FilmCraft-android is an open-source reimplementation of the Adobe Premiere Android app, created using the same Rust engine, FilmCraft, as the desktop app, and built with a Kotlin/Jetpack Compose UI framework.
Many credits to the original maintainers, storytold.
Editing · Filters & transitions · Text · Captions & speech · Export & Home · Sideways · Planned features · Building
The editor: the preview, the transport row, a timeline with lanes for captions, text and sound, and the tools.
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| A clip selected: split, delete, retime, audio, filters, effects and more | Speed, from 0.1× to 10× |
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| 31 filters, previewed on the clip | 50 transitions, every tile animated |
Text: presets, the phone's fonts, colours and layout.
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| Captions, made on the phone | Text to speech, with built-in and natural voices |
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| Export at 720p, 1080p or 4K, 24 to 60 fps | Home: four ways to start, then your projects |
Sideways, the preview sits beside the timeline.
FilmCraft for Android is in beta.
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| Projects from the photo library, files or blank; open shared videos; autosave; rename, duplicate, delete | ✅ |
| The timeline: trim, move, reorder, split, delete, duplicate, replace, undo and redo; pinch to zoom | ✅ |
| Speed (0.1–10×, the sound keeps its pitch), freeze frame, volume, fades, extract audio, voiceover | ✅ |
| 31 filters, 23 effects, opacity, mirror and flip; move, scale and turn on the preview | ✅ |
| 50 transitions, intro and outro, apply to all | ✅ |
| Text: presets, the phone's fonts, colours and layout | ✅ |
| Captions made on the phone (Whisper, downloaded once when you ask), edited and burned in | ✅ |
| Text to speech: two built-in voices and nine natural voices (Kokoro, downloaded once when you ask) | ✅ |
| 11 aspect ratios, blank clips | ✅ |
| Export at 720p, 1080p or 4K, 24 to 60 fps, saved to Movies and shared | ✅ |
| Upright and sideways layouts | ✅ |
| Stock music, templates | ⬜ |
| Generative AI, cloud storage, accounts | 🚫 FilmCraft is a local app |
✅ works today · 🚧 in progress · ⬜ not started · 🚫 not planned
One Gradle command builds the whole app: it compiles the Rust engine with cargo-ndk and generates the Kotlin bindings.
- Clone this repository
- Make sure you have at least 4 GB of free disk space
- enter
apps/filmcraft-android/androidand run./gradlew assembleRelease, or open that folder in Android Studio and press Run.
Build time dependencies:
required tools
rustup (it installs the Rust release and Android targets rust-toolchain.toml names)
cargo install cargo-ndk --version 4.1.2 --locked
Android SDK (API 37) and NDK 29.0.14206865
JDK 17 or newer
Builds are only tested on Windows 11.
MIT OR Apache-2.0, at your option. FilmCraft for Android is not affiliated with Adobe; Premiere is a trademark of Adobe Inc.
Try to use semantic commit
messages. Use feat: / fix: / chore: / docs: / etc.