Rushilo ships a $99 video editor that Claude Code and Codex drive

Rushilo, a desktop video editor that Claude Code and Codex drive, launched on Product Hunt on October 15 at a one-time $99.

The maker, Om Patel, announced it in a Product Hunt launch post, and the product's own site, rushilo.com, lists the same price and setup. The launch tracker Hunted.space records 71 upvotes and a 31st-place finish on the daily leaderboard.

Rushilo connects to Claude Code and Codex in a built-in agent panel, and to Claude Desktop, Cursor or any MCP client through a local MCP server. A creator selects a clip or a stretch of the timeline, types the edit, and the agent trims, splits, captions, cuts filler words, resizes or exports. Every change lands on a normal timeline that can be undone, one agent turn at a time.

The app is a desktop video and image editor for Mac and Windows. Patel built it after wanting the Claude Code subscription he already pays for to trim a clip, he wrote in the launch post.

The first public release, 1.0.0, shipped on October 11, 2026, per the maker's releases page. Three updates followed inside six days: 1.1.0 added Mac screen recording on October 12, 1.2.0 added a recordings library on October 13, and 1.3.0 added sound effects, speed ramps and a preflight check on October 17.

Rushilo ships no AI of its own. Captions run through Whisper on the machine after a one-time model download, and other jobs use the creator's own OpenAI, Groq, ElevenLabs or Google Gemini keys, kept in the system keychain. Projects and media stay on disk, and uploads go from the computer straight to YouTube after the app asks. Screen recording with auto zoom is Mac only.

"It kept bugging me that the smartest editor I had access to could refactor a codebase but couldn't trim a clip," Patel wrote in the launch post.

For a creator who already pays for a coding agent, Rushilo turns that subscription into an editing tool with no per-edit credits, if the agent handles the cuts well enough to keep.

Rushilo is available now for macOS and Windows at $99 once for up to three computers, with updates included; the agent or API usage is billed separately by the provider.