Organize family & travel videos into a searchable library — find any moment in seconds

Before ClipCatalog

• Videos from phones, cameras, and SD cards are spread across multiple drives and folders with inconsistent naming.
• Finding "that one moment" means opening drive after drive and scrubbing through clips by hand.
• Older drives go offline and you forget what's on them — footage effectively disappears.
• You know the clip exists, but it's faster to just say "I can't find it" than to search.

With ClipCatalog

• Index folders once from any device or drive, then browse one consistent library.
• Search by person (face recognition), by scene (detected content), or by spoken words (transcript search).
• Keep the catalog searchable even when an archive drive is unplugged — reconnect only when you need the file.
• Everything runs locally on your PC — no cloud uploads, no accounts, no subscription.

Add your video folders

Point ClipCatalog at the folders where your footage already lives — phone backups, camera imports, SD card dumps, external drives. No reorganizing needed.

ClipCatalog indexes everything locally

The app scans your clips, generates thumbnails, and — if you enable them — runs detected content, face detection, and speech-to-text transcription. All processing happens on your computer using your own hardware.

Search and find any moment

Type a word, select a face, or filter by date, camera, or scene — and get results in seconds across your entire archive. Preview clips right inside ClipCatalog without opening another app.

Making a birthday montage

Your kid is turning 10 and you want clips from every birthday. Instead of opening 10 different folders across 3 drives, search "birthday" or filter by their face and get every relevant clip in one view — sorted by date, ready to preview.

Finding travel highlights

You're putting together a highlight reel of last summer's road trip. Search for "mountain", "sunset", or "city" to find scenic clips, or search for a few keywords you remember someone saying on camera to jump straight to that moment.

Showing a grandparent on a video call

Mid-conversation, someone asks "do you still have the video from…?" — and instead of saying "I'll look later", you search, find it in seconds, and share the screen. That's the difference a searchable archive makes.

Consolidating years of phone backups

You've backed up three phones over the years, each into a different folder. Instead of manually sorting through thousands of clips, add all three folders to ClipCatalog and let it index everything into one searchable library.

Rediscovering forgotten footage

That old external drive from 2018 sitting in a drawer — you know there's footage on it but you've forgotten what. Plug it in once, catalog it, and now its contents are searchable even after you unplug it again.

Finding clips of a specific person

A family member passed away and you want to find every video they're in. Face recognition lets you select their face once, and ClipCatalog shows every clip where they appear — across your entire collection, all at once.

Family videos are some of the most personal content you own — kids growing up, private moments, and memories you'd never post online. Cloud-based video tools require uploading that footage to someone else's server for processing. ClipCatalog doesn't. Every frame, every face, and every word is processed on your own computer and stays on your own drives.

Local processing also means you're not dependent on a subscription service staying online. Your catalog is stored in a local database on your PC. If the internet goes down, if a cloud service shuts down, or if you simply prefer to keep things offline — your searchable video library keeps working.

Will ClipCatalog upload my family videos to the cloud?

No. ClipCatalog is local-first — all indexing and searching happens on your computer. Your footage never leaves your machine.

Can I index videos from multiple phones, cameras, and hard drives?

Yes. You can add as many folders as you like — across internal drives, external SSDs, USB drives, and SD card dumps. ClipCatalog treats them all as one searchable library.

What if an old external drive is unplugged?

You can still search the catalog, browse thumbnails, and see metadata for clips on disconnected drives. Reconnect the drive when you need to open or copy the original file.

How does face recognition work for family videos?

ClipCatalog detects faces in your videos using local AI, groups them by person, and lets you assign names. After that, you can filter your entire library to show only clips where a specific family member appears.

Can it find a specific moment someone said something?

Yes. ClipCatalog transcribes the audio in your videos locally using speech-to-text AI and stores the words. Search for a spoken word and jump to the clips where it was said. To narrow results, use All/Any matching (AND/OR) when combining multiple terms.

Do I need to rename or reorganize my files first?

No. Point ClipCatalog at your existing folders — however messy or deeply nested they are. It indexes what's there without moving, renaming, or restructuring anything.

How long does the first index take?

It depends on how many videos you have and whether you enable AI features like detected content and transcription. A few hundred clips can finish in under an hour; larger archives with thousands of clips take longer. After the initial index, searches are fast.

What formats and cameras does it support?

ClipCatalog supports common video formats (MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, and more) from phones, action cameras, DSLRs, camcorders, and drones. If FFmpeg can read it, ClipCatalog can index it.

Is there a free trial?

Yes — up to 500 videos and 10 hours of total duration, with full access to all features including detected content, transcript search, and face recognition. No account or credit card required.

Does it work on Mac or Linux?

ClipCatalog is currently available for Windows only (Windows 10 and 11).