# Snipri

> AI video clipping that explains why each moment deserves to be a clip. Snipri turns long podcasts and interviews into captioned vertical clips.

You give
it a source — an uploaded file, a pasted link, or a file picked out of Dropbox or
Google Drive — and it transcribes the audio with word-level timings, has a
language model pick the moments that stand on their own rather than cutting at
arbitrary pauses, reframes each one to vertical with the speaker tracked, and
burns in word-by-word captions with the spoken word highlighted as it lands.
Every clip it keeps comes with five scores (hook, payoff, standalone sense, arc
and quotability) and a written reason for keeping it. Clips come back ready for
TikTok, Reels, and Shorts, and any of them can be re-captioned afterwards —
font, colour, position, highlight style, emoji — without re-running the job.

## Clips and languages

Clips run 15 to 60 seconds by default. Before a job you can choose 10 to 30
seconds, 30 to 60 seconds, 60 to 90 seconds or 90 seconds to 3 minutes instead.
A job returns up to 10 vertical 1080×1920 clips and at most 10 minutes of clips
in total, so longer clips come back fewer. One clip, chosen before the job
instead, keeps up to 10 minutes of the video as a single clip.

Snipri transcribes and captions 25 languages: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian,
Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak,
Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Choose the spoken language
when you add a video, or let Snipri detect it. Captions are written in the
spoken language; Snipri does not translate them.

## Pricing

Plans count videos, not minutes or clips. A video is one recording, or one part
of a longer upload, that comes back with at least one clip, and one job gives up
to 10 clips. A video counts once for each hour of it, rounded up, so an hour or
less is one video and a 90-minute recording is two. A job that fails or finds
nothing worth clipping is not counted, and edits, re-renders and splits of
finished clips are free. From a video that found no clips, making the first of
its near-misses into a clip counts the video, and any after it are free.
Paid plans are billed monthly in USD, with a number of videos per billing cycle
that does not roll over. Where the app offers it, each paid plan can also be
billed yearly at 20% less ($286.90, $862.90 or $2,869.90 a year), with the same videos
every month. Free includes 2 videos once and never refills. Clips never expire.
Each plan sets how long one video can be; link, Dropbox and Google Drive imports
bring in up to 1 hour on every plan.
Cloud imports and paid checkout depend on availability shown in the app.

- Free: $0, 2 videos once, up to 1 hour each, watermark on output
- Starter: $29.90/month, 10 videos, up to 2 hours each, counted by the hour, no watermark, API access
- Pro: $89.90/month, 30 videos, up to 3 hours each, counted by the hour, no watermark, uploads up to 10 GB, API access
- Scale: $299/month, 100 videos, up to 3 hours each, counted by the hour, everything in Pro

## Links

- [Snipri](https://www.snipri.com/): What it does, with examples.
- [Pricing](https://www.snipri.com/pricing): Plans, allowances, yearly prices, what counts as a video, and cancellation.
- [Docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs): Step-by-step guides to every screen and tool: signing in, adding a video, the settings before a job, each editor tool, the brand kit, downloads, plans and billing, what each message means, and the API.
- [Blog](https://www.snipri.com/blog): Guides to clip lengths, sizes and captions for Shorts and Reels, and to clipping long videos, each with its sources.
- [Features](https://www.snipri.com/features): Clip selection, auto reframe, animated captions, the brand kit and the clip editor, each with its numbers and what it does not do.
- [Use cases](https://www.snipri.com/tools): Podcasts, interviews, webinars, YouTube videos and other long talking videos.
- [Compare](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives): Dated, sourced comparisons with 19 clipping, caption and video tools, Opus Clip, Klap, Vizard and Ssemble among them, and the tools that closed or have not launched.
- [Clip review checklist](https://www.snipri.com/resources/podcast-clip-review-checklist.txt): Reusable selection and publishing checklist.
- [Clip decision log](https://www.snipri.com/resources/podcast-clip-decision-log.csv): Blank CSV template for source timestamps and editorial decisions.
- [About](https://www.snipri.com/about): Who builds and runs Snipri, and what is built today.
- [Fact sheet](https://www.snipri.com/ai-info): What Snipri is, how it works, plans, limits, languages, what it does not do, and how it relates to the formats and tools it is mentioned with.
- [Every page in full](https://www.snipri.com/llms-full.txt): The home page, pricing, the fact sheet, the docs and every feature, use case, comparison and guide below, as Markdown in one file.
- [Blog feed](https://www.snipri.com/rss.xml): RSS feed of the guides, newest first.
- [Affiliate program](https://www.snipri.com/affiliates): Earn 20% of each payment from the customers you refer, for their first 12 months, tracked and paid by Lemon Squeezy.
- [Contact](https://www.snipri.com/contact): One address, hello@snipri.com, for clips, billing, bugs, copyright and press.

