A Qlip review, for a product that was bought before this page could test it
You are likely searching for an AI clipper called Qlip. Livestorm, a webinar platform, acquired the company in June 2026, and the old address now forwards to Livestorm’s site. Here is what could still be verified on 22 August 2026, the unrelated company that also owns the bare name, and what genuinely could not be checked.
A competitor, reviewing a product that no longer answers to its own name
InTheClips does the job Qlip used to do — a long recording in, short clips out — which makes this a review from a rival rather than a neutral source, and worth reading with that in mind. There is no affiliate link on this page and no tracked link; nothing here earns us anything whichever way this leaves you.
It is also an unusual review to write, because the product is gone. Qlip was acquired by Livestorm in June 2026, and its own site now redirects rather than describes itself. So this page is built from what could still be read on 22 August 2026 — Livestorm’s own account of the deal, a listing on Capterra, and the redirect itself — and it says plainly, throughout, which parts are secondhand and which could not be reached at all.
Qlip was bought by Livestorm in June 2026, and stopped operating on its own
The product this page was asked to review does not run by itself any more. qlip.ai — the bare domain, the www subdomain, and every path checked under it, including /pricing — now answers with a 301 redirect straight to livestorm.ai, which forwards again to livestorm.co, a webinar platform. That was confirmed directly on 22 August 2026 rather than assumed from a search result.
The reason is dated and named, not guessed at. Livestorm’s own blog carries a post headlined "After 10 years of Livestorm, we acquired Qlip," published 2 June 2026. Its CEO and co-founder, Gilles Bertaux, writes plainly about the motive: "We didn’t acquire Qlip for the customers or the revenue. We acquired them for the team, the technology, and the thesis: that AI should be webinar-native — trained on the format itself — not retrofitted from a generic video clipper." Qlip’s CEO and co-founder, Svend Court-Payen, and its CTO, Pamela Carvallo, now Livestorm’s Head of AI, are named in the same post.
What Qlip was credited with, in the words of the company that just bought it. The same post calls Qlip "one of the most respected AI video clipping companies on the market" and says the team "built their own engine, trained on what makes a moment actually worth sharing." That is a real compliment worth recording — and also the buyer’s own account of a deal it just closed, which is not the same thing as an independent assessment, and this page treats it as exactly what it is.
What comes next has a name, and it is not Qlip. "The first visible piece of this work is Livestorm AI Studio — an add-on that turns webinar replays into ready-to-publish short clips," by Livestorm’s own description. It is a feature of a webinar platform now, not a standalone tool anyone can send a recording to — and, as covered further down this page, it has not shipped yet.
The bare word "qlip" belongs mostly to a Dutch dairy-inspection company, not to any video tool
qlip.com and qlip.nl are not parked, and not about video. They belong to Qlip B.V., read directly on 22 August 2026: an independent Dutch company that runs "the number 1 laboratory for analysis of dairy products," alongside inspection, certification and calibration services across the dairy industry, plus a data platform for the sector called the Milk Competence Center. It holds ISO 17034 accreditation. None of it is software for clipping video, and a search for the bare word has a long-established, heavily indexed company to compete against before it ever reaches a video tool.
It is not even the only unrelated Qlip. A Chrome extension also called Qlip — a scrapbook for saving web-design inspiration, at qlip.page — turned up in the same research, launched in 2020 and unrelated to either the dairy company or the video tool. None of this is unusual for a short, dictionary-adjacent name; it is simply worth knowing before assuming a search result under this word is about clips at all.
So the two keywords in this page’s brief are not really one question. "qlip" on its own is the harder, more contested search, and most of what is established under it has nothing to do with video. "qlip ai" is the narrower phrase that actually pointed at the clipping company — and even that one now redirects to Livestorm, for the reasons above.
What a listing that outlived the product still says
Three things this page could still verify on 22 August 2026, none of them from Qlip’s own site, because Qlip’s own site is gone.
Long recordings in, short clips out
Capterra’s own description of Qlip, still live on 22 August 2026 even though the product’s own site is not, calls it "an AI-powered video clipping tool that converts long-form videos into short, engaging clips for social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts." That is the same job we do, and the reason this is a competitor review rather than an obituary with nothing to compare.
