Closed beta

Edit like Descript, without the meter. Test it first.

Cut your video by deleting words from the transcript, with no media-minute meter and nothing that has to be uploaded. Rooster is in closed beta and not on sale yet, and we are looking for about thirty solo creators and podcasters to use it free for about four weeks on something they were going to make anyway. See it through and you get a lifetime licence for $49.

The beta

Who it is for

You make talking-head video, podcast episodes or clips on a Mac, and you have something you mean to publish in the next month. Rooster needs an Apple silicon Mac running macOS 26 or later; the system requirements have the details.

What we ask

Make one real project in Rooster - recorded or imported, cut, captioned and exported - and publish it wherever your work goes.
Tell us what goes wrong as it happens, with Send Feedback in Rooster’s Help menu or by email.
A 20-minute setup call with Peter in your first week, to get your first project going and show you the quickest ways to cut. Your footage stays on your Mac - share your screen only if you want to.

What you get

Rooster, free for the beta, with fixes arriving as updates inside the app.
If you do all three things above, a lifetime licence for $49 as a thank-you when licences go on sale, against the planned $249 list price. It is the same licence the pricing page describes, one per tester, and the offer is for this beta’s testers only.

Apply

Your application goes to the Rooster support inbox and nowhere else. It is used to choose testers and to reply to you, and it is not added to the launch waitlist or any other list. The privacy policy has the details.