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AutoShorts (JayWebtech) vs AI shorts generator (short-video-maker) vs YT Short Clipper

Side by side, as alternatives to Opus Clip. Rows that differ are highlighted; the strongest value in a row is marked. Unknown means no source yet.

AutoShorts (JayWebtech)JayWebtech/autoshorts
AI shorts generator (short-video-maker)mushigaite/short-video-maker
YT Short Clipperjipraks/yt-short-clipper
Opus Clippaid product
Cost and coverage
Price
$0 software; you run it
$0 software; you run it
$0 software; you run it
See pricing page source ↗
AI picks highlight clips from a long video
Partial: Partly
Partial: Partly
Partial: Partly
Confirmed: Yes
Auto-reframe to vertical 9:16 (speaker or face tracking)
Partial: Partly
Partial: Partly
Partial: Partly
Confirmed: Yes
Animated burned-in captions on clips
No: No
Partial: Partly
Partial: Partly
Confirmed: Yes
Virality score per clip
No: No
Partial: Partly
No: No
Confirmed: Yes
Schedule and publish clips to social platforms
No: No
No: No
Partial: Partly
Confirmed: Yes
Jobs covered
2 of 5 jobs
4 of 5 jobs
4 of 5 jobs
All 5
Popularity and activity (from GitHub)
Stars
1,277Top
631
1,047
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Gain this week
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
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Signal
Building history
Building history
Building history
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Commits / 4 wk
1
17Top
0
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Latest release
v0.1.5 · 2026-07-01
Unknown
v2.0.7-beta · 2026-09-20Top
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Commits / 12 wk
8
17
14
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People committing / 12 mo
3
1
2
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Issues opened / closed, 30 days
4 / 0
0 / 0
0 / 0
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Facts, with sources on each project page
Runs on my machine?Differs
Confirmed: Yes, desktop app; fully offline mode with Ollama and local Whisper
Confirmed: Yes, runs on your machine; transcription is local, highlight ranking calls a cloud LLM
Confirmed: Yes, Windows desktop app; the LLM step can be local (Ollama, vLLM) or a cloud API
Hosted by the vendor
Code licenceDiffers
No: No licence; all rights reserved by default
Confirmed: MIT
Confirmed: MIT
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Model weights licenceDiffers
Confirmed: No bundled weights; uses the Ollama, Whisper or cloud models you choose
Confirmed: No separate model weights
Confirmed: No bundled LLM weights; uses the provider you configure (MediaPipe for face tracking)
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Commercial useDiffers
No: No licence granted for the code, so reuse or redistribution is not permitted by default
Confirmed: Yes, MIT (LLM provider terms apply separately)
Confirmed: Yes, MIT code; you must have rights to the YouTube videos you re-cut
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Paid services needed?Differs
Partial: Not required (Ollama + local Whisper); the recommended setup uses paid Deepgram and DeepSeek or Claude APIs
Partial: Needs an LLM API key; Gemini has a free tier with a daily limit, OpenAI and MuAPI are paid
Partial: Not required with a local Ollama/vLLM model; cloud LLM APIs, the in-app AI wallet and Repliz upload are optional paid extras
Subscription
HardwareDiffers
Unknown: Not documented; FFmpeg must be on PATH
Confirmed: Python 3.10+; Whisper runs on CPU or CUDA GPU, model size selectable
Unknown: Not documented
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Operating systemsDiffers
Confirmed: macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), Windows, Linux (.deb, .rpm, AppImage)
Confirmed: Windows, Linux and macOS install steps in the README
Partial: Windows 10/11 only; not ready for macOS or Linux
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Setup effortDiffers
Confirmed: Easy; unsigned installers from GitHub Releases plus FFmpeg on PATH
Confirmed: Easy-medium, clone, pip install requirements and add an API key to .env (README clone URL uses an older repo name)
Confirmed: Easy, portable zip from GitHub Releases; building from source needs Node, Rust and Python
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Stars over time

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  • AutoShorts (JayWebtech)
  • AI shorts generator (short-video-maker)
  • YT Short Clipper
1,277193 2026-10-052026-10-21 Tracked daily begins 2026-10-16AutoShorts (JayWebtech), 2026-10-16: 1,256 stars, trackedAutoShorts (JayWebtech), 2026-10-17: 1,257 stars, trackedAutoShorts (JayWebtech), 2026-10-18: 1,262 stars, trackedAutoShorts (JayWebtech), 2026-10-19: 1,265 stars, trackedAutoShorts (JayWebtech), 2026-10-20: 1,273 stars, trackedAutoShorts (JayWebtech), 2026-10-21: 1,277 stars, trackedAI shorts generator (short-video-maker), 2026-10-05: 292 stars, estimated from public star recordsAI shorts generator (short-video-maker), 2026-10-12: 627 stars, estimated from public star recordsAI shorts generator (short-video-maker), 2026-10-18: 628 stars, trackedAI shorts generator (short-video-maker), 2026-10-19: 629 stars, trackedAI shorts generator (short-video-maker), 2026-10-20: 631 stars, trackedAI shorts generator (short-video-maker), 2026-10-21: 631 stars, trackedYT Short Clipper, 2026-10-16: 1,039 stars, trackedYT Short Clipper, 2026-10-17: 1,041 stars, trackedYT Short Clipper, 2026-10-18: 1,041 stars, trackedYT Short Clipper, 2026-10-19: 1,042 stars, trackedYT Short Clipper, 2026-10-20: 1,045 stars, trackedYT Short Clipper, 2026-10-21: 1,047 stars, tracked
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