Terms of service

This agreement is between you and ApeTec Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 17065917), which runs ClippyOS (“ClippyOS”, “we”, “us”). It covers the ClippyOS website and application. The privacy policy explains how we handle personal data and forms part of this agreement.

You must be at least 16 years old and able to enter a contract to use ClippyOS.

ClippyOS turns a folder of your video clips into sets of finished short-form reels. When you paste the link to a public reel, your reels follow its structure. It reads your footage, plans the reels, renders them in your browser, keeps them in a library in your browser, and exports them to a folder you choose.

It does not host your media, it does not post on your behalf, and it is not a social platform.

ClippyOS makes its captions in English. Clips spoken in another language are captioned in English.

ClippyOS’s defining property, stated here so it has contractual weight: your clips are read, analysed and rendered on your own computer, inside your browser. They are never uploaded to us and never stored by us.

Our servers handle sign-in, billing, email, fetching reference reels (passed to your browser, not stored) and short language-model calls. Those calls carry text about your clips: the words spoken in them, a short description of what each clip shows (written on your computer), and the titles of your talking points. They also carry frames of the reference reel you pasted. They never carry your audio, your video or a frame of your own footage. The privacy policy lists exactly what is sent.

On Pro, we keep your library. Every reel you finish on a Pro plan is copied to our storage, so your library is there on any computer you sign in on, and after your browser’s data is cleared. We keep up to your 300 most recent reels (a reel counts once, however many versions it has): when a newer reel is kept beyond 300, the oldest is deleted from our storage with all its versions, and the copy on your computer is not touched. A set or reel you delete is deleted from our storage at once. When your Pro plan ends, we keep your reels for 30 days and then delete them. Come back to Pro within those 30 days and your library is as you left it. The privacy policy lists what is kept and where.

On the free plan, export what you want to keep. A free account’s library lives only in your browser’s storage on your computer, and we hold no copy that could restore it. That storage is not a backup: clearing your browser’s data deletes it, and Chrome can clear a website’s storage by itself when your disk runs low.

Your clips are never kept by us on any plan, so the footage itself is yours to look after.

• Give a real email address and keep your password to yourself.
• You are responsible for what happens under your account.
• One account is for one person or one team’s use of the product, not for wrapping ClippyOS in your own service (see acceptable use).
• If you think your account has been compromised, change your password in Settings, under Account, and tell us at hello@clippyos.com.

Pro costs $79 a month, tax included. It is sold through Onelink, Stripe’s checkout, which is the merchant of record for every Pro subscription. Onelink takes your payment, pays any VAT or sales tax due out of it, sends your receipts and invoices, and answers questions about payments and refunds. Your bank statement shows the charge as LINK.COM. The price is set in US dollars, and checkout can show it in your own currency. Checkout shows the full amount before you pay. Pro renews automatically every month, charging your saved payment method, until you cancel.

Pro includes every reel in every set, clean exports without the ClippyOS mark, editing, and 50 generations a week. Each press of Generate is one generation, and it makes a set of up to ten reels. The weeks are counted from the same date and time one month before each renewal (the month’s last day when it has no such date). After the fourth week, the days left before your plan renews hold their share of 50: three days hold 21. Exports and re-exports are not counted, because they are rendered on your own computer.

• Cancel any time from Settings, under Billing, which opens Stripe’s customer portal, or from your Onelink account at link.com. No email and no call. Pro runs to the end of the month you have paid for, then stops. There is no minimum term and no cancellation fee. The reels we keep for you stay for 30 days after Pro stops, then are deleted (see section 3).
• Videos you have already exported are files on your disk. Cancelling does not touch them.
• If a renewal payment fails, Stripe retries it and Pro carries on meanwhile. If the payment cannot be collected, Pro stops and your account goes back to the free plan. Nothing on your computer is touched, and the reels we keep for you are deleted 30 days after Pro stops unless the payment goes through first.
• Prices can change for new subscriptions. A subscription keeps the price it started at for as long as it runs.

Refunds. Cancelling stops the next renewal. It does not refund a month already started, and deleting your account, which ends Pro at once, does not either. Refunds are Onelink’s, as the seller: ask through Onelink support at support.link.com, or from the order in your Onelink account at link.com.

Your 14-day right to cancel. If you are a consumer in the UK or the EU, you can cancel a new Pro subscription within 14 days of the day you subscribed, under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013 in the UK and Directive 2011/83/EU in the EU. Onelink sells Pro to you, so it handles that cancellation and the refund that follows from it. Ask through Onelink support at support.link.com. The right belongs to the first 14 days of a new subscription, not to each monthly renewal, and it does not apply if you subscribe as a business.

If something is wrong with the service. If ClippyOS is not provided with reasonable care and skill or does not do what we say it does, the law gives you remedies that no term can take away: the service put right, a price reduction, or a refund for the part that failed. In the UK that is the Consumer Rights Act 2015. In the EU it is Directive 2019/770. In Australia it is the Australian Consumer Law. To claim them, write to hello@clippyos.com.

