Single speaker
Tracks the active face and keeps it centred as they move. Talking heads, interviews shot on one camera.
Klap is the paste-a-link clipper. Drop in a YouTube, Twitch, Zoom or Drive URL and it returns scored vertical shorts with animated captions, reframed by AI Reframe 2, which understands webcams, screen shares and gameplay well enough to build split-screen and picture-in-picture layouts on its own. Billing is by uploaded minutes with unlimited clips, and there's a usage-priced API. This page covers the workflow, the reframing, the captions, the prices and how it compares.
Klap's whole pitch fits in one sentence: paste a YouTube link and get finished shorts. It accepts links from YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch, Google Drive, Facebook, Dailymotion, Zoom, Loom and Riverside, or a direct upload, up to four hours. The Virality Score ranks candidate clips 0–100 on hook strength, pacing, retention signals and topic relevance; the top few are usually right.
The billing model is minutes uploaded per month, with unlimited clips from those minutes. That rewards squeezing many clips from short sources and penalises long VODs you only want two clips from.
YouTube is the headline, but Twitch VODs, Zoom and Loom recordings, Riverside sessions and Drive files work too. Choose the clip-length range and how many clips you want; minutes are deducted on upload, not per clip.
Each candidate gets a 0–100 Virality Score from hook strength, pacing, retention signals and topic relevance. Sort by it, then sanity-check the top five; scores are a ranking, not a prediction.
It detects what's on screen and picks a layout: single speaker, split-screen for two, a 3–4 speaker grid, or PiP for screen shares and gameplay. Override per clip if it guesses wrong.
Dynamic captions with animated keyword emphasis; set fonts, colours, placement and logo once and save it as a preset. One-click translation makes a second-language version of the same clip.
Direct publish or schedule to YouTube Shorts, Instagram and TikTok, with unlimited connected accounts and analytics on paid plans. Export the MP4 instead if a campaign requires native upload.
It classifies zones in the frame, then composes a vertical layout from them. These are the four it reaches for most.
Tracks the active face and keeps it centred as they move. Talking heads, interviews shot on one camera.
Two speakers stacked. Podcasts and remote interviews; switches emphasis with who's talking.
Screen share or slides on top, webcam below. Tutorials, webinars, product demos.
Game capture fills the top, streamer cam underneath. Twitch and Kick VODs. See gaming clips.
Three- and four-speaker podcast grids are also supported. Reframe decisions are per clip and can be overridden in the editor.
Entry paid tiers, monthly billing unless noted. Full reviews linked.
| Klap | OpusClip | Vizard | Submagic | Katto | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From | $29 ($14 annual) | $15 | $29 ($14.50 annual) | $19 | €8.90 (€4.90 annual) |
| Billing unit | Minutes in, unlimited clips | Credits per minute | Credits | Videos (≤2 min on Starter) | Videos |
| Link input | YouTube, Twitch, Zoom, Drive, Loom… | Public MP4 URLs (Pro) | YouTube | Upload | YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo, Zoom… |
| Reframing | Reframe 2: split, PiP, gaming, 3–4 up | Speaker tracking | Speaker tracking | Basic | Speaker + split-screen |
| Captions | 52 languages, presets | Multi-language | 100+ languages | 123 languages, best styling | 99 languages |
| Scheduler | YT, IG, TikTok | 6 platforms (Pro) | Yes | Pro+ | 7 platforms (Creator) |
| API | Usage-based, any plan | Pro+/Business | Paid plans | Business ($69) | All plans |
| MCP | — | Yes | — | — | Yes, 16 tools |
| Best for | Link-in clipping, multi-layout reframes | Full autopilot | Teams, languages | Caption finish | Agent pipelines |
OpusClip has the stronger scheduler, B-roll and MCP; Klap has better multi-speaker and gaming reframes and cheaper annual entry. Pick OpusClip for autopilot, Klap for stream VODs. OpusClip review
Same monthly entry price. Vizard wins on languages and team workspaces; Klap wins on link sources and layout detection. Vizard review
Different jobs. Klap finds and frames clips from a long source; Submagic polishes a short you already have. Many creators run both. Submagic review
Katto is cheaper and agent-native (MCP, CLI, free re-renders). Klap has the more mature reframing and more link sources today. Katto review
USD, October 2026. The free test is one conversion with no signup, not a recurring free plan. Overage isn't published ("Need more? Let's talk").
Sources: YouTube, S3, GCP, public URLs; up to 5 hours for long-to-short. Docs are thin on webhooks, rate limits and export URL lifetime, so budget time for testing. Worked example: one 90-minute podcast → 10 shorts exported ≈ $0.44 + $3.20 + $4.80 = $8.44.
Resolution, codec and file-size limits aren't on the plan grid. Minute accounting (rounding, failed uploads) isn't documented either; test with a short file first.
Paste links, no downloads. 300 minutes covers three or four long episodes a month on Basic.
Reframe 2's gameplay + cam layout is the best automatic one in this group. Twitch VOD links work directly. See Twitch auto clipper.
Split-screen and 3–4 speaker grids without manual cropping. The reason to choose Klap over single-speaker-tracking tools.
Unlimited clips from each minute suits 20-minute sources you want ten clips from. Model it against a per-project tool in the earnings calculator.
A 4-hour stream eats 240 of 300 minutes for two clips. ClipForge's per-project pricing fits that better.
The August 2026 privacy policy says opt-in for sharing data with third-party AI models is still in progress. Client footage under NDA may need a self-hosted option like SupoClip.
There's a one-time free conversion with no signup and no watermark, enough to judge the output. There's no recurring free plan; Basic is $29 a month or $14 billed yearly.
Unlimited from the minutes you upload. Basic includes 300 uploaded minutes a month; a 60-minute video uses 60 of them however many clips you export. Older pages mention clip caps; the current plan grid doesn't.
Yes. Reframe 2 detects both faces and can split-screen them or follow whoever is talking. For three or four hosts it builds a grid.
It's a ranking from hook strength, pacing, retention signals and topic relevance. Useful for ordering 20 candidates; not a forecast of views. Check the top five by eye.
Through the usage-priced API: $0.44 per input, $0.32 per short, $0.48 per export. No MCP server is documented, so for agent use see clipping MCP servers or Katto.