Everything about how ClipDocker works, what you get, and how credits are spent.
You paste a long YouTube video link. ClipDocker transcribes it, uses AI to find your most engaging moments, cuts them to 9:16 vertical, burns in animated captions, and gives you a batch of short clips ready to post to TikTok, Reels or YouTube Shorts.
1 credit = 1 minute of the source video you process. A 40-minute podcast costs 40 credits, regardless of how many clips you get back. There's no per-clip charge — minutes of source video are the only thing that costs.
Every account starts with 60 free credits, granted once at signup — that's about an hour of source video. No credit card is required to sign up or to use the free tier. You can paste YouTube links or upload your own video files up to 5 GB / 1 hour.
Three paid tiers, cancellable any time, each with bigger upload limits and longer project storage: Pro at £19.99/month — 500 credits (about 8 hours of source video), up to 20 clips per job, uploads to 10 GB / 2 hrs, projects kept 2 days; Studio at £39.99/month — 1000 credits (about 17 hours), up to 30 clips per job, uploads to 20 GB / 5 hrs, projects kept 3 days; Max at £79.99/month — 2000 credits (about 33 hours), up to 30 clips per job, uploads to 30 GB / 10 hrs, projects kept 5 days. Switch to yearly billing to roughly halve the monthly price. Allowances renew each cycle and unused credits don't roll over.
Jobs are checked before they run, so you're never charged for a video you can't afford to process — it's declined up front with a clear message. You can upgrade to Pro or buy a top-up (10, 50 or 100 credits) to keep going.
YouTube links or your own video files (MP4, MOV, WEBM and more) — podcasts, interviews, webinars, lectures, any long-form talking video. Every plan can upload files: up to 5 GB / 1 hr on Free, with bigger limits on paid plans.
Vertical 9:16 MP4s with word-by-word animated captions burned in. You choose the caption style, font and highlight colour, and whether to include emojis. AI AutoFrame can track the speaker's face and body, or keep the full frame with padding.
On paid plans, never — every clip exports clean. On the free plan, your highest-scoring clip is watermark-free and the remaining clips carry a small animated ClipDocker watermark. Upgrading removes it from existing projects too: re-export any clip after upgrading and it renders clean.
Yes. Connect your TikTok account once, then publish any finished clip straight from the dashboard, projects view or editor — or schedule it for a time you choose (scheduling is included on paid plans; posting now is free for everyone). The caption is pre-filled from the AI's suggestion for that clip, and you can edit or cancel scheduled posts any time before they go out. Posts go to your own TikTok profile with the privacy level you pick.
AI AutoFrame is our framing engine. It detects the faces and bodies in your video, locks onto whoever's speaking, and reframes widescreen footage to full-screen vertical 9:16 automatically — or keeps the full frame if you'd rather. You can fine-tune the framing on any clip in the editor.
Up to 10 clips per job on Free, 20 on Pro and 30 on Studio. The AI ranks them by viral potential so the strongest ones are first.
A few minutes for a typical video — it depends on length and the transcription accuracy you choose. You can watch live progress, and you can leave and come back without losing the job.
It depends on your plan: projects stay available for 24 hours on Free, 2 days on Pro, 3 days on Studio and 5 days on Max, then they're automatically deleted to keep storage lean. Download anything you want to keep before then — you can always re-run a video to get fresh clips.
Yes. After signing up you'll get a 6-digit code by email; enter it to unlock clipping. This keeps the platform free of throwaway and fake accounts.
Honestly and in detail — we keep dated, sourced comparison pages: ClipDocker vs OpusClip and ClipDocker vs Klap. Short version: the editor is included on every ClipDocker plan, pricing is per minute of source video, and the free tier exports your top clip watermark-free.