Terms

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Last updated: November 10, 2026

The software

Clip Engine is licensed, not sold. You may install and use it on your own PCs. You may not resell, redistribute or reverse engineer it, except where the law allows.

Who can use it

You must be 13 or older to make a Clip Engine account or buy Pro or Ultra, or 16 or older where the law of your country sets that age (including the EU and the UK). By making an account or buying a plan you confirm that you are.

Free, Pro and Ultra

Free ($0) records, clips, trims and exports on your PC at up to 1080p, with a 2 GB cloud library that takes clips up to 1080p, 100 MB and 40 seconds. Clips you put in the cloud on Free carry a small "Made with Clip Engine" badge in the corner; clips on your PC never do.

Pro ($4.99 a month, or $49 a year) records and exports at up to 4K and 60 fps, with 50 GB of cloud storage, clips in the cloud of up to 2 GB and 10 minutes in their original quality, and no badge. Ultra ($14.99 a month, or $149 a year) has everything in Pro with 300 GB of cloud storage and clips of up to 4 GB and 30 minutes. Each also has the extras listed on the website. Prices are in US dollars, before any tax Polar adds where you live.

Subscriptions are sold and renewed each month or each year, as you choose, by Polar, our merchant of record, under Polar's terms. Cancel any time from the link in your receipt; your plan runs to the end of the period you paid for. When a plan ends, recording goes back to Free's 1080p and the cloud library keeps your clips, but new uploads follow Free's limits and none go past Free's space until you remove some.

A license key is personal: use it on your own PCs and one cloud account, and please don't share it.

Your recordings

You own the recordings and clips you make. Clip Engine claims no ownership of them. You only give us the permission we need to store, process and show them as you choose (for example, to play a clip you shared by link or made public in the hub).

You confirm that you own, or have permission to use, everything you capture, edit or upload with Clip Engine, and that recording it is lawful where you are. You are responsible for following the rules of the games and platforms you record and share to.

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Clip Engine and its developer against any claim, loss or cost (including reasonable legal fees) that comes from what you record, upload or share, including claims of copyright infringement, misuse of someone else's footage or an unlawful recording.

Copyright and takedown notices (DMCA)

We respect copyright and respond to notices under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If you believe a clip on Clip Engine infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated copyright agent at copyright@clipengine.org with:

• your name, address, phone number and email, and your physical or electronic signature;
• the work you say is infringed, and the link to each clip you want taken down;
• a statement that you believe in good faith that the use isn't authorised by the owner, its agent or the law;
• a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or are allowed to act for them.

We take down the clips a valid notice names and tell the person who uploaded them, who may send a counter-notice to the same address. We close the accounts of people who infringe again and again.

The hub

Clips you make public are shown in the hub for anyone to watch. Don't post clips that are hateful, sexual, graphically violent, spam, or that show cheating. Anyone can report a clip, and we may take a clip out of the hub without notice. Its link keeps working for people you've sent it to unless you make it private.

Deleting your account

You can delete your cloud account at any time from the Cloud page in the app or from your page on the hub. Your clips, profile, friends and sign-ins are deleted at once; if storage fails part-way, the remaining files, and copies held in caches and backups, are gone within 30 days. Clips on your PC aren't touched. A subscription is cancelled separately, with Polar.

No warranty

Clip Engine is provided "as is" and "as available", during early access, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We don't promise it will be free of errors or always available.

Lost clips and data. Keep your own copies of anything that matters to you. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for lost recordings or clips, corrupted video files, or data that wasn't backed up, whatever the cause, including the online service timing out, cloud sync or database failures, and crashes of the app or your PC.

Limit of liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or for lost profits or data. Our total liability for any claim about Clip Engine is limited to the lesser of what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim and $50. Some places don't allow these limits, so they may not all apply to you.

Contact

[Your name], [email address]. Copyright notices: copyright@clipengine.org.