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| # Clips Kitty | |
| > Free, open-source AI video clipping software and Opus Clip alternative that | |
| > runs entirely on your own Windows PC. | |
| > Paste a Twitch VOD, Kick VOD or YouTube link and it finds the moments worth | |
| > posting, crops them to vertical with the speaker kept in frame, burns in | |
| > word-synced captions and writes the titles. No uploads, no subscription, no | |
| > per-clip fee. AGPL-3.0. | |
| Clips Kitty is a desktop application, not a web service. Everything (the | |
| transcription, the clip selection, the subject tracking and the language model) | |
| runs on the user's own machine by default. When the PC is too old, OpenRouter, | |
| signed in with the user's own account, can run the language model or the | |
| transcription instead. It is a local-first, open-source alternative to | |
| Opus Clip and other cloud clipping tools, aimed at creators who would rather not | |
| pay per video or upload their footage to someone else's server. | |
| ## Mission | |
| Clips Kitty is a free, open-source AI video editor built to help small | |
| streamers and creators turn their long-form videos and livestreams into | |
| short-form content without hiring an editor or spending hours editing footage | |
| themselves. | |
| ## How it compares to Opus Clip | |
| - **Price:** free, AGPL-3.0, no paid tier. Opus Clip has a free tier plus | |
| $15/mo and $29/mo plans (checked 12 September 2026). | |
| - **Uploads:** none. The video is read where it sits. Opus Clip uploads the | |
| whole video to its servers before processing. | |
| - **Limits:** no clip cap, no watermark, no export expiry. Opus Clip's free | |
| tier watermarks, caps at 1080p and expires exports after three days. | |
| - **The catch:** Clips Kitty needs Windows, 16 GB of RAM and ideally an NVIDIA | |
| GPU. Opus Clip runs in any browser, including on a phone. If you have no | |
| suitable PC, or you clip only occasionally, Opus Clip is the better choice. | |
| ## What it actually does | |
| - **Transcribes** with faster-whisper at word level, so captions land on the | |
| right syllable and clips start on real sentence boundaries. | |
| - **Scores** candidate moments with a local language model reading the | |
| transcript alongside audio and visual signals: loudness, laughter-shaped | |
| bursts, scene cuts, motion, on-screen reactions. | |
| - **Reframes** to 9:16 with YOLO pose tracking and active-speaker detection, so | |
| the person talking stays in shot and it cuts between speakers rather than | |
| zooming out to hold both. | |
| - **Frames matches and game streams**: a soccer match follows the ball (the | |
| Sports toggle); Gaming / Reaction puts the webcam and the game together in one | |
| of eleven layouts; a stream that was 9:16 all along keeps its own layout | |
| (Vertical Live). | |
| - **Watches channels**: new videos on a YouTube, Twitch or Kick channel are | |
| spotted (YouTube's through its RSS feed) and clipped by themselves. | |
| - **Takes requests in a sentence**: the Ask Clips Kitty box at the bottom of the | |
| app queues a video, takes what the clips should be about and how they should | |
| look. It needs a Gemma 4 model (`gemma4:e4b`, or `gemma4:e2b` under 6 GB of | |
| VRAM), installed from the app's Models page, or the cloud model the user chose. | |
| - **Posts, if asked**: clips go to nine platforms at once through a publishing | |
| service the user connects, now, on a schedule, or hands-off for a watched | |
| channel. | |
| - **Edits**: a built-in editor for fixing anything the AI got wrong, caption | |
| styling, watermarks, multilingual captions and dubbing. | |
| ## What it is good and bad at | |
| - **Good at:** IRL, just chatting, podcasts, vlogs, interviews. That is what it | |
| is tuned for and tested on. | |
| - **Also does:** game streams and reaction videos (Gaming / Reaction), and | |
| soccer matches (Sports), with goals read from the score box, the crowd and the | |
| commentary. | |
| - **Not yet:** basketball and cricket, next on the roadmap. VTubers are not | |
| supported: the framing needs a real person on camera. | |
| ## Requirements | |
| Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. 16 GB RAM recommended, ~20 GB free disk. An NVIDIA | |
| GPU is strongly recommended. It runs on CPU, just far slower. One installer | |
| carries the app, the engine, FFmpeg, the Ollama runtime and the tracking and | |
| transcription models; the language model downloads on first launch, sized to | |
| the graphics card. | |
| Install it from the Microsoft Store, with the Web Setup from the GitHub releases, | |
| or from a terminal: `winget install ColinGPT9.ClipsKitty`. | |
| ## For developers | |
| The Clips Kitty SDK (`clipskitty_sdk`, Python, MIT) is for writing a small | |
| plugin that finds, understands or rates the moments in a video, for one game | |
| or one kind of show; Clips Kitty does the rest: the download, the transcript, | |
