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Clips Kitty: the free, open-source Opus Clip alternative for chatting, gaming and sports, on your own PC
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marketing budget behind this, so word of mouth is the only way the next small
YouTuber or streamer finds out a free option exists.
I made it for YouTubers, Twitch streamers, and content creators who cannot
afford the other options or an editor. It is a free Opus Clip, Vizard and Klap
alternative that runs Google Gemma on your own PC: no server cost, no
per-clip fee, no AI usage fee.
Clips Kitty was called Clips Studio until version 1.1.3, renamed to meet
Microsoft Store naming requirements. Same app, same repository, same data.
Turn long streams and videos into ready-to-post Shorts, Reels, and TikToks,
entirely on your own machine. Clips Kitty is a free, open-source AI clip generator
and video editor for creators: paste a YouTube, Twitch, or Kick link and it finds the
best moments, crops them to 9:16 with the speaker kept centred, burns in word-synced
captions, and writes titles, descriptions, and hashtags.
No cloud AI by default. No subscription. No per-clip fees. Your footage never leaves
your computer, unless you ask it to publish a clip to your own YouTube channel.
Local first, cloud when you need it: if your PC is too old to run the AI, a cloud
provider runs it instead, billed to your own account.
OpenRouter is the recommended cloud path: sign in with your OpenRouter account
(OAuth, no key to copy) for many models (Claude, GPT, Gemini, Muse Spark and more).
In my testing, a 2-hour video cost about 11 cents on OpenRouter, with Gemma
(Gemma 4 26B-A4B) picking the clips and Whisper (large-v3-turbo) transcribing; what you
pay depends on the models you pick and the length of the video.
OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, xAI, Meta, DeepSeek and Qwen also work directly, on your own API
key.
See docs/AI-BACKENDS.md.
Why it exists: most creators growing a channel are doing all of it themselves:
filming, streaming, editing, posting. Clipping is how people find you and it is usually
the first thing that gets dropped: an editor is a cost most channels cannot justify yet,
clipping tools charge per video or per month, and cutting them by hand takes a day you
needed elsewhere. This runs on hardware you already own, so it costs nothing to use and
there is no cap on how many clips you make.
38 clips from one video in 19 minutes, on one PC, with nothing uploaded.
Contents
What it does
You give Clips Kitty a long video. It gives you back a folder of finished vertical
clips you can post, plus a studio to review and fix them before you do.
It is built for the content most clipping tools handle worst: live streams, IRL and
talking-head footage, podcasts, and gym/fitness content: long, loosely structured
videos where the good moments are buried and a transcript alone won't find them.
How it compares to Opus Clip, Klap, Vizard and CapCut
Clips Kitty is an open-source alternative to cloud clipping tools. The difference that
matters is where the work happens: your video is never uploaded, so there is nothing to
meter and nothing to charge for.
This is the beginning of the README. Read the rest at the original. Read the full README ↗