## Docs

Each guide covers one task in the app, with the limits that apply printed from the code that sets them, and what to do when something goes wrong.

- [How Snipri works](https://www.snipri.com/docs/how-snipri-works): What Snipri does with a long recording: it reads the transcript, picks the moments that stand on their own, then reframes and captions each one.
- [Make your first clips](https://www.snipri.com/docs/make-your-first-clips): A first job from start to finish: sign in, add a video in the Studio, choose how it is clipped, get clips, then review and download them in My clips.
- [Find your way around Snipri](https://www.snipri.com/docs/find-your-way-around): The four screens of the app and what each one is for: the Studio, My clips, Brand and Plan & videos, with the bar on top and the account menu.
- [Sign in and manage your account](https://www.snipri.com/docs/sign-in-and-account): Sign in with Google or with a code sent to your email address, what to do when a code doesn't arrive, and how to sign out or close your account.
- [Upload a video file](https://www.snipri.com/docs/upload-a-video): Which files Snipri takes, the largest upload and longest video on each plan, and what to do when an upload stops partway or a file can't be read.
- [Import a video from a link](https://www.snipri.com/docs/import-a-video-from-a-link): Paste a link to a public video or a video file, or pick one from a cloud drive, and Snipri fetches it for you. Which links work and the limits that apply.
- [Clip a video longer than your plan covers](https://www.snipri.com/docs/clip-a-long-video): Each plan covers a set length of each video. How to clip a longer recording one part at a time with the timeframe, and how each part is counted.
- [Choose the spoken language](https://www.snipri.com/docs/choose-the-spoken-language): Set the language a video is spoken in, or let Snipri detect it: the languages Snipri transcribes and captions, and when naming the language helps.
- [Choose how a video is clipped](https://www.snipri.com/docs/choose-clip-settings): Every setting the Studio offers before a job: Best moments or One clip, the length of each clip, the kind of video, moments to look for and the captions.
- [See why a clip was chosen](https://www.snipri.com/docs/why-a-clip-was-chosen): Every clip Snipri picks keeps the five scores it was chosen on and the reason in a sentence. Where to find them, and what each of the scores measures.
- [When a video comes back with no clips](https://www.snipri.com/docs/near-miss-clips): When no moment clears Snipri's bar, a job ends with no clips and offers the moments that came closest. How to make one into a clip, and what it counts.
- [Find and manage your clips](https://www.snipri.com/docs/manage-your-clips): How My clips lists every video and its clips: search and filters, the strip that marks where each clip came from, previews, renaming and deleting.
- [Download your clips](https://www.snipri.com/docs/download-clips): Save one clip or every clip from a video as MP4 files: the size of the files, when a watermark is on them, and how long Snipri keeps your clips.
- [Edit a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-a-clip): A map of the clip editor: the transcript, the tool rail, the toolbar over the video and the timeline, and how a save renders the clip again for free.
- [Edit a clip's transcript](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-the-transcript): Correct a word the transcription got wrong, replace a word everywhere, hide words from the captions, cut words out with their footage and add emoji.
- [Change a clip's caption style](https://www.snipri.com/docs/change-caption-style): Pick a caption style before a job or in the editor, change the font, colours, highlight and position of the captions, and save a look to use again.
- [Add text to a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-text-to-a-clip): Put a title, a name or a note over the video, choose its font, size and colour, place it by dragging and set when it shows on the timeline.
- [Add images and video to a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-images-and-video): Lay a photo or a logo over a clip, cut away to a video of your own, put your brand's logo and text on a clip you already have, and take them off again.
- [Add an intro and an outro](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-an-intro-and-outro): Open a clip on a short video of your own and close it on another: what an intro or an outro can be, how it plays, and how to preview the whole clip.
