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How Clipsie works, and what to do when it doesn't
Connect Twitch, pick where clips go, stream. Clipsie watches chat, cuts the moments that pop, and posts them or holds them for your approval. Most questions below have a one-line answer; if yours does not, the contact form reaches a person.
Getting started
Sign up with an email address and password, or with Google. The first time you open the dashboard a short setup walks you through the four things Clipsie cannot work without:
- Twitch. Sign in with the Twitch account that owns the channel, or, if you clip for someone else, the account you clip from.
- Channel. Choose which Twitch channel Clipsie watches. Paid plans bill per channel, so a second channel is a second seat.
- Clipping. Set how many clips per streaming day you want and, on the free plan, the chat keywords that trigger one.
- Destination. Connect YouTube and TikTok, and decide whether clips post automatically or wait in the review queue.
You can leave the setup and come back; it resumes where you stopped. Everything it sets can be changed later in the dashboard, per channel.
Connecting Twitch, YouTube and TikTok
Each platform is connected once, through that platform's own sign-in screen. Clipsie stores the access token it gets back, encrypted, and never sees your password.
- Twitch is where Clipsie reads chat and the stream. Without it nothing is detected.
- YouTube posts as Shorts to the channel you pick during the Google sign-in. If your Google account has several YouTube channels, choose the one the clips belong on.
- TikTok posts to the account you authorise. TikTok asks you to confirm the privacy level of each clip; Clipsie writes what you set in the review card.
Reconnecting. Tokens expire or get revoked when you change a password, remove the app on the platform's side, or leave a platform's terms unaccepted for too long. The dashboard marks the platform as disconnected; open the Account tab and connect it again. Clips that were waiting to post stay in the queue until then.
How clipping works
Clipsie learns your channel's normal chat rhythm and watches for chat to erupt past it. Each spike is scored in two stages, on the reaction and on what was actually said, and only the moments with real potential become clips. Every clip is reframed to vertical 9:16 with face-aware cropping, captioned word by word, given a title and hashtags, and handed to your destinations.
- Clips per streaming day is the dial you control. Your plan sets how many clips a month you get in total, live and from your VODs together. Clipsie keeps watching after the day's quota is filled and gets pickier, so the clips you get come from the best of the whole stream. Once the month's clips are used up, clipping waits for the first of the next month, unless you let your credits carry it on (see credits).
- Your clip word in chat asks Clipsie to clip the moment that just happened. You choose the word under Channels (many choose !clip); until one is set, nothing listens. On the free plan this is the only trigger; on paid plans it works alongside automatic detection. Who may use it (mods only, or every viewer) is a channel setting on every plan.
- A quiet chat is topped up from the VOD. On paid plans, when a stream of 30 minutes or more ends short of your daily target, Clipsie goes through that stream's recording afterwards and picks moments from what was said and shown, no chat reaction needed. It runs once per streaming day and skips moments already clipped live. Its clips and the hours it searches count toward the month like any other.
- A stream with nothing in it produces fewer clips. If even the recording does not contain enough clippable moments, Clipsie posts fewer rather than forcing weak ones. The dashboard shows what each stream produced.
AI editor cut (every paid plan). Every clip that posts automatically gets a second pass from an AI editor before it goes out. It reads about two minutes of stream before the moment and one minute after, and cuts the clip the way a short-form editor would: it opens on the strongest line or the action itself instead of a slow lead-in, drops the pauses, filler and repeated attempts, keeps the setup the payoff needs, and punches in on your cam or the game only when the moment earns it. A clip waits up to an hour for its cut. If the cut cannot be made, the clip posts as rendered rather than waiting longer, so nothing is ever lost to it. Clips you hold for approval in review mode post as rendered, and so do clips on the free plan.
