Current version · 3.10.1

What's new in Clippin

Clippin improves continuously. Updates are free, and your settings, profiles, and job history carry over automatically. The app tells you in the sidebar when a new version is out.

3.10.1 Latest July 2026

Faster Insights — the background performance check now prioritizes posts that are actually live, so real views and likes show up on your clips and the Insights page much sooner after posting.

3.10.0 July 2026

⚡ One-click YouTube fix — the hardest setup step is now a button: Clippin probes each installed browser's cookies and saves the first one that actually works. No more manual browser picking.
Smarter guided setup — the wizard now starts with the real question: auto-post through upload-post, or the free post-it-yourself path (folder + Telegram delivery)? It only walks you through what your path needs.
Errors in plain English — failed jobs now explain what actually went wrong ("YouTube blocked the download — fix cookies") with a link to the fix, instead of raw tool output. The technical details are still one click away.
Small polish — the manual-schedule toggle now shows whether your Telegram bot is connected right in the profile form, and the ~140MB speech model downloads quietly in the background instead of stalling your first captioned clip.

3.9.1 July 2026

Help & setup refresh — the in-app Help page now covers both posting paths (auto-post vs. save-to-folder with a manual schedule), the new Insights page, and a clearer one-minute Telegram bot walkthrough — including the easy-to-miss "message your bot once" step.

3.9.0 July 2026

Manual posting schedule — save-to-folder profiles can now plan real posting times too: clips get paced, natural slots that show on the Calendar, and at post time Clippin sends the clip + its caption straight to your Telegram, ready to post natively from your phone. No posting service required.
Smart delivery — clips over Telegram's size limit are automatically compressed for delivery (the full-quality file stays in your export folder), and posts missed while your PC was off get a single catch-up summary instead of a flood.

3.8.0 July 2026

Real post performance — Clippin now automatically pulls views, likes, comments, and shares back from your published posts and shows them right on each clip in Jobs, next to the AI's predicted viral score. See prediction vs. reality at a glance.
New Insights page — total views/likes/engagement across your tracked posts, your top posts, whether high viral-score clips actually outperform, and a "what's working for you" breakdown showing which options (hooks, captions, zooms, music, and more) correlate with your better-performing posts.

3.7.1 July 2026

In-app update reliability — closed out several edge cases that could leave an update stuck mid-install or the app not reopening afterward, and removed a leftover confirmation prompt that could pop up right as an update finished. Updating should now complete cleanly every time, start to finish, with no manual steps.

3.6.0 July 2026

In-app updates — click "Update" in the sidebar and Clippin downloads, installs, and restarts itself automatically, no more manual download and reinstall. (This is the last update you'll need to install by hand — every one after this applies itself.)

3.5.1 July 2026

Optional usage analytics — a new Settings toggle (off by default) lets you share anonymous feature-usage counts to help us improve Clippin. No videos, clips, captions, filenames, or license/email ever leave your device — see the Privacy Policy for details. You're asked once, right after activating or starting a trial, and never nagged again.
Changelog cleanup — older major versions on this page now collapse into one line, so the latest release is front and center.
Site-wide navigation fixes — a few pages (Privacy, Terms, Refunds, Affiliate Terms) were missing the full site nav; every page now matches.

3.4.0 July 2026

Sound effects in the Clip Editor — a new Sounds tab and timeline lane: upload your own short sound clips, drop them wherever you want in a clip, drag to retime, and hear them play back live as you preview — mixed into the final render at the exact moment.
Smoother Preview mode — fixed a bug where the composited Blur/Split preview stuttered during playback; the underlying video layers now play in sync instead of being repeatedly re-seeked.
Calendar thumbnails — scheduled-post thumbnails now fall back gracefully to the branded placeholder if upload-post's preview image is briefly unavailable, instead of showing a blank box.
Under the hood — dependency updates for stability and security.

3.3.0 July 2026

A more professional Clip Editor — clips now live directly on the timeline (no separate list), a Source/Preview toggle shows the actual composited output at any time, a Select/Frame tool keeps drags predictable, and full undo/redo (Ctrl+Z) covers every edit.
Smarter AI camera follow — fixed a smoothing bug that could leave the tracked crop trailing behind a fast subject move, and switched to eased motion between samples for a more natural pan instead of a mechanical one.
Better-timed punch-zoom — now prefers genuine emphasis words (intensifiers, superlatives, numbers) over any long word, so the zoom lands where the delivery actually punches.
Frame mode, live — Crop/Blur/Split moved into the Clip Editor next to the preview, and all three now render an accurate live look — including a new swap toggle for two-speaker Split when the layout is mirrored.
Captions tab preview — see how captions/watermark/hook actually look while you're fixing transcribed words, not just down in the Style section.
Quieter Telegram alerts — YouTube's feed hiccups no longer page you on every check; alerts fire once a channel is genuinely stuck, with a clear reason and a follow-up when it recovers.
Under the hood — updated dependencies to patch known security issues, with a couple of small hardening improvements.

