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choco.video for Mac

Long videos in. Clips out.

Drop in a podcast or talk. choco.video picks the moments worth posting, keeps the speaker in frame and captions every word, all on your Mac.

Download for macOS Free and open source · 9.9 MB · Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or later
Watch the 30-second filmHow it picksSource on GitHub

Workaholism Killed My CreativityScore 78

One episode, four clips.

A 47-minute interview went in. Four minutes later, four captioned clips came out, each framed on whoever was talking. Thirty seconds, no sound needed.

The real app and real output: a 47:52 episode became four captioned clips in 226 seconds on an M3 Pro.

Four clips it picked, and why.

Real output from two podcasts. Choose a clip to watch it and read the picker's reasons.

    First, it listens on your Mac.

    Apple's built-in speech engine writes a word-timed transcript at about 42 times real time. Older Macs use Whisper instead.

    Finding your best clips
    graham-interview.mp447:52
    1. Transcribing47:52 of speech, on this Mac
    2. Finding the best moments3,976 moments considered, 80 read by MiniMax M3
    3. Following the speakerFaces checked five times a second
    4. Rendering clips4 clips, captions burned in, −14 LUFS
    ListenPickFrameRender

    How long is your episode?

    The original wide shot of the interview, before choco.video cut it

    3.8minutes to clips

    Measured on an M3 Pro: the 47:52 interview went from file to four finished clips in 226 seconds, about 4.7 seconds per minute of video, transcription included.

    Free app. Pennies to pick.

    The app costs nothing. Picking clips needs a language model; use Apple's own for free, or a key you already have.

    Apple on device

    Free

    • Runs on your Mac, offline
    • No key, no account
    • macOS 26 with Apple Intelligence
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    OpenCode Zen

    ~2¢per hour of video

    • MiniMax M3, our recommended picker
    • Best accuracy we measured, lowest cost
    • One key, kept in your Keychain
    • Paid to OpenCode, never to us
    Get a key

    Any compatible endpoint

    Your rate

    • OpenRouter, Groq, DeepSeek
    • LM Studio or Ollama on your own machine
    • Paste a base URL and a key
    • choco.video lists the models
    • Pick one for scoring, one for summaries
    Read the setup

    Questions, answered.

    Privacy
    No. Transcription, face tracking, captions and rendering all run on your Mac. The only thing that can leave it is transcript text, sent to the clip picker you choose. Pick Apple's on-device model and nothing leaves at all.
    Macs
    Apple Silicon Macs on macOS 14 or later. On macOS 26 it uses Apple's built-in speech engine with nothing to download; older systems fetch one 550 MB Whisper model the first time.
    Price
    Yes, and MIT licensed. There is no account and no subscription. If you use a hosted picker you pay that provider directly, about two cents per hour of video with the recommended model.
    Quality
    On five public podcasts, two of the recommended model's top five picks matched clips an editor marked, on average. Every pick comes with its reasons, so you can judge it in seconds. The test set is still awaiting human review.
    Opening
    The app isn't notarized by Apple, so macOS blocks the first launch of a browser download. Open System Settings, go to Privacy & Security, and click Open Anyway next to choco.video. You only do this once. Or install from Terminal, which skips the prompt entirely: curl -fsSL https://chocovideo.vercel.app/install.sh | sh
    Output
    A 1080 by 1920 MP4 with captions burned in and sound at −14 LUFS, a poster frame, SRT and VTT subtitles, and a title, caption and hashtags ready to paste. Square, 4:5 and 16:9 too.

    Start with one episode.

    Download the app, drop in a recording and get ranked, captioned clips a few minutes later. Your video stays on your Mac.

    New project
    your-podcast.mp41:12:04
    Download and find clips

    Clips about “pricing”, bold captions