Humanized AI Clipper. Clipsie's second product finds and edits clips almost like a human. Instead of starting from a chat spike, it watches the whole stream or VOD, finds the story around a moment (the setup, the reasoning, the guess, the reveal and the reaction) and cuts it the way a human editor would. Turned on for a channel, it runs by itself after every stream; you can also order a run on a past stream in the Tools tab, or redo a single VOD clip from Review. It has three levels: Humanized AI Clipper (our best AI at every step, the closest to a human editor), Humanized Edit (our best AI edits, a faster AI finds the moments) and Humanized Lite (fast AIs at every step, the lowest price). Runs are paid with credits, see billing and credits below.
Review queue, auto-post and schedule
Per channel you choose one of two modes, and you can switch any time:
- Review queue. Finished clips wait in the Review tab. You watch, approve or discard, and change the title or TikTok privacy settings before anything goes out.
- Auto-post. Clips go out on their own, into the posting windows you set.
Schedule. On every paid plan you pick the days and times clips go out, in your own timezone, per channel, and Clipsie spaces uploads inside those windows instead of posting ten clips at once. Without a schedule it posts on automatic slots. A single clip can also be given its own time from its card.
Stream imports
An import hands Clipsie a past stream, a VOD, by link. Twitch VODs and highlights work, and so do Kick and YouTube links. It works through the whole recording instead of watching live. The clips come back to the same review queue or auto-post flow as live clips, and count toward your monthly clips. Imports are part of every paid plan, with a monthly number of hours searched (60 on Starter, 100 on Creator, 150 on Studio, per channel), and are not on the free plan. A VOD has to belong to the channel you import it for, and each VOD can be run once a day. A run that fails does not count.
Free plan, trial, billing and credits
- How many clips. Up to 60 clips a month on Starter, 150 on Creator and 250 on Studio, fully automatic, live clips and clips from your past streams together. Clipsie searches up to 60 hours of past streams a month on Starter, 100 on Creator and 150 on Studio. The Tools tab shows what is left this month. Fewer streaming days or quiet streams mean fewer clips, never weaker ones.
- Free plan. 5 finished clips a month, triggered with your own clip word in chat, posted to your connected accounts, no card. Your first stream is on us: Clipsie watches it end to end and finds up to 2 moments by itself, so you can judge the automatic detection before paying for it.
- Trial. The Clipsie autopilot plans start with a 7-day trial. A card is needed so clipping does not stop mid-stream on the day the trial converts; the first charge is on day 8. One trial per customer. The Humanized plans have no trial: they are paid from the first day, because their credits are spent on real runs.
- Managing the subscription. The Account tab opens the billing portal: change the card, download invoices, switch plans, cancel. Cancelling keeps access until the end of the period you already paid for; during a trial it ends the trial right away.
- Extra channels. Each additional Twitch channel on the same account is billed at the plan's channel rate, shown on the pricing page.
- Failed payment. The card is retried for a few days and you get an email; clipping continues meanwhile. Update the card in the billing portal and the subscription carries on. If the retries run out, the subscription ends and the account is back on the free plan's limits.
- VAT. Prices include any VAT that applies, so nothing is added at checkout. A business can enter its VAT ID and it appears on invoices.
Credits pay for Humanized AI Clipper runs.
- What a run costs. What the AI really uses for it: the search through the stream, plus each clip it delivers. Typical prices: Humanized AI Clipper 27 credits, plus 13 per stream hour after a stream (17 on a VOD you order), plus 100 per clip. Humanized Edit: 7, plus 11 per hour (14 on a VOD you order), plus 100 per clip. Humanized Lite: 7, plus 11 per hour (14 on a VOD you order), plus 46 per clip. Redoing one VOD clip typically costs 127 credits with Humanized AI Clipper or 53 with Humanized Lite.
- Never more than the maximum. Before every run you see its typical price and its maximum, 1.3 times the typical price. The maximum is held from your balance while the run works; when it ends you are charged what it really used, and the rest comes back.
- Failed clips and empty runs. A clip that fails costs nothing. A run that finds no clip is refunded completely.
