What your recipients see
No account. No app. No signup wall. They click your link and watch. That's the whole pitch.
See exactly what the person on the other end of your Clipy link gets — and why it's a lot less friction than Loom.
How do recipients get the link?
They get it in whatever channel they already live in. Clipy renders rich Open Graph and oEmbed metadata, so Slack, email, Notion, Linear, GitHub, Twitter / X, LinkedIn, and WhatsApp all show a thumbnail and title preview when you paste the link.
Slack
An unfurled preview with the title, thumbnail, and a link to play. Click the link, the watch page opens in their browser.
A clean short URL with a rich preview in Gmail, Outlook, Superhuman, and Apple Mail. No attachments, no inbox limits.
Notion
Paste the link, hit enter, Notion turns it into a card preview with the thumbnail. Click through to watch in a new tab.
Linear
Pastes as a preview link inside the issue. Engineers click through to see the repro without leaving the issue thread.
GitHub PR comment
Drops in as a normal link. Reviewers click out to watch the walkthrough and come back to the diff with context.
Twitter / X
Renders a summary card with the thumbnail and title. Tap the card to open the watch page in the in-app browser.
Shows the thumbnail and title in the chat. Tap to open the watch page in Safari, Chrome, or the in-app browser.
A note on inline play: Clipy serves rich OG and oEmbed metadata, so Slack, Twitter / X, and LinkedIn show a thumbnail and title preview that opens the watch page in one click. A true playable inline player inside Slack requires a dedicated Slack app — we're shipping one for clipy.online soon. Until then, viewers tap the preview and the video starts on the watch page in their browser.
What happens when they click the link?
The watch page opens in their browser and the video starts. No popups. No signup banner. No ads. No “install our app to continue.” Just the recording, on a clean Mux player with native HLS playback.
Clean Mux player
Native HLS, adaptive bitrate, scrubbing, captions, and playback speed. No pre-roll ads, no popups, no signup banner.
Mobile-friendly
Tap to play on iOS and Android. Portrait or landscape. Picture-in-picture works on supported browsers.
Every modern browser
Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox, Arc, and Brave. No extension required to watch — only to record.
Unlisted by default
Share links are unguessable and not indexed by search engines. You can also lock recordings to your account or password-protect.
Want the full 30-second walkthrough? See how a recipient watches a Clipy in 30 seconds.
Can they read instead of watching?
Yes — and this is the part that quietly changes how teams use video. Every recording ships with three distinct AI features, all free, all automatic. Your recipient can skim a meeting summary in 30 seconds, click through a timestamped transcript, or — and this is the one nobody else has — ask the recording a question and jump straight to the exact second that answers it. Loom paywalls the first two at $15/mo per creator. Loom doesn't ship the third at all.
AI Meeting Summary on every recording
TL;DR + key points + action items, written by the AI before they press play.
A three-sentence TL;DR, three-to-seven bullet key points, and any action items the recording implies — extracted automatically. Skim it in 30 seconds, copy-paste into a doc, decide if the video is even worth opening. Loom paywalls this at $15/mo per creator; we ship it free.
Auto transcript on every recording
Full clickable transcript with timestamps. Runs on our own Sherpa speech model, not OpenAI.
Every segment is a button — click a line, the player jumps to that second. Copy-paste friendly, plus a one-click .txt download. Transcription runs on a self-hosted Sherpa model on our infrastructure, so recordings never leave our stack to get transcribed.
Chat with your video
Recipient superpower: ask the AI a question, click the timestamp, land on the exact moment.
The share page has a built-in chat box. Your recipient types a question — "what did they decide about pricing?", "who owns the follow-up?", "where do they explain X?" — and the AI answers from the transcript with inline timestamp buttons that jump straight to the cited second. No scrubbing. No rewatching. Loom doesn't ship this at all.
Why this matters: skim a 10-minute recording in 30 seconds.
Do recipients ever need a Clipy account to watch?
No. Not after the first video, not after the fifth, not ever. Loom shows viewers a signup interstitial after a handful of videos — that's their growth loop. Clipy doesn't.
Your recipients don't need to know what Clipy is. They click your link, the video plays, they get back to their day. The whole point of an async-video tool is that the friction is on you, not on the person you're sending to.
Can they grab the video too?
Yes. Every Clipy recording has an embed iframe and a direct MP4 download, so your recipient can drop it into a blog post, a docs page, an internal wiki, or a deck without re-hosting.
Embed iframe
Drop into any HTML, MDX, or rich-text editor.
<iframe src="https://clipy.online/embed/abc123" width="100%" height="450" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen ></iframe>
Works in Notion, WordPress, Ghost, Webflow, and any docs site that allows iframes. Responsive by default.
Direct MP4 link
Original .mp4, no watermark, no re-encoding.
https://clipy.online/api/video/abc123.mp4
Useful for editing, re-uploading to another platform, or archiving alongside the original source files. Same quality as what you recorded.
Ready to send a link people actually click?
Pick the surface you want to record from. The share-link experience is the same — clean watch page, AI summary, no signup wall.
New here? Read what Clipy is and who builds it.