- [Edit the opening hook](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-the-opening-hook): The title card a clip opens on: turn it on or off before a job, rewrite its words, set how long it stays on screen and move it on the video.
- [Add B-roll to a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-b-roll): Cover one phrase of a clip with stock footage from Pexels: which phrase it covers, how to search for a shot, how it plays and how to take it off again.
- [Add music to a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-music): Put a track of your own under a clip, choose where it starts and whether it loops, and set the volume and fades of the music and of the clip's sound.
- [Trim and split a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/trim-and-split-a-clip): Change where a clip starts and ends, by a step, a sentence or a time you type, shorten its long pauses, and split it into two clips at the playhead.
- [Reframe a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/reframe-a-clip): Change a clip's format, choose how each scene is framed, from one person to a screen with the speaker, and move the frame over the original video.
- [Keyboard shortcuts in the editor](https://www.snipri.com/docs/editor-keyboard-shortcuts): Every key the clip editor answers to, from playing and saving to moving layers and walking the transcript, and how to open the list inside the editor.
- [Set up your brand kit](https://www.snipri.com/docs/set-up-your-brand-kit): Save your caption look, colours, font, logo and handle on the Brand page, so every new clip starts in your style, and put the kit on clips you already have.
- [How videos are counted](https://www.snipri.com/docs/how-videos-are-counted): Snipri counts videos, not minutes or clips: one for each hour of the part a job reads, and only when the job comes back with clips. What is always free.
- [Plans and limits](https://www.snipri.com/docs/plans-and-limits): What each Snipri plan includes: its price, its videos, the longest video it covers, the largest upload, the watermark and the API, and yearly billing.
- [Change or cancel a plan](https://www.snipri.com/docs/change-or-cancel-a-plan): Start a paid plan, move to another plan or to yearly billing, update payment details and cancel, and what each step does to your videos and access.
- [How long a job takes](https://www.snipri.com/docs/how-long-a-job-takes): What each step of a Snipri job does, how long a typical job takes, whether you can close the tab, and when a job that stops moving is marked as failed.
- [Why a job failed, and what to do](https://www.snipri.com/docs/why-a-job-failed): Every message the Studio shows when a job stops before it gives you clips, what each one means and how to fix it. A failed job never counts against a plan.
- [Fix an edit that won't save](https://www.snipri.com/docs/fix-an-edit-that-wont-save): Why Save changes is unavailable or a render fails, what each message in the clip editor means, and how to keep your edits when you leave or reload.
- [Get started with the Snipri API](https://www.snipri.com/docs/get-started-with-the-api): Send videos to Snipri from your own code: the plans that include the API, making a key, a first request, and how every request and answer is shaped.
- [Create and revoke API keys](https://www.snipri.com/docs/manage-api-keys): Make a key for the Snipri API, copy it the only time it is shown, keep it where no one else can read it, and revoke it once it is no longer needed.
- [Send a video through the API](https://www.snipri.com/docs/send-a-video-with-the-api): Make a job from a link or from a file with the Snipri API: the request, the upload links, files sent in parts, starting the job and retrying safely.
- [Set clip options in an API request](https://www.snipri.com/docs/api-clip-options): Every field a Snipri API job request takes: the source, the spoken language, the name and the webhook, then each clip setting from the genre to captions.
- [Read jobs and clips through the API](https://www.snipri.com/docs/read-jobs-and-clips): Follow a job through its statuses with the Snipri API, read its clips with their scores and download links, and page through every job on the account.
- [Receive webhooks when a job ends](https://www.snipri.com/docs/receive-webhooks): Have Snipri post each job to your server when it ends: set the endpoint, read the event, check its signature, answer in time and replace the secret.
- [API errors and limits](https://www.snipri.com/docs/api-errors-and-limits): Every error the Snipri API answers with, what each one means and what to do, plus the rate limits, the cap on jobs in progress and why a job failed.

