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Clipto
Fully local, natural language search over terabytes of media
805 followers
Fully local, natural language search over terabytes of media
805 followers
Like Google Photos, but fully local. Turn the terabytes of video, audio, meetings, and files you work with into searchable memories, without uploading anything to the cloud. Clipto automatically tags people, dialogue, and scenes, so you can instantly find any moment buried in your media just by describing what you're looking for. It's fast too: on a MacBook Pro M5, Clipto indexed 2TB of videos in just 24 hours.
Concept is really intresting and the smooth onboarding
How did you get the idea to make that kind of stuff? what was your excatly the moments you think to create this.
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@anubhav16 Thanks for asking.
The idea actually goes back much further than Clipto.
Before Clipto, I founded an AI video company called ZenVideo. We were working on turning text into videos with AI back in 2017, years before today’s wave of generative AI. The company was later acquired by Tencent. While building products for creators, we kept seeing the same problem over and over again: people were spending more time searching through footage than actually creating.
As cameras got better and storage got cheaper, creators accumulated terabytes of videos, interviews, podcasts, screenshots, and project files. The information was there, but it became harder and harder to find.
At the same time, local AI models and modern hardware finally became powerful enough to understand media directly on a personal computer.
That combination made us ask a simple question:
What if your computer could actually understand everything you’ve ever recorded and help you find any moment instantly?
That’s really where Clipto started.
Can we talk about the processing speed? Since it’s all on-device, it feels so much more snappy than the cloud alternatives I've tried.
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@qi_xiao2 Really glad to hear it feels faster for you — that’s exactly one of the reasons we built Clipto this way.
Since everything runs on-device, Clipto doesn’t need to upload large media files to the cloud before it can start working. That skips a lot of the slow parts you often feel with cloud tools, like upload time, network lag, and waiting on server processing.
The first analysis and indexing step still depends on how much footage you have and how powerful your Mac is. But once indexing is done, search itself is usually very quick.
So yes, the snappy feeling you noticed is very much part of the local-first experience：）
That is good
But isnt it better to keep your data on cloud no one wants their system to have that much data
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@jay_gangwar Good question! That’s fair — cloud storage can be convenient, especially if you want everything synced across devices. But for a lot of filmmakers, editors, and creators, the problem is that raw footage is huge and often sensitive. Uploading terabytes of media can be slow, expensive, and not always something people are comfortable with. Clipto is built for the other workflow: your media already lives on your local drives, and the AI helps you make it searchable without uploading everything first. So it’s not really “cloud vs local” for everyone. If you prefer cloud storage, that can still work for you.:)
@matthewweiyeah people can have different use cases
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Actually works offline? That’s a game-changer for when I’m editing on the road or in a cafe with spotty Wi-Fi.
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@genedai Yes, and we’ve actually tested this out in the desert ourselves.
Our founder and teammates have used Clipto in remote shooting environments with little or no reliable internet. That’s exactly why the local-first workflow matters: once your files are on your device and indexed, you can keep searching and working with them even when Wi-Fi is spotty or unavailable.
You could even turn off Wi-Fi or unplug the network cable and try it yourself:)
So for editing on the road, in a cafe, on a plane, or out in the field, Clipto is built to keep working without depending on the cloud.
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Actually works offline? That’s a game-changer for when I’m editing on the road or in a cafe with spotty Wi-Fi.
Actually works offline? That’s a game-changer for when I’m editing on the road or in a cafe with spotty Wi-Fi.
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@mooyan Yes. You can even use Clipto on the road, on a mountaintop set, in the desert, on a plane, or pretty much anywhere, without relying on the cloud. Give it a try, and we’d love to hear more of your feedback, thanks:)
Can this be setup with TrueNAS?
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@miladavaz Yes, absolutely！
macOS natively supports both SMB and NFS. You can mount your TrueNAS storage as a local directory via SMB or NFS, and then use it with Clipto.
The overall workflow is: TrueNAS for storage → Mount via SMB/NFS to Mac → Clipto indexes that path.
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@rocsheh Thanks, Zepeng!
Yes, Clipto already supports this today!
You can assign custom names to detected faces, so instead of searching for “a person”, you can search for people that actually matter to you, such as family members, friends, clients, or collaborators.
We’ve found that once people start organizing media around real identities, search becomes much more powerful. Instead of “find a woman speaking on stage,” you can search for things like “Mom’s speech”, “Client A interview”, or “John at the conference.”
We think that’s an important step toward turning media search into a true personal memory system.