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          <span>
            <span class="name">Clips <span>Kitty</span></span>
            <span class="tagline">local-first AI clipping</span>
          </span>
        </a>
        <nav class="site" aria-label="Main">
          <a href="index.html">Home</a>
          <a href="twitch.html">Twitch</a>
          <a href="kick.html">Kick</a>
          <a href="youtube.html">YouTube</a>
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          <a href="sports.html">Sports</a>
          <a href="local-vs-cloud.html">Local vs cloud</a>
          <a href="alternatives.html" aria-current="page">Compare</a>
          <a href="opus-clip-alternative.html">vs Opus Clip</a>
          <a href="descript-alternative.html">vs Descript</a>
          <a href="roadmap.html">Roadmap</a>
          <a href="changelog.html">Changelog</a>
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          <a href="https://github.com/ColinGPT9/clips-studio" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">GitHub</a>
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          <span class="eyebrow">Clips Kitty vs everything else</span>
          <h1>The free clipping tool that still does the work for you</h1>
          <p class="lead">
            Every tool on this page turns a long video into short vertical clips. They split
            into two groups: the ones that are free but leave the finding and cropping to
            you, and the ones that do it for you and bill you monthly for it.
          </p>
          <p class="lead">
            Clips Kitty sits in neither. It does the finding, the vertical cropping and the
            captions, and it is free with no paid tier, because it runs on your own Windows
            PC instead of somebody else's servers. The trade is that you need that PC.
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              <p class="title">Clips Kitty is free &amp; open source ❤️</p>
              <p>
                It runs entirely on your PC with no fees. Please consider donating to help
                cover development costs and keep it free for everyone.
              </p>
            </div>
            <a class="btn btn-accent" href="https://paypal.me/clipsstudio" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Donate to Clips Kitty</a>
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      <section>
        <div class="wrap">
          <h2>The short version</h2>
          <p class="section-lead">
            If you have a Windows PC with a graphics card and you clip regularly, Clips Kitty
            costs nothing and nothing is metered. If you clip from a phone, a Mac or a
            borrowed laptop, one of the web tools below is the right answer and it is not
            close. If you would rather cut by hand and keep total control, CapCut is free and
            excellent at that.
          </p>
        </div>
      </section>

      <section>
        <div class="wrap">
          <h2>All seven compared, row by row</h2>
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              <thead>
                <tr>
                  <th>Tool</th>
                  <th>Price, billed monthly</th>
                  <th>Free tier</th>
                  <th>Finds the clips for you</th>
                  <th>Watermark</th>
                  <th>Uploads your video</th>
                  <th>Works offline</th>
                  <th>Open source</th>
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              <tbody>
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                  <td><strong>Clips Kitty</strong></td>
                  <td>Free. No paid tier.</td>
                  <td>The whole app.</td>
                  <td>Yes.</td>
                  <td>Never.</td>
                  <td>No. It reads the file where it sits.</td>
                  <td>Yes, after first-run setup.</td>
                  <td>Yes, AGPL-3.0.</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td><strong>Opus Clip</strong></td>
                  <td>$15 Starter, $29 Pro.</td>
                  <td>Yes, 1080p, watermarked, exports expire in 3 days.</td>
                  <td>Yes.</td>
                  <td>On the free tier.</td>
                  <td>Yes.</td>
                  <td>No.</td>
                  <td>No.</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td><strong>Klap</strong></td>
                  <td>$29 Pro. $14 Basic if billed yearly, 100 clips a month.</td>
                  <td>One video.</td>
                  <td>Yes.</td>
                  <td>Not stated on their pricing page.</td>
                  <td>Yes.</td>
                  <td>No.</td>
                  <td>No.</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td><strong>Vizard</strong></td>
                  <td>$29 Creator. $14.50 billed yearly.</td>
                  <td>Yes, 60 credits a month at 720p.</td>
                  <td>Yes.</td>
                  <td>On the free tier.</td>
                  <td>Yes.</td>
                  <td>No.</td>
                  <td>No.</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td><strong>quso.ai</strong></td>
                  <td>$29 Lite, $39 Essential, $49 Growth.</td>
                  <td>Yes, 75 credits a month at 720p.</td>
                  <td>Yes.</td>
                  <td>Not stated on their pricing page.</td>
                  <td>Yes.</td>
                  <td>No.</td>
                  <td>No.</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td><strong>Ssemble</strong></td>
                  <td>$15 Pro, $30 Expert, $60 Business. $6 to $24 billed yearly.</td>
                  <td>None listed.</td>
                  <td>Yes.</td>
                  <td>Not stated on their pricing page.</td>
                  <td>Yes.</td>
                  <td>No.</td>
                  <td>No.</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td><strong>Descript</strong></td>
                  <td>$16 Hobbyist, $24 Creator, $50 Business.</td>
                  <td>Yes, 60 minutes a month at 720p.</td>
                  <td>Partly. It is a transcript editor first.</td>
                  <td>On Free and Hobbyist.</td>
                  <td>Yes.</td>
                  <td>No.</td>
                  <td>No.</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td><strong>CapCut</strong></td>
                  <td>Free to use. Paid tiers at capcut.com.</td>
                  <td>Yes, the whole editor.</td>
                  <td><strong>No. You find and cut every clip yourself.</strong></td>
                  <td>Varies by feature.</td>
                  <td>No on the desktop app.</td>
                  <td>Yes on the desktop app.</td>
                  <td>No.</td>
                </tr>
              </tbody>
            </table>
          </div>
          <p class="note">
            Prices checked on 17 September 2026, each on that company's own pricing page:
            <a href="https://www.opus.pro/pricing" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">opus.pro</a>,
            <a href="https://klap.app/pricing" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">klap.app</a>,
            <a href="https://vizard.ai/pricing" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">vizard.ai</a>,
            <a href="https://quso.ai/pricing" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">quso.ai</a>,
            <a href="https://www.ssemble.com/pricing" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">ssemble.com</a>
            and
            <a href="https://www.descript.com/pricing" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">descript.com</a>.
            CapCut publishes no pricing page we could read, so no price is quoted for it here.
            Plans change and this table does not update itself. Only the columns above were
            checked: a blank is something we did not verify rather than something a tool
            lacks.
          </p>
        </div>
      </section>