- Humanized plans. The Clipsie autopilot plan of the same size plus credits: Humanized Starter 29 EUR a month (1,800 credits), Humanized Creator 69 EUR (4,800), Humanized Studio 149 EUR (11,200). Monthly plans add the credits every month. Yearly plans take 10% off the Clipsie plan inside them, keep the credits at full price and add the whole year of credits up front: 337.20 EUR (21,600 credits), 808.80 EUR (57,600) and 1,756.80 EUR (134,400). Extra channels cost the Clipsie add-on price.
- Packs. One-time, no subscription: 10 EUR for 900 credits, 25 EUR for 2,250, 50 EUR for 4,550, 100 EUR for 9,150, or any amount from 500 to 100,000 credits in steps of 100 at 1.11 EUR per 100. Buy them on the Account tab.
- Expiry. Credits belong to your account, not to a channel. They carry over from month to month and expire 12 months after purchase. The full rules are in the Terms.
- Past the monthly limit. On a Clipsie autopilot plan you can switch on "keep clipping from my credits": every clip past the plan's monthly limit then costs 15 credits and every VOD hour past it 10. It is off until you turn it on, and when the credits run out clipping waits for the next month as usual.
- Welcome gift. Your first Humanized AI Clipper run is on us: the first real payment of a plan adds 450 welcome credits, once per account, valid for 3 months.
Something is not working
A stream produced no clips. In this order:
- Is the channel paused? A paused channel is skipped entirely. Resume it in the dashboard.
- Is Twitch still connected? A disconnected Twitch means nothing is watched.
- On the free plan, is a clip word set under Channels, and was it typed in chat? Automatic detection is a paid feature, apart from the first stream.
- On the free plan, is this month's 5 used up? The Account tab shows the count.
- Was the stream shorter than 30 minutes? A quiet chat is normally topped up from the VOD after the stream, but shorter streams are treated as false starts and get no VOD pass.
- Could the VOD be read? If your VODs are subscriber-only or past broadcasts are off, the dashboard shows a banner saying so.
- Did the VOD pass find nothing? Then the stream had no moment worth posting, and Clipsie leaves it empty rather than posting weak clips.
A clip was made but never posted.
- Check the Review tab. In review mode clips wait for you.
- Check the destination. A disconnected YouTube or TikTok holds the clip until you reconnect.
- TikTok sometimes stops accepting posts for a day: a daily limit, or too many unposted drafts sitting in your TikTok inbox. The dashboard shows a banner saying which, and the clips stay in the queue and go out once TikTok accepts again.
- In auto-post mode with a schedule, the clip is waiting for its posting window.
- On a paid plan, an auto-posted clip waits up to an hour for its AI editor cut before it can go out.
Cannot log in. Passwords need at least 8 characters with upper and lower case, a digit and a symbol. Use "Forgot password" on the login page; the reset link is valid for a short time and works once. If you signed up with Google, use the Google button. A confirmation or reset email that does not arrive within a few minutes is usually in spam; otherwise write to us and we look at the delivery log.
The dashboard looks stale. Reload the page. If a number still looks wrong, tell us which channel and which stream; every clip and every stream keeps a record we can check.
Your account and data
- Deleting your account is in the Account tab. It disconnects Twitch, YouTube and TikTok immediately, stops all clipping, and deletes your account, clips, tokens and settings within 30 days. Clips already posted to your platforms stay there; they are yours.
- Revoking a platform without deleting the account: disconnect it in the Account tab, or remove Clipsie from the platform's own connected-apps page. Either works.
- Privacy requests (a copy of your data, a correction, an objection) go to [email protected]. What we store and why is in the Privacy Policy.
Still stuck
Clipsie is run by one person, and support is answered by that person, usually within two working days. Use the contact form or write to [email protected]. The fastest way to a fix is the channel name, the date of the stream, and what you expected to happen.