Long videos in. Viral shorts out.
Cheap Clipping finds the best moments in your podcast, stream or interview and turns them into captioned vertical clips for Shorts, TikTok and Reels. All for $5 a month.
60 free minutes every month. No card needed.
Made for anything with talking
Clipping a one-hour podcast by hand eats your whole afternoon. And most AI clippers charge several times our price to do it for you.
We built Cheap Clipping to do the same job for the price of a coffee.
From one long video to a week of shorts
Three steps. A few minutes. No editing skills needed.
Drop in a long video
Upload an MP4, MOV or MKV up to 3 hours, or paste a link. It stays on your device; only the audio is transcribed.
AI finds the best moments
We read the full transcript and pick the hooks, hot takes and punchlines, each with a virality score and a reason.
Export ready-to-post shorts
Vertical 9:16 clips with animated captions and face-tracked framing. Download one or all of them in a ZIP.
Everything the big clippers do. Without the big bill.
AI that knows a good clip
Our AI reads every word of your video and picks moments that hook in the first three seconds, make sense on their own and land a payoff.
- Virality score from 0 to 100 on every clip
- A one-line reason for each pick
- Ask for “every moment about pricing” and get just those
Captions that keep people watching
Animated, word-by-word captions are burned straight into every clip. Pick a style, fix any word, and you're done.
- Bold Pop, Karaoke, Boxed and Minimal styles
- Edit any word the transcript got wrong
- Works in 50+ languages
Always framed on the speaker
We find faces in your video and keep the speaker centred as the clip turns vertical, with smooth movement and no jitter.
- Automatic face tracking
- Blur-fill mode for screen recordings
- Drag to reframe any clip by hand
Private by design
Other tools make you upload gigabytes of video to their servers. We do the heavy lifting right in your browser, which is faster for you and the reason we can charge $5.
- Your full video never leaves your device
- Audio is deleted right after transcription
- No waiting for huge uploads
Pro-level clips. Pocket-money price.
Start free. Upgrade when you're posting every day.
Free
Try it on your next upload.
$0 / month
- 60 minutes of video a month
- AI-picked clips with virality scores
- Animated captions
- 1080×1920 Shorts export with watermark
- Videos up to 1 hour
Creator
Everything a solo creator needs.
$5 / month
- 10 hours of video a month
- 1080×1920 Shorts export, no watermark
- “Find clips about…” prompt search
- Brand kit: your logo and font
- Paste a link to import
- Videos up to 3 hours
Pro
For daily posters and small teams.
$12 / month
- 40 hours of video a month
- Everything in Creator
- Cloud rendering for any browser
- Higher link-import limits
- Videos up to 5 hours
Prices in USD. Cancel anytime. Your video stays on your device: only the audio is sent to us for transcription.
Questions, answered
Is Cheap Clipping really $5 a month?
Yes. The Creator plan is $5/month, or $48 a year, for 10 hours of source video every month. We keep it cheap by doing the heavy video work in your browser instead of on expensive servers.
Do you upload my whole video?
No. Your video stays on your device. We extract the audio in your browser and send only that to be transcribed, then delete it. The AI reads the transcript, not your video.
What kinds of videos work best?
Anything with talking: podcasts, interviews, livestreams, webinars, lectures, sermons, coaching calls and vlogs. Clips are picked from what is said, so speech-heavy videos give the best results.
Which platforms are the clips for?
Clips export as 1080×1920 vertical MP4s with burned-in captions, ready for YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels and LinkedIn.
Can I edit the clips the AI picks?
Yes. Trim any clip by dragging on the transcript, fix caption words, change the caption style and framing, or select any part of the transcript to make your own clip.
Is there a free plan?
Yes. The free plan gives you 60 minutes of video a month with full 1080×1920 exports and a small watermark. No card needed.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Cancel from your account whenever you like and you keep access until the end of the period you paid for.
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