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          <span class="eyebrow">Descript vs Clips Kitty</span>
          <h1>A free Descript alternative for turning long videos into clips</h1>
          <p class="lead">
            Descript is a full video and podcast editor that you edit like a document. Clips
            Kitty does one part of that job: it finds the best moments in a long video and
            turns them into captioned vertical clips, for free, on your own PC.
          </p>
          <p class="lead">
            If you mostly use Descript to cut clips out of streams, podcasts or long videos,
            this page is for you. If you use the whole editor, the section on when Descript is
            the better choice is written for you too.
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              <p class="title">Clips Kitty is free &amp; open source ❤️</p>
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                It runs entirely on your PC with no fees. Please consider donating to help
                cover development costs and keep it free for everyone.
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            <a class="btn btn-accent" href="https://paypal.me/clipsstudio" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Donate to Clips Kitty</a>
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      <section>
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          <h2>The short version</h2>
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            Switch for clipping if you turn long recordings into short clips regularly, you
            own a Windows PC with a graphics card, and you would rather not pay per seat or
            count media hours.
          </p>
          <p class="section-lead">
            Keep Descript if you edit by transcript, record your screen or your podcast in it,
            share projects with a team, or work on a Mac. It does those well, and Clips Kitty
            does not do them at all.
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          <h2>Descript vs Clips Kitty, row by row</h2>
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                  <th>&nbsp;</th>
                  <th>Clips Kitty</th>
                  <th>Descript</th>
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                  <td><strong>What it is</strong></td>
                  <td>A clipper: finds the moments, crops to 9:16, captions them and writes the titles.</td>
                  <td>A full video and podcast editor you edit like a document, with AI tools.</td>
                </tr>
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                  <td><strong>Price</strong></td>
                  <td>Free. AGPL-3.0, no paid tier.</td>
                  <td>Free plan; Hobbyist $16, Creator $24, Business $50 per person a month billed yearly ($24, $35 and $65 billed monthly); Enterprise on request.</td>
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                <tr>
                  <td><strong>Hours you can process</strong></td>
                  <td>Unlimited.</td>
                  <td>Media hours by plan: 60 minutes on Free, then 10, 30 and 40 hours a month.</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td><strong>AI allowance</strong></td>
                  <td>None to run out of: the AI runs on your PC.</td>
                  <td>AI credits by plan: 100 once on Free, then 400, 800 and 1,500 a month.</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td><strong>Watermark and resolution</strong></td>
                  <td>Never a watermark. Exports at your source's quality.</td>
                  <td>Free exports 720p with a watermark; Hobbyist 1080p; Creator and Business 4K.</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td><strong>Clips from a long video</strong></td>
                  <td>Automatic: it scores every moment on what was said, how the audience reacted and what is on screen, then crops and captions the best ones.</td>
                  <td>Create Clips from Hobbyist up, and the Underlord AI editor (limited on Hobbyist).</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td><strong>Editing by transcript</strong></td>
                  <td>No. Its editor trims, cuts, mutes words, adds a hook, music and a watermark.</td>
                  <td>Yes. It is the heart of the product.</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td><strong>Translation and dubbing</strong></td>
                  <td>19 languages, free.</td>
                  <td>30+ languages, on Business.</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td><strong>Where processing happens</strong></td>
                  <td>Your PC, unless you choose cloud AI.</td>
                  <td>Their cloud.</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td><strong>Account required</strong></td>
                  <td>No.</td>
                  <td>Yes.</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td><strong>Mac</strong></td>
                  <td>No. Windows 10 and 11 only.</td>
                  <td>Yes, macOS 14 or later.</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td><strong>Hardware needed</strong></td>
                  <td>16 GB RAM, NVIDIA RTX 2060 or newer recommended.</td>
                  <td>8 GB RAM; Windows 11 or macOS 14 or later.</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td><strong>Source code</strong></td>
                  <td>Open. Auditable and forkable.</td>
                  <td>Closed.</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td><strong>The AI model</strong></td>
                  <td>Your choice: local through Ollama, or a cloud model through OpenRouter on your own account.</td>
                  <td>Theirs.</td>
                </tr>
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          <p class="note">
            Descript plans, prices, media hours, AI credits, export limits and plan features
            checked on 1 October 2026 at
            <a href="https://www.descript.com/pricing" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">descript.com/pricing</a>,
            and the system requirements in
            <a href="https://help.descript.com/getting-started/descript-system-requirements" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Descript's help centre</a>.
            Their plans change, and this table does not update itself. Only the rows above were
            verified: anything not listed here is something we did not check rather than
            something they lack.
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      </section>

