Terms of Service

ClipPod is operated as a solo project. These terms are written in plain language on purpose — if anything here is unclear, email support@clippod.app before you rely on it.

1. What ClipPod does

You upload a source video (a podcast episode — or any stream or talk). ClipPod transcribes it, proposes short vertical clips from the transcript, lets you steer the selection in plain language, and renders the clips you keep with captions burned in. Analysis is metered in credits; rendering, re-rendering, and steering are not separately charged.

2. Accounts

You need an account to use ClipPod, created with an email and password or a Google sign-in. You're responsible for keeping your credentials secure and for activity that happens under your account. One person or organization per account — don't share logins.

3. Credits and billing

ClipPod runs on monthly subscription plans (Starter, Creator, or Studio), each granting a fixed number of credits every billing period: 1 credit buys analysis of 1 minute of source video. Credits are prepaid usage units, not currency and not a stored-value account, and they roll over from month to month for as long as your subscription stays active, up to a banked maximum of three times your plan's monthly credit amount (each monthly grant is reduced as needed so your balance never exceeds that cap). Accounts without a subscription receive a free monthly credit allowance that tops the balance up to a fixed amount each calendar month; free credits do not accumulate beyond it. If your subscription lapses — canceled and its paid period ends, or a payment fails and isn't recovered — any remaining credit balance is voided; resubscribing within 30 days restores access to your existing library. Credits are non-refundable except where a law that applies to you requires it. If an analysis job fails on ClipPod's side, the credits it would have cost are refunded automatically — you don't need to ask. Subscription payments, receipts, and payment method storage are handled by Polar, acting as merchant of record; ClipPod never sees or stores your card details, and payment disputes or chargebacks go through Polar's process, not ClipPod's.

4. Acceptable use

You keep ownership of whatever you upload. In return, you confirm you have the rights to upload it and to have it transcribed and re-rendered into clips — your own recordings, licensed content, or anything else you're legally entitled to process this way. Don't upload anything you don't have the rights to, anything illegal, or anything intended to harass, defraud, or impersonate someone without their consent. Don't try to abuse the credit system (e.g. automated signups to farm starter credits) or attack the service. Accounts used this way can be suspended or terminated without a refund of unused credits.

5. Retention and deletion

Your clips are the product; the source video is working material. On every plan, a source video and its transcript are deleted 48 hours after the last activity on that video — your rendered clips stay downloadable after that, but mining the same episode again means re-uploading it. "Activity" means downloading or editing a clip, steering a re-run, or similar — just visiting the page doesn't reset the clock. Clips on a free account are deleted after 14 days without activity (you'll get a warning email around day 7). While you're subscribed, clips are kept for as long as you stay subscribed, within your plan's storage space. If your subscription ends — canceled and the paid period runs out, or a payment fails and isn't recovered — you have 30 days to resubscribe with your clip library intact; after that, the free-account deletion applies. Deleting a video yourself removes its file, transcript, and clips immediately, on any plan. Deleting your account (from Settings) removes all of the above across every video, plus your credit history and account record — this is immediate and can't be undone, so make sure you've downloaded anything you want to keep first.

6. Service availability

ClipPod is provided as-is, without uptime guarantees. Processing depends on third-party infrastructure (Cloudflare, Modal, OpenRouter) that occasionally has outages outside ClipPod's control. Failed analysis jobs are retried automatically and refunded if they can't complete.

7. Liability

To the maximum extent the law allows, ClipPod is not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the service, and ClipPod's total liability for any claim is capped at the amount you paid ClipPod in the twelve months before the claim arose. Nothing here limits liability that can't be limited under the law that applies to you.

8. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Croatia and applicable European Union law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. If you use ClipPod as a consumer in the EU, this doesn't take away protections you're entitled to under the mandatory consumer-protection rules of your country of residence.

9. Changes

These terms may change as ClipPod does. Material changes will be reflected by updating the date at the top of this page; continued use after a change means you accept the updated terms.

Last updated: July 14, 2026