PandaStudio is a desktop AI video editor for Mac and Windows with transcript editing and 30 recipes. 10 free exports, then $19/month or lifetime from $99.
Researched and fact-checked by Bartu Cavusoglu · Updated October 26, 2026
PandaStudio is a desktop video editor for macOS and Windows, built by WritePanda, a product of Sanklad Digital Ltd. It takes raw footage to a published video inside one app: recording, editing, captions, motion graphics, audio cleanup, export and publishing to YouTube or Instagram.
The project began as an internal tool for producing video content at the company's services arm. The team was paying for Claude and ChatGPT and did not want to pay again for an editor with a smaller bundled model, so it built one that uses the user's own AI account.
Users record their screen and camera, import existing footage or start from an idea. Recordings are transcribed on the user's computer, and deleting words from the transcript re-cuts the video. Fillers, repeated words, false starts and silences can be removed in one pass, and captions follow the corrected text.
A built-in AI agent applies edits from a plain-English message, such as cutting the rambling and adding captions. It runs on the user's own ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Kimi or MiniMax account. Every edit stays on a timeline that can be adjusted by hand.
The editor offers 30 edit recipes for Shorts and long-form video, ten animated caption styles, and a template library for lower thirds, stat reveals, chapter cards and comparison tables. Zooms follow clicks, and on-device tools handle background blur or removal, denoising and LUT color grading. Blur and spotlight tools hide or highlight parts of the frame.
Podcast features include remote recording with up to 3 guests, local tracks for each person and live streaming to several platforms at once. An AI clip maker finds strong moments and reframes them to 9:16. Titles, descriptions, chapters and thumbnails can be generated before publishing.
PandaStudio is a desktop AI video editor for macOS and Windows, made by WritePanda. It records, edits by transcript, adds captions and graphics, clips Shorts and publishes to YouTube or Instagram.
Pro Monthly costs $19/month. Lifetime licenses are Starter at $99, Creator at $199 and Team at $499, in USD. The site does not detail what differs between lifetime tiers.
Users can download PandaStudio free and get 10 free exports with no card required. After that, a paid plan or lifetime license is needed.
Yes. Every button is also an MCP and CLI command, so Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor, Cline and Continue can drive the editor. The built-in agent can also run on a user's own ChatGPT or Claude account.
The site states that recording, transcription and editing run on the user's computer. Remote podcast guests are recorded locally, not routed through a cloud. AI features call the user's own AI provider account.
Yes. It records remote podcasts with up to 3 guests from a browser link and can stream live to YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitch, X or custom RTMP. Audio exports as MP3, WAV or M4A.
It suits creators, podcasters, course makers and developers who already pay for an AI model and want a local editor. Small teams can use the Team lifetime license.
PandaStudio is built by WritePanda, a product of Sanklad Digital Ltd., a private limited company incorporated in England and Wales. The founder is Kamal Kannan and the company lists a 2025 founding year.