ClipsPal

What makes it different

Dan records a video for every app he launches, and editing was the part he kept putting off: cutting failed takes and silences, adding zooms and subtitles, then cutting shorts. So he built ClipsPal, a desktop app for Mac and Windows that does that work for you — it cuts failed takes and silences on its own (his last video: 15:35 of footage down to 5:40), adds zoom-ins, subtitles, visuals, motion slides and sound, then turns the video into vertical shorts and an article.

Your footage stays on your computer and transcription runs locally. ClipsPal runs on the AI you already pay for — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini or Ollama — takes plain-word requests through Director, lets your agent edit through MCP, and opens the edit as a timeline in Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve. You pay once, with no subscription.

ClipsPal launched on Product Hunt on 8 November 2026, and public revenue trackers already show real money: TrustMRR lists $882 in Stripe-verified revenue over the last 30 days and $5,441 verified over its tracked history — a small but genuine revenue base for a buy-it-once desktop tool in a market full of monthly subscriptions.