## Features

Each page answers what the feature is, shows how it works in three steps with a picture each, and says what it does not do.

- [AI clip selection](https://www.snipri.com/features/ai-clip-maker): How Snipri scores every moment, keeps only those that stand on their own and shows why each clip was chosen.
- [Auto reframe](https://www.snipri.com/features/auto-reframe): How a horizontal video becomes a vertical 9:16 clip, shot by shot, with two or three people given a pane each.
- [Animated captions](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions): Word-by-word captions in every language Snipri transcribes, burned in and restyled any time after export.
- [Brand kit](https://www.snipri.com/features/brand-kit): A logo, a handle, a font and a caption look saved once and worn by every new clip, on every plan.
- [Clip editor](https://www.snipri.com/features/clip-editor): Trim, split or extend a clip, rewrite its hook title, and add text, images, B-roll and music, re-rendered free.

## Use cases

- [Podcast clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/podcast-clip-maker): A video podcast episode into captioned vertical clips that make sense on their own.
- [Interview clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/interview-clip-maker): Long interviews into captioned clips of answers that stand on their own.
- [Webinar clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/webinar-clip-maker): Recorded webinars, talks and live sessions into short captioned clips.
- [YouTube Shorts maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/long-video-to-shorts): One long video into several YouTube Shorts, Reels and TikToks.
- [YouTube clip maker](https://www.snipri.com/tools/youtube-clip-maker): Clips from a YouTube video, from its public link or the uploaded file, framed 9:16 and captioned.

## Comparisons

Each page names its sources and the date they were checked. Dumme (not released) and LiveLink (closed) have no page; the hub lists what became of each at https://www.snipri.com/alternatives#discontinued.

### Clip makers for long recordings

- [Opus Clip pricing vs Snipri: plans and credits](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/opus-clip): Opus Clip charges a credit for each minute of the video you import and posts for you; Snipri counts each hour of a recording as one video, and its clips never expire.
- [Klap AI alternative for podcasts and interviews](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/klap): Klap counts the clips it makes and posts them for you; Snipri counts the recordings you bring and keeps fewer, standalone clips.
- [Vizard AI alternative for podcasts and interviews](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vizard): Vizard sells minutes as credits in tiers and adds 4K and scheduling; Snipri counts recordings by the hour and exports 1080p on every plan.
- [Vidyo.ai alternative, now quso.ai, with pricing](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/vidyo-ai): Now quso.ai: credits of about a minute each, scheduling to several platforms and 99 caption languages; Snipri counts recordings instead.
- [WayinVideo pricing vs Snipri: Wayin AI credits](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/wayinvideo): WayinVideo sells credits whose value its pricing page leaves to the help center, and imports from many sites; Snipri counts each hour of a recording as one video.
- [2short AI alternative for podcasts and interviews](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/2short-ai): 2short.ai meters hours of analysis and needs videos that already have captions; Snipri counts recordings and transcribes the speech itself.
- [SendShort alternative for full-length videos](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/sendshort): SendShort sells a monthly count of shorts with a scheduler and B-roll, clipping long videos from Professional; Snipri counts recordings on every plan.
- [Cutlabs alternative for clipping long recordings](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/cutlabs): Cutlabs' AI Clipper and Moment Search find highlights, on a watermarked free plan with no published prices; Snipri publishes every plan and limit.

### Clip tools for streamers

- [Ssemble pricing vs Snipri: what a credit covers](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/ssemble): Ssemble starts at $6/month billed yearly and posts for you, but a credit covers 20 minutes of a video; Snipri reads the whole recording.
- [Nexus Clips pricing vs Snipri: Free and Pro plans](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/nexus-clips): Nexus Clips connects YouTube and Twitch and posts for you, but shows no price on its site; Snipri lists every plan and what it covers.
- [Spikes Studio alternative for long recordings](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/spikes-studio): Spikes Studio sells minutes, schedules posts on PRO+ and stores clips for 90 days; Snipri counts each hour of a recording once, and its clips never expire.

### Caption and editing tools

- [Submagic pricing vs Snipri: plans and video limits](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/submagic): Submagic styles captions and adds B-roll to short videos, each capped at 2 to 30 minutes; Snipri starts from the full recording and finds the clips.
- [VEED.io alternative for clipping long recordings](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/veed): VEED is a browser video editor whose AI clip generator points to Pro for full access; Snipri only clips, on every plan, counted by the hour of recording.
- [Wisecut alternative for clipping long videos](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/wisecut): Wisecut is an editor that cuts silences and adds music, with Highlights for clips; Snipri does only the clipping, with every pick scored.
- [Zubtitle alternative for clips from long videos](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/zubtitle): Zubtitle captions, brands and resizes talking videos under 20 minutes; Snipri finds the clips in recordings that run for hours, then captions them.

### AI video studios with a clip maker

- [Munch AI alternative and Munch Studio pricing](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/munch): Munch Studio plans, writes and posts your social media, with video repurposing on each plan; Snipri only turns recordings into clips, for less.
- [Short AI alternative for clipping long videos](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/short-ai): Short AI is mostly a faceless video generator whose clip maker costs 20 credits a minute; Snipri only clips, and counts each hour of a recording once.
- [ClipGoat alternative for clipping your own videos](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/clipgoat): ClipGoat makes shorts from YouTube links, Reddit posts and AI stories and schedules them; Snipri clips the recordings you upload, at listed prices.
- [Qlip alternative after the Livestorm acquisition](https://www.snipri.com/alternatives/qlip-ai): Qlip is now part of Livestorm, whose AI Studio clips Livestorm webinars as a yearly add-on in private beta; Snipri clips recordings from anywhere.

