Clipto

Clipto turns the media already sitting on your hard drive into something you can ask questions of. It indexes video, audio, documents and images locally, transcribes speech, tags the people and scenes it finds, and then lets you retrieve a moment by describing it rather than by remembering a filename. Nothing is uploaded: the indexing and the search both run on your own machine, which is the point for anyone whose footage is under NDA, contains clients, or is simply too large to push to a cloud service.

Who it is for. Video editors and creators with archives measured in terabytes, researchers sitting on interview recordings, and anyone who records meetings, lectures or calls and then cannot find the thirty seconds that mattered. The company reports indexing roughly 2TB of video in 24 hours on a MacBook Pro M5, so the archive-scale case is the one it is built around.

Agents, not just search. The desktop app ships a set of built-in agents — Deepfinder for retrieval, ScriptCut for matching a script to footage and assembling a rough cut, a Meeting Notetaker, a Media Downloader and a Premiere Pro plugin. In August 2026 Clipto added Clipto MCP, which exposes that same local index to outside AI clients over the Model Context Protocol: connect ChatGPT, Claude or Cursor and the assistant can explore approved local media, surface moments you would have missed, and draft cuts and B-roll maps against your real footage, all without the files leaving the machine.

Platforms and price. Native apps for macOS (Apple silicon) and Windows, plus companion iPhone and Android apps for capture and transcription. Clipto is subscription-only after a 7-day free trial with full Premium access; at the time of writing the site lists an introductory first month at $9.99 against a $24.99 regular monthly price, or $12.49 per month billed annually. Premium covers unlimited video and audio search, automatic speech transcription, automatic people tagging, 99+ languages, video analysis up to six hours per file, and access to the advanced models.