Your recipient doesn't have to watch. They can read in 30 seconds.
Every Clipy recording comes with an AI summary, a chaptered transcript, and a Q&A — automatically. Free. The share page does the watching for them, so they only press play on the parts that matter.
Press Stop on a Clipy recording and a minute or two later your share page lights up with three named features, all free: AI Meeting Summary (TL;DR + key points + action items), an AI Transcript with clickable timestamps, and Chat with your video — a Q&A box where any viewer can ask the AI a question and jump to the exact moment in the recording. Loom paywalls the first two behind its $15/mo Business plan and doesn't ship the third at all.
AI Meeting Summary on every recording
When a recording finishes uploading, Clipy runs a summarization pass and writes the result to the top of the share page. No button to click. No "upgrade to summarize" wall. Three blocks land automatically — this is the same feature Loom paywalls at $15/mo.
TL;DR
Two or three sentences capturing the gist of the recording — enough to decide if the rest is worth your time.
Key points
Three to seven bullet points pulled from the actual content. Skimmable. No fluff, no padding.
Action items
Concrete next steps the recording implies — owners, decisions, follow-ups — extracted if they exist.
Summaries usually appear a minute or two after the recording finishes uploading. For very long recordings it can take a touch longer — the share link is live the moment you press Stop, the AI just catches up shortly after.
Auto transcript on every recording — clickable, downloadable, ours
Every recording gets an auto-generated AI transcript with timestamps. Each segment is a clickable button — tap one and the video player jumps straight to that moment. No scrubbing through a 10-minute clip looking for the line you half-remember.
The transcript is plain text and copy-paste friendly. Drop it into a doc, into Slack, into a Linear ticket — it goes wherever you need it to. There's also a one-click download for a.txtfile if you want the whole thing offline.
Under the hood it runs on a self-hosted Sherpa speech model on our own infrastructure — not OpenAI, not a third-party transcription API. Your recordings don't leave our stack to get transcribed.
Because the transcript is timestamped at the segment level, the AI summary can quote it back to you with jump-to-moment links — which is exactly how the Q&A below works.
Chat with your video
Ask the recording a question. Get an answer with a button that jumps the player to the exact second. Loom doesn't ship this at all.
The share page has a built-in chat box where anyone watching can ask the AI about the recording's contents. They get an answer grounded in the actual transcript — with inline timestamp buttons that jump the player to the cited moment. No scrubbing, no rewatching at 2× — type a question, click a timestamp, you're on the exact 15-second clip that answers it.
The kinds of questions people actually type:
- "Where do they explain X?"
- "What's the proposed timeline?"
- "Did they mention pricing?"
- "What did they decide about the API redesign?"
- "Who owns the follow-up?"
The answer is short, opinionated, and comes with the timestamps backing it up. If the recording doesn't cover the question, the AI says so instead of inventing — that's the whole point of grounding answers in the transcript. This is a Clipy superpower; the closest Loom analog requires a third-party integration on the top-tier plan.
Why does this matter more than another fancy editor?
Be honest: nobody wants to watch a 10-minute screen recording at 1×. Most recipients quietly skim it at 2×, jump around, or just never open it. The async-video pitch only works if the receiver actually gets the value — and they get it faster from text than from a video timeline.
The right async workflow is read first, watch second, watch only what matters. The TL;DR tells you whether to engage at all. The key points give you the shape. The chaptered transcript and Q&A let you drop into the exact 20-second clip you care about. The video itself becomes the source of truth you fall back to, not the only way in.
That's the actual reason async beats meetings. Not the absence of scheduling — the presence of a skim layer. A meeting forces everyone to consume the same 30 minutes at 1×. A Clipy recording lets a teammate decide in 30 seconds whether it's worth the next 90.
How does this compare to Loom AI?
Loom has an AI Meeting Summary and an AI Transcript in roughly the same shape as ours, and both are paywalled behind the Business plan at roughly $15 per creator per month. Clipy ships those two features on the free tier — no trial, no credit card, no "upgrade to view AI summary" banner on the share page. And our third AI feature — Chat with your video, the Q&A box with timestamp jumps — Loom doesn't ship at all, not on free, not on Business, not on Enterprise. It's a Clipy-only feature.
| Feature | Clipy | Loom |
|---|---|---|
| AI Meeting Summary on every recording | Yes — free | Business plan only ($15/mo) |
| AI Transcript with clickable timestamps | Yes — free | Business plan only ($15/mo) |
| Chat with your video (Q&A → timestamp jump) | Yes — free | No — not shipped |
| Downloadable transcript (.txt) | Yes | Paid |
| Price for the above | Free forever | $15/mo and up |
| Signup required to watch | No | Sometimes |
Sources: Loom's pricing page and our own usage. For the longer head-to-head, read Clipy as a Loom alternative. For the share-page mechanics, see what your viewers actually see.
Record something. Let the AI do the rest.
Free forever. No watermark. No signup to watch. Your recipient skims in 30 seconds, then plays the parts that matter.
Curious about the full feature set? See pricing — spoiler: it's free.