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Opus Clip is a strong choice for clips from a single video or a YouTube link. If your show is a multicam video podcast that you finish in an editor, or you would rather not upload your video, these tools are worth comparing. Every fact comes from each company’s own website, with sources linked.
Checked between 11 October 2026 and 31 October 2026 from each company’s own website. Features and prices change, so follow the source links for the current details. Prices are quoted as each website showed them, in its own currency. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we will correct it.
Multicam video podcasts with a microphone per speaker. podswitch cuts the full episode and, on paid plans, AI-picked clips with captions, exported as timelines for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve. The audio is uploaded, not the video.
A browser-based clip maker and editor that turns podcasts and long videos into short clips, with captions and social scheduling.
Suits: Podcasters and marketers who want many short clips from one video, captioned and scheduled from the browser.
A text-based audio and video editor, as a desktop app and in the browser.
Suits: People who want to edit audio and video by editing a transcript, and finish inside one app.
A browser-based recording studio with its own editor and AI clips (Magic Clips).
Suits: Shows that record remote guests and want recording, editing and clips in one place.
Plug-ins for Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, plus a browser app for shorts, with silence cutting, captions, podcast camera switching and more.
Suits: Creators who edit in Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve and want many automatic clean-up tools in one plug-in.
A plug-in for Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, on Mac and Windows, with silence removal, captions, podcast editing and camera switching.
Suits: Editors in Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve who want silence removal, captions and podcast switching in one subscription.
| Feature | podswitch | Opus Clip | Choppity | Descript | Riverside | FireCut | AutoCut |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI picks short clips | Yes. On paid plans, with a hook, a reason and a score for each | Yes. Yes | Yes. AI video clipper on every plan | Yes. Yes | Yes. Magic Clips | Partly. Highlights from long videos on paid plans | Partly. AutoViral on the AI plan |
| Clip shapes | Yes. 9:16, 1:1 and 16:9, framing set per camera | Partly. 9:16 on all plans; 1:1 and 16:9 on Pro | Yes. 9:16, 1:1 and 16:9 | Yes. 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1 | Yes. 16:9, 1:1 and 9:16 | Partly. Vertical (9:16) highlights | Not stated. Not stated on their website |
| Styled, animated captions | Yes. Six presets, every detail adjustable, word highlight | Yes. Caption templates | Yes. Custom fonts, colours and animation | Yes. Dynamic captions | Yes. Customisable, with movement | Partly. Word-by-word animated captions on paid plans | Partly. AutoCaptions on the AI plan |
| Clips as editable timelines in your editor | Yes. Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve | Partly. Premiere Pro and Resolve XML on Pro; captions not editable in Premiere | Not stated. Not stated on their website | Not stated. Not stated on their website | Not stated. Not stated on their website | Yes. Highlights are built as sequences in your editor | Not stated. Not stated on their website |
| Video stays on your computer | Yes. The audio is uploaded, not the video | No. Videos are uploaded for processing | No. Videos are uploaded to its cloud storage | Partly. The desktop app also uploads files to Descript’s cloud | No. Recordings and uploads go to Riverside’s cloud | Not stated. Not stated on their website | Not stated. Not stated on their website |
| Your recordings are never used to train AI | Yes. Never, on any plan | No. For individual users, data may be used to improve its AI models | Not stated. Not stated on their website | Partly. Its terms allow training on your inputs unless you opt out | Yes. Says it does not use your content | Not stated. Not stated on their website | Not stated. Not stated on their website |
✓ yes · ◐ partly or on some plans · ✕ no · ? not stated on their website
It depends on where you finish. If you record with a microphone per speaker and edit in Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve, podswitch cuts the episode and the clips from the microphones and exports timelines. If you want clips from a single video in the browser, Choppity works in a similar way to Opus Clip.
Yes, on its Pro and Business plans, according to its pricing page. Final Cut Pro is not listed. podswitch exports clips as timelines for all three.
Opus Clip itself has a free plan, and so do Choppity, Descript, Riverside and podswitch. podswitch’s social clips are on paid plans; its free plan covers the multicam cut.
podswitch uploads the audio, not the video and can render a clip to MP4 in your browser from your own files (beta). Plug-ins such as FireCut and AutoCut run inside your editor; we found no statement on their websites about what they send to their servers.
Read how podswitch decides each cut, or try it free.