# YT Short Clipper

> YT Short Clipper v2 (v2.0.7-beta, September 2026) is a Tauri desktop app for Windows only. You paste a YouTube URL, an LLM reads the video's own subtitle track and proposes 58-120 second highlights, and each clip is reframed to 9:16 (MediaPipe face tracking or centred) with burned-in captions. Needs your own YouTube cookies.txt. Works with any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, including local Ollama. MIT. No virality score, no local file input documented, and it needs a source with subtitles. Official builds send anonymous usage events to Google Analytics.

- Repository: https://github.com/jipraks/yt-short-clipper
- Official docs: https://github.com/jipraks/yt-short-clipper#readme
- 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). YouTube URLs only, Windows only, beta; captions come from YouTube's subtitle track; publishing only through the third-party Repliz service.

## Facts, with sources

| Question | Status | Answer | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runs on my machine? | Confirmed | Yes, Windows desktop app; the LLM step can be local (Ollama, vLLM) or a cloud API | https://github.com/jipraks/yt-short-clipper#readme | 2026-10-15 |
| Code licence | Confirmed | MIT | https://github.com/jipraks/yt-short-clipper/blob/main/LICENSE | 2026-10-15 |
| Model weights licence | Confirmed | No bundled LLM weights; uses the provider you configure (MediaPipe for face tracking) | https://github.com/jipraks/yt-short-clipper#readme | 2026-10-15 |
| Commercial use | Confirmed | Yes, MIT code; you must have rights to the YouTube videos you re-cut | https://github.com/jipraks/yt-short-clipper#legal | 2026-10-15 |
| Paid services needed? | Partial | Not required with a local Ollama/vLLM model; cloud LLM APIs, the in-app AI wallet and Repliz upload are optional paid extras | https://github.com/jipraks/yt-short-clipper#ai-providers | 2026-10-15 |
| Hardware | Unknown | Not documented | none found | - |
| Operating systems | Partial | Windows 10/11 only; not ready for macOS or Linux | https://github.com/jipraks/yt-short-clipper#readme | 2026-10-15 |
| Setup effort | Confirmed | Easy, portable zip from GitHub Releases; building from source needs Node, Rust and Python | https://github.com/jipraks/yt-short-clipper/releases | 2026-10-15 |

GitHub: 1039 stars, 310 forks, last push 2026-09-20, archived: no.
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