Compared September 2026
Cliplala vs SendShort
SendShort is a shorts editor with faceless video, b-roll and a TikTok and YouTube scheduler, and long-video clipping is unlocked only on its top plan. Cliplala only does the clipping, priced in hours of source video, with seats included and a queue to 10+ platforms through Schedulala. Here is the whole picture, including where SendShort wins.
60 minutes of video free. No credit card.
Pick SendShort if
- You mostly polish shorts you already cut, and want b-roll, music, auto zoom and faceless videos in the same editor
- You want an AI hook title on every short
- You want captions exported as SRT, or 4K export
- You post only to TikTok and YouTube and want the scheduler built in
Pick Cliplala if
- You want long-video clipping on the cheapest plan, not only on the $59 one
- You send videos longer than 10 minutes: podcasts, streams, webinars
- You want to pay by hours of source video, with the same unit on every plan
- You share one plan with a few friends and want seats included
- You post to more than two platforms and want them all in one queue
Pricing
What your money buys
SendShort counts finished shorts and caps how long one video can be. We count hours of source video. The rows below put both in the same words so you can do the sum once.
$14 a month
Lite, 4 hours of video
$59 a month
Business. The two cheaper plans list long-video clipping as locked
$14 a month
$19 a month
Starter: 20 shorts a month, each up to 1 minute 30, no long-video clipping
$10.50 a month
25% off yearly, on every plan
20% off
$15, $23 and $47 a month paid yearly
$28 a month
8 hours, 3 seats
$29 a month
Professional: 50 shorts, up to 3 minutes each, hook titles, 3 themes. $23 paid yearly
Hours of video you send
Shorts per month
20, 50, or unlimited on Business
60 minutes of video, once
Watermark. Your shorts stay and you can download them.
Not shown
Every card says no credit card required, but no free plan is listed
Never
Not on free, not after you cancel
Not published
Included
Lite 1, Starter 3, Creator 3, Pro 4, Studio 10
Not published
Business is labelled for teams, with no seat count
SendShort prices read from their own site on 2026-09-09. Ours come from the same file as our pricing page.
Feature by feature
What each one does, and on which plan.
Only things that ship today, on both sides. Where SendShort has something we do not, the row says so.
Paste a link or upload a file
Upload
The feature page says upload; no link import is listed
None on paid plans
1 minute 30, 3 minutes, or 10 minutes by plan
From their comparison table
Yes, ranked 1 to 100
Finds the best moments, on Business
No score is listed
Yes
Not listed
Pick a length or let the AI choose
Not listed
Yes, before you see them
Bad cuts are re-snapped or removed
Not listed
Silence cutting is a separate paid feature
Yes
Convert video ratio on Business
Auto zoom on key speakers
Yes
Faces are measured, not guessed
Auto zoom on key speakers
Yes, decided every second
Splits when both matter, solo when one does
Not listed
10 styles, each word lights up as it is said
Auto captions, styles, custom fonts on paid plans
They claim 97% accuracy; translation into 30+ languages on Professional and up
No
AI hook title on Professional and up
No
You pick which shorts to keep, we do the cut
Yes
B-roll, music, sound effects, noise reduction, faceless videos, SRT export on Business
10+ through Schedulala
Connect your channels inside Cliplala. No second account
TikTok and YouTube
Per the scheduler feature page
Every paid plan
Through Schedulala
Every plan
Automatic publishing on Business
No
Schedulala has its own analytics for what it posts
Business
From their users
What people say about SendShort, and what we do about it.
Paraphrased from public reviews and threads. Each one links to where it was said.
Paid for the Business plan and could not upload more than ten videos, then spent three weeks with support while the subscription ran down.
Trustpilot, February 2026What we do
A plan is a number of hours, printed on the card before you buy, and a project that fails is not charged against them.
Shorts had to be made one at a time; it could not take a long video and produce a batch of shorts, and the promised auto-edit and auto b-roll still needed manual work.
Trustpilot, November 2025What we do
One long video in, a ranked batch of shorts out, on every plan including the free one.
Once reliable, now full of bugs and unusable.
Trustpilot, February 2026What we do
You can judge that yourself: the first 60 minutes of video run free before any card is on file.
Switching
Moving over takes an afternoon.
- 1
Try 60 minutes free
Paste a link or drop a file. Your first 60 minutes of video run free with a small Cliplala watermark, and you can post or download the shorts. No card.
- 2
Connect your channels in Schedulala
Posting goes through Schedulala, built in. You connect your channels inside Cliplala once, and every short can queue to all of them. There is no second account to open.
- 3
Bring the long video, not the shorts
SendShort wants finished shorts on its lower plans. Here you send the podcast, stream or webinar itself, and pick the rung by how many hours of it you send a month.
Questions people ask before switching
Is Cliplala cheaper than SendShort?
For long-video clipping, yes: it starts at $14 here and at $59 on SendShort, where the two cheaper plans list it as locked. For editing shorts you already have, SendShort starts at $19 and we do not do that job at all.
What is a source-hour?
One hour of the video you send us. A 75-minute podcast is 1.25 hours. It is the only unit we use, on every plan.
What does SendShort have that you do not?
A shorts editor with b-roll, music, sound effects, noise reduction and faceless AI videos, an AI hook title, SRT caption export, 4K export, and a built-in TikTok and YouTube scheduler. If you need those, SendShort is the better pick today.
Do my shorts expire if I stop paying?
No. Shorts are yours on every plan, including free, and they stay after you cancel. The uploaded source video is kept for 30 days. SendShort does not publish an expiry rule.
Do you train AI models on my videos?
No. Your uploads are used to make your shorts and for nothing else. It is written in our terms and privacy policy.
Can I post to the same platforms?
SendShort schedules to TikTok and YouTube. We queue to 10+ platforms through Schedulala on every paid plan. You connect your channels inside Cliplala once, and you check each short before it goes.
Your next nine posts are already recorded.
Try for free. No credit card required.