Clyper vs Riverside

Why clippers pick Clyper over Riverside for clips

1. 1

   It starts from any YouTube link

   Riverside's Magic Clips are made from what's in your Riverside studio: recordings made there, files you upload (MP4, MPEG, MOV or WebM, its YouTube editor page says) and, its YouTube pages say, YouTube videos brought in by their link. Clyper takes any public or unlisted YouTube link, from a minute to 4 hours long, with no channel check, and Studio takes 10 links at once. A campaign video goes from link to clips in one paste.

   Clipping someone else's video still needs their permission, which clipping campaigns give.

2. 2

   You choose how many clips, each a whole thought

   Riverside's pages describe settings for Magic Clips' length, layout, aspect ratio, topics and the speaker to focus on; none we read sets how many clips you get. On Clyper you choose how many you want, up to 30 a video, or leave it on Auto, and more clips don't cost more credits. Each runs 20 to 60 seconds and starts and ends on a whole sentence, so nothing opens mid-thought.

3. 3

   Framed from the picture, in any video

   Riverside's layouts start from its separate tracks, one for each person it records. A video recorded elsewhere comes in as a single track, its glossary says, and its help center says it can split one into a track for each speaker only when the layout stays the same from start to finish, no one joins or leaves, and nobody shares a screen. Clyper works from the picture: it follows whoever's talking in the video you give it, cuts to the other person when they answer, and stacks a stream's webcam over the game.

4. 4

   No watermark from the first plan

   Riverside's Free plan exports at up to 720p with a Riverside watermark; Pro, the first plan without it, is $29 a month, or $24 billed yearly. Clyper Starter is $20 a month for 150 minutes of video, up to 75 clips, as 1080 × 1920 MP4s with no watermark. Each comes captioned word by word in 50+ languages, in an animated style placed clear of every app's buttons, with a hook score (Pro and Studio add all 5 caption styles), and if one needs a nudge, you can trim it, extend either end by up to 15 seconds or fix a word.

Side by side

Clyper and Riverside, feature by feature

Feature	Clyper	Riverside
YouTube links
YouTube links	Any public or unlisted video, with no channel check. Up to 10 links at once on Studio	Its YouTube pages say you can bring a YouTube video into its studio by its link; Magic Clips work on what's in the studio
Clips
Clips	As many as you choose, up to 30 a video, 20 to 60 seconds each, cut to whole sentences	Magic Clips: you set the length (up to 3 minutes), layout, ratio, topics and a speaker to focus on
Vertical framing
Vertical framing	Follows whoever's talking and switches between speakers. Streams get the webcam on top, the game below	Reframes to vertical; its layouts use a separate track for each person it records, and an upload is one track unless it can be split by speaker
Captions
Captions	Word by word, in 5 animated styles or your own (Pro), in 50+ languages, clear of every app's buttons	Animated captions you style yourself; transcription in 100+ languages
Clip score
Clip score	A hook score on every clip, on every plan	A rating on each clip
Export
Export	1080 × 1920 MP4, no watermark on any plan	Up to 720p with a Riverside watermark on Free; up to 4K with no watermark from Pro
Video length
Video length	1 minute to 4 hours	None listed on its pricing and feature pages
Uploads
Uploads	MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV, up to 4 GB	MP4, MPEG, MOV or WebM, from your computer
Price
Price	$20/mo (Starter), or $19/mo billed yearly (Pro)	$29/mo, or $24/mo billed yearly (Pro)
What you pay for
What you pay for	Minutes of video: 1 credit is 1 minute, at least 10 a video, however many clips it makes	A subscription to its studio; Magic Clips don't use its AI credits
Free plan
Free plan	No free plan. Starter is month to month	Yes: Magic Clips at up to 720p, with a Riverside watermark
Editing
Editing	Trim, extend either end by up to 15 s, fix words, change the caption style, reword the hook headline (Pro)	A full editor: by transcript or timeline, with layouts, captions, B-roll, branding and AI tools
Posting
Posting	Download and post anywhere	Publishes to YouTube, Spotify, Apple, Instagram, LinkedIn and more; social scheduling on Grow

From people clipping with Clyper

• $1,200/mo

  “Didn’t touch editing software once. Just dropped links in, posted what it spit out.”

• 90 sec/clip

  “Went from an hour per clip to under 2 minutes. Still can’t believe it.”

• 9 clients

  “Tripled our client load without hiring anyone. Clyper is basically a second team.”

Results from individual Clyper customers. Yours will vary: what you earn depends on the campaigns you join and how your clips perform.