Rushly, the AutoCut alternative built around the rough cut.

AutoCut is a complete toolbox. Rushly does fewer things but takes the rough cut further: it keeps the best take, catches repeats and lets you review every cut, inside Premiere Pro.

The short answer

AutoCut is the broadest plugin: around ten tools, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, B-roll and chapters included. Rushly is narrower: six tools (AI Cleanup with best take and repeat detection, Smart Clips, Captions, Zooms, Audio and Multicam), in Premiere Pro only. Both place automatic zooms, and AutoCut's AutoZoom offers more triggers and styles. Pick AutoCut for the catalog or for DaVinci. Try Rushly if cleaning up talking footage is where your hours go.

Rushly vs AutoCut, feature by feature.

Rushly's features, one per row. Then three rows where AutoCut comes out ahead.

CriteriaRushlyAutoCut
AI Cleanup: best take and repeatsSilences, hesitations and bad takes in one pass. Keeps the most complete take, spots an idea repeated in other words, and you review every cutTwo tools: AutoCut Silences (audio threshold) and AutoCut Repeat, which detects repeated takes and helps you pick the best one
Smart Clips in the timelineStrongest moments scored, a hook in the first 3 seconds, vertical sequences built in your Premiere timelineAutoViral: short clips from the plugin
Native captions (Captions)Placed in your sequence as editable Premiere graphics, synced to the voice. Poster, Accent and Condensed presets, your own font, TikTok, Reels and Shorts safe zonesAnimated captions in 80+ languages, with translation
Automatic zoomsYes: zooms placed as Premiere effect layers on the strong words of your voice, removed in one clickYes: AutoZoom, with a choice of triggers, styles (Jump Cut, Smooth, Snap In) and adjustable speed and zoom range
Audio (noise reduction, mixing)Yes: your voices mixed in one gesture across the whole sequence, AI voice cleanupProfanity filter (bleep); no noise reduction tool in the list we checked
Podcast multicam100% local, no credits used, one mic per person. Preview of the cut plan, then a new sequence in secondsAutoCut Podcast and AutoCut Angles, in Premiere and DaVinci (at least two audio tracks)
Supported editorsPremiere Pro onlyPremiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, Free and Studio
Catalog sizeSix tools: AI Cleanup, Smart Clips, Captions, Zooms, Audio, MulticamAround ten tools, including B-roll, chapters, resizing and a profanity filter
Public reviewsYoung product, few public reviews so far4.8/5 on Trustpilot (331 reviews): by far the most reviews among these plugins

AutoCut features and reviews checked on October 16, 2026 (autocut.com and Trustpilot), plans and prices on October 19, 2026 (earlier check on October 7, 2026), and subject to change. Check their site.

Why editors switch from AutoCut to Rushly.

One cleanup, from silence to best take.

With AutoCut, silences and repeated takes are two separate tools. Rushly does it all in one pass: it cuts the gaps, removes hesitations, groups the takes of the same line and keeps the most complete one.

Repeats, even when you rephrase.

Rushly reads the meaning of the text, so an idea you repeated in other words gets caught. A second pass flags “to review” the passages a cut may have broken.

You review before anything is cut.

Every cut shows up in the review, with playback and the current word highlighted. You approve or undo, then Rushly applies. No surprises in your timeline.

AutoCut covers a lot. Rushly goes deep on the rough cut.

AutoCut is made by a small team in Tours, France. It bundles around ten tools for Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve: silences, repeated takes (AutoCut Repeat), animated captions with translation, auto zoom, podcast multicam, B-roll, viral clips, chapters, a profanity filter and resizing. It's a mature, very well-rated product.

Rushly makes a different bet: few features, and a rough cut that goes all the way. AI Cleanup removes silences, hesitations and bad takes in one pass, groups the takes of the same line to keep the most complete one, and spots an idea you said twice in different words. You review every cut before the sequence is built. The line-by-line detail is in Rushly vs AutoCut.

Around AI Cleanup, Rushly does five more things: Smart Clips (your strongest moments as vertical sequences, in your timeline), Captions placed as editable Premiere graphics, Zooms on the strong words of your voice, Audio that mixes your voices in one gesture, and podcast Multicam, run locally. On zooms, AutoCut's AutoZoom offers more triggers and styles.

To be fair

When AutoCut is still the right pick

Pick AutoCut if you want the widest catalog in a single plugin (B-roll, chapters, profanity filter, resizing, a more configurable AutoZoom), if you also edit in DaVinci Resolve, or if you want a tool with hundreds of public reviews behind it. AutoCut is a mature product with a 14-day trial and no card required. A very good tool, more generalist than Rushly.

Rushly or AutoCut, in plain terms.

Is Rushly a good AutoCut alternative?
Yes, if cleaning up talking footage takes most of your time. Rushly removes silences, hesitations and bad takes in one pass, keeps the best take and catches repeats, inside Premiere Pro. Its panel comes in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. AutoCut covers more ground (B-roll, chapters, AutoZoom styles) and also runs in DaVinci Resolve.
AutoCut Repeat or Rushly's AI Cleanup for repeated takes?
AutoCut Repeat detects repeated takes and helps you pick the best version: it does the job. Rushly adds the detection of an idea said again in different words and a coherence check, all in the same pass as the silences.
Does Rushly do automatic zooms or audio processing?
Yes, both, on every plan including the Free plan, and both use credits. Zooms are placed by rules on the word-by-word transcript (numbers, superlatives, calls to action, lists, contrasts) as Premiere effect layers you can remove in one click. Audio mixes your voices in one gesture to a loudness target, with an AI voice cleanup. AutoCut's AutoZoom offers more triggers and styles.
AutoCut or Rushly for a multicam podcast?
Both do it, with one mic per person. AutoCut Podcast works in Premiere and DaVinci. Rushly's Multicam runs locally, uses no credits, and shows you the cut plan before it builds a new sequence.
How much do AutoCut and Rushly cost?
On October 19, 2026, AutoCut's pricing page showed its prices in US dollars: Basic at $6.60 a month billed $79 a year (silences only), AI at $14.90 a month billed $178.80 a year (all tools), and Enterprise at $19.90 a month per licence. The price of the month-to-month plan with no commitment isn't shown. There is a 14-day trial with no card. Rushly has a permanent Free plan, then Plus and Max: current prices are on the pricing page.

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