AI video editor for Mac and Windows. Free.
Raw takes in.Finished video out.
Drop in your recordings. ClipCat makes the first edit with your own Claude or Codex: retakes and pauses out, punch-ins, b-roll, motion slides, sound and captions. Then it cuts the shorts and writes the chapters. You review every change, and it all runs on your computer.
Apple Silicon with macOS 14 or newer, or 64-bit Windows 10 and 11. All releases
From raw takes to posted in three steps
Record or import
Drag in the files from your camera or phone, or record your camera, your screen or just your voice straight into a project.
Get a first edit
ClipCat transcribes on your computer. Then your Claude or Codex proposes the cuts, zooms, b-roll, slides and sounds, each with a reason.
Review and export
Accept or reject each change, or edit the transcript like a document. Export the long video, the shorts and the write-up.
Everything in the first edit
Each change lands on its own track, so you can see it, adjust it or turn it off.
- A1
Retakes and pauses out
Repeated lines, stumbles and dead air are marked with a reason. Nothing is cut until you accept it.
- V1
Punch-ins
A snap, a quick push or a slow creep toward you, to land the lines that matter.
- V2
B-roll from your files
Your own screenshots and clips, placed where you talk about them, full frame or picture in picture.
- V3
Motion slides
Animated title, list and number cards, designed for the moment and timed to your words.
- A2
Sound and music
Effects on the right word, and a music bed that ducks while you talk.
- T1
Captions
Burned in a word or a sentence at a time, plus an .srt file beside every export.
- 9:16
Shorts
Clips that open on a hook and stand on their own, framed on your face.
- TXT
The write-up
Chapters, a YouTube description, an article and a thumbnail with you cut out in front of the title.
One recording, a week of shorts
Pick how many and how long. ClipCat finds the moments that work on their own, opens each one on a hook and keeps the long edit's cuts. A face tracker that runs on your computer keeps you in the 9:16 frame.
Up to 30, 60 or 90 seconds each, at 1080×1920.
- Short 1 · 0:41Nobody reads your App Store page
- Short 2 · 0:58Launch twice. Here's why
- Short 3 · 0:33The one line every video needs
Uses the AI you already pay for
ClipCat runs no AI service of its own and has no account. It hands the transcript to the agent you're signed in to, and checks every suggestion it gets back against your words.
Claude Code
Counts against your Claude plan. This is the default.
Codex
Counts against your ChatGPT plan.
Claude API key
Billed per use to your own Anthropic account.
Or let your agent drive
ClipCat's MCP server lets Claude Code, Codex and the Claude app open your projects, cut words, accept suggestions, make shorts and start exports while ClipCat is open. Every change goes through the same undo history as the editor.
> cut the part about pricing, then make three shorts
clipcat get_transcript launch-video
clipcat cut_words words 812–951 (4:12–5:03)
clipcat make_shorts 3, up to 60 s each
clipcat export_video 16:9 and 9:16Your footage never leaves your computer
Transcribed on your computer
NVIDIA's Parakeet on the Neural Engine on Apple Silicon, and whisper.cpp everywhere else.
Only text goes out
The transcript goes to the AI you chose, and only when you ask it for something.
No account, no tracking
No ClipCat server, no analytics, no watermark and no export limit.
Your next video, mostly edited
ClipCat is free. It runs on Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 14 or newer and on 64-bit Windows 10 and 11.
Apple Silicon with macOS 14 or newer, or 64-bit Windows 10 and 11. All releases