Price terms as published

Each line is the vendor’s own wording, split from the price capture checked on 2026-10-16. Nothing here is rounded, converted or re-worded — the full sentences stay in the review below. Lines that carry only a price continue the plan named on the line above, in the vendor’s own order.

2 price terms for Clipto
#Plan / termChecked
1Free download2026-10-16
2Pro $9.99 first month then monthly billing, or $12.49/mo billed yearly (50% off tag)2026-10-16

One-liner: Clipto is a desktop app (Mac and Windows) that automatically understands and organizes your local video, audio, photos, documents, and bookmarks into a private “memory,” then lets you — or an AI agent over MCP — find any moment by description (“Alex pushed the launch date”) and jump to the exact timestamp in the source file. Nothing has to be uploaded to use it; cloud intelligence is optional.

Verified facts (checked 2026-10-16)

Attribute Value Source
Price Pro: new-customer $9.99 first month (list $24.99) billed monthly, or $12.49/mo billed yearly under a “50% OFF” tag; 7-day free trial Official /pricing page, fetched same day
Free tier App download and local search are free — “Local Video Search — Unlimited, no cost”; AI enrichment (transcription, tagging) sits behind Pro Official /mcp page + /pricing, same day
Platforms macOS and Windows desktop app Official site
What it indexes Footage, meetings/calls/interviews, voice memos, photos/screenshots, PDF/DOCX/slides, bookmarks Official homepage
Agent access MCP server (“Clipto MCP”) connects the local memory to Claude Desktop, ChatGPT (add Clipto as an app), Cursor, VS Code / any MCP-compatible tool; 14 search/organization/memory tools exposed Official /mcp page
Traceability Answers cite the exact source moment with timestamp (“33:20 Launch sync”) Official homepage examples
Languages “Support 99+ languages” for transcription (Pro) Official /pricing page
Single-file limit Analyze videos up to 6 hours long (Pro) Official /pricing page
Launch buzz Clipto MCP ranked #1 Product of the Week (Aug 19, 2026) and #1 Product of the Month for August 2026 on Product Hunt; the base app ranked #1 of the day on May 31, 2026 Product Hunt listing (third-party), cross-checked via search snapshot 2026-09-10
Open-source component Clipto MCP server listed on GitHub with ~646 stars at time of writing AgentFilter directory (third-party, verified date 2026-09-07); GitHub itself not directly fetched

This is an official-information entry: we have not indexed our own archive with it or run agent queries for a week, so there is no score. Every claim above comes from the developer’s pages or an attributed third-party source. The vendor pages were re-read on 2026-10-16 and the prices were unchanged.

Creators, podcasters, agency editors, and marketers share the same dead weight — terabytes of footage, call recordings, and screenshots on local drives that are effectively lost. Finding one moment means scrubbing timelines or emailing yourself files. Cloud asset managers solve search but force uploads of raw footage, which is slow, expensive, and often impossible for confidential material.

Clipto’s bet is the opposite order: understanding happens first, on your machine, into a persistent memory that compounds (“Raw files flow in. Understanding builds. Memory compounds”). The MCP layer then makes that memory reachable from the AI chat you already use — the vendor’s pitch is literally “Your local memory × Agent intelligence.”

The agent workflow it actually enables

The /mcp page spells out two concrete loops that go beyond “search your files”:

  1. Script-to-clips. A Claude/Cursor agent calls clipto_search_media per script section (semantic description → time ranges), then clipto_get_clip for each, then a video-generation tool assembles an editable cut. The marketing claim is a finished multi-scene sequence “in about 5 minutes.”
  2. Interview-to-article. clipto_search_text over transcripts, clipto_get_content to quote originals, then clipto_save_text writes the draft back into the library.

Because every hit carries a timestamp into the source file, the output is auditable — a real differentiator versus an agent hallucinating “what Alex said.”

Where the model gets honest limits

  • The subscription gate is real. Unlimited local keyword-style search is free, but the features that make it valuable at scale — automatic speech transcription, people tagging, 99+ language support, 6-hour files, advanced models — are Pro. Judge it as a $10-12.50/mo tool, not a free one.
  • Pricing page mixes discounts. The $9.99 is explicitly a new-customer first-month price against a $24.99 list; monthly renewal amount after the first month is not printed on the page we fetched. The yearly figure ($12.49/mo) is the cleanest anchor.
  • “Free to connect / No hidden fees” is about the MCP server, not the app — don’t read the connector as a free license to the memory engine.
  • Indexing cost is yours. On-device understanding of terabytes means CPU/GPU time and initial indexing patience; the fetched pages make no claims about indexing speed, so treat “find any moment in seconds” as query-side, not ingestion-side.
  • GitHub star count and MCP-tool details come from third-party directories, not a direct repo fetch — minor, but flagged.

Who it’s for

  • Video-first creators and editors with multi-year local archives who keep re-shooting because they can’t find old footage
  • Podcasters / agency teams mining interviews and client calls for quotable moments
  • Agent tinkerers who want their Claude/Cursor to answer from local evidence instead of the cloud’s memory of what you uploaded
  • Not for: one-off users with a few clips (a folder and a filename convention wins), or teams needing shared cloud asset management with role permissions — Clipto’s memory is per-machine, local-first

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