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Open-source alternatives to Opus Clip

Opus Clip does 5 jobs: AI picks highlight clips from a long video, auto-reframe to vertical 9:16 (speaker or face tracking), animated burned-in captions on clips, virality score per clip, schedule and publish clips to social platforms. Most projects replace one or two of them, so pick the job you actually need.

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Facts checked 16 Oct 2026

We track 13 open-source alternatives to Opus Clip, but none currently has confirmed commercial use, local running and no paid services together. Clips Kitty covers all 5 Opus Clip jobs.

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13 projects

AI YouTube Shorts Generator

Anil-matcha/AI-Youtube-Shorts-Generator
★ 5.4k active 5d ago

Python CLI and library that ranks the most viral moments in a long video with an LLM and renders them as vertical shorts.

Replaces AI picks highlight clips from a long video + Auto-reframe to vertical 9:16 (speaker or face tracking) + Virality score per clip (partly) Not: animated burned-in captions on clips, schedule and publish clips to social platforms
Runs locally
Partial: Partly
Commercial use
Confirmed: Yes · MIT
Paid services
No: Required
Hardware
Unknown: Unknown
Setup
Confirmed: Easy
6 of 8 facts sourced · checked today GitHub ↗ View details

AutoClip

zhouxiaoka/autoclip
★ 9.4k active today

Desktop app, Docker web UI and CLI/MCP that cut podcasts and interviews into platform-ready clips with captions, covers and post copy.

Replaces AI picks highlight clips from a long video + Auto-reframe to vertical 9:16 (speaker or face tracking) + Animated burned-in captions on clips + Schedule and publish clips to social platforms (partly) Not: virality score per clip
Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Confirmed: Yes · MIT
Paid services
Partial: Optional only
Hardware
Unknown: Unknown
Setup
Confirmed: Easy
7 of 8 facts sourced · checked 1d ago GitHub ↗ View details

AutoShorts (gameplay)

divyaprakash0426/autoshorts
★ 205 active 6d ago

Python tool that picks moments from long videos (gameplay first), crops to 9:16 and adds styled captions and optional AI voiceovers. NVIDIA GPU only.

Replaces AI picks highlight clips from a long video + Auto-reframe to vertical 9:16 (speaker or face tracking) + Animated burned-in captions on clips (partly) Not: virality score per clip, schedule and publish clips to social platforms
Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Confirmed: Yes · Apache-2.0
Paid services
Partial: Optional only
Hardware
Confirmed: GPU needed
Setup
Confirmed: Hard
8 of 8 facts sourced · checked 1d ago GitHub ↗ View details

AutoShorts (JayWebtech)

JayWebtech/autoshorts
★ 1.3k active 5d ago

Tauri desktop app that transcribes a long recording, ranks viral moments with an LLM and center-crops them into vertical 9:16 clips.

Replaces AI picks highlight clips from a long video + Auto-reframe to vertical 9:16 (speaker or face tracking) (partly) Not: animated burned-in captions on clips, virality score per clip, schedule and publish clips to social platforms
Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
No: No · Custom licence
Paid services
Partial: Optional only
Hardware
Unknown: Unknown
Setup
Confirmed: Easy
7 of 8 facts sourced · checked 1d ago GitHub ↗ View details

BridgeClip

bridge-mind/bridgeclip
★ 377 active 2w ago

Desktop app that finds moments in long videos and reframes and captions them locally, using your own OpenRouter key for the AI steps.

Replaces AI picks highlight clips from a long video + Auto-reframe to vertical 9:16 (speaker or face tracking) + Animated burned-in captions on clips + Schedule and publish clips to social platforms (partly) Not: virality score per clip
Runs locally
Partial: Partly
Commercial use
Confirmed: Yes · MIT
Paid services
No: Required
Hardware
Unknown: Unknown
Setup
Confirmed: Easy
7 of 8 facts sourced · checked 1d ago GitHub ↗ View details

Clips Kitty

ColinGPT9/clips-studio
★ 105 active 3d ago

Windows app that turns long streams and videos into scored 9:16 clips with speaker tracking, burned-in captions and optional publishing, using a local LLM.

Replaces AI picks highlight clips from a long video + Auto-reframe to vertical 9:16 (speaker or face tracking) + Animated burned-in captions on clips + Virality score per clip + Schedule and publish clips to social platforms (partly)
Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Partial: Conditions · AGPL-3.0-or-later
Paid services
Partial: Optional only
Hardware
Confirmed: CPU works
Setup
Confirmed: Easy
8 of 8 facts sourced · checked 1d ago GitHub ↗ View details

HotClip

xixihhhh/hotclip
★ 331 active 8d ago

Desktop app that cuts long videos and livestream replays into 9:16 shorts with AI highlight picks, virality scores, auto-reframe and word-level captions.

Replaces AI picks highlight clips from a long video + Auto-reframe to vertical 9:16 (speaker or face tracking) + Animated burned-in captions on clips + Virality score per clip (partly) Not: schedule and publish clips to social platforms
Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Partial: Conditions · AGPL-3.0-only
Paid services
Partial: Optional only
Hardware
Confirmed: CPU works
Setup
Confirmed: Easy
8 of 8 facts sourced · checked today GitHub ↗ View details

OpenShorts

mutonby/openshorts
★ 6.7k active today

Self-hosted Docker app that cuts long videos into captioned 9:16 shorts with AI moment picking, face-tracked reframing and social posting.

