VERTES is the local alternative to cloud clippers like Opus Clip. Tell it what you want in plain words — it finds the best moments, cuts, captions and ranks them. No minute caps, no upload queues, your footage never leaves your machine. From £10/mo.
The founder's own channel after switching to VERTES — figures straight from YouTube Analytics.
“Your channel has simply exploded!” — YouTube's own AI assistant, reviewing the channel, July 2026
Finding the 40 good seconds inside a 6-hour session, cropping vertical, captioning, titling, ranking — for every single Short.
Cloud tools like Opus Clip meter your minutes and charge more as you grow — the more you create, the more you pay. VERTES is unlimited.
Hours of raw gameplay pushed to servers you don't control, at upload speeds you definitely don't. VERTES processes it all locally.
Any length — 6-hour streams included. Or paste a link.
“2 Shorts, 30-40s, best kills, facecam top circle.” That's the whole setup.
Shorts come out numbered. “Short 1 starts too abruptly — begin 3s earlier.” Done.
SEO written, best times scheduled, uploaded — and your analytics tune the next cuts.
No settings maze, no timeline, no learning curve — the experience of briefing a human editor, at the speed of software.
The live product — talk to it in any language.
One sentence replaces a wall of buttons — and an Advanced panel is there when you want manual control.
“I understood: ✅ funny moments · ✅ 45s · ✅ 3 versions — Start?” You always see the plan first.
Every Short is numbered. Ask for more lead-in, a tighter ending, a different vibe — it re-cuts just that clip.
VERTES closes the loop between your real YouTube analytics and the editing itself — measurably, not as a buzzword.
Your Shorts go live on your channel
Retention curves, traffic, subs per clip — real API data
What holds YOUR audience: openings, lengths, moment types
The next batch is tuned automatically — and it tells you what changed
Re-running the same video always cuts NEW moments — even months later.
A thumbs-down means “bad edit” — that exact moment gets automatically re-cut with better timing.
Every new clip is scored against what already performs on your channel.
Real KPIs, retention and traffic sources — plus the exact tuning VERTES applies from them.
9 marketing tools anchored to YOUR games: niches, calendars, hooks, scripts, competitor analysis.
Strategy advice grounded in live web research and your real channel data — not guesses.
SEO titles and tags written for you, best posting times, review-and-approve before anything goes live.
Karaoke-style animated captions, 14 styles + any Windows font — and auto-translation of any spoken language into English.
Free local AI out of the box. Plug in your own Claude API key for the premium brain — pennies per session, your key, your data.
| VERTES | Opus Clip | Eklipse | VidIQ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runs 100% locally / private | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Unlimited clips — no minute caps | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Built for gaming | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Learns from YOUR analytics | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Conversational AI editor | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| SEO + scheduling + coaching in one | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| No gaming GPU required | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Price | from £10/mo | ~$19-29/mo | ~$15/mo | ~$39+/mo |
Honest note: VERTES needs a Windows PC with an NVIDIA GPU — which, if you record gameplay, you already own.
Every plan is the complete studio — unlimited Shorts, no minute caps, nothing metered. Founding members lock a low rate for their first year (10 paid months + 2 free), then move to the £20/mo standard. Try it risk-free: a 7-day money-back guarantee means a full refund if it's not for you.
Every subscription is risk-free: try VERTES and get a full refund within 7 days if it's not for you. You get the complete studio from day one — unlimited Shorts, no minute caps, every feature. The built-in local AI runs at no extra cost; only an optional Claude key is billed by Anthropic directly to you.
Founding members start from £10/mo (limited seats — see pricing), which locks for your first year, then moves to the £20/mo standard. Cancel anytime; you keep access until the period ends. Not for you? 7-day money-back guarantee.
Your rate moves to the standard £20/mo, with plenty of notice. You keep everything and all future updates — you were simply rewarded for joining early.
VERTES does everything on YOUR machine — transcription, moment detection, rendering. That's what makes it private and unlimited: your GPU does the work that cloud tools meter and cap. If you record gameplay, your PC already qualifies.
No. Videos are processed 100% locally. The only things that leave your PC are the Shorts you approve for upload (to YOUR YouTube account), a licence check to keep your subscription active, and — only if you opt into the Claude brain — text snippets sent to Anthropic under your own API key.
The built-in local models (via Ollama) run free and handle cutting, captions and SEO well. Plugging in your own Claude API key makes the coach, strategist and story-editing noticeably sharper — it costs pennies per session, billed by Anthropic directly to you.
It's measurable. VERTES reads your channel's retention curves and traffic from the YouTube API, writes the conclusions to a tuning file, and applies them to the next cuts — and logs every change it makes. Thumbs-down a clip and that exact moment gets re-cut with better timing.
No — uploading is optional. You can just make your Shorts and post them yourself. If you want auto-upload & scheduling, a quick in-app wizard connects your own YouTube account via Google sign-in. VERTES never sees your password and uploads only what you approve.
Talk to the AI editor and coach in any language. Captions can stay in the original language or be auto-translated into English for global reach.
A plain-English, tab-by-tab tour of the whole app — Create, captions, analytics, strategist, upload and more. Read it once and you'll know VERTES inside out.
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