3.2.0 July 2026

Dual video — record your facecam and gameplay/screen separately and Clippin composites them for you: picture-in-picture or stacked, with per-clip position and size in the Clip Editor and a live preview as you drag.
Frame-accurate keyframes — fixed a rounding issue that could shift a hand-placed clip's cuts by a few frames, so a keyframed pan or zoom landed a beat before the actual scene change instead of exactly on it.
Credit the source channel — profiles (and one-off clips from a pasted YouTube link) can add a "🎥 credit: @channel" line to the post caption automatically, on by default.
Open-source licenses — a new Settings → About tab lists every third-party component Clippin is built on and its license.

3.1.2 July 2026

Settings, organized — the Settings page is now grouped into clean tabs (Connections · AI & usage · License · Data & backups) with a health strip up top.
Ctrl+K command palette — jump to any page or action from the keyboard, with arrow-key navigation.
Native-style right-click menu — cut / copy / paste / select-all in fields, plus Back, Forward, and Reload — styled to match the app.
Smoother everywhere — toast notifications, subtle button & hover animations, brand-styled touches… and a little confetti when a clipping batch finishes. 🎉
Forms that make sense — clip options reorganized: captions lead the Style section, the Hook now sits before the End card, AI features sit next to Clipping, and per-section options were moved to where you'd expect them.
Easier reactivation — moved PCs or an expired activation now get a clear “Reactivate” screen instead of the trial pitch.

3.1.1 July 2026

Premium output by default — clips now render in crisp 1080p with bold word-pop “karaoke” captions turned on, in a viral display font (Anton), ALL-CAPS with a punch on the active word.
Sharper everything — higher-quality encoding and Lanczos scaling for cleaner text and footage.
Auto-emoji controls — choose emoji size, how often they appear, the entrance animation (pop / fade), and position (above, top, or beside the caption), backed by a bigger keyword library.
Remove-watermark upgrade — take the Clippin.app mark off every clip with a one-time $9.99 upgrade, right from Settings → Upgrades.
Extra PC seats — add another computer to your license for $9.99, and see your seat usage in Settings.

3.1.0 July 2026

Free trial — try Clippin before you buy: make up to 30 clips free in Quick Clip Studio, saved to a folder. Just an email to start, no credit card.
One-click activation — enter a license key any time to unlock the full app: the Clip Editor, profiles, channel autopilot, auto-posting, and unlimited clips.
Add a PC to your license — need Clippin on a second computer? Buy an extra seat and it's added to your key automatically.

3.0.0 July 2026

The Clip Editor — a hands-on timeline studio. Scrub a video on a waveform + filmstrip, mark exactly where each clip starts and ends, and build them all in one place — with a zoomable timeline, a live 9:16 preview, and drag-to-trim clips.
Frame every clip by hand — drag the 9:16 crop where you want it, keyframe a pan and zoom (with Linear / Smooth / Hold motion), snap to guides, one-click AI Auto-frame, or let AI Follow the subject across the shot.
Edit the captions — transcribe a clip on your own PC and fix any words by hand before they burn in.
Per-clip effects — flip, speed & slow-mo, fade in/out, volume / mute, and colour (brightness, contrast, saturation, vignette) — all previewed live over your real footage, with subtitles on top.
Trend pack — automatic colour emoji on keywords, punch-in zooms on emphasis, and sound effects (whoosh + pops).
Two-speaker split — stack both people from one 16:9 frame, top and bottom — perfect for interviews & podcasts.
Cleaner audio & smarter cuts — one-toggle loudness normalization + noise reduction, and cut points that snap to natural pauses so clips never start mid-sentence.
More formats — also save 4:5 and 1:1 versions of every clip for feed posts, alongside the 9:16.
AI cost widget — an optional at-a-glance spend readout in the sidebar.

Version 2.x 2 releases July 2026 ▸

2.1.0 July 2026

Viral-score quality gate — set a minimum score and Clippin holds weaker clips in review instead of auto-posting them, so only your strongest cuts go out.
Brand-safety word filter — block clips whose captions contain profanity or your own custom words, to keep a channel advertiser-friendly.
Sample preview — render and watch a single clip right in the app before you commit a whole batch or schedule anything.
Better AI covers — cover title text is now properly centered, with new cover-style choices for the look you want.
Re-clip a source — Clip Studio can now re-cut a video that's already in your Jobs, with different settings, without removing it first.
Cleaner setup — profile and Clip Studio forms hide options until their parent toggle is on, so the screen only shows what applies.
Built-in bug reporter — send us a problem (with an optional, redacted system snapshot) straight from the app.