Replaces AI picks highlight clips from a long video + Auto-reframe to vertical 9:16 (speaker or face tracking) + Animated burned-in captions on clips + Schedule and publish clips to social platforms (partly) Not: virality score per clip
Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Confirmed: Yes · MIT
Paid services
Partial: Optional only
Hardware
Confirmed: CPU works
Setup
Confirmed: Medium
8 of 8 facts sourced · checked 1d ago GitHub ↗ View details

podcli

nmbrthirteen/podcli
★ 78 active 6d ago

Local AI podcast clipper with speaker face tracking, burned-in captions, multicam editing, web studio, MCP server and YouTube publishing.

Replaces AI picks highlight clips from a long video + Auto-reframe to vertical 9:16 (speaker or face tracking) + Animated burned-in captions on clips + Schedule and publish clips to social platforms (partly) Not: virality score per clip
Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Partial: Conditions · AGPL-3.0 code, MIT weights
Paid services
Partial: Optional only
Hardware
Unknown: Unknown
Setup
Confirmed: Easy
7 of 8 facts sourced · checked 1d ago GitHub ↗ View details

SupoClip

FujiwaraChoki/supoclip
★ 1.4k active 1d ago

Self-hosted web app that picks and scores the best moments in a long video and renders 9:16 clips with face crop and word-synced subtitles.

Replaces AI picks highlight clips from a long video + Auto-reframe to vertical 9:16 (speaker or face tracking) + Animated burned-in captions on clips + Virality score per clip (partly) Not: schedule and publish clips to social platforms
Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Partial: Conditions · AGPL-3.0
Paid services
Partial: Optional only
Hardware
Unknown: Unknown
Setup
Confirmed: Medium
7 of 8 facts sourced · checked today GitHub ↗ View details

VideoHighlighter

Aseiel/VideoHighlighter
★ 174 active 3d ago

Local desktop app that scores the strongest moments in long footage from motion, audio, objects and transcript, then exports a highlight reel and clips.

Replaces AI picks highlight clips from a long video (partly) Not: auto-reframe to vertical 9:16 (speaker or face tracking), animated burned-in captions on clips, virality score per clip, schedule and publish clips to social platforms
Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Partial: Conditions · AGPL-3.0
Paid services
Partial: Optional only
Hardware
Confirmed: CPU works
Setup
Confirmed: Easy
8 of 8 facts sourced · checked 1d ago GitHub ↗ View details

ViralCutter

RafaelGodoyEbert/ViralCutter
★ 424 active 5w ago

Local Gradio app that cuts long YouTube videos into vertical shorts with LLM moment picking, WhisperX captions, face tracking and split screen.

Replaces AI picks highlight clips from a long video + Auto-reframe to vertical 9:16 (speaker or face tracking) + Animated burned-in captions on clips (partly) Not: virality score per clip, schedule and publish clips to social platforms
Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Partial: Conditions · GPL-3.0
Paid services
Confirmed: None required
Hardware
Confirmed: See details
Setup
Confirmed: Medium
8 of 8 facts sourced · checked today GitHub ↗ View details

YT Short Clipper

jipraks/yt-short-clipper
★ 1.0k active 3w ago

Windows desktop app that turns a YouTube video into 9:16 clips with LLM highlight picking, face-tracked reframing and word-by-word captions.

Replaces AI picks highlight clips from a long video + Auto-reframe to vertical 9:16 (speaker or face tracking) + Animated burned-in captions on clips + Schedule and publish clips to social platforms (partly) Not: virality score per clip
Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Confirmed: Yes · MIT
Paid services
Partial: Optional only
Hardware
Unknown: Unknown
Setup
Confirmed: Easy
7 of 8 facts sourced · checked 1d ago GitHub ↗ View details

Common questions about Opus Clip alternatives

Is there a free, open-source alternative to Opus Clip?

Yes. Clips Kitty, OpenShorts, HotClip, AutoClip and SupoClip are free to download and run on your own computer without paid API keys. Clips Kitty covers every job we list for Opus Clip; the others cover only part of it, so check which job you need.

Can I do AI picks highlight clips from a long video locally without an Opus Clip subscription?

Yes, with OpenShorts (MIT), HotClip (AGPL-3.0-only) and VideoHighlighter (AGPL-3.0). Check the hardware notes and licence conditions on each page before you start.

Can I do auto-reframe to vertical 9:16 (speaker or face tracking) locally without an Opus Clip subscription?

Yes, with OpenShorts (MIT), HotClip (AGPL-3.0-only) and AutoShorts (gameplay) (Apache-2.0). Check the hardware notes and licence conditions on each page before you start.

Which Opus Clip alternatives can I use commercially?

Confirmed: AI YouTube Shorts Generator, AutoClip, AutoShorts (gameplay), BridgeClip, OpenShorts and YT Short Clipper. With conditions: Clips Kitty, HotClip, podcli, SupoClip, VideoHighlighter and ViralCutter. Not for commercial use: AutoShorts (JayWebtech), usually because the model weights are non-commercial. This is not legal advice; read each licence.

Does any open-source project replace all of Opus Clip?

Clips Kitty covers every job we list for Opus Clip.

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