Show HN: LocalClip – A local-first AI video clipper for Mac

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LocalClip — Turn long videos into viral clips, 100% on your Mac

100% local · private · free forever

One recording. Weeks of content.

Stop uploading hours of video. LocalClip is an AI video studio that runs directly on your Mac — it finds your best moments and turns them into vertical clips with subtitles, titles and hashtags. No cloud. No uploads. No per-minute pricing.

Download for Mac

See how it works<br>Free · Apple Silicon · runs on your GPU (mlx)

localhost:8000 · LocalClip

Live Q&A — Tuesday stream (1h 42m)

up to 8 clips of 20–60s

Creating clips

Queued

Subtitles

Best moments

4Creating clips

0:38<br>this is the part<br>nobody tells you

The part nobody tells you<br>#advice #real

0:27<br>I tried it for<br>30 days straight

30-day experiment results<br>#challenge #results

0:45<br>the biggest mistake<br>beginners make

Biggest beginner mistake<br>#tips #howto

Rendering clip 4…

Why local<br>Stop uploading hours of video

Cloud tools make you upload multi-GB files, wait in a queue and pay for every processed minute — because they pay for the GPUs. LocalClip runs on the hardware you already own.

Faster processing<br>No upload, no queue. Transcription and rendering start instantly on your Mac's GPU (mlx / Apple Silicon).

Privacy by design<br>Your footage never touches a server. Nothing to upload, nothing stored in someone else's cloud.

Fixed cost<br>No per-minute billing, no per-clip credits. Because it runs on your device, we don't pay for your compute.

Unlimited clips<br>Render as many clips from as many videos as you want. Your hardware is the only limit — and it's idle anyway.

AI Studio<br>The clipper is just the beginning

LocalClip is a local video-understanding engine. It watches your recording once — and turns it into everything you need to publish.

🔴 Live stream<br>🎙️ Podcast<br>💻 Zoom / Meet<br>🖥️ Webinar<br>🎬 Any video

AI understands your content

Transcribes, detects the best moments — 100% on your Mac

Viral clips Today<br>Word-by-word subtitles Today<br>Titles & hashtags Today<br>Chapters Soon<br>Summary & blog post Soon<br>LinkedIn / X posts Soon

How it works<br>From long video to clips in 3 steps

Drop a file, let it run, post the results. That's the whole workflow.

Drop your video<br>A recorded video or a saved livestream — pick a file, no upload needed.

AI does the work<br>It transcribes, finds the strongest moments and cuts vertical 9:16 clips with word-by-word subtitles.

Post everywhere<br>Download and post to TikTok, Reels, Shorts or Facebook. One clip works on all of them.

The difference<br>LocalClip vs cloud tools

Same output. None of the uploading, waiting or paying per minute.

LocalClipCloud tools

Runs on your GPU (free)—

Video stays private—

No upload wait—

Fixed cost — no per-minute billing—

Word-by-word subtitles✓

Finish a live. Have a week of content.

Get the beta for macOS (Apple Silicon). Drop your email and we'll send you the download + updates.

Get the DMG

⬇ Download for Mac (Apple Silicon)

Free · ~615 MB · unsigned beta — right-click → Open the first time

⚠️ LocalClip needs a Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer). Your Mac looks like Intel, so it won't run — write to us if you need an Intel build.

How to install

1. Open the DMG and drag LocalClip to Applications.

Easiest (no Terminal)<br>Double-click LocalClip → on the “Apple could not verify…” warning, open System Settings → Privacy & Security → scroll down → “Open Anyway” → confirm with your password / Touch ID.

Or with Terminal — Run this once, then open it normally:<br>xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/LocalClip.app

Unsigned beta — nothing is uploaded or collected.

Ideas, problems or questions?

Tell me what you'd improve or what broke. I read everything and reply.

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