Every account starts free with one generate. It is counted only when the run produces videos, so a technical failure never uses it up. ClippyOS makes the full set in your browser. One reel of it is yours in full: every version of it plays and exports, carrying a small ClippyOS mark. The rest of the set is shown blurred until you upgrade. Clean exports, the rest of the set and editing reels (transcripts, typefaces) need Pro. The free tier needs no card and has no time limit.

• Your footage stays yours. We claim no rights over your clips, and we never receive them.
• The reels we keep for you on Pro are kept only for you. We hold them to give them back to your library, and for nothing else: we do not look at them, train anything on them, or share them. Keeping them gives us no rights in them.
• Your finished videos are yours. To the extent ClippyOS’s assembly contributes anything protectable, we assign it to you. Post them, sell them, do as you like. No attribution is required.
• You are responsible for having the rights to the footage you use. It should be yours, or you should have permission from whoever owns it and from identifiable people in it where the law requires.
• Quote text generated for your videos is written fresh in the reference’s theme rather than copied from it, so you are not republishing someone else’s writing. Review what you post. You are the publisher of your own content.

Do not use ClippyOS to:

• process footage you have no right to use.
• produce content that is unlawful, including content that harasses, defames, deceives, or sexualises minors.
• resell, sublicense or wrap the service. The weekly limit on generations exists for this reason, and systematic resale is a breach at any volume.
• probe, overload or interfere with the service, or get around its limits (including the free tier’s one generate or its locked reels).

Rendering happens on your computer, and we do not look at what you make, including the reels we keep for you on Pro. Moderating your output is your responsibility as its publisher. We act on accounts, billing, and abuse of our servers, including any attempt to use the storage of kept reels for anything other than the reels ClippyOS made.

Pasting a reel’s link asks ClippyOS to fetch it and pass it to your browser, which reads its structure: cut timing, pacing, text layout and the track’s name. We do not store it on our servers. When a set uses a reference, a copy of that reel is kept with the set in your browser, on your computer. Its footage is never used in your videos. Only paste links to content that is publicly available, and use the feature to learn structure, not to duplicate someone’s work. Quote text is written fresh, never copied, for that reason.

Pasting a link is your instruction to fetch that reel for your own analysis. You confirm it is public and that you may analyse it. We may withdraw the feature if a platform objects.

ClippyOS never embeds licensed music in your exports. Instagram’s licensed audio exists only inside Instagram, and a track baked into an uploaded file gets the post muted or removed. ClippyOS uses the reference’s audio for timing only and tells you the track’s name, so you can add it in the app when you post. Your own recorded voice is yours and stays in the video.

The platforms you post to have their own terms. Complying with them is between you and the platform. ClippyOS is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Instagram or any other platform.

• ClippyOS runs in Chrome or Edge on a desktop or laptop. Rendering uses WebCodecs, which other browsers and phones do not yet support well. The app tells you straight away if your browser cannot run it.
• The first time you use it on a computer, your browser downloads up to about 2 GB of open-source models, and about 1.5 GB more for your first audio montage. You need that much free disk space, on top of room for your library.
• The tab must stay open while your reels render. The work happens in it.
• Rendering speed depends on your hardware, so run times vary from computer to computer.
• We aim for the service to be reliably available but do not promise uninterrupted operation. Maintenance, our providers, and reference-fetch sources (which can break when platforms change) are outside any absolute guarantee.

ClippyOS is provided “as is”. We work hard on output quality, because that is the product, but we cannot promise any particular video will suit your purpose, perform on any platform, or gain any audience. Nothing in this section limits rights you have as a consumer that cannot lawfully be excluded, including that services be provided with reasonable care and skill.

The example reels on our website were made by ClippyOS from real footage. The likes, comments, reposts and other figures shown on them are illustrative. They are not results those reels achieved, and they are not a prediction of what yours will achieve.

We do not exclude liability where it would be unlawful to, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. Beyond that, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses (lost profits, lost audiences, or files we never held), and our total liability under this agreement is capped at the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or £100 if you have paid nothing. Nothing here limits your remedies under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 for digital content or for damage to your device.

Your footage and your exports live on your computer, and so does a free account’s library, so keeping copies of them is yours to do. On Pro we keep your finished reels as section 3 describes, and we take care of them, but that copy is not a backup of your footage.

You can delete your account at any time from Settings. That deletes your account data as the privacy policy describes, including every reel we keep for you, and it ends any Pro subscription at once, without a refund for the rest of the month. To keep Pro to the end of the month, cancel it first and delete the account after.

We can suspend or close an account that breaches these terms. Unless the breach is serious, you keep access to the end of any period you have paid for. Your exported videos, on your disk, are unaffected by any account closure in either direction.

When we change these terms, we publish the new version on this page and change the date at the top. A change takes effect 14 days after that date. If you disagree with a change, cancel before it takes effect. Using ClippyOS after that date is acceptance.

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and its courts have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer elsewhere, you keep the protection of your local law’s mandatory rules and can bring claims where you live. If a court finds part of these terms unenforceable, the rest still applies.

Questions about these terms: email hello@clippyos.com.

Complaints: write to hello@clippyos.com. We do not use an alternative dispute resolution body.

ClippyOS is run by ApeTec Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales, company number 17065917. Registered office: 124-128 City Road, London, England, EC1V 2NX.