# Open-source alternatives for AI video clipping

> Turn long videos into short, captioned clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts without a clipping subscription.

## Paid products
- [Open-source alternatives to Opus Clip](https://repoquarry.dev/alternatives/opus-clip.md): Paid hosted AI clipping service that turns a long video into short vertical clips, with AI highlight picking, auto-reframe, animated captions, a virality score per clip and social scheduling. Pricing: See pricing page.

## Top ranked projects
1. [OpenShorts](https://repoquarry.dev/projects/openshorts.md): Self-hosted Docker app that cuts long videos into captioned 9:16 shorts with AI moment picking, face-tracked reframing and social posting. Commercial use: Confirmed.
2. [AutoClip](https://repoquarry.dev/projects/autoclip.md): Desktop app, Docker web UI and CLI/MCP that cut podcasts and interviews into platform-ready clips with captions, covers and post copy. Commercial use: Confirmed.
3. [AI YouTube Shorts Generator](https://repoquarry.dev/projects/ai-youtube-shorts-generator.md): Python CLI and library that ranks the most viral moments in a long video with an LLM and renders them as vertical shorts. Commercial use: Confirmed.
4. [SupoClip](https://repoquarry.dev/projects/supoclip.md): 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. Commercial use: Partial.
5. [AutoShorts (JayWebtech)](https://repoquarry.dev/projects/autoshorts.md): Tauri desktop app that transcribes a long recording, ranks viral moments with an LLM and center-crops them into vertical 9:16 clips. Commercial use: No.
6. [HotClip](https://repoquarry.dev/projects/hotclip.md): 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. Commercial use: Partial.
7. [YT Short Clipper](https://repoquarry.dev/projects/yt-short-clipper.md): Windows desktop app that turns a YouTube video into 9:16 clips with LLM highlight picking, face-tracked reframing and word-by-word captions. Commercial use: Confirmed.
8. [ViralCutter](https://repoquarry.dev/projects/viralcutter.md): Local Gradio app that cuts long YouTube videos into vertical shorts with LLM moment picking, WhisperX captions, face tracking and split screen. Commercial use: Partial.
9. [AutoShorts (gameplay)](https://repoquarry.dev/projects/autoshorts-gameplay.md): 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. Commercial use: Confirmed.
10. [VideoHighlighter](https://repoquarry.dev/projects/videohighlighter.md): Local desktop app that scores the strongest moments in long footage from motion, audio, objects and transcript, then exports a highlight reel and clips. Commercial use: Partial.
11. [BridgeClip](https://repoquarry.dev/projects/bridgeclip.md): Desktop app that finds moments in long videos and reframes and captions them locally, using your own OpenRouter key for the AI steps. Commercial use: Confirmed.
12. [Clips Kitty](https://repoquarry.dev/projects/clips-kitty.md): 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. Commercial use: Partial.
13. [podcli](https://repoquarry.dev/projects/podcli.md): Local AI podcast clipper with speaker face tracking, burned-in captions, multicam editing, web studio, MCP server and YouTube publishing. Commercial use: Partial.
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