      <section>
        <div class="wrap">
          <h2 id="capcut">CapCut: free, and you do the work</h2>
          <p>
            CapCut is the answer almost everyone gives when somebody asks for a free clipping
            tool, and it deserves it: the editor is good, it costs nothing to use, and the
            desktop version edits on your own machine. What it does not do is watch a two
            hour stream and hand you the moments worth posting. You scrub the timeline, find
            the moments, cut them, crop them to vertical and keep the speaker in frame
            yourself. On a long stream that is most of an evening.
          </p>
          <p>
            <strong>Use CapCut if</strong> you want hands-on control of every cut, or you work
            from a phone, a Mac or a Chromebook. <strong>Use Clips Kitty if</strong> you want
            that first pass done for you and you would still rather not pay: it is also free,
            and the finding, cropping and captioning are the parts it automates.
          </p>

          <h2 id="opus-clip">Opus Clip: the one everyone compares against</h2>
          <p>
            Opus Clip defined this category and is still the smoothest version of it. The free
            tier watermarks your captions, caps exports at 1080p and deletes them after three
            days, which makes it a preview rather than a deliverable. Starter is $15 a month
            and Pro is $29.
          </p>
          <p>
            <strong>Use Opus Clip if</strong> you clip occasionally, from any device, and you
            would rather pay than own hardware. There is a
            <a href="opus-clip-alternative.html">full Opus Clip comparison here</a>, with the
            year-one cost worked out.
          </p>

          <h2 id="klap">Klap: paste a link, get clips</h2>
          <p>
            Klap is the simplest of the paid tools. You give it a URL and it returns clips,
            with very little to configure. You get one video free, then it is $29 a month
            billed monthly, or $14 a month on Basic billed yearly for 100 clips a month.
          </p>
          <p>
            <strong>Use Klap if</strong> you want zero setup and a fixed clip allowance suits
            how much you post.
          </p>

          <h2 id="vizard">Vizard: the most generous free tier</h2>
          <p>
            Vizard is the only one of these with a recurring free tier that is genuinely
            usable: 60 credits a month, one credit per minute of video. Free exports are
            watermarked and capped at 720p, so the free tier is for trying rather than
            posting. Creator is $29 a month, or $14.50 billed yearly.
          </p>
          <p>
            <strong>Use Vizard if</strong> you want the most minutes per dollar and you are
            happy on a metered plan.
          </p>

          <h2 id="quso">quso.ai: clipping plus scheduling</h2>
          <p>
            quso.ai does the clipping and then adds the parts that come after it: an editor, a
            social scheduler and analytics. The free tier is 75 credits a month at 720p, and
            paid plans run $29, $39 and $49 a month.
          </p>
          <p>
            <strong>Use quso.ai if</strong> you want the analytics and the scheduling queue in
            the same subscription as the clipping, on any machine.
          </p>
          <p>
            Clips Kitty posts as well, to nine platforms at once, through
            <a href="https://woopsocial.com/?via=clipskitty" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer sponsored">WoopSocial</a>
            or Upload-Post on your own account. The difference is that the posting is a
            service you connect and pay for separately rather than part of one bundled
            price, and there are no analytics.
          </p>
          <p class="note">
            Affiliate link - Clips Kitty may earn a commission if you sign up through it, at
            no extra cost to you.
          </p>

