# podcli

> podcli (v2.8.1, October 2026) turns a podcast episode into 9:16, 16:9 or 1:1 clips with whisper.cpp transcription, speaker face tracking and four caption styles, plus multicam episode editing, a local web studio, 30 MCP tools and YouTube publishing. AGPL-3.0, with a paid commercial licence and a paid Pro cloud editor. AI clip scoring uses Claude or Codex; audio energy and laughter detection also find highlights. Hardware needs are not documented; Intel Macs not yet supported. Publishing is YouTube only.

- Repository: https://github.com/nmbrthirteen/podcli
- Official docs: https://podcli.com/docs
- Checked: 2026-10-15

## What it replaces
- Opus Clip: 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 (partial). Podcast-focused; publishing is YouTube only and there is no per-clip virality score.

## Facts, with sources

| Question | Status | Answer | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runs on my machine? | Confirmed | Yes, CLI and local web studio; transcription and rendering run on your machine | https://github.com/nmbrthirteen/podcli#readme | 2026-10-15 |
| Code licence | Partial | AGPL-3.0 (commercial licence available on request) | https://github.com/nmbrthirteen/podcli/blob/main/LICENSE | 2026-10-15 |
| Model weights licence | Confirmed | Downloads whisper.cpp models (OpenAI Whisper weights, MIT) | https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/LICENSE | 2026-10-15 |
| Commercial use | Partial | Yes under AGPL-3.0 conditions; a paid commercial licence is offered without AGPL terms | https://github.com/nmbrthirteen/podcli#license | 2026-10-15 |
| Paid services needed? | Partial | Not required for transcription and rendering; AI clip scoring uses Claude or Codex; AssemblyAI and podcli Pro are optional | https://github.com/nmbrthirteen/podcli#readme | 2026-10-15 |
| Hardware | Unknown | Not documented; hardware encoding on VideoToolbox, NVENC or VAAPI with CPU fallback | none found | - |
| Operating systems | Confirmed | macOS (Apple Silicon only), Linux x64 and arm64, Windows x64 | https://github.com/nmbrthirteen/podcli#install | 2026-10-15 |
| Setup effort | Confirmed | Easy; one-line installer fetches a binary and provisions Python, Node, FFmpeg and whisper.cpp | https://github.com/nmbrthirteen/podcli#install | 2026-10-15 |

GitHub: 78 stars, 14 forks, last push 2026-10-10, archived: no.
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