Snipri is a one-person project. I build and run it myself — worth saying up front, because it explains both what it does unusually well and what it does not do yet.
Why it exists
Cutting a long video into short clips is mechanical work that still eats an evening: find the moment that stands on its own, trim it, reframe it for a vertical feed, caption every word, repeat. None of it is creative — it is the tax you pay for having recorded something good. Snipri brings that tax down to a few minutes of waiting.
How it works
You give Snipri a video — upload a file, or pick one out of Dropbox or Google Drive. From there every job runs the same pipeline:
- The audio is transcribed with word-level timings.
- A language model reads it looking for moments that stand on their own — a complete thought with a reason to keep watching. It scores the candidates and discards the weak ones, rather than cutting wherever there happens to be a pause.
- Each clip is reframed to vertical with the speaker tracked, so the subject stays in frame instead of drifting out of a centre crop.
- Captions are burned in word by word, the spoken word highlighted as it lands, with an optional title card over the opening seconds.
Clips arrive in your library ready to post, and you can re-caption any of them afterwards — font, colour, position, highlight style, emoji — without re-running the whole job.
What is built, and what is not
Working today: the pipeline above, the caption editor, and four plans. The free tier gives you 90 minutes of source video with a watermark on the output — that is a one-time allowance to try it with, not a monthly one. Paid plans start at $9 for 200 minutes every month and drop the watermark. Clips never expire on any plan; nothing is deleted out from under you.
Not built yet: a timeline for manual trimming and splitting, and API access on the Scale plan. Pasting a YouTube link is also unavailable right now — the platform blocks downloads from datacentre servers, which is a problem every tool in this category shares. Downloading from YouTube Studio and uploading the file works fine, as does importing from Drive or Dropbox.
If something is broken or missing, tell me — with one person building it, the feedback loop is genuinely short. If you would rather read than write, the blog covers what actually makes a clip work: hooks, captions, and which moments are worth cutting at all.