A transcript you could edit
The same listing says the tool "automatically generates clips with custom subtitles, while allowing creators to refine selections by editing transcripts" — adjusting a cut by editing the words rather than dragging a boundary on a timeline. We do something with a similar spirit the other way round: a cold-read pass re-cuts a clip that cannot be followed on its own, and a candidate that still fails keeps its place with its score capped rather than being hidden.
Zero reviews, on the platform that still lists it
Capterra shows the product with no user reviews at all, as of 22 August 2026 — not a bad score, no score. G2 and Trustpilot both answered this page’s direct request with a 403, and no Reddit thread could be reached either, so independent sentiment for Qlip is something this page genuinely could not gather, not something it chose to leave out.
A category tag, and not much else
Capterra files it under AI Video Generator, with the feature tags a listing in that category usually carries. That is a directory’s own categorisation rather than a claim from the product, and beyond the description above, this page found nothing on Capterra specific enough to be worth repeating.
Livestorm AI Studio is not released, and its job is narrower than Qlip’s was
It is a waitlist, not a product, as of 22 August 2026. Its own page reads "AI Studio: Turn your webinar into clips," describes finding "the moments worth sharing in your webinar replays" and turning them "into weeks of clips," and the only button on it says "Join the waitlist," with the timing given as "Sign up and get notified when we launch this summer!" Nothing about scoring, output shapes, captions or publishing is on the page, because none of it has shipped.
And its scope is narrower than Qlip’s was. By its own description it works from "webinar replays" — recordings that already live inside a Livestorm account — rather than a YouTube link or a file uploaded from anywhere else. Someone who is not running webinars on Livestorm has no route to it at all, whenever it ships.
So the honest answer to "can I use Qlip today" is no, on two separate counts. Qlip does not operate as its own product any more, and the thing it became is not open to sign up for yet — and even once it is, it will only be open to Livestorm’s own customers. Ours works today: a YouTube address or an uploaded recording up to 8 GB, with no waitlist and no dependency on which platform you host anything on.
What ours costs, since the comparison is otherwise one-sided. Starter is $19 a month for 240 credits — 4 hours of video — Creator $49 for 660, Studio $99 for 1,620, and a year costs eight months. One credit covers a minute analysed or a third of a clip exported past the plan’s included batch, so there is a single balance to watch rather than a minutes cap and a separate export limit. The free trial marks its exports; no paid plan does.
Where the two sit, for as long as one of them still exists to compare
The left column is checkable in our product today. The right column is what could be pieced together about a company that was bought and a product that was retired — read as that, not as a live comparison.
| What differs | InTheClips | Qlip |
|---|---|---|
| Whether you can use it today | Yes — the free trial starts immediately, with no waitlist. | No route found. qlip.ai forwards to Livestorm, and the feature it was folded into, Livestorm AI Studio, is not released — its own page asks for a waitlist signup and names no date more specific than "this summer." |
| What it read | A YouTube address or an uploaded recording — any long-form video you hand it, cut into the shorts worth posting. | By its last known Capterra listing, long-form video generally. What replaces it, Livestorm AI Studio, works from one source only: a webinar already recorded on Livestorm. |
| What decided which passage got cut | Four scores per candidate — hook, flow, value and travel — shown beside the transcript they were drawn from, plus a cold-read pass that flags a cut you cannot follow without context. | Not something this page can state. Qlip’s own site is gone; the company that bought it credits Qlip with "their own engine, trained on what makes a moment actually worth sharing," without describing how it scored or ranked anything, and this page is not going to guess further than that. |
| What is metered | One credit balance. A minute analysed costs one; a clip exported past the plan’s included batch costs three. Changing a caption means re-exporting, and that is an export like any other. | Its Capterra listing described a flat monthly subscription with a starter tier; no unit or figure could be read anywhere this page could still reach, because the pricing page no longer exists under that name. |
| Where the company’s effort is going now | Into reading a recording you already have. Nothing is posted anywhere on your behalf, and no account of yours is connected to InTheClips. | Into a webinar platform’s own replay library. Livestorm AI Studio is an add-on for a Livestorm account, not a general tool a person outside that platform can send a recording to. |
Livestorm’s account of the deal is the buyer’s own description of what it just bought, and this page treats it as exactly that rather than as neutral history. Read from livestorm.co and Capterra’s listing for Qlip on 22 August 2026 — the day the checkable half of this table was written. Their column is from Qlip’s own public description of the product, read on ; ours is from the code that runs this one.
