ShipReel is a Mac app that scans your full recording, surfaces the self-contained moments most likely to get rewatched and shared, and renders 9:16 clips with hooks and captions. Hours of 4K, processed entirely on your Mac — pay $49 once, credits never expire.
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42:18–43:34
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18:44–20:12
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1:02:09–1:03:20
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ShipReel puts the most advanced LLM to work on your video, right on your Mac — no upload. Drop in a multi-hour 4K file of any size and get back ranked clips with hooks and captions.
Viewers don't get it. The clip lands without the premise that made the line mean something.
A great middle is irrelevant if the opening doesn't earn the swipe. Most tools never check the hook.
The tool returns 40 clips and offers no reason to trust any of them. You re-do the work it promised to save.
ShipReel takes in the whole video — words, speakers, and timing.
Chapters and arguments — what is this episode actually about?
Self-contained beats ranked by hook strength and replay value.
Does it make sense without the previous 20 minutes? If not, flag it.
9:16 export with hook card, captions, and titles.
Most podcasts produce 3–4 ready-to-post clips in about two minutes — right on your Mac.
You choose: how many clips, max length, captions (style & size), hook teasers, taglines — set per project.
We'll analyze it on-device — we'll produce up to 10 short candidates.
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Burn word-level captions into every clip. You can still toggle per-clip later.
Prepends a hook teaser (its real footage plays first, then the full clip), plus the AI tagline card. Off — clean clips.
Good
42:18–43:34
76s
Strong
18:44–20:12
88s
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31:50–32:49
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Good
1:02:09–1:03:20
71s
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55:03–56:07
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Strong
47:31–48:53
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A single price for the full app, then analysis on credits — about $0.6 per video-hour. Free updates within v1.x. No subscription.
Everything in the app. Sign in on up to 3 Macs.
14-day full trial · 20 free credits to start · refund within 14 days, no questions asked.
Buy the app once ($49), then analysis runs on credits — about $0.6 per video-hour. No subscription, no per-minute meter. Each analysis is charged once, based on the video's length.
Turn 90-minute interviews into 4–8 shorts that don't need the episode to make sense — with hooks your audience recognizes.
Pull self-contained explainers from long-form lessons. ShipReel keeps the setup so the lesson still teaches at 9:16.
Webinars, AMAs, fireside chats. Find the lines your customers will quote — without uploading recordings of internal calls.
ShipReel is a native macOS app that turns long videos — podcasts, interviews, webinars, and lectures — into short, vertical 9:16 clips ready to post. You import a recording of any length, and ShipReel transcribes it on your Mac, then uses a large language model to find self-contained moments worth clipping: beats that still make sense without the surrounding hour. It ranks each candidate with reasons and risk flags instead of dumping dozens of unsorted clips, and renders the ones you pick with hook teasers and word-level captions. Your video never leaves your Mac — multi-hour 4K files are processed locally, with no upload and no file-size limit. ShipReel is a one-time $49 purchase (14-day trial, 20 free credits); analysis then runs on credits at about $0.60 per video-hour. It requires macOS 26 and Apple Silicon (M1 or later).
Most cloud clipping tools upload your footage, slice on keywords or emotion peaks, and hand back dozens of clips you still have to re-watch. ShipReel runs entirely on your Mac — your video is never uploaded — and understands the whole episode before it chooses, checking whether each moment is self-contained so a clip still makes sense without the surrounding hour. It ranks candidates with reasons and risk flags instead of dumping everything on you. And instead of an open-ended subscription with a per-minute meter, ShipReel is a one-time $49 purchase plus credits at about $0.60 per video-hour.
For a typical podcast, ShipReel surfaces its first ready-to-review candidates in about two minutes, right on your Mac. Total time depends on your video's length and your Mac, but because everything runs locally there are no uploads to wait on and no cloud queue — a multi-hour 4K file starts analyzing the moment you import it.
ShipReel is built for long-form, conversation-driven recordings: podcasts, interviews, webinars, fireside chats, AMAs, and lectures. It looks for self-contained spoken moments with a clear setup and payoff, so talking-heavy content with distinct ideas works best. Fast-cut, music-only, or footage with little speech has fewer self-contained moments to find.
Yes — ShipReel needs a connection for setup, buying credits, and the AI analysis step that ranks your moments. Only your video stays local: it is never uploaded. ShipReel sends just the small amount of text it needs — transcript snippets and scores — to rank candidates, while the footage itself never leaves your Mac.
Yes — there's no file-size limit. Multi-hour 4K files are processed locally, so size and length aren't bottlenecks the way they are for cloud tools that cap uploads and time out.
Never. ShipReel uses the most advanced LLM to find your best moments while your video stays right on your Mac — no upload.
The app is a one-time $49 purchase, with a 14-day full trial and 20 free credits to start. Analysis then runs on credits: 1 credit per 20 minutes of video (3 per hour) — about $0.6 per video-hour. Each analysis is charged once, based on the video's length.
Buy credits in packs: 100 / $29, 400 / $99 (best value), or 1,500 / $299. Credits never expire.
ShipReel works with a wide range of languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.
Hook generation and captions currently focus on English, Spanish, and Chinese; more rendering languages roll out in v1.x updates.
Every feature in the app — 9:16 export, captions, hook teasers, and taglines. There is no "Pro" tier and no add-ons. Analysis runs on credits, billed separately.
Free updates within v1.x are included. A future v2 — if and when it ships — will be a separate purchase with an upgrade discount for existing owners.
No. ShipReel relies on Apple Silicon (M1 or later) to keep analysis fast. Intel Macs aren't supported.
Your license follows your account — sign in on any Mac, up to 3 active at once. Move between machines whenever you like; no support ticket, no seat counting.
Import a long video and get ranked, context-aware candidates ready to review.
Download ShipReelWorks best for podcasts, interviews, webinars, and lectures.