2.0.0 July 2026

A ground-up redesign — a refined, faster, more premium dashboard from top to bottom: a cleaner sidebar and status bar, a new at-a-glance Overview with a live activity chart, and consistent polish across every screen.
Polished in-app dialogs — confirmations and prompts now use clean in-app dialogs that match the design, instead of your browser's plain popups.
Expanded AI usage analytics — a full breakdown of your spend: a 14-day trend, input/output tokens, and per-feature and per-provider totals, not just a single number.

Version 1.x 21 releases 2026 ▸

1.18.0 July 2026

Choose your AI — use Claude, OpenAI, or Gemini with your own key, or run the AI features free and fully offline with a local Ollama model. No lock-in, no required cloud bill.
More B-roll sources — pick Pexels, Pixabay, or Unsplash for auto stock cutaways (all free), with automatic fallback between them.
Safe-zone captions — a toggle that keeps burned-in captions clear of TikTok's and Reels' on-screen buttons and caption bar.
Diagnostics page — a one-screen health check for the bundled tools, your keys, disk space, and (if you use it) your local AI server.
Housekeeping — optional disk auto-cleanup of old processing files, and a configurable daily posting window.

1.17.0 July 2026

Face tracking — a dynamic reframe that makes the vertical crop smoothly pan to follow the subject across each clip, instead of a fixed crop. Nobody drifts out of frame on moving footage. Powered by AI vision — one quick look per clip.

1.16.0 July 2026

AI usage & cost cap — see exactly what you've spent on Claude this month, and set an optional monthly budget that pauses AI once it's hit. No surprises on pay-as-you-go.
Duplicate a profile — clone a whole recipe (style, AI, schedule) into a new paused profile in one click, then just change the channel.
Bulk actions in Jobs — retry all failed, approve all in review, or archive everything finished, without going clip by clip.
Finish notifications — get a desktop ping (and an in-app toast) the moment a batch is done clipping.
Launch polish — a quick branded splash while the app spins up.

1.15.2 July 2026

Post everywhere at once — pick TikTok, Instagram Reels, and/or YouTube Shorts with a clean new picker, and each clip goes out to all of them.
Reworked Clip Studio — the live preview now stays pinned as you scroll and automatically follows whatever you're editing (hook, captions, end card), so you never lose sight of it.
Effects in the preview — color grade, vignette, film grain, and the progress bar moved into the Style panel and now show right in the preview — and get saved with your style presets.
Polish — the pinned live preview stays in view and follows what you're editing across both Clip Studio and the Profiles page, and profiles now get their own dedicated Music section.

1.14.0 July 2026

Watch a folder — point a profile at a local folder and Clippin auto-clips any new video you drop in — no YouTube needed. Great for screen recordings, exports, or a shared drive.
Podcast & audio clips — feed Clippin an audio file (or a folder of them) and it turns each into a captioned vertical video with a live waveform, ready for TikTok/Reels/Shorts.

1.13.0 July 2026

Bundled viral fonts — six punchy display fonts (Anton, Bebas Neue, Archivo Black, Bangers, Barlow Condensed, Poppins) ship right inside Clippin, so you get the real TikTok/MrBeast look without installing anything.
Color-grade presets — one click for Vibrant, Warm, Cool, Cinematic, B&W, or Vintage, plus optional vignette and film grain for a more produced feel.
More caption control — ALL-CAPS toggle, words-per-line, adjustable caption-background opacity, and animation styles (fade-in, big pop) on the word-pop captions.
Progress bar — a slim animated progress bar (your color) to nudge viewers to the end.

1.12.3 July 2026

Dedicated port — Clippin now runs on its own uncommon port instead of the busy default 3000, so it won't collide with other developer tools you might run. Everything works exactly the same — the dashboard still opens in its own window.

1.12.2 July 2026

Security hardening — the local dashboard now binds strictly to your own PC, and its data endpoints (backup export/import) reject cross-site requests, so a webpage you visit can never reach them. A recommended update for everyone.

1.12.1 July 2026

License manager — a new License section in Settings shows your activation, lets you enter a different key, and remove the license from a PC. The guided setup is also reachable from Settings anytime, not just on first run.

