# BlitzCut AI

Aiolum story: https://aiolum.com/story/blitzcut-ai/ · added 2026-10-27 · updated 2026-10-27

**In short.** BlitzCut AI (Phone and Mac app that edits talking-head videos with AI: silence removal, captions from speech, editing by transcript and by chat, Lithuania): US$2.0K MRR, October 2026. Evidence grade A: disclosed by a company or a filing, or verified by a payment processor. Team: 1 named developer, Tomas Radionovas, who answers App Store reviews in the first person; headcount not published. Launched 29 October 2025; still running, revenue growing.

Phone and Mac app that edits talking-head videos with AI: silence removal, captions from speech, editing by transcript and by chat · Lithuania · AI-native · solo founder · still running, revenue growing · group: Video generation

- Outcome: US$2.0K MRR, October 2026 (evidence grade of the headline number: A; headline in US dollars: 24108)
- Launch: 29 October 2025; months from launch to the outcome: 12
- Team: 1 named developer, Tomas Radionovas, who answers App Store reviews in the first person; headcount not published
- Outside funding: None reported
- Main factor: Niche
- Meters, 1 to 4: evidence strength 3, copyable pattern 2, capital needed 1
- Tags: AI-native, Solo founder, Bootstrapped, Running, B2C, Video editing

**The product.** An app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android that edits videos of one person talking to the camera. It cuts out pauses automatically, writes styled captions from the speech, lets the user delete words in the transcript to cut the matching video, and, since June 2026, edits the video from instructions typed in a chat. It also makes AI voiceovers from text and animated graphics from what is said. Weekly, monthly and yearly plans are sold in the app stores and on the website, and lifetime plans in the App Store.

**Why it worked.** Editing a spoken video is mostly repetitive work: finding the pauses, cutting retakes and typing captions. BlitzCut does these steps automatically on the phone where the video was recorded. One developer ships often: the App Store shows 25 versions from 28 March to 6 October 2026, and the developer answers user reviews personally.

Evidence grades: A = disclosed by a public company, a filing or a payment processor, or verified by one; B = two or more independent reports agree, or a journalist confirmed it; C = a founder claim that no one else verified; D = reported, not verified: one founder claim or a third-party estimate with no second source; calc = computed on this page from graded facts.

## Summary

BlitzCut is a video editor for talking-head videos, videos in which one person speaks to the camera, such as TikTok clips, tutorials, podcasts and webinars. Its main tools are silence removal, which finds the quiet parts of the sound track and cuts them out, captions written by speech recognition, software that turns spoken words into text, and text-based editing: the app shows the transcript of the video, and when the user deletes a sentence in the text, the matching part of the video is cut. The App Store name is "Video Splitter - BlitzCut AI".

Tomas Radionovas is the seller of the app on the App Store and the author of the company blog. The privacy policy names MB Patikimas Kodas, a company in Lithuania that does business as BlitzCut; the App Store copyright line says HonestCode. The app was released on 29 October 2025. TrustMRR, a site that reads a startup's revenue from its payment provider through an API key, reads this app's sales from RevenueCat, a service that records in-app subscription purchases. On 27 October 2026 it showed MRR, monthly recurring revenue, in which a yearly plan counts as one twelfth of its price, of US$2,009 from 195 active subscriptions, US$2,437 of revenue in the last 30 days and US$15,556 since the first payment in December 2025.

The revenue figures are grade A: two different sites, TrustMRR and whatsthe.app, read them from the same RevenueCat account on two dates. On 1 October 2026 whatsthe.app showed MRR of US$1,785 and US$2,676 of revenue in 28 days. The MRR is just above this site's money floor of US$2,000 a month. The page also shows four earlier companies that sold easier or automatic video editing and failed.

## Pricing

BlitzCut plans in US dollars, from the web pricing page and the US App Store, read 27 October 2026 (grade C)

| Plan | Per month, billed yearly (US$) | Per month, billed monthly (US$) | Limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 0 | 0 | Free download and a 3-day trial; without a plan, silence removal is limited, long-form export is locked and videos carry a watermark |
| Weekly |  |  | US$6.99 a week (about US$30.29 a month); no AI credits |
| Monthly |  | 16.99 | 20 AI credits a month |
| Yearly | 5.83 |  | US$69.99 a year; 80 AI credits a year |
| Lifetime | 129.99 one-time |  | App Store only; a Lifetime deal is also listed at US$99.99 |

The web pricing page sells the weekly, monthly and yearly plans through Stripe Managed Payments; the buyer then logs in to the app with the same email. Prices differ in 172 countries and regions. The lifetime plans are listed only on the App Store. Apple also lists purchases named Starter (US$1.99), Standard (US$6.99), Pro (US$17.99) and Annual Promo (US$69.99) without saying what they contain; whatsthe.app shows lower prices for the same names. AI features use credits: the monthly plan includes 20 a month, the yearly plan 80 a year and the weekly plan none. The per-month values are calculated: US$6.99 times 52 divided by 12 is about US$30.29, and US$69.99 divided by 12 is about US$5.83, as the pricing page also shows.

