Alternatives to LosslessCut
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. LosslessCut itself: install LosslessCut.
DevToys
A Swiss Army knife for developers
QuickLook Video
Finder Thumbnails, Quick Look previews, Get Info metadata and previews for most types of audio and video files
bedtools
bedtools - the swiss army knife for genome arithmetic
pipet
Swiss-army tool for scraping and extracting data from online assets, made for hackers
LosslessSwitcher
Automated Apple Music Lossless Sample Rate Switching for Audio Devices on Macs
video-compare
Split-screen video comparison tool using FFmpeg and SDL2
Recordly
Create polished demo videos without editing skills. Mac/Windows/Linux
FineTune
FineTune, a macOS menu bar app for per-app volume control, multi-device output, audio routing, and 10-band EQ. Free and open-source alternative to Sou
libvmaf
Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion
Yattee
Privacy oriented video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS
rtaudio
A set of C++ classes that provide a common API for realtime audio input/output across Linux (native ALSA, JACK, PulseAudio and OSS), Macintosh OS X (C
Aural Player
(Archived) An audio file player for macOS, inspired by Winamp
scrcpy
Display and control your Android device
go
The Go programming language
node
Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨
rust
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software
typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output
openai-whisper
Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
deno
A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript
neovim
Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
nvm
Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions
uv
An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust
Syncthing
Open Source Continuous File Synchronization
ripgrep
ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than LosslessCut — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
LosslessCut is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.