NinjaClip turns a raw recording into a finished video: it cuts the pauses, reads what was said to drop the false starts, writes the captions, reframes the speaker for vertical, treats the voice and exports. It runs in the browser, with nothing to install.
The constraint that shaped everything
The video file never leaves your computer. That is not a feature bullet bolted on afterwards — it is the constraint the whole product was built around, and it costs something. It means the heavy work runs on your machine instead of a rented server, that the editor had to be fast enough to be usable there, and that some things a cloud tool does easily are harder here.
In exchange, three things are true: your footage is not sitting on someone else's disk, cutting pauses keeps working if your connection drops, and there is no upload to wait through before you can start.
Only the audio leaves, and only if you ask for captions or smart selection. The Privacy Policy says exactly what is sent, when, and to whom — in a table, not in prose.
Who builds it
One person: Maickell Silvestre, in Brazil. That is worth saying plainly because it explains the shape of the product. There is no growth team writing the copy, so the copy says what the thing does. There is nobody to escalate a bug to, so bugs are fixed by the person who reads the report.
What it does not do
It is not a timeline editor and does not try to be. There are no layers to stack, no keyframes, no transitions library to browse for an hour. If you need frame-level control over a long-form edit, a traditional editor is the right tool, and NinjaClip can hand your cut over to it — the editor package exports XML, EDL and SRT for Premiere, Final Cut and DaVinci.
The automatic decisions are suggestions, always shown for approval. Speech reading mistakes words. Background separation is openly experimental in the browser and better in the installed app. Saying so up front is cheaper than having you discover it after publishing.
How it is paid for
Cutting, captioning and exporting run on your computer and are free, with no limit, on every plan. What costs money is the speech reading, which runs on servers and has a real cost per minute — so that is what the paid plans buy. The free plan gives you the whole editor with a monthly quota of speech reading and a small mark in the corner.
Talk to us
Contact — one address, answered by the person who built the thing.