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

LocalClip, a local-first AI video clipper for Mac, launched on Show HN. The app runs entirely on-device using Apple Silicon, offering instant transcription and vertical clip creation without cloud uploads or per-minute pricing. It targets content creators who want to avoid the queues and costs of cloud-based tools.

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. 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. No upload, no queue. Transcription and rendering start instantly on your Mac's GPU mlx / Apple Silicon . Your footage never touches a server. Nothing to upload, nothing stored in someone else's cloud. No per-minute billing, no per-clip credits. Because it runs on your device, we don't pay for your compute. Render as many clips from as many videos as you want. Your hardware is the only limit — and it's idle anyway. LocalClip is a local video-understanding engine. It watches your recording once — and turns it into everything you need to publish. Drop a file, let it run, post the results. That's the whole workflow. A recorded video or a saved livestream — pick a file, no upload needed. It transcribes, finds the strongest moments and cuts vertical 9:16 clips with word-by-word subtitles. Download and post to TikTok, Reels, Shorts or Facebook. One clip works on all of them. Same output. None of the uploading, waiting or paying per minute. Get the beta for macOS Apple Silicon . Drop your email and we'll send you the download + updates. ⬇ Download for Mac Apple Silicon /api/download Free · ~615 MB · unsigned beta — right-click → Open the first time xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/LocalClip.app Tell me what you'd improve or what broke. I read everything and reply.