## How much revenue does BlitzCut AI make? The numbers, graded

US$2,009 of RevenueCat-verified MRR twelve months after the release of a talking-head video editor sold by one developer

| Fact | Value | Grade | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly recurring revenue (MRR), 27 October 2026 | US$2,009 | A | TrustMRR's metric snapshot, read from RevenueCat through an API key; revenue last synced at 03:01 UTC on 27 October 2026. TrustMRR shows MRR growth over 30 days of 0.0%. | [1] |
| Run rate from the October 2026 MRR | about US$24,108 a year | calc | Calculated: US$2,009 times 12. | [1] |
| Revenue in the last 30 days, to 27 October 2026 | US$2,437 | A | TrustMRR. It shows a change of -21.1% against the 30 days before. Calculated: 1.21 times the MRR; yearly and lifetime plans are paid at once, so monthly cash differs from MRR. | [1] |
| Revenue since the first payment | US$15,556 | A | TrustMRR, all time and last 12 months. The first month with revenue is December 2025, with US$25. | [1] |
| Active subscriptions, 27 October 2026 | 195 | A | TrustMRR. Calculated: about US$10.30 of MRR per active subscription. | [1] |
| Monthly revenue, 2026 | January US$111; April US$1,775; July US$2,338; September US$2,897; October to the 27th US$2,279 | A | TrustMRR's monthly timeline. September 2026 is the best month so far. | [1] |
| Revenue growth, July to September 2026 against April to June 2026 | +42.5% | calc | Calculated from TrustMRR's monthly timeline: US$7,086 against US$4,971. | [1] |
| MRR, 1 October 2026 | US$1,785 | A | whatsthe.app, read through RevenueCat, last updated at 10:30 UTC on 1 October 2026; after that date whatsthe.app shows "RevenueCat API key expired". MRR growth over 28 days: +6.0%. | [2] |
| Revenue in the last 28 days, to 1 October 2026 | US$2,676 | A | whatsthe.app, with revenue growth over 28 days of +55.2%. The page data also shows 172 active subscriptions, 19 active trials and 1,740 active users. | [2] |
| MRR change from 1 to 27 October 2026 | +12.5% | calc | Calculated: US$2,009 (TrustMRR) divided by US$1,785 (whatsthe.app). Both read the same RevenueCat account, but they may count MRR in slightly different ways. | [1, 2] |
| Downloads | about 1,440 in 28 days to 1 October 2026, iOS and Android | B | Store figure shown by whatsthe.app. The home page says "10,000+ downloads" (grade C). | [2, 5] |
| Developer and seller | Tomas Radionovas | B | Apple's page names Tomas Radionovas as developer and seller, and the blog's articles carry the byline Tomas Radionovas. | [3, 12] |
| Company | MB Patikimas Kodas, doing business as BlitzCut, Lithuania | C | The privacy policy, last updated 5 October 2025. The App Store copyright line reads "Copyright © HonestCode 2025"; TrustMRR and whatsthe.app show the founder account HonestCode (@HonestCodelol on X). | [11, 3, 1] |
| Team | headcount not published | C | The developer answers reviews in the first person: "I give trials to people on both weekly and yearly plans". The blog writes "BlitzCut is our app". No source gives a headcount or mentions employees. | [3, 12] |
| Outside funding | none reported | C | No source mentions investors. The About page says the product was founded in 2024. | [10] |
| Release on the App Store | 29 October 2025 | B | The iOS release date that whatsthe.app shows from the store data. | [2] |
| Where the AI comes from | third-party AI providers, including OpenAI; silence removal runs on the device | C | The privacy policy: "We provide the AI Products through third-party service providers ("AI Service Providers"), including OpenAI." The home page: "On-device silence removal". The text-to-speech page says voice generation needs an internet connection. No source names a model. | [11, 5, 9] |
| Ratings | 21 ratings, average 4.4 of 5 on the US App Store; 50 App Store ratings in 11 countries, average 4.2 | B | Apple's US page on 27 October 2026, and whatsthe.app's count of store ratings. The home page's structured data claims 80 ratings at 4.3; no source shows where the other 30 come from. | [3, 2, 5] |
| Age rating | 4+ | B | Apple's page. The privacy policy says the company does not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18. | [3, 11] |
| Time from release to the October 2026 figure | 12 months | calc | Calculated: 29 October 2025 to 27 October 2026 is 363 days. | [1, 2] |

How to read this table: a grade A value was read by TrustMRR or whatsthe.app from the app's RevenueCat account through an API key. A grade B value is a record that Apple shows on the App Store. A grade C value was written by the company on its website, in its privacy policy or in the app's store text. A "calc" value was computed on this page from the rows above it.