1.12.0 July 2026

Guided setup wizard — a friendly step-by-step walkthrough for new installs: connect upload-post, add your Claude and Pexels keys, enable YouTube downloads (with a built-in check), and create your first profile — each with inline save + test buttons so you're clipping in minutes.
Auto cover / thumbnail — Clippin can now save a ready-made, titled cover image next to every clip (bold word-pop title over a clean frame), so you have a scroll-stopping TikTok cover to set with one tap. A toggle in the AI section.
Live output demo — the site now shows the word-pop caption look in motion so you can see exactly what comes out.

1.11.1 July 2026

Auto B-roll — Clippin finds the keyword moments in a clip and drops in relevant stock footage as full-frame cutaways (with a subtle zoom), the way the top AI clippers do it. Captions stay on top. Uses a free Pexels API key.
Fixes — boxed captions now render as one clean solid bar (no more overlapping band), and viral scoring works for channel/profile clips, not just manual ones.

1.10.0 July 2026

“Clip anything” search — describe the moments you want in plain English (“where they talk about pricing”, “funniest reactions”) and AI finds them, instead of only auto-picking generic highlights.
Keyword-highlight captions — the important words stay colored in your accent, the way the top short-form editors do it. A toggle on the word-pop style.
Auto-zoom — a subtle slow zoom (alternating per clip) that adds energy to static talking-head footage.

1.9.1 July 2026

Blurred-fit frame mode — show the whole video (nothing cropped) centered over a blurred background, with a zoom control. Perfect for footage that moves around or isn't centered.
Smoother word-pop captions — the karaoke animation now stays on a clean single line and no longer jumps up and down between words.
Cleaner Clip Studio — reorganized into tidy collapsible sections that match the profile page.

1.8.0 July 2026

Local AI transcription — Clippin now transcribes speech on your own PC (bundled Whisper). Captions work on any video, including local files with no captions. Nothing is uploaded; a one-time ~140MB model downloads the first time you use it.
Word-pop “karaoke” captions — the signature viral look, where each word highlights as it's spoken. A new subtitle style, fully stylable and shown in the live preview.
Silence & filler trimming — automatically cut dead air and “um/uh” filler so talking-head clips stay punchy.

1.7.0 July 2026

AI viral scoring — Clippin rates every clip's viral potential from 0-100 with a short reason (“strong curiosity hook”, “no hook, rambling”), so you can post — or prioritize — the strongest cuts instead of guessing.
Scores show right on the Jobs dashboard: a top-score badge per video and a 🔥 rating on every clip.

1.6.0 July 2026

Style presets — save a look (fonts, colors, positions for subtitles, watermark, hook, and end card) and apply it to any profile or clip in one click.
Opening hook text — add a "Wait for it…" style overlay to the first seconds of every clip, a proven retention booster that pairs with the end card.
Both are built into the live preview — a new Hook tab shows exactly how it'll look.

1.5.0 July 2026

Clip Studio — a dedicated page to clip any video with full creative control.
Live style preview — see your subtitles, watermark, and end card on a 9:16 mockup as you edit, before rendering anything.
Way more style options — pick fonts, colors, sizes, and on-screen positions for subtitles, watermark, and the end card (with a dark or light band).
Manual clips get the full toolkit — one-off clips now support every style + music option, not just profiles.

1.4.0 July 2026

Update-proof settings & data — installing a new version now keeps your profiles, history, and connected keys. Nothing to re-enter.
Encrypted backups — export everything to one password-protected file (AES-256) to move to a new PC or keep a safe copy.
Smarter scheduling — new clips always append after your existing queue instead of jumping ahead.
Fixed the Windows taskbar icon — the app window now shows the Clippin icon, not the browser's.

1.3.0 July 2026

Clip local video files — point Clippin at a video on your PC, not just YouTube links.
End-card call-to-action — a "Follow for more" message fades in over the last seconds of each clip.
Background music — mix your royalty-free tracks under (or in place of) each clip's audio.
Burned-in subtitles — three styles, rendered straight from the video's captions.
Self-updating downloader & in-app update notices — keeps working as YouTube changes.

1.2 2026

AI highlight picking — clips the best moments from the transcript instead of blind sequential cuts.
AI smart framing — aims the 9:16 crop at the subject so people aren't cut in half.
1080p output, on-clip watermark/branding, and review mode to approve clips before posting.

1.0 2026

Initial release — watch a YouTube channel, auto-cut vertical 9:16 clips, write AI captions, and schedule them to TikTok. All on your own PC.

How updating works

Clippin checks for new versions and shows an "update available" link in the sidebar. Updating is safe — your data lives outside the app folder and is never touched.

Download the latest installer from this site.

Stop Clippin from the tray, then run the installer over your current version.

Launch — everything's exactly where you left it.

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