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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/lowbeat on 2026-01-12 11:54:29+00:00.

I tried to find simple free app for easily sharing clips that didn’t require me to:

  • signup anywhere
  • use branded apps like steelseries, razor, their services and similar
  • be limited with something like 5 or 20MB limit which is unusable for 30 second clips (for example sharing on discord without nitro)
  • go through complex process to achieve a simple share function
  • have some advanced tech skills for opening ports when self hosting, setup docker etc…

So I have built Clipit and shortly it allows for:

  • Going through library of recordings and screenshots, automatically organized per game
  • Instant preview of clips even 10gb huge ones streaming parts of file, and fast skipping through video
  • Easily trimming start/end of video, saving and overwriting immediately or saving copies for multiple trims.
  • Insta sharing with friends on discord or wherever using inbuilt cloudflare tunnel that gives you domain on share directly to the video, no uploading, no signups, no port forwarding (you can turn on or off server share at any time)
  • Encoding on share (if enabled in options) using hw accelerated h265/h264 for nvidia, amd and intel, fallback to cpu in case it doesn’t find any supported hw accelerated encoding for smaller file sizes
  • Support when encoding for different fps, resolution and qualities (this can be easily tweaked with additional options as ffmpeg is doing all the heavy lifting here, thanks FFMPEG <3)

Notes

  • This app is built using electron (huge size because it wrapps ffmpeg, cloudflare tunneling and being cross platform built like any other electron app).
  • Its built for quick shares, meaning next time you open app you will get new domain and old shared links will no longer work, as they are shared from your pc directly, its for sharing clips with friends live, quickly, no hassle
  • It needs more testing on linux and amd (will build in release appimage soon as well)
  • All generated code has been reviewed and multiple times rewritten, except for ai slopped css file, it will be refactored soon enough :)
  • I would love if somebody with experience in electron would take 5-10 mins and go over the code and give me some pointers

Please if you are interested check it out and give me some feedback regarding anything.

More details in github description.

EDIT: Added appimage and .deb in v1.2.0 release.