PodClip: find it, clip it, play it

From "did you hear that?" to a button in seconds

You say "That is the freaking coolest thing I have ever seen." Twenty minutes later you type freaking, click the sentence, press Clip, and it's on your soundboard.

Record

Pick any input, from a USB interface or mixer to a virtual device, and press Record. Audio streams straight to disk, so a long show never fills your memory.

Search

Words appear as you speak, each with a timestamp. Search the transcript mid-show, even for multi-word phrases, and jump to the exact moment.

Clip

Click a word to select its sentence, nudge the start and end, preview it, and press Clip. Or just hit Capture last to grab the last 30 seconds in one action.

Play

Fire clips from the soundboard, your keyboard, a MIDI pad, a Stream Deck or over OSC. Clips overlap, light up while playing, and go out through the output you choose.

Built for the way a show actually runs

Live transcription, instant clips and a soundboard you can trigger every way a host might want to.

Search what was said, while it's still being said

Live, word-timed transcription uses Apple's on-device speech model. Search while you record and every match is highlighted and listed with its time and context.

Click a word to select its sentence, Shift-click to extend, or Option-click for a single word.

Searching the transcript for the word grill, with matches highlighted

Trim it exactly, then press Clip

Fine-tune with Start, End, Head and Tail, add a sentence before or after, and preview the clip before it goes on the board.

Made a mistake? Edit a saved clip: its words light up again so you can add or remove some and save it back into the same slot.

Editing a saved clip, with its words highlighted in the transcript and trim controls underneath

Recording

Record anything, lose nothing

Any input: USB interfaces, mixers, virtual devices or the built-in mic, with a live level meter.
Streamed to disk: about 345 MB for a one-hour episode.
Capture last N seconds as a clip in one action: from the soundboard, a Stream Deck key, Companion or OSC.
Optional MP3: replace the recording with an MP3 when you stop, to save space.

Pre-recorded audio

Transcribe a file you already have

Open Audio File takes MP3, M4A, WAV, AIFF, CAF or FLAC.
Fast: on Apple silicon an hour of audio takes about a minute.
A normal episode: search it and clip it just like a recording.
The audio is copied into the episode, so moving the original does no harm.

Soundboard

Pads that behave

Instant, overlapping playback with pause and resume.
When clicked again: restart, stop, or pause and resume, globally or per pad.
Drag to reorder pads, color them, and select many at once.
New clips first: optionally put each new clip in position 1.
Hold Esc to stop everything that's playing.

Output

Send sound where you want it

Play through any output device, like a separate bus so clips never bleed into your mic.
Preview through your headphones to audition a clip without it going out on air.
Switch devices mid-show and every pad follows.

Sharing

Take your clips with you

Drag a pad to the Desktop, Finder or another app to hand over an MP3 named after the clip.
Export one clip or all clips as MP3.
SRT and WebVTT transcript export for captions.

Episodes

Every show is its own folder

Open Episode reloads a past show with its transcript, search, clips and soundboard.
Rename, duplicate or delete episodes from a right-click.
Export and import a whole episode as a single .podclip file.
Delete Recording to free disk space but keep the clips.

Trigger it from anywhere

Run your show from a control surface. PodClip speaks OSC and comes with a Stream Deck plugin and a Bitfocus Companion module.

MIDI

Pads and buttons

Learn a pad for any clip, or play clips in order from a starting note.
Notes, controller buttons and program changes all work, and Stop all can be assigned too.

Stream Deck

Keys that show state

Clip keys light up while playing and show when paused.
Capture Last, Back to Live and Stop all are keys too.

Companion + OSC

Scriptable

Presets, feedbacks and variables for Bitfocus Companion.
A documented OSC protocol for anything else.

Keyboard

Every pad, any key

⌘1 to ⌘9 by default, or choose your own key for any pad.
⌘L jumps back to the live episode.

Get PodClip

Download the latest version, straight from GitHub.

Download the latest release

Requirements

macOS 26 or later (live transcription needs Apple's SpeechAnalyzer).
Apple silicon recommended.
Optional: the free LAME encoder for MP3 export, with brew install lame.

Installing

Download PodClip.dmg (the button above) and double-click it to open the installer.
Drag PodClip onto the Applications folder in the window that opens, then eject the disk image.
Open it. PodClip is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens with a normal double-click. The first time, macOS may ask "PodClip is an app downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?" Click Open.
Allow the microphone and speech recognition when asked, then press Record.

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Find it. Clip it. Play it.