Find clips in seconds
Paste a public YouTube URL with captions. Pick a style. Get clip cards with quotes, timestamps, and social copy.
AI picks the best moments from captions. Only clip content you have rights to republish.
How it works
Paste the YouTube URL
Any public video or Short with captions. We fetch the spoken-word transcript with timed segments.
Pick a clip style
Gradewise quotes for LinkedIn, Twitter viral for hot takes, Shorts hooks for Reels, or a mixed board.
Get clip cards
Each card has the exact quote, start/end time, tweet copy, and a YouTube deeplink at the right timestamp.
What you get per clip
AI moment picker
Gemini scans the timed transcript and picks 5–8 self-contained moments that work as standalone clips.
Precise timestamps
Quotes are fuzzy-matched back to caption segments so start and end times land on real spoken words.
Ready-to-post copy
Tweet hooks, LinkedIn blurbs, and Shorts captions generated per clip. One click to copy.
Rendered MP4s
Sign in to render clips with burned-in yellow captions. Pick 9:16 or 16:9 and download the MP4.
What this does, in 30 seconds
YouTube to Clips finds the moments worth clipping in any public YouTube video that has captions. It reads the timed caption track, picks up to 8 self-contained moments, then matches each quote back against the caption segments so the start and end land on words that were actually spoken rather than on an estimate. Each moment comes back as a card carrying the exact quote, its start and end time, tweet copy, and a YouTube deeplink that opens at that second. You can render any of them to an MP4 with burnt-in captions in 9:16 or 16:9. Finding clips is free; 2 watermarked renders a day are included.
The output
What a clip card looks like
Every moment returns in this shape. The layout below is an illustration of the format, not a clip from a real video.
Quote
The exact words spoken in that window, lifted from the caption track rather than paraphrased, so what you post is what was actually said.
Tweet copy
A hook written for the moment, under 280 characters, with no "he said" framing.
Deeplink
youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID&t=754s
Render
9:16 or 16:9 MP4 with burnt-in captions, downloaded straight from the card.
Questions
Straight answers
Is this an Opus Clip alternative?
It solves the same problem a different way. Opus-style tools analyse the video itself and hand back finished clips. This reads the caption track, picks the moments worth clipping, and gives you the quote, the exact timestamps, ready-to-post copy and a deeplink, with the MP4 render as an option rather than the whole product. That makes it much cheaper to run, which is why there is a free tier at all, and more useful if you also want the text.
Does the video need captions?
Yes. We read the caption track the video already has rather than running speech recognition ourselves. If a video has no captions there is nothing to read, and the tool will say so rather than guess at what was said.
How accurate are the timestamps?
The picked quote is matched back against the timed caption segments, so start and end land on words that were actually spoken rather than on an estimate. That matching step is the reason a clip does not open halfway through a sentence.
How many clips do I get?
Up to 8 per video. It is a ceiling rather than a quota: a short video with two good moments in it returns two, because padding the list with weak clips wastes your time more than a short list does.
Can I make YouTube Shorts or Reels with this?
Yes. Choose the Shorts hooks style so the picker favours moments with a strong opening line, then render vertical at 9:16 with burnt-in captions and download the MP4.
What is free?
Finding clips and reading the cards is free. Rendering is capped at 2 watermarked MP4s a day on the free tier; Pro Mini at $5 a month raises the cap and removes the watermark.
Can I clip any video I find?
Technically yes, legally that is your call. Only publish clips from content you own or have the right to republish. Someone else's video is still their video, and a clip of it is still their footage.
Working the other direction? YouTube to Article turns the whole video into a publishable post, and AI Video Maker goes from an article back to a video.
Pro Mini
Clean clips without the watermark.
Free tier gets 2 watermarked renders per day. Pro Mini unlocks more renders and clean exports.