      <section>
        <div class="wrap">
          <h2>What it actually costs over a year</h2>
          <p class="section-lead">
            Per-person monthly pricing hides the number that matters, so here it is written
            out.
          </p>
          <ul class="ticks">
            <li>
              <strong>Hobbyist at $16 a month is $192 a year</strong>, Creator at $24 is $288,
              and Business at $50 is $600, per person, billed yearly. Billed monthly, the same
              three are $288, $420 and $780.
            </li>
            <li>
              <strong>Media hours decide the plan as much as features do.</strong> A weekly
              three-hour stream is about 13 hours a month, which is past Hobbyist's 10 and
              inside Creator's 30.
            </li>
            <li>
              <strong>On your own hardware the marginal cost is electricity.</strong> A mid
              range graphics card draws a couple of hundred watts under load. That is pennies
              per stream, whatever the length.
            </li>
            <li>
              <strong>Cloud AI is pay as you go, paid to OpenRouter directly.</strong> In our
              test, clipping a 2-hour stream with Gemma 4 26B-A4B for the AI and Whisper
              large-v3-turbo for the transcription, both through OpenRouter, cost about 11
              cents. What you pay depends on the models you pick and the length of the video.
            </li>
            <li>
              <strong>The crossover is what you use it for.</strong> If you need Descript's
              editor anyway, its clip tools come with it. If clipping is the whole job, you are
              paying for an editor you do not open.
            </li>
          </ul>
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      </section>

      <section>
        <div class="wrap">
          <h2>Where your video goes</h2>
          <p class="section-lead">
            A cloud editor needs your media on its servers before it can work on it. That is
            how the architecture works, not a criticism of any particular company.
          </p>
          <p>
            It matters more in some situations than others: unreleased footage, sponsor reads
            under embargo, a guest who signed something, a client's rushes. Clips Kitty reads
            the file where it already sits, and by default nothing leaves your machine. The
            full detail is in the <a href="privacy.html">privacy policy</a>, which is short and
            specific.
          </p>
          <p>
            Two exceptions, both off until you switch them on. If you choose cloud AI, the
            transcript, and the audio when transcription runs in the cloud, go to the service
            you signed in to; the video itself stays on your PC. And publishing a finished clip
            sends that clip to the platforms you post it to.
          </p>
        </div>
      </section>

      <section>
        <div class="wrap">
          <h2>Cloud AI, on your own account</h2>
          <p class="section-lead">
            Local AI is the default, and it needs a reasonably modern graphics card. When a PC
            is too old for that, Clips Kitty can run the clip scoring and the transcription in
            the cloud instead.
          </p>
          <p>
            Sign in with your OpenRouter account and pick the models; it is billed to your own
            account, with no Clips Kitty server in between. Everything else, the cropping, the
            speaker tracking, the captions and the rendering, still happens on your PC. The
            detail is in
            <a href="https://github.com/ColinGPT9/clips-studio/blob/main/docs/AI-BACKENDS.md#2-openrouter-recommended-cloud-ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the AI backends guide</a>.
          </p>
          <p>
            Descript's AI runs through OpenRouter too: Descript is one of the top apps on
            <a href="https://openrouter.ai/apps/descript" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">OpenRouter's public app rankings</a>. The difference is who pays for it. With Descript, the AI is paid for
            inside its plans and AI credits. With Clips Kitty you pay OpenRouter directly, at
            OpenRouter's own prices, and Clips Kitty takes nothing. In our test, a 2-hour stream
            cost about 11 cents.
          </p>
        </div>
      </section>

