One command turns any video into branded, captioned, vertical clips ready for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts. Word-by-word karaoke captions. Your logo and colors. AI picks the best moments from long footage. No upload credits, no watermark, no subscription.
Free and unlimited. Windows + Python + ffmpeg. Your footage never uploads anywhere.
| Cloud clip tools ($15-29/mo) | Clip Local | |
|---|---|---|
| Your footage | Uploads to their cloud | Stays on your machine |
| Cost per month | $15-29 + metered minutes | $0, unlimited |
| Watermark | On free tiers | Never |
| Animated captions | Yes | Yes — word-by-word pop + keyword highlighting in your brand color |
| 9:16 vertical reframe | Yes | Yes |
| AI highlight picking | "Virality score" | Same technique, your API key, optional |
| Brand presets per client | Paid tiers | Free — one config file each |
The full tool, unlimited. README covers setup, brand presets, caption styles, and the highlights mode.
Remote install tuned to your hardware, your brand preset built (colors, logo, keywords), and a finished test clip before we hang up.
For businesses: everything in Setup plus a filming cheat-sheet, team training, and your first five clips edited done-for-you.
They charge monthly, meter your upload minutes, and process footage in their cloud. Clip Local does the core job — captions, reframe, branding, highlight picking — on your machine, unlimited, free.
The tool, yes, forever. The $97/$497 options are my time: setup, branding, training, first clips.
Windows, Python 3.10+, ffmpeg (all free). One command per video after that.
Purpose Built AI — an engineer's practice that rebuilds overpriced cloud tools as local software and builds content systems for businesses.
Send us your episodes and we cut the clips for you, branded and posting-ready. A flat setup fee, not a per-clip agency meter.
Dictation, video clips, meeting notes, and voiceover. The subscription tools, rebuilt to run on your machine. All free, all readable code, all yours.