AI shorts generator (short-video-maker) vs ViralCutter 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.
AI shorts generator (short-video-maker)mushigaite/short-video-maker
ViralCutterRafaelGodoyEbert/ViralCutter
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
Partial: Partly
Partial: Partly
Partial: Partly
Confirmed: Yes
Virality score per clip
Partial: Partly
No: No
No: No
Confirmed: Yes
Schedule and publish clips to social platforms
No: No
No: No
Partial: Partly
Confirmed: Yes
Jobs covered
4 of 5 jobs
3 of 5 jobs
4 of 5 jobs
All 5
Popularity and activity (from GitHub)
Stars
631
429
1,047Top
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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
17Top
0
0
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Latest release
Unknown
Unknown
v2.0.7-beta · 2026-09-20
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Commits / 12 wk
17
2
14
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People committing / 12 mo
1
2
2
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Issues opened / closed, 30 days
0 / 0
0 / 0
0 / 0
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Facts, with sources on each project page
Runs on my machine?Differs
Confirmed: Yes, runs on your machine; transcription is local, highlight ranking calls a cloud LLM
Confirmed: Yes, local WebUI or CLI; the LLM can be a local GGUF model or a cloud API
Confirmed: Yes, Windows desktop app; the LLM step can be local (Ollama, vLLM) or a cloud API
Hosted by the vendor
Code licenceDiffers
Confirmed: MIT
Partial: GPL-3.0 (copyleft)
Confirmed: MIT
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Model weights licenceDiffers
Confirmed: No separate model weights
Partial: InsightFace pretrained models are for non-commercial research; commercial licensing must be obtained separately. Whisper weights are MIT, and user-selected local GGUF or hosted LLM options retain their own terms
Confirmed: No bundled LLM weights; uses the provider you configure (MediaPipe for face tracking)
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Commercial useDiffers
Confirmed: Yes, MIT (LLM provider terms apply separately)
Partial: GPL-3.0 code allows commercial use with copyleft conditions; licences of the models it uses are not stated
Confirmed: Yes, MIT code; you must have rights to the YouTube videos you re-cut
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Paid services needed?Differs
Partial: Needs an LLM API key; Gemini has a free tier with a daily limit, OpenAI and MuAPI are paid
Confirmed: None required; Gemini (free key) or GPT-4 optional, or run fully offline with local GGUF models
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
Confirmed: Python 3.10+; Whisper runs on CPU or CUDA GPU, model size selectable
Confirmed: NVIDIA GPU with CUDA 12.4+ strongly recommended; exact VRAM and RAM not stated
Unknown: Not documented
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Operating systemsDiffers
Confirmed: Windows, Linux and macOS install steps in the README
Partial: Windows install scripts documented; Google Colab notebook; macOS and Linux not documented
Partial: Windows 10/11 only; not ready for macOS or Linux
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Setup effortDiffers
Confirmed: Easy-medium, clone, pip install requirements and add an API key to .env (README clone URL uses an older repo name)
Confirmed: Medium; needs Python 3.10/3.11, FFmpeg, NVIDIA drivers and C++ Build Tools, then a .bat installer
Confirmed: Easy, portable zip from GitHub Releases; building from source needs Node, Rust and Python
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Stars over time
Switch to Growth % to compare projects of different sizes fairly.
- AI shorts generator (short-video-maker)
- ViralCutter
- YT Short Clipper
Tracked daily since 16 Oct 2026. Dashed history: estimated from public records of when people starred the repo. Lines connect observations only; gaps contain no measured points.
Growth % starts at each project's first observed point in the shown range. Zero-star starts are unavailable.
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Numbers: GitHub, fetched nightly. Facts: read from each project's own documentation, with the source on its page. How we check. mushigaite/short-video-maker ↗RafaelGodoyEbert/ViralCutter ↗jipraks/yt-short-clipper ↗