★ Main event · available now ★

Shattercut

The video player. Opens anything, starts instantly, tracks nothing — zero dependencies, zero network calls, one small binary. Undefeated against bloat.

Official weigh-in — Shattercut v1.4.9

319 KBOn disk

0Dependencies

0Network calls

92 MBRAM, playing 1080p

★ Take it home ★

Get Shattercut

One small binary that plays your files and does nothing else. No library to build, no account to make, no "experience" to sit through — drop a file on it and it's playing. Delete it and it's gone without a trace.

319 KB · Windows

Install for Windows Portable EXE

Shattercut v1.4.9 · 64-bit Windows · signed · managed updates

75 KB · Android Download for Android

Shattercut for Android v0.2.16 · Android 8+ · signed APK

323 KB · iPhone & iPad

Install on iPhone

Shattercut for iOS v1.4.11 (build 153) · iOS 16+ · Ad Hoc, registered devices only · experimental

Want to burn the drive space and set your memory on fire? Get the Electron edition. Same Shattercut, same workload — published so you can verify we are not making this up.

Download Electron edition (ZIP)

Shattercut Electron v0.1.4 · Windows x64 · signed · 115.5 MB download · 275.5 MB unpacked

★ The numbers ★

Tale of the tape

Native Shattercut against its feature-equivalent Electron twin. Run the proof yourself.

Download the Electron proof build v0.1.2 · Windows x64 · 115.5 MB download

Shattercut

Red corner

vs.

Typical Electron app

Blue corner

319 KB

Weight on disk

312 MBChromium ships in every box

204 MB

Memory, playing 4K

1.2 GBrenderer + GPU process

Third-party dependencies

1 browserChromium in a trench coat

Network requests at idle

Dozensupdate checks and telemetry

90 ms

Cold start to a usable window

4.2 ssplash screen included

None

Data collected

Unknowablethe privacy policy is 40 pages

Measured on an ordinary desktop. No contest.

★ Fighting weight ★

Small is a feature

The Hoover Dam intake-tower monument — a five-story Art Deco tower whose marble panel lists Flood Control, Navigation, Irrigation, Water Storage, and Power.

Smaller than (this picture of) the Hoover Dam

It took a five-story marble monument to enumerate the dam's five features — Flood Control, Navigation, Irrigation, Water Storage, Power. Shattercut ships its one feature — it cuts video — in 319 KB, no monument required. The photo straight off the camera was 821 KB — larger than the entire app — so we squashed it to 55 KB on principle.

Lighter than the tab you'd watch it in

Shattercut plays a full movie in less memory than a browser tab spends showing you a login page.

Quieter than airplane mode

There is no network code in the binary — on Windows or Android. Nothing can send telemetry, because nothing can send anything. Your files never leave your machine.