## When did BlitzCut AI launch, and how did it grow? Timeline

From the App Store release to US$2,009 of MRR in twelve months. Each entry carries its grade.

- **2024** (grade C [10]): The About page gives 2024 as the year BlitzCut AI was founded.
- **5 October 2025** (grade C [11]): Date of the privacy policy of MB Patikimas Kodas, doing business as BlitzCut.
- **29 October 2025** (grade B [2]): The app is released on the App Store.
- **15 November 2025** (grade B [4, 5]): A five-star review on the Lithuanian App Store: "I like how the autocut is so accurate". The home page later quotes it.
- **December 2025** (grade A [1]): First month with revenue in TrustMRR's timeline: US$25.
- **28 March 2026** (grade B [3]): Version 1.10 makes the transcript easier to edit, separates subtitles from the transcript and adds new languages.
- **7 April 2026** (grade B [3]): Version 1.11 adds live translation of the transcript for captions in other languages.
- **April 2026** (grade A [1]): Monthly revenue rises to US$1,775, from US$657 in March.
- **2 May 2026** (grade B [3]): Version 1.15 adds iCloud sync of projects between the Mac and iOS apps.
- **12 June 2026** (grade B [3]): Version 1.17 adds AI editing by chat: the user describes an edit, and the AI cuts, zooms and adds sound effects based on the transcription. It also adds a login.
- **9 July 2026** (grade B [3]): Version 1.19 adds background replacement and 20 caption templates.
- **September 2026** (grade A [1]): Best month so far: US$2,897 of revenue.
- **1 October 2026** (grade A [2]): Last whatsthe.app update: MRR of US$1,785 and US$2,676 in 28 days; then the API key that whatsthe.app uses expires.
- **6 October 2026** (grade B [3]): Version 1.22 adds AI motion graphics made from a description, and updated AI editing models.
- **27 October 2026** (grade A [1]): TrustMRR shows MRR of US$2,009 from 195 active subscriptions and US$15,556 since the start.

## Why did BlitzCut AI work?

### Automate the dull part of spoken video

Most of the work in editing a talking-head video is removing pauses, filler words and retakes, then typing captions. BlitzCut does the pause removal on the device and the captions by speech recognition, and the user then edits the text instead of the timeline. The blog gives one example: on a 16:50 recording the app found 66 speech segments and removed 182.7 seconds of silence.

### Rented AI, limited by credits

The privacy policy says the AI features run through outside providers, including OpenAI. The heavier AI features use credits: 20 a month on the monthly plan, 80 a year on the yearly plan and none on the weekly plan. This keeps the cost of a cheap plan below its price.

### Short plans with a trial and a paywall

The app offers a 3-day trial and a weekly plan at US$6.99, plus yearly and lifetime plans. One US review from July 2026 complains that a paywall appears after a few screens, and another that the price is too high for the app. Because yearly and lifetime plans are paid at once, revenue in a month differs from MRR: TrustMRR shows US$2,437 in 30 days against US$2,009 of MRR.

### Pages for every kind of speaker

The sitemap of 27 October 2026 lists 407 pages: about 270 blog pages, 15 free tools, 60 pages in Spanish, pages for lawyers, churches, financial advisors and real estate agents, and comparisons with CapCut, Descript, Opus Clip and TimeBolt. No source says how many customers came from these pages.

### One app on several devices

The same purchase works on iPhone, iPad and Mac, projects sync through iCloud since May 2026, and an Android version is on Google Play. A buyer can also pay on the website and log in to the app with the same email.

## How it was built

These details come from the App Store page (grade B), the company's website and privacy policy (grade C), and TrustMRR (grade A for the payment provider).

- A native app for iPhone and iPad (iOS 18 or later), Mac with an Apple M1 chip or later, and Apple Vision, 181.9 MB, in English and 34 more languages. An Android version is on Google Play.
- Silence removal runs on the device. The AI features use outside AI providers, including OpenAI according to the privacy policy, and the text-to-speech page says voice generation needs an internet connection. No source says which feature uses which provider or model.
- RevenueCat records the subscriptions; TrustMRR and whatsthe.app read the revenue from it through API keys. The Apple App Store and Google Play take the in-app payments.
- The website sells the weekly, monthly and yearly plans through Stripe Managed Payments, with Link for checkout and receipts.
- Projects sync between devices through iCloud since version 1.15 in May 2026; a login was added in version 1.17 in June 2026.

