Overview
Kage is an AI clipping tool launched in 2026 that turns long-form footage — podcasts, webinars, gameplay, interviews — into short vertical clips ready to post. Instead of a human scrubbing the timeline, Kage scores the source on transcript meaning, viewer-interest signals, and visual rhythm to find the moment worth keeping, then reframes it to 9:16, locks bold captions to the audio, and burns in a watermark. The output is a finished MP4 with no timeline cleanup. For a solo creator publishing daily, that shift — from ‘edit a video’ to ‘approve a clip’ — is the whole value proposition, and it is why Kage sits closer to a distribution tool than a traditional editor.
Key Features
- Attention-based moment detection — Kage scores hooks and removes dead air and sponsor drift using transcript semantics plus viewer-interest cues, so the selected clip has a reason to stop scrolling rather than being a random cut.
- Automatic 9:16 reframing — the action is recentred for a native vertical frame, which matters because most short-form reach now comes from Reels, Shorts, and TikTok rather than landscape players.
- Locked, synced captions — bold captions are generated and anchored to the spoken words, not overlaid as an afterthought, improving watch-through on muted playback.
- Branded, ready-to-post MP4 — watermark and basic branding are applied during export, so the file lands finished without a separate editing pass.
- Links and direct uploads — you can paste a URL or upload a file; exports are 1080×1920.
Pricing
| Plan | Price | For |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $29/mo | Solo creators building consistency — 60 AI-selected clips/mo, links & uploads, 1080×1920 |
| Creator | $49/mo | Daily publishers wanting unlimited social clips + relevant-moment intelligence |
Pricing verified on kageapp.net in September 2026; plans and allowances may change, confirm on the official pricing page before subscribing.
Comparison
vs. Opus Clip: Both auto-detect highlights and reframe to vertical, but Opus Clip leans on a credit-per-minute model and a larger repurposing ecosystem, while Kage centers on transcript-meaning scoring and a finished-MP4 exit with less manual cleanup. Choose Kage if you want the clip to land post-ready; choose Opus Clip if you already live in its repurposing workflow.
vs. CapCut: CapCut is a full editor where you do the cutting; Kage removes the cutting step by scoring the moment for you. Use CapCut when you need fine timeline control, Kage when speed matters more than frame-level polish.
vs. Pika: Pika generates video from prompts; Kage edits existing footage into clips. They solve different jobs — Pika for creation from nothing, Kage for distribution from something you already recorded.