Low-frequency vibration cutting is a new kind of advanced manufacturing process with several features of advantages, compared with conventional cutting operation. Based on the review of the history of low-frequency vibration cutting, its special technological effects and applications were discussed, and presented in detail the research progress in mechanism and experiment study on low-frequency vibration cutting. Three primary problems, lack of unified awareness of mechanism, establishment of a unified standard for the choice of certain parameters, application level, still in expertise for low-frequency vibration cutting were explored and the development tendency as well as the prospect of low-frequency vibration cutting in future was foreseen.