Sources: [3, 11, 5, 1, 6]

## Who tried this before BlitzCut AI, and why did they fail?

Four companies in the Loot Drop database sold easier or automatic video editing before speech recognition and language models could cut a video from its words. The values below are from that database and are not independently verified.

The failed startups come from Loot Drop (https://www.loot-drop.io/), a free database of dead startups, retold here in our own words; Loot Drop describes its entries as AI-assisted summaries of public sources, so they carry no evidence grade.

### HighlightCam (2009 to 2012; funding US$500K; cause: Competition)

- Promise: An algorithm that analysed raw video and picked the most engaging moments, so users made polished videos without editing skills.
- Why it died: Smartphones and consumer editing software such as iMovie made editing easier, the established products added similar features, and the market adopted automated editing slowly.
- Record: https://www.loot-drop.io/startup/1636-highlightcam

### ReelSurfer (2012 to 2015; funding US$1.25M; cause: Competition)

- Promise: A simple desktop tool to cut and share short clips from online videos.
- Why it died: YouTube and Facebook built the same features into their platforms, and mobile-first apps took the users of a desktop tool.
- Record: https://www.loot-drop.io/startup/1577-reelsurfer

### Viddy (2011 to 2014; funding US$30M; cause: Competition)

- Promise: Filters and effects that made amateur phone videos look polished and easy to share.
- Why it died: Users tried it once and did not return, and Instagram added video in June 2013 for its existing users.
- Record: https://www.loot-drop.io/startup/2190-viddy

### ClearMix (2020 to 2023; funding US$2M; cause: Competition)

- Promise: Professional marketing videos made quickly and cheaply by a network of videographers and editors.
- Why it died: Canva and Adobe expanded into video, AI editing tools automated much of its manual work, and the freelance network was costly to scale.
- Record: https://www.loot-drop.io/startup/1336-clearmix

## What changed

HighlightCam tried to choose the good moments in a video with an algorithm, and ClearMix paid people to edit. Neither could read what the speaker said. ReelSurfer and Viddy made editing simpler, but larger platforms copied the features. The four companies raised between US$500,000 and US$30 million, and all of them closed.

Speech recognition and language models turn a spoken video into text that a program can edit. BlitzCut cuts pauses on the phone, rents the AI for captions and chat editing, and sells the result to people who record themselves. One developer reached US$2,009 of MRR in twelve months, according to TrustMRR. The ReelSurfer risk remains: CapCut, Descript and the phone makers can add the same tools, and the App Store already lists several similar silence-removal apps.

## Can one person copy BlitzCut AI now?

**Verdict: Yes, for a developer who can ship a native video editor.**

Silence removal, captions and transcript editing are now standard features that many apps sell, so the method is easy to copy but the market is crowded. BlitzCut shows that one developer can reach about US$2,000 of MRR with frequent releases, plans for every device and many search pages, but the figures also show how small a single app in this category can stay.

1. Pick one kind of video, such as a person talking to the camera, and automate the steps that every such video needs.
2. Run the cheap steps on the device and limit the costly AI steps with credits, so that a weekly plan cannot cost more than it brings.
3. Sell one purchase across phone, tablet and computer, and add a web checkout next to the app stores.
4. Connect the RevenueCat account to a verification site, so that a buyer or partner can check the figures.

**What is still open.** Editors for one profession whose videos follow fixed rules, such as legal or medical explainers that need exact captions, or editors for languages that the large apps caption poorly.