## Guides

Each guide opens with a short answer, cites its sources with the date each was checked, and belongs to one topic.

- [Short video formats and specs](https://www.snipri.com/blog/topics/formats): Lengths, sizes and safe zones for YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels.
- [How Long Can YouTube Shorts Be?](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-youtube-shorts-be): The 3-minute limit, the copyright rule between 1 and 3 minutes, and what makes a video a Short.
- [Instagram Reel Size](https://www.snipri.com/blog/instagram-reel-size): 1080 x 1920 at 9:16, the shapes Instagram accepts, the cover size and where text stays clear of the app's buttons.
- [How Long Can Instagram Reels Be?](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-long-can-instagram-reels-be): The 20-minute limit, the 3-minute line past which a reel is not recommended to new audiences, the 15-minute cap for Reels ads and how to keep a reel under 3 minutes.
- [YouTube Shorts Size](https://www.snipri.com/blog/youtube-shorts-size): 1080 x 1920 at 9:16, the square and vertical shapes that count as a Short, YouTube's upload settings, exporting without black bars and the 2160 x 3840 thumbnail.
- [Captions and subtitles for short videos](https://www.snipri.com/blog/topics/captions): Open and closed captions, burned-in text and reviewing captions before export.
- [Open Captions vs Closed Captions](https://www.snipri.com/blog/open-captions-vs-closed-captions): Burned-in captions against a caption track a viewer switches on, in W3C's definitions.
- [Podcast caption review](https://www.snipri.com/blog/add-captions-to-podcast-clips): Transcription, timing, readability and export checks.
- [Clipping long videos into short clips](https://www.snipri.com/blog/topics/clipping): Choosing moments, openings and tools for turning long recordings into Shorts, Reels and TikToks.
- [5 Best Opus Clip Alternatives in 2026](https://www.snipri.com/blog/5-best-opus-clip-alternatives): Prices, watermarks and feature gaps across five AI clippers, Snipri among them.
- [How to Make YouTube Shorts from Long Videos](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-youtube-shorts-from-long-videos): Six steps from a long recording to Shorts: choosing moments, openings, captions and framing.
- [How to Clip a YouTube Video](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-clip-a-youtube-video): Three ways to clip a YouTube video: the Clip button's 5 to 60 seconds that loop on the video's page, Edit into a Short for your own public videos, and vertical clips with captions from your own file.
- [How to Make Podcast Clips That Stand Alone](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-make-podcast-clips): How to clip a podcast: moments that stand alone, five checks for each, and tracking which clips bring viewers back.
- [Growing a channel with short clips](https://www.snipri.com/blog/topics/growth): How Shorts are paid and when to post them, from YouTube's own help pages and your own analytics.
- [YouTube Shorts Monetization](https://www.snipri.com/blog/youtube-shorts-monetization): How Shorts earn from the ads between them: the monthly pool, the share music takes, the split by engaged views, the 45% creators keep, the Partner Program thresholds and the 90-day rule from February 1, 2027.
- [Best Time to Post YouTube Shorts](https://www.snipri.com/blog/best-time-to-post-youtube-shorts): YouTube names no best hour: the report of when your viewers are on YouTube over the last 28 days, scheduling a Short for those hours, and comparing Shorts with your typical Shorts in the Content tab.
- [How to Start a Video Podcast That Clips Well](https://www.snipri.com/blog/how-to-start-a-video-podcast): A camera and a microphone for each voice, faces framed big enough for a 9:16 crop, recording in 4K, and the video specs YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts publish.

## Optional

- [Privacy Policy](https://www.snipri.com/privacy): How Snipri collects, uses and protects your data.
- [Terms of Service](https://www.snipri.com/terms): The terms that govern your use of Snipri, refunds included.
- [DMCA Policy](https://www.snipri.com/dmca): How to submit a copyright takedown notice.
- [Affiliate Program Terms](https://www.snipri.com/affiliates/terms): The rules for affiliates: commission, tracking, payouts and disclosure.

## Notes

The home page, pricing, the fact sheet, the docs and every feature, use
case, comparison and guide listed here can be read as Markdown: add .md to the
page's address (https://www.snipri.com/pricing.md; the home page is
https://www.snipri.com/index.md), or request the page's own address with the
header Accept: text/markdown.

Snipri is built and run by one person. You can paste a public YouTube video
link to import it. Only import videos you own or have permission to use.
Private, members-only and live videos are not supported. You can also upload
a video file or use Dropbox or Google Drive when enabled in the app.