A good private video editor is hard to find—especially when you want it to work across all of your devices. Yes, there are lots of decent video editors, including Microsoft’s Clipchamp tool and Apple’s iMovie app. But Clipchamp is one of many modern video-editing tools that requires you to sign in with an account and upload your videos to a company’s servers. And iMovie, of course, is limited to working only on Apple’s own products.

I’ve been looking for a free web-based video editor that is completely private, compatible everywhere, and available to use without any sign-in or account-creating requirement. Now, I’ve found one that fits the bill.

It’s named Wide.video, and it runs in your web browser, which means it works on whatever computer you happen to be using: Windows PC, Chromebook, Mac, Linux, or whatever else you might prefer.

But, while it runs in your web browser and is technically a web app, it does all the work on your computer. You don’t have to sign up for an account, you don’t have to install anything, and you don’t have to upload your private videos to any company’s servers. And while it’s free, it doesn’t even have ads.

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Video editing, without the asterisks

First things first: You’ll need Chrome or another Chromium-based browser like Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, or Opera to use this tool. Wide.video doesn’t work in Firefox, as Firefox doesn’t support some features it requires. Additionally, this is the kind of app that needs a big screen, so it won’t work well on a phone. Save this one for your laptop or desktop computer.