          <h2 id="ssemble">Ssemble: the cheapest subscription</h2>
          <p>
            Ssemble is the lowest monthly bill of the metered tools: $15 a month for Pro
            billed monthly, or $6 billed yearly, with one credit covering a twenty minute
            video.
          </p>
          <p>
            <strong>Use Ssemble if</strong> your volume is low and predictable and you want
            the smallest possible subscription.
          </p>

          <h2 id="descript">Descript: editing by editing text</h2>
          <p>
            Descript is a different kind of tool. It transcribes your video and lets you edit
            the video by editing the transcript, which is a genuinely better way to cut a
            podcast. Clip finding exists but is not the point of the product. The free tier is
            60 minutes a month at 720p with a watermark, and paid plans are $16, $24 and $50.
          </p>
          <p>
            <strong>Use Descript if</strong> your work is podcast-shaped and you want to edit
            words rather than waveforms. If clipping is the part you use it for, the
            <a href="descript-alternative.html">full Descript comparison is here</a>, with
            every plan's limits.
          </p>

          <h2 id="clips-kitty">Clips Kitty: free because it runs on your PC</h2>
          <p>
            Clips Kitty transcribes, scores the moments, crops to 9:16 with the speaker kept
            in frame, burns in word-synced captions and writes the titles, on your own
            machine. There is no account, no upload, no clip cap, no watermark and no paid
            tier, because there is no server bill to pass on. It reads Twitch and Kick VODs
            and YouTube links as well as local files, and it keeps working with the internet
            off once it is set up.
          </p>
          <p>
            The trade is real and worth saying plainly: it needs Windows 10 or 11, 16 GB of
            RAM, and it is much happier with an NVIDIA graphics card. There is no phone
            version and no Mac version.
          </p>
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          <h2>Questions people ask</h2>

          <h3>What is the best free alternative to Opus Clip?</h3>
          <p>
            It depends on whether you want the tool to do the work. CapCut is free and is a
            full editor, but you find every moment and crop every clip by hand. Clips Kitty is
            free, has no paid tier, and still does the finding, the vertical cropping and the
            captions for you, because it runs on your own PC instead of somebody's servers.
            Vizard and quso.ai have recurring free tiers, but both cap you at 720p and meter
            your minutes.
          </p>

          <h3>Is there an open-source alternative to Opus Clip?</h3>
          <p>
            Clips Kitty is open source under AGPL-3.0. Opus Clip, Klap, Vizard, quso.ai,
            Ssemble, Descript and CapCut are all closed source. You can read every line of
            Clips Kitty, including every line that touches the network, change how clips are
            scored, or fork it. Because the licence cannot be revoked, the copy you have today
            keeps working whatever happens to the project.
          </p>

          <h3>Is there a free alternative to Klap?</h3>
          <p>
            Klap lets you make one video free, then costs $29 a month billed monthly, or $14 a
            month on Basic billed yearly for 100 clips a month. Clips Kitty does the same job
            with no plan, no clip allowance and no account, on your own Windows PC.
          </p>

          <h3>Is Vizard free?</h3>
          <p>
            Vizard has a recurring free tier of 60 credits a month, one credit per minute of
            video, and those exports are watermarked and capped at 720p. Removing the
            watermark means the Creator plan at $29 a month, or $14.50 billed yearly.
          </p>

          <h3>Is CapCut free, and does it find clips for you?</h3>
          <p>
            CapCut is free to use and it is a genuinely good editor, but it is manual: you
            scrub the video, pick the moments, cut them and crop them to vertical yourself. It
            does not watch a two hour stream and hand you the fifteen moments worth posting.
            That is the difference with Clips Kitty, which is also free and does that part for
            you.
          </p>

          <h3>What is the cheapest way to turn long videos into short clips?</h3>
          <p>
            Cheapest overall is a tool that runs on hardware you already own, because there is
            no monthly bill at all: Clips Kitty costs the electricity. Among the subscription
            tools, Ssemble starts at $15 a month billed monthly or $6 billed yearly, and
            Vizard and Klap come to about $14 a month on yearly billing. The catch with the
            local option is that it needs a Windows PC with 16 GB of RAM.
          </p>

          <h3>Do these tools upload my video?</h3>
          <p>
            Opus Clip, Klap, Vizard, quso.ai, Ssemble and Descript are web services, so the
            video goes up to their servers before anything happens, and you wait for the
            upload before you wait for the processing. CapCut's desktop app edits locally.
            Clips Kitty reads the file where it already sits and never uploads it, which is
            also why it works with no internet connection once it is set up.
          </p>
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          <h2>Try it on one stream</h2>
          <p class="section-lead">
            The honest test is your own footage. Run one VOD through it and see whether the
            moments it picks are the ones you would have picked.
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            Opus Clip, Klap, Vizard, quso.ai, Ssemble, Descript and CapCut are trademarks of
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            not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any of them. Everything above is
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