# Lazycut

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Lazycut and 4 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Simple terminal video trimmer that wraps a single FFmpeg call, useful for automation. Critics say it lacks audio support.

## Why people recommend it

- Pipes well into automation workflows (1 comments): "The moment you can pipe it into other commands, it becomes much more useful in automation workflows." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47404384))
- Simple wrapper around FFmpeg CLI (1 comments): "there's just a single call to FFmpeg CLI to power the whole thing which is amazing" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47403549))

## What people warn about

- Does not solve the accessibility issue (2 comments): "the tool above doesn't seem to make this any more accessible either according to the sibling comment" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47407765)) "I don't think this program will solve that issue either?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47407133))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Kdenlive](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kdenlive.md): 56 recommend
- [Final Cut Pro](https://hackerapproved.com/p/final-cut-pro.md): 25 recommend
- [Mosaic agentic video editing](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mosaic-agentic-video-editing.md): 25 recommend
- [OpenShot Video Editor](https://hackerapproved.com/p/openshot.md): 25 recommend
- [Cardboard video editor](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cardboard-agentic-video-editor.md): 22 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Lazycut", https://hackerapproved.com/p/lazycut/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).