Four checks, and none of them are specific to Qlip
A short, dictionary-adjacent name attached to a small company is exactly the shape of search that goes wrong quietly. These apply the next time it happens to be a different name.
Follow a redirect before you trust anything past it
A domain that used to describe one product can end up forwarding to a completely different company — an acquirer, a parking page, an unrelated business that bought the name later. Check where the address actually lands before reading anything written about "it" at that URL.
A waitlist is not a queue you can see
There is no cost to joining one and no information in having joined. Nobody publishes their position, their rate of admission, or their scope once it ships. Treat a waitlist page as worth nothing until an account exists, and keep using whatever you use now.
An acquisition is not the same story for the buyer and for you
A small company being bought can be a genuine success for its founders and simultaneously mean the product you were about to sign up for no longer exists in the form you read about. Both things are true here at once, and neither cancels the other out.
Narrow a collided name before you search for opinions about it
Adding "ai," "app," or the word "review" to a short name usually separates the software from whatever else shares it — a company in an unrelated industry, an extension, a person’s name. Even then, check that what comes back is actually about software before reading it as sentiment.
Questions
What this search is usually standing in for.
Is Qlip still around?
Not as its own product. Livestorm, a webinar platform, announced on 2 June 2026 that it had acquired Qlip — "for the team, the technology, and the thesis," in the words of its CEO, Gilles Bertaux, rather than for Qlip’s existing customers or revenue. qlip.ai now redirects straight to Livestorm’s site, and no separate product operates under the Qlip name any more.
Why do "qlip" and "qlip ai" turn up such different things?
Because the bare word belongs mostly to somebody else. qlip.com and qlip.nl are an established Dutch company doing laboratory analysis and inspection for the dairy industry, unrelated to video, and a small Chrome extension shares the name as well. "qlip ai" was the phrase that actually pointed at the video-clipping company — and even that one now redirects to Livestorm, for the reason above.
Where does the qlip ai login go now?
To Livestorm’s site — qlip.ai forwards there automatically, and this page found no separate sign-in still standing under the old name. Livestorm’s announcement of the acquisition does not say what happened to existing Qlip accounts, and since we are a competitor with no visibility into either company’s systems, anyone with a Qlip login should ask Livestorm directly rather than take a guess from this page.
Is there still a qlip ai free plan?
Not one this page could find. Qlip’s own pricing page is gone along with the rest of its site, and what it became — Livestorm AI Studio — has not launched, so there is nothing to sign up for yet, free or otherwise. For what it is worth on ours, since you are here: thirty minutes of source video, granted once, no card, and it does not renew.
Did Qlip publish a virality score, the way some clippers do?
We could not confirm this either way, and we are not going to guess. Qlip’s own site no longer exists to read, and the archived-page tool this research otherwise relies on could not be reached for this domain at all. Livestorm’s account of the acquisition credits Qlip with "their own engine, trained on what makes a moment actually worth sharing," but says nothing about how a score, if there was one, was built or shown. Anything more specific than that would be this page inventing a feature rather than reporting one.
What is Livestorm AI Studio, and can I use it instead?
It is what Qlip’s team and technology became inside Livestorm: an add-on described on Livestorm’s own page as turning webinar replays into clips, with a "Join the waitlist" button and a launch given only as "this summer." As of 22 August 2026 it is not released, and by its own description it works only from a webinar already recorded on Livestorm — not a general tool you could send any recording to.
What do independent reviewers say about Qlip?
Very little that this page could verify. Capterra lists the product with zero user reviews as of 22 August 2026. G2 and Trustpilot both answered a direct request with a 403, and no Reddit thread could be reached either. That is a gap in what we could check, not a finding about the product, and it is reported here rather than filled in with a guess.
Is this review biased?
Yes, and it says so at the top rather than in a footer. InTheClips does the job Qlip used to do, which makes this the version of the page most worth distrusting. Almost everything checkable here is structural — a redirect, a dated announcement, a listing with no reviews on it — rather than an opinion, and all of it can be confirmed independently in a few minutes.
The rest of the reading
Another clipper that changed its name rather than its owner, and a product with even less to go on than this one.
