A full editor,
with Ape inside.

Grapple is a video editor and compositor. Cut the edit, rotoscope and track, rig and animate, grade and export, all in one window. Ape, its AI agent, works in the same project and builds what you describe.

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Ape made that edit in Grapple.

This is the project behind it. The figure is a puppet with pins on its head, hands and feet, and the lorry has a puppet of its own.

Grapple with the project Ape made. History on the left lists Ape's steps, such as Add kick burst and motion blur, Animate figure and truck and Create truck puppet. The Viewer shows the figure from the sign covered in a mesh with pins, the Output viewer beside it shows the finished shot, the Timeline lists the layers, and the Inspector shows the Figure layer's Transform.

Everything from the first cut to the final grade.

Grapple has the tools of an editing app, a compositor and a motion design app on one Timeline, so a piece doesn't have to leave the project to be finished somewhere else.

Grapple with footage of a painted sign on a brick wall in the Viewer. Under the footage on the Timeline is a row for its tracker, and the Inspector's Tracking section shows Track points, Track plane, Plane 1 done, and Backward, Both and Forward.

Cut and trim

Ripple, roll, slip and slide, insert and overwrite, and transitions that stay on their cut while you trim.

Composite shots

Cut out a subject with one click, track a sign and pin a logo to it, or solve the camera and put a title in the scene.

Animate characters and graphics

Keys and the Graph, paths, chains, rigs and puppet pins, and springs and waves that move things without keys.

Work in 3D

Cameras, lights, and extruded text and shapes that cast shadows, in the same composition as your footage.

Sound and words

A transcript on the Timeline with captions linked to it, and markers from the music’s beats that keys and clips stay anchored to.

Grade and deliver

Wheels, curves and LUTs, colour managed through OpenColorIO, then H.264, HEVC, HDR or ProRes 4444 with transparency.

Roto, tracking and transcripts give you a first draft you can correct: paint a matte back where it slips, fix a misheard name, and tracking again never undoes a frame you fixed.

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Made for two pairs of hands.

Grapple was built from the start for you and an AI agent to work on one project. Brief Ape the way you’d brief an assistant editor or a motion designer. Give it the footage, a reference or a storyboard, and it builds the edit in your project, checking its own work as it goes.

Things you can ask for

Cut these travel clips to the drop, with a white bloom on every hit.

Make the man on the sign jump down and kick the lorry out of the shot.

Track the wall and put our poster on it.

Build a lower-third template with the name, role and colours as controls.

You can steer a run while it works, and your Ctrl+Z only ever undoes your own changes. When Ape finishes, the whole run is one row in History, with Undo run and a Before and After view.

Working with Ape

Made with Ape.

Drum and Dot is a 32-second motion piece Ape made in Grapple, in a halftone print look. Its ink colours and dot size are Controls, so you can retune the whole film while it plays.

Make the tool your week is missing.

Describe the tool you need and Ape builds it, using Grapple’s own tracking, roto, beats and transcripts. Grapple also comes with tools for the jobs editors and motion designers repeat every week, such as these.

Tighten pausesFinds the pauses in an interview and shortens them. You see each cut where it happens before anything changes.
Snap cuts to beatsMoves your cuts onto the nearest beats, and leaves the off-beat ones you meant.
Word-pop captionsCaptions from the transcript, a few words at a time, with the spoken word picked out in your brand’s style.
Place on surfaceDrop a layer onto a wall or a floor in a solved shot, and it stays there as the camera moves.
Duck music under voiceLowers the music whenever someone speaks. It stays live, so moving the dialogue moves the dip.
Arm rigRigs a character’s arm so you pose it by the hand, and leaves Controls to tune it.

Every tool works on the Viewer and the Timeline with its own handles, like one of Grapple’s own.

What Ape can build for you

Bring your own AI.

Ape runs on Claude Code or Codex with your Claude or ChatGPT plan, on an API key from the provider you like, or on a model on your own computer. Grapple isn’t tied to any one AI company, so you pick the model for each job.

No new AI bill

Switch whenever you like

A quick model for small changes, a stronger one for a whole sequence. The model is a choice in Ape’s chat, and your project doesn’t depend on it.

Pay as you go, or nothing at all

Use your own API key and pay the provider only for what you use, or run a model on your own computer and pay nothing per request.

Your other agents, too

Claude Code, Codex and your other AI agents can use Grapple through MCP.

More about models

A workspace for the shots you don’t have.

Create is the workspace inside Grapple for generating images, video, music, sound effects and voice with the models you connect.

Plan the shots on a storyboard you share with Ape, make the cutaway or the music bed you’re missing, and drag it onto the Timeline like anything you imported.

Explore Create

The Storyboard page in Create. An opening sequence called The first thirty seconds, with shots named Monolith at dawn, Warm light and The hand, each with a frame, a description and a timing row. — A storyboard in Create. Ape reads and edits it too.

Make your next video in Grapple.

Grapple is a one-time payment of $99. Buy it during the public preview and it’s 50% off: $49.50.

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A full editor, with Ape inside.