Clipie

Captions land on the word, not after it

Speech models do not hear time, they predict it — a word’s timestamp follows the moment the model settled on that word, not the moment you said it. On a real recording that is a quarter of a second late, every line, for the whole clip. Clipie now measures it against the sound itself: it finds where speech starts after each pause, works out how far behind the words fall, and moves every one of them back onto the voice. On the recording this was built against, the correction came to 280 milliseconds. Nothing is corrected when there is no honest way to measure it.

Every clip ends on a finished thought

A clip that opens halfway through a sentence, or stops before the point lands, is a mistake someone watched. Clipie now reads the transcript as sentences — the full stops you actually used, in every language, and the pauses that end a thought rather than a breath — and puts every cut on one of those edges. No word is ever cut in half.

As many clips as you say

The slider stopped at ten, which was Clipie deciding how many clips you were allowed to want. Type any number up to thirty. And the number is a promise: when the writing model hedges and offers three, Clipie fills the rest from its own search — and when the video genuinely cannot give that many, it says so instead of quietly handing you less.

Use only the part of the video you mean

Drag two handles, or type from 12:30 to 18:00. Everything after that only ever sees that stretch — the listening, the choosing, the cutting. Listening is the slow part, so ten minutes out of a two-hour recording is a job that finishes while you watch it rather than one you leave running. On the phone, the same two handles.

Drag the words where you want them

Size is a slider that multiplies whatever the style was designed at, so “a bit bigger” still means that after you switch looks. The place is not a number: drag the captions around the preview and drop them. The whole design grows together, so a bigger word never sits inside a hairline outline — and nothing can be dragged half outside the frame.

The line over the clip is yours

It used to be whatever was written for you, cut to nine words, gone after two and a half seconds. Rewrite it, resize it, drag it anywhere, keep it up for 2.6s, 5s, 10s or the whole clip — or turn it off. Leave it empty and each clip still uses its own hook.

Speech models where you have room

They are the biggest thing Clipie keeps, and they landed on the disk that fills up first. Put them anywhere from the Storage page; Clipie checks it can write there, counts what you already downloaded, and asks whether to bring it. Nothing is deleted until its copy has landed.

All three on your phone

Tap Move them and drag on the preview; an outline follows your finger and the captions redraw where you let go. Same control over the line above them. And if your phone has a memory card, the speech models can go there instead.

Choose the part of the picture

A fourth framing next to fit + blur, centre crop and letterbox. The frame on screen is the clip: drag the picture inside it, scroll or drag the slider to go closer, arrow keys to nudge. What is inside the edges is exactly what renders — no guessing, no surprise when the clip comes out.

Every clip framed on its own

Set it once for the project, then move any single clip afterwards and re-render just that one. One talk can give a clip framed on the speaker and another framed on the slide behind them.

The same on your phone

Drag and pinch the video into place on Android too, on the reel and the highlights flow. The app was rearranged around it: clear sections, one bar with settings on every tab, and a page that shows what Clipie is keeping on the phone and frees what it can.

40 new caption styles

84 styles in 15 groups. New ones for viral bold, 3D flips, glitch and tech, neon, playful, cinematic and retro comic looks, each with its own entrance and word movement.

Your own colours and font

Pick the highlight colour, the text colour and any of 26 bundled fonts on top of any style. The preview, the picker and the final clip all show exactly the same thing.

Knows what language you speak

Auto now really detects the language instead of assuming English, so every language comes out in its own words. For some languages, a bigger speech model gives the best result.

A preview that looks real

9:16 clips preview inside a real phone, 1:1 inside a feed post, 16:9 on a laptop screen. You see the clip the way your audience will.

Graphics card speed test

Clipie times your processor against your graphics card once and uses whichever is actually faster on your machine. If the graphics card ever fails, it quietly falls back.

Now on Linux, Fedora included

Clipie runs on 64-bit Linux too. Grab the AppImage, which works on any distro and updates itself from the title bar, or the .rpm for Fedora and the .deb for Ubuntu and Debian.

One-click updates in the title bar

Clipie checks for new versions while it is open. When one lands, the button in the title bar lights up: one click downloads it, installs it and restarts.

One reel from a raw video

A short recording goes in, one polished reel comes out.

• Keeps the whole recording
• Cuts the long pauses
• Reframes to 9:16, 1:1 or 16:9, your part or ours

Clips from a long video

A talk, podcast or YouTube link in, the best moments out.

• Finds the strongest moments
• Cuts on sentence boundaries
• Paste a YouTube link and walk away

Clips from a live stream

Paste a link to a stream that is running now and Clipie watches it for you.

• Scores every moment as it is said
• Cuts only what beats your threshold
• Stops at the number of clips you set

Works offline

After the one-time model download, the whole pipeline runs without a connection. Only the optional AI writing and Clipie Cloud talk to the internet.

Free AI writing

Titles, hooks, descriptions, hashtags, chapters and a clean script, written by free models. Bring your own key or use the built-in one.

Updates itself

New versions show up in the title bar while the app is open. One click downloads, installs and restarts into it. No visiting a download page again.