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LocalClip
Turn long videos into clips — 100% on your Mac, no cloud
LocalClip turns long videos — podcasts, livestreams, webinars — into short vertical clips with subtitles and AI-generated titles, descriptions and hashtags. Everything runs locally on your Apple Silicon Mac: nothing is uploaded, it works offline, and it's a one-time payment, not a subscription. Other AI clippers upload your footage to the cloud and bill monthly; LocalClip keeps the whole job on your machine — private and yours. Free to use; a one-time $49 Pro removes the watermark.
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Lou.
I kept trying the popular AI clipping tools, and two things always bugged me: they upload your video to their servers, and they charge a monthly subscription. For client calls, unreleased podcast episodes and course recordings, uploading is a dealbreaker — and paying every month for something I use in bursts made no sense.
So I built LocalClip to do the whole thing on your Mac. You drop in a long video and it transcribes it, finds the best moments, and cuts several vertical clips with subtitles and ready-to-post titles, descriptions and hashtags. Nothing leaves your machine.
The fun part was making the AI run fully on-device: transcription on Apple's MLX (Metal GPU) with Whisper, and captions from a small local LLM — no cloud, no per-minute cost. It started as a tool for my brother's content; then I realized the local-first, private angle was the whole point, so I made it generic.
It's free (clips carry a small watermark); a one-time $49 removes it. Apple Silicon only for now — there's a Windows waitlist on the site.
Would love your feedback, especially on the local-LLM caption quality 🙏
Have you considered adding a "highlight preview" feature that exports a 30-second montage of the best moments before you commit to clipping? Would save a ton of time triaging hour long webinars.
About LocalClip on Product Hunt
“Turn long videos into clips — 100% on your Mac, no cloud”
LocalClip was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #36 on the daily leaderboard. LocalClip turns long videos — podcasts, livestreams, webinars — into short vertical clips with subtitles and AI-generated titles, descriptions and hashtags. Everything runs locally on your Apple Silicon Mac: nothing is uploaded, it works offline, and it's a one-time payment, not a subscription. Other AI clippers upload your footage to the cloud and bill monthly; LocalClip keeps the whole job on your machine — private and yours. Free to use; a one-time $49 Pro removes the watermark.
LocalClip was featured in Mac (103.6k followers), Artificial Intelligence (473.8k followers) and Video (1.9k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 121k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted LocalClip?
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