Point it at a podcast, lecture or interview. It finds the moments worth cutting, reframes them to 9:16, and burns in captions in the style you pick.
Urdu, Hindi and Hinglish are first-class — not an afterthought bolted onto an English tool.
Unsigned for now. Windows: More info → Run anyway. macOS: Apple Silicon only (M1 and later) — if it says “damaged”, that message is wrong. Run xattr -cr /path/to/ClipShlip.app in Terminal once, then open it. Full install notes →
The biggest release so far — new caption styles, a score on every clip that tells you why, and the fix for something that was quietly shrinking every video you made.
Six new styles — Open, Centre, Land, Shout, Impact and Stack. One big word carrying smaller ones around it.
The emphasis lands on the word that's actually the hook, not whichever word happens to fall in a fixed slot.
Up from 74. Hover any animation and it plays on the same preview you're already watching — not a separate little demo that drifts out of sync with the real export.
Set the normal word colour and the highlight colour in one panel.
Every clip gets a score out of 100, and it always shows you why. Five things are measured: how fast the hook arrives, whether it starts on a clean pause, how much dead air it carries, its pace against the rest of the video, and its length.
Press Why 74? for the full breakdown.
Each clip suggests a title from its own strongest opening line, and hashtags built from the words that appear in that clip and nowhere else in the video.
So every clip gets its own tags instead of the channel's topic over and over. All of it runs on this computer — nothing goes to a server.
The biggest fix in this release. Presets were being read as a height, which is only right for landscape. On 9:16, “1080p” was quietly producing 608×1080.
Picking the largest option was handing you a file 44% smaller than Auto.
The source cap used to drag your choice down with it — the worst real case was 250×446 out of a 1280×720 source.
Auto still tells the truth about real pixels, but if you choose a size, that's what you get. The size popup now lists the actual pixels under every option.
Several aspect ratios out of a single run — 9:16, 4:5, 1:1 together, instead of running the whole thing again for each one.
Quietly recorded clip? There's a separate gain control for it now.
Overlays take a tilt, a text colour and a font. Tilt turns around the overlay's own anchor, so a lower third doesn't swing off the bottom of the frame.
Watermarks tilt too. Outro logos get size, tilt and opacity — and those sliders only appear when there's a logo to move.
A real iPhone 17 Pro Max model you can spin with the mouse — let go and it settles back straight. Your preview plays inside the screen, on 9:16, 4:5 and 1:1.
Controls now sit on the left, phone on the right. Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z undo caption edits.
A 0.3 second entrance was being stretched past two seconds, so animations looked like nothing was happening. And composition styles never animated at all — they were drawn already settled, every frame.
The preview was rebuilding a full 1920×1080 frame on every display refresh — 180 times a second on a fast monitor, for three images. Now 12 ms a frame instead of 44.
Hovering an animation chip no longer resizes the panel and jolts the page.
A 403 means the site refused, not that the downloader is out of date — the app was saying the wrong thing and giving up.
Same video, before and after: 9.7 MB → 579.8 MB. The phone screen also stopped vanishing mid-rotation.
About the viral score: it measures what's in the clip — hook timing, pacing, dead air, length. It is not a prediction of views, and it never shows a number without showing its reasoning.
Already have ClipShlip? The update button in the title bar handles it. Anyone on 0.1.x, and Mac users on 1.2 or earlier, need one manual download first.
What happens when you press Generate
Speech is transcribed on your own machine. Nothing leaves the computer.
Finds the moments worth cutting, and tells you why it scored each one.
Follows whoever is speaking and crops to vertical, without the seasick camera.
Word-by-word captions in Latin, Nastaliq or Devanagari — burned into the frame.