      <section>
        <div class="wrap">
          <h2>When Descript is the better choice</h2>
          <p class="section-lead">
            This section is here because it is true, and because you will find out anyway.
          </p>
          <ul class="ticks">
            <li class="weak">
              <strong>You edit by transcript.</strong> Deleting words to cut the video is
              Descript's core idea, and Clips Kitty has nothing like it.
            </li>
            <li class="weak">
              <strong>You record in it.</strong> Screen recordings and podcast recording are
              part of Descript. Clips Kitty starts from a finished video.
            </li>
            <li class="weak">
              <strong>You work as a team.</strong> Clips Kitty has no shared projects: clips
              live on the machine that made them.
            </li>
            <li class="weak">
              <strong>You use a Mac.</strong> Clips Kitty is Windows only, and no future
              release fixes that soon.
            </li>
            <li class="weak">
              <strong>You do not have a graphics card and do not want cloud AI.</strong> It
              runs on the processor, but slowly enough that most people give up on it.
            </li>
            <li class="weak">
              <strong>You want support with someone behind it.</strong> This is alpha
              software, the installer is unsigned so Windows shows a warning the first time,
              and the support channel is a GitHub issue tracker.
            </li>
          </ul>
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          <h2>What Clips Kitty does that is not on that list</h2>
          <ul class="ticks">
            <li>
              <strong>Streams, not just recordings.</strong> Paste a Twitch or Kick VOD or a
              YouTube link, or watch a channel and let it clip each new video by itself.
            </li>
            <li>
              <strong>Game streams and reaction videos.</strong> The streamer's webcam and the
              game together, in eleven layouts.
            </li>
            <li>
              <strong>Soccer matches.</strong> Goals, saves and cards as clips, with a match
              recap and team or player reels.
            </li>
            <li>
              <strong>It learns a creator.</strong> Running jokes, catchphrases and ongoing
              storylines feed into how their moments are scored, and it stays on your PC.
            </li>
          </ul>
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          <h2>Questions people ask before switching</h2>

          <h3>Is there a free alternative to Descript?</h3>
          <p>
            For turning long videos into clips, Clips Kitty is free with no paid tier at all. It
            runs on your own Windows PC, so there are no media hours to count, no watermark and
            no per-seat price. It is not a replacement for Descript's whole editor: it does the
            clipping part of the job, not editing by transcript.
          </p>

          <h3>Is there an open-source alternative to Descript?</h3>
          <p>
            Clips Kitty is open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence. You can read every line,
            including every line that touches the network, change how clips are scored, or fork
            it. Because the licence cannot be revoked, a copy you have today keeps working
            whatever happens to the project.
          </p>

          <h3>Can Clips Kitty replace Descript?</h3>
          <p>
            If you use Descript mainly to cut clips out of streams, podcasts or long videos,
            yes. If you edit by transcript, record your screen or podcast in it, or share
            projects with a team, no: Clips Kitty does none of those, and Descript does them
            well.
          </p>

          <h3>Does Clips Kitty upload my video anywhere?</h3>
          <p>
            No. Transcription, scoring, speaker tracking, captions and rendering run on your own
            machine by default. If you choose cloud AI, the transcript, and the audio when
            transcription runs in the cloud, go to the service you signed in to; the video
            itself stays on your PC. Publishing is optional and off by default.
          </p>

          <h3>Does Clips Kitty work with OpenRouter?</h3>
          <p>
            Yes, as an option. When your PC is too old to run the AI itself, sign in with your
            OpenRouter account and the clip scoring and transcription run on models you pick.
            OpenRouter bills your own account directly and Clips Kitty takes nothing: in our test,
            a 2-hour stream cost about 11 cents. Local AI stays the default.
          </p>

          <h3>Does Descript use OpenRouter?</h3>
          <p>
            Descript is one of the top apps on <a href="https://openrouter.ai/apps/descript" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">OpenRouter's public app rankings</a>, so its AI runs at
            least partly through OpenRouter. With Descript, that AI is paid for inside its plans
            and AI credits. With Clips Kitty's cloud AI you pay OpenRouter directly, at its own
            prices.
          </p>

          <h3>Do I need a graphics card to run it?</h3>
          <p>
            It runs without one, on the processor, but slowly enough that most people will not
            enjoy it, unless the AI runs in the cloud through OpenRouter. An NVIDIA card makes
            the largest single difference. The published minimum is Windows 10 or 11, 16 GB of
            RAM and an RTX 2060 or newer, and the 16 GB is a requirement rather than a
            suggestion.
          </p>
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          <h2>Try it on one long video</h2>
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            The honest test is your own footage. Run one stream or episode through it and see
            whether the moments it picks are the ones you would have picked.
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