Licences · two ways to pay
The app runs on your machine, so the app is a licence — not a monthly permission slip. Buy it in one payment and it's yours, or rent from $15 a month and stop whenever you like. Ten months of rent costs what buying costs, so renting is for deciding, not for staying. The only other thing we charge monthly for is the part we actually host.
2 device seats — a seat is one machine signed in, yours to move
8 device seats — four editors on two machines each
25 device seats — extend in blocks of 25
Connected plan
Cutting, transcribing and rendering happen on your hardware, so they cost us nothing and cost you nothing per month. Scheduling, posting and syncing a team's kits run on our servers — that's what a subscription should pay for, and nothing else.
| Licence only | Licence + Connected | |
|---|---|---|
| The whole app, unlimited clips, all clip types and templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sync to your own bucket, drive or NAS 3.1 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Export and post by hand | ✓ | ✓ |
| Post directly to connected accounts 3.1+ | — | ✓ |
| Integrations — Buffer and the like 3.2 | — | ✓ |
| Scheduled tasks that fire without you 3.2 | — | ✓ |
| Brand kits and templates synced across seats | — | ✓ |
| Price | Included | $9/mo · $79/yr teams from $6/seat |
$7/month alongside a rental, $9 on its own, never required — the app doesn't stop when it lapses, only the hosted parts do.
For comparison
Published prices, checked in September 2026. Every one of them is a recurring charge; none of them leaves you owning anything.
| Instead of | They charge | Which is |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud clip tools — Opus Clip | $15/mo solo · $29/mo up to 4 users | $180–348 a year, forever, with upload minutes and storage capped by tier |
| Caption and clip tools — Submagic, Klap | $19–69/mo · $23/mo for 10 uploads | $228–828 a year, metered per minute above the included quota |
| Social scheduling — Buffer | $5–10 per channel per month | $360–720 a year for six channels on a team plan |
| Church presentation software — ProPresenter | $289/yr a seat · $649/yr a campus | Subscription only now; the perpetual licence was $399 and is no longer sold |
| Their free tiers | Watermarked · storage capped | Ours: the whole app, unwatermarked, three days — your hardware does the work, so trying it costs us nothing |
| An editor's time | 6–10 hours a month | $300–800 a month at freelance rates, for one weekly recording |
| Ariloop | ||
| Buy once | $149.99 · $549 · $2,490 | Divided by the seats, $69–100 a machine — roughly what the others charge per seat per year |
| Or rent month to month | $15–45/mo | Level with a solo cloud plan, without the caps — and you can stop whenever |
Prices are theirs, not ours, and they change — check before you decide. What doesn't change is the shape: they rent, we sell.
What's in each
| Individual | Group | Corporate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Making clips — on your machine, never metered | |||
| Clip types — message, movie, songs, highlights, complete context | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Templates and the full editor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Script to video (3.1), Mix (3.2), video to book (3.3) | Free update | Free update | Free update |
| Editor, watermarks, image layers, inserts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Thumbnail generator 3.1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Clips, minutes and exports per month | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Free trial before you pay | Whole app · 3 days | Whole app · 3 days | Pilot on request |
| Choose the AI per generation, or run local | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sync to your own storage 3.1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Seats | |||
| Device seats | 2 | 8 | 25 |
| Release and reassign seats | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Admin view of seats | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Offline activation | — | — | ✓ |
| Connected plan — the hosted parts | |||
| Scheduling, direct posting, integrations, scheduled tasks | $9/mo | $6/seat/mo | Quoted |
| Kits and templates synced across seats | n/a | With Connected | With Connected |
| Cheaper alongside rent | $7/mo | $5/seat/mo | Buy only |
| Buying it | |||
| Buy outright | $149.99 | $549 | $2,490 |
| Rent month to month | $15/mo | $45/mo | — |
| Works out per machine, if you buy | $75 | $69 | $100 |
| Updates included | Every 3.x release | Every 3.x release | Every 3.x release |
| Support | Priority email | Named contact | |
| Invoicing and purchase orders | — | ✓ | ✓ |
Add-ons & moving up
Bought a licence and outgrown it? You pay the gap to the bigger one, never the full price again. Renting? Change tier and the rate changes with it.
Cost over time
Measured against a $15/month cloud plan — the cheap tier, before its minute caps push you up one. Renting costs the same as that plan; buying costs it once.
Renting asks $15 to begin instead of $149.99, and costs the same as the cloud plan if you stay — which is why it's for deciding. Buying is the route that stops costing: after ten months it's cheaper than renting, and after three years it's a quarter of either subscription.
Licensing questions
Licensing only — the full FAQ covers the app, privacy, AI costs and publishing.
You pay monthly — $15 for Individual, $45 for Group — and stop whenever you like; the licence runs to the end of the month you've paid for. It doesn't turn into ownership: renting is a rental. When it ends the app stops opening, but nothing of yours is held hostage — finished clips sit in your folders, and you can still export the projects you'd already cut. Ten months of rent costs about what buying costs, so if you know you're staying, buy.
No, and we'd rather say so here than bury it: renting is access for as long as you pay for it. At the end of a month you don't renew, new clips stop — export of what you've already made stays open. Around ten months of rent costs what buying costs, so buy outright if you know you'll keep it. You can buy at any time and the rental stops the same day; rent already paid isn't credited.
One machine with Ariloop activated on it. A seat isn't tied to a person — an editor with a desktop and a laptop uses two. Release either from Devices and it's free immediately.
The parts that run on our servers: the scheduler and direct posting, integrations like Buffer, scheduled tasks that fire without your machine, and brand kits and templates synced across seats. It's $7/month alongside a rental, or $9/month — $79/year — if you bought outright, and never required. Let it lapse and only those hosted features stop.
No — it's free on every licence. The upload runs from your machine to your bucket or drive with credentials you enter, so it costs us nothing and we never hold a copy.
Every release inside the major version you bought. Buy at 3.0 and 3.1 through 3.5 are yours as they ship, free and with no deadline — that's the thumbnail generator, script to video, Mix, video to book, the command line and the mobile apps. A new major version, 4.0, would be a separate licence offered to existing holders below full price; until you take it, your 3.x keeps working exactly as it does today.
Yes. If you bought, you pay the difference between the two licences — never the full price twice. If you're renting, the rate just changes to the new tier from the next month. Brand kits, projects and seats carry over either way.
Card or invoice for Group. Corporate is buy-outright and invoiced against a purchase order — procurement prefers one line item to a monthly charge — with the Connected plan quoted per seat if you want it.
14 days on outright purchases, no questions. Rentals can be cancelled any time and simply end at the close of the paid term.
Because you're buying from an unknown vendor before the reviews exist, and that deserves a discount. On 1 January 2027 the prices become $179, $699 and $2,990. Anything bought or rented before then keeps its price permanently — including monthly rentals, which stay at the rate you started on.