## What could go wrong for BlitzCut AI?

- **Just above the money floor.** The MRR of US$2,009 on 27 October 2026 is only 0.45% above this site's floor of US$2,000 a month. TrustMRR shows revenue in the last 30 days 21.1% lower than in the 30 days before, and US$0 on 26 October 2026. whatsthe.app stopped updating on 1 October 2026, when its RevenueCat API key expired.
- **Ratings and the reviews on the home page.** The home page quotes three five-star reviews as "Real reviews from the App Store". All three exist on the Lithuanian App Store, which shows 4 ratings, in the country of the developer's company; no source says who wrote them. The home page's structured data claims 80 ratings at an average of 4.3, while whatsthe.app counts 50 App Store ratings at 4.2 and Apple's US page shows 21 at 4.4. Two US reviews from July 2026 complain about a "hard paywall" and a design that "looks gimmicky".
- **UGC and testimonial pages.** The website sells editing for "UGC & creator ads" and "Customer testimonials", and the app's old App Store address used the words "talking videos". The pages say the app edits "genuine creator footage you supply" and answer: "It does not generate an avatar performance or invent a customer's experience." The text-to-speech voices are chosen from a library of AI voices. No page sells an AI person on camera, so the 26 October 2026 rule on AI avatars that pose as customers does not apply.
- **Privacy label.** Apple's privacy label says that purchases, coarse location, identifiers, usage and diagnostics data may be used to track users across other companies' apps and websites, including for third-party advertising. The privacy policy says user input is shared with AI providers, including OpenAI. Apple notes that it has not verified the label.
- **The developer's other app.** The App Store lists one other app by Tomas Radionovas: "Posture Reminder: Stifix AI", with the subtitle "Neck & Back Pain Relief". BlitzCut's own pages do not link to it. This story is about BlitzCut only.
- **A crowded category.** Apple lists many similar apps next to BlitzCut, such as Jumpcut, Primecut and JumpCut AI, and the website compares BlitzCut with CapCut, Descript, Opus Clip, Submagic and VEED. Silence removal and auto captions are features that a larger editor can add at any time.

## Sources

1. TrustMRR: BlitzCut, markdown profile, revenue synced 27 October 2026 — https://trustmrr.com/startup/blitzcut.md (grade A). Read the markdown profile. The revenue table, daily and monthly revenue, MRR and active subscriptions come from RevenueCat through an API key (Verification Sources section); the description is founder-written.
2. whatsthe.app listing: BlitzCut, read 27 October 2026 — https://www.whatsthe.app/com.honestcode.silcut (grade A). Read in full, including the data embedded in the page. The revenue and subscription metrics were read through RevenueCat, last updated on 1 October 2026; the release date, store ratings and downloads come from the store data.
3. Video Splitter - BlitzCut AI on the US App Store, read 27 October 2026 — https://apps.apple.com/us/app/video-splitter-blitzcut-ai/id6752514828 (grade B). Read in full: description, in-app purchases, version history, reviews and replies, privacy label, age rating, seller, copyright line and other apps of the developer. The seller, dates, ratings and age rating are Apple's records; the description and release notes are written by the developer.
4. Video Splitter - BlitzCut AI, Ratings and Reviews on the Lithuanian App Store, read 27 October 2026 — https://apps.apple.com/lt/app/video-splitter-blitzcut-ai/id6752514828?see-all=reviews (grade B). Read in full. Used to check that the three reviews quoted on the home page exist.
5. BlitzCut home page, read 27 October 2026 — https://blitzcutai.com/ (grade C). Read in full, including the structured data. Source for the features, the on-device silence removal, the quoted reviews and the rating claim.
6. BlitzCut pricing page, read 27 October 2026 — https://blitzcutai.com/pricing (grade C). Read in full. Source for the web prices, the AI credits and the Stripe Managed Payments checkout.
7. BlitzCut: UGC video editor for real footage and ad variants, read 27 October 2026 — https://blitzcutai.com/ugc-video-editor (grade C). Read in full. Checked for AI avatars or invented customers.
8. BlitzCut: A testimonial video editor for real customer stories, read 27 October 2026 — https://blitzcutai.com/testimonial-video-editor (grade C). Read in full. Checked for AI avatars or invented customers.
9. BlitzCut: Text to Speech, read 27 October 2026 — https://blitzcutai.com/text-to-speech (grade C). Read in full. Source for the library of AI voices and the need for an internet connection.
10. About BlitzCut AI, read 27 October 2026 — https://blitzcutai.com/about (grade C). Read in full. Source for the founding year and the platforms.
11. BlitzCut Privacy Policy, last updated 5 October 2025 — https://blitzcutai.com/privacy-policy (grade C). Read the sections on the company, AI products, minors and contact. Source for the company name, the country and OpenAI as an AI provider. The postal address is not repeated here.
12. Tomas Radionovas, BlitzCut blog: Best App to Remove Silence From Video (2026), 10 March 2026, updated 25 October 2026 — https://blitzcutai.com/blog/best-app-remove-silence-from-video (grade C). Read in full. Source for the byline, the "BlitzCut is our app" disclosure and the 16:50 recording example.
13. BlitzCut sitemap, read 27 October 2026 — https://blitzcutai.com/sitemap.xml (grade C). Read in full and counted. Source for the number of blog, tool, profession and comparison pages.
14. Loot Drop database export, 1,749 failed startups — https://www.loot-drop.io/ (grade C). Local export. AI-written summaries, not independently verified. Source for the failed predecessors.