Open-source alternatives to Adobe Premiere Pro

4 alternatives, ranked by a published maintenance score computed from live GitHub signals (fetched 2026-09-04). We flag unmaintained projects on both sides — including Adobe Premiere Pro itself when the data says so.

About Adobe Premiere Pro: Proprietary, subscription-only video editor. It is closed-source, so the same public maintenance signals do not exist for it — we score only the alternatives below.

The alternatives

Kdenlive

87 /100 actively maintained

Full-featured non-linear video editor from KDE.

5,602 stars · last commit 2026-09-04 · latest release v26.08.0 (2026-08-21) · 0 open issues/PRs · GPL-3.0 · fetched 2026-09-04

Note: this is an official GitHub mirror of development hosted elsewhere; the star count understates the community.

How this 87/100 was computed

Last commit	today	40/40
Latest release	14 days ago	25/25
Community size	GitHub stars	12/15
Open-issue trend	not enough history yet — needs snapshots 21+ days apart; neutral 10/20 awarded meanwhile	10/20
Total		87/100

Shotcut

87 /100 actively maintained

Cross-platform video editor on the MLT framework.

15,078 stars · last commit 2026-09-03 · latest release v26.8.1 (2026-08-01) · 58 open issues/PRs · GPL-3.0 · fetched 2026-09-04

How this 87/100 was computed

Last commit	yesterday	40/40
Latest release	34 days ago	25/25
Community size	GitHub stars	12/15
Open-issue trend	not enough history yet — needs snapshots 21+ days apart; neutral 10/20 awarded meanwhile	10/20
Total		87/100

Flowblade

70 /100 maintained

Multitrack non-linear video editor for Linux.

3,089 stars · last commit 2026-06-23 · latest release v2.24.2 (2026-05-29) · 59 open issues/PRs · GPL-3.0 · fetched 2026-09-04

How this 70/100 was computed

Last commit	2 months ago	32/40
Latest release	3 months ago	19/25
Community size	GitHub stars	9/15
Open-issue trend	not enough history yet — needs snapshots 21+ days apart; neutral 10/20 awarded meanwhile	10/20
Total		70/100

Olive

31 /100 stagnant

Node-based video editor; promising but development has slowed.

Looks unmaintained since 2024-12-05 — Olive: no commits for over a year. Computed from its GitHub repository, not our opinion.

9,128 stars · last commit 2024-12-05 · latest release 0.2.0-nightly (2024-12-05) · 159 open issues/PRs · GPL-3.0 · fetched 2026-09-04

How this 31/100 was computed

Last commit	21 months ago	4/40
Latest release	21 months ago	5/25
Community size	GitHub stars	12/15
Open-issue trend	not enough history yet — needs snapshots 21+ days apart; neutral 10/20 awarded meanwhile	10/20
Total		31/100