About
ClapClip: AI media tools that run on your own PC
ClapClip AI is a Windows app that swaps faces, transcribes speech, enhances video, cuts long recordings into Shorts, converts formats and removes backgrounds, with the processing on your own GPU instead of someone else's server. It is built to be simple to use, mostly free, private by construction and fast.
ClapClip Team · Updated
Where ClapClip came from
ClapClip began as an argument between engineers who had spent years inside ByteDance building the plumbing of video: the codecs that get a frame decoded on time, the C++ that keeps a timeline responsive while a GPU is working flat out, the rendering and algorithm work that turns a research paper into something that runs on a laptop. They knew exactly what a consumer machine could do, because making it do that had been the job.
They also knew what the editors around them had become. CapCut, the editor from the company they had just left, had in their view grown heavy, expensive and in places behind on both technology and user experience: an install that kept getting bigger, a price that kept climbing, and features stacked on features while the hardware underneath sat idle. The sentence that kept coming up was simple. The laptop under this app can do more than this, and it should not cost this much to find out.
So they left, and on the first day they wrote down four rules that still decide what ships. It has to be simple: every tool fits on one screen, add a file, pick a few settings, preview, export. Most of it has to be free, because the computation happens on the user's own machine and costs nothing per minute to provide. Everything that can run locally must, because the footage is not ours. And it has to be fast, which means doing the engineering instead of renting a bigger server: an enhancer that runs its model only on the frames that need it, a face swap that previews in real time, transcription on the GPU through whisper.cpp.
ClapClip is what those rules produced: one Windows app with face swap, transcription, enhancement, a Shorts generator, a converter and a cutout tool, and four free browser tools for the days when an install is too much. It is still a small team, and the people who wrote the codecs are the people who answer support mail.
What the app is built around
- Simple. Each tool opens on one screen: add a file, choose a few settings, preview, export. Models download on first use; there is no account to create.
- Mostly free. Transcription, the format converter, Shorts generation and background cutout are free with no limits. Face swap and enhancement are free to use and preview; exporting the result, and faster downloads, come with the subscription.
- Local. Face swap, transcription, enhancement, cutout and rendering run on your PC through DirectML, so NVIDIA, AMD and Intel GPUs all work and your files stay where they are. The only text that leaves the machine is the transcript and a few small stills the Shorts tool sends for clip analysis.
- Fast. The enhancer runs its model on anchor frames and reconstructs the frames between them from motion instead of processing every frame; face swap previews in real time; transcription uses whisper.cpp on the GPU. The benchmarks page publishes the measured studies behind the claims we make.
The tools
| Tool | What it does | Where it runs | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Face swap | Photos, long videos and a live webcam feed, with real-time preview, four models and multi-face scenes | Everything on your GPU; nothing uploaded | Free to use and preview; exporting video is part of the subscription |
| Transcription | Video and audio to text with three whisper.cpp models, 40+ languages, TXT, SRT, VTT and Word output, batch folders | Everything on your PC | Free, no length limit |
| Video and image enhancement | Up to 4x upscaling, deblur, animation and portrait restoration in Adaptive, I-frame or per-frame mode | Everything on your GPU | Free preview; exporting is part of the subscription |
| AI Shorts generator | Long video to captioned vertical clips, scored by hook, flow, value and trend | Transcription and rendering local; the transcript and a few small stills go to the clip analysis | Free |
| Format converter | 40+ video and audio formats plus images, in batches | FFmpeg on your PC | Free |
| Background cutout | Automatic cutout with background replacement and size presets, 300 dpi PNG export | Local model | Free |
| Video downloader | Playlists, batches and signed-in content from eleven platform groups, built on yt-dlp | Downloads to your disk | Free at a capped speed; the subscription removes the cap |
The app runs on Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit). The installer is about 2 GB and the current build is 1.7.3.0, distributed only through the Microsoft Store and clapclip.net. The guide to what runs locally and what needs the internet goes through each tool in detail.
The online tools
Four browser tools come from the same team for the moments an install is too much: a free online face swap for photos and GIFs, an image and video enhancer, a background remover and a video downloader. They are separate sites with their own privacy terms.
- faceswap.free: Free online face swap
- enhance.place: AI image and video enhancer
- cutout.free: Free background remover
- clapclip.art: Online video downloader
Contact
Questions, corrections and support: support@clapclip.net. The privacy policy describes what the app and this site do with data; the FAQ covers the most common questions about face swap and safe use.