| and cutting, framing and captioning the clips. Every step is optional: one | |
| plugin can find the moments, and up to 3 can understand and up to 3 can rate | |
| them. Up to 3 can suggest edits for the clips, which wait for the creator in | |
| the editor. Posting isn't a plugin step: Clips Kitty posts clips itself, and | |
| through WoopSocial (https://woopsocial.com/?via=clipskitty) it can post to | |
| many sites at once on the creator's own account. Affiliate link - Clips Kitty | |
| may earn a commission if you sign up through it, at no extra cost to you. | |
| A plugin runs on Clips Kitty's own Python 3.11, with the standard | |
| library (minus a few modules it leaves out) and the SDK, on the creator's PC | |
| with the creator's rights, like any program: Clips Kitty doesn't sandbox it, | |
| and its install screen shows what the plugin declares. The templates and | |
| tutorial use Quarkbloom Arena, a made-up game. | |
| No Clips Kitty release runs plugins yet. Plugins made with SDK 1.2.0 need the | |
| first release that includes it; until that is out, run Clips Kitty from source. | |
| - [Clips Kitty SDK](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/developers.html) | |
| - [Your first game pipeline](https://github.com/ColinGPT9/clips-studio/blob/main/docs/developers/first-game-pipeline.md) | |
| - [The SDK's README](https://github.com/ColinGPT9/clips-studio/blob/main/sdk/python/README.md) | |
| - [Developer docs](https://github.com/ColinGPT9/clips-studio/blob/main/docs/developers/README.md) | |
| ## Links | |
| - [Website](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/) | |
| - [Source on GitHub](https://github.com/ColinGPT9/clips-studio) | |
| - [Download](https://github.com/ColinGPT9/clips-studio/releases) | |
| - [Clips Kitty Web](https://clips-kitty-web.vercel.app/): the clip picking in a | |
| browser, on a Twitch or Kick VOD or a local file, billed to the visitor's own | |
| OpenRouter account. No vertical framing or captions; those are the desktop app. | |
| - [Architecture](https://github.com/ColinGPT9/clips-studio/blob/main/ARCHITECTURE.md) | |
| - [Changelog](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/changelog.html) | |
| - [Roadmap](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/roadmap.html) | |
| - [Known issues](https://github.com/ColinGPT9/clips-studio/blob/main/KNOWN-ISSUES.md) | |
| - [Twitch clip generator: Twitch VODs into TikTok clips, Shorts and Reels](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/twitch.html) | |
| - [Kick clip generator: Kick VODs into TikTok clips, Shorts and Reels](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/kick.html) | |
| - [Clipping YouTube](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/youtube.html) | |
| - [Game stream clips](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/gaming.html) | |
| - [Soccer highlight clips](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/sports.html) | |
| - [Local vs cloud clipping](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/local-vs-cloud.html) | |
| - [Opus Clip alternative](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/opus-clip-alternative.html) | |
| - [Descript alternative](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/descript-alternative.html) | |
| ## In other languages | |
| The same overview, written in each language the app supports: | |
| [Español](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/es.html) · | |
| [Português](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/pt.html) · | |
| [Français](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/fr.html) · | |
| [Deutsch](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/de.html) · | |
| [हिन्दी](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/hi.html) · | |
| [Bahasa Indonesia](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/id.html) · | |
| [日本語](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/ja.html) · | |
| [Русский](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/ru.html) · | |
| [العربية](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/ar.html) · | |
| [简体中文](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/zh.html) · | |
| [Tiếng Việt](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/vi.html) · | |
| [Filipino](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/tl.html) · | |
| [Türkçe](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/tr.html) · | |
| [اردو](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/ur.html) · | |
| [বাংলা](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/bn.html) · | |
| [ไทย](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/th.html) · | |
| [한국어](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/ko.html) · | |
| [Italiano](https://colingpt9.github.io/clips-studio/it.html) | |
| ## Status | |
| Alpha. It works and is used daily, but it is early and has rough edges, which | |
| are listed honestly in the known-issues document rather than discovered by | |
| users. | |