re taking away so many features unless people pay for some stupid subscription. Please stop. This is getting ridiculous. I’m sorry for leaving such an angry review, but I hav”

“[CapCut] ★★ 2/5 (v18.8.0) — I was making my car edit then boom, I realized some features were pro now so I couldn’t upload it, CapCut should try to stop being greedy. Overall, the app has good features.”

“[CapCut] ★ 1/5 (v18.8.0) — First, you can’t use effects on your videos because it cost money cause this app is money greedy for some reason 2: this app won’t let you use editing things on your videos because you have to pay money for pro editing like bro just last used the app to edit our videos”

“[CapCut] ★ 1/5 (v18.8.0) — I don’t like capcut! They are very bossy and limiting and half of the features cost money! I will still use capcut to edit videos but I will not like it!”

“[CapCut] ★ 1/5 (v18.8.0) — CapCut as a perpetual license to whatever you make, and they can use it for advertisement it’s in their terms of service just look at it that means that they can use all the footage you make everything you edit and use it to advertise or do whatever they want with it They can sell it to other companies and they can make money off of it. Also, it’s owned by bite dance, which is the company that makes TikTok if anybody cares. but it’s a great editing program. This is ver”

“[CapCut] ★ 1/5 (v18.8.0) — How money-hungry do you have to be, CapCut? I remember when this used to be a completely free editing app, and now you need the standard or pro plan to access most of the features. I don’t know if you will see this, but please stop making everything pro. You only care about the money and not the people.”

“[CapCut] ★ 1/5 (v18.7.0) — This is absurd, I use to love editing on this app, but now, this app forces you to pay for simple things like extracting audio out of a clip or using a special effect. This app is greedy for more and more money.”

“[CapCut] ★ 1/5 (v18.7.0) — Every update makes it worse. Almost everything has become paid, and that’s not fair to users who have been editing with this app for two or three years.”

“[CapCut] ★★ 2/5 (v18.7.0) — I use CapCut to edit videos for TikTok. Do you know how annoying it is to use one effect or feature or transition then two days later it’s suddenly pro or locked behind a paywall? Get better this is why people say CapCut is a terrible app, you just lost a supporter.”

“[CapCut] ★ 1/5 (v18.7.0) — Capcut now has four different pro levels and one costs $400! $400 for a very very glitchy unmoderated editing platform if you are thinking of switching over to capcut from alight motion for example DO NOT.”

“[CapCut] ★ 1/5 (v18.7.0) — Capcut used to be a fantastic video editing app. Now it’s just obnoxious with the ads. It was good - but not good enough to pay for. And now with the barrage of ads, it’s just garbage.”

“[CapCut] ★★ 2/5 (v18.7.0) — I loved CapCut but now almost everything that was once useful and free now is a pro feature…. BILLS CANT BE THAT HIGH CAPCUT”

“[CapCut] ★ 1/5 (v18.7.0) — It just got rid of my standard for no reason when it said it will expire in october 2026,Capcut please fix this”

“[CapCut] ★★ 2/5 (v18.7.0) — It won't let me start recording or actually make something unless it's using a pre made video. Unless I try to do it in a .3 second frame. Plus, most people just use it as a fake TikTok. The reporting system sucks and you can report a super inappropriate video and it says it's fine. Some buttons don't work, but overall okay if you're willing to skip templates.”