No upload · No watermark · No account
A video editor that never sees your video
Every mainstream online editor — CapCut, Clipchamp, Kapwing, VEED — uploads your footage and renders it on their servers; their privacy is a policy you have to trust. Clipforge's privacy is architecture you can verify: decoding, editing and rendering happen in your browser, so client footage, unreleased product demos and NDA material never leave the machine you signed for. Open DevTools while you edit — zero media-payload requests — or go full airplane mode and keep editing.
No signup · No upload · No watermark — verify it in DevTools
- Zero upload by architecture — there is no server that could receive your footage
- Verify it yourself in 30 seconds: DevTools Network tab, or airplane mode
- NDA/agency/legal/medical-safe: the file never crosses the wire
- No account either — nothing links the work to an identity
How it works
- 1 Open DevTools (F12) → Network tab, and keep it visible.
- 2 Open the editor and drop a real clip — the bigger the better.
- 3 Edit and export while watching the panel: page assets load, then nothing.
- 4 For the stronger proof: load the editor, switch to airplane mode, edit and export offline.
Frequently asked questions
How can a browser edit video without uploading it?
Modern browsers ship the same hardware video codecs native apps use, exposed as the WebCodecs API. Clipforge reads your file from disk in chunks, decodes and composites on your GPU, re-encodes locally, and writes the result back to disk. The network is simply not involved in the media path.
What network requests does the app make at all?
Loading the page itself, an optional anonymous page-view beacon you can disable without breaking anything, and — only if you buy Pro — a license-key check that sends a key and an anonymous device hash. Never file data, never frames, never audio. It's all visible in the Network tab.
Is this actually safe for NDA or client work?
That's the design goal. Upload-based editors put your client's footage on their servers under a deletion promise; a server that never receives the file can't leak it, train on it, sell it, or be subpoenaed for it. Verify the zero-upload claim yourself before trusting us — the walkthrough takes 30 seconds.
Does editing work fully offline?
Yes. Clipforge is an installable PWA — after the first visit the editor shell is cached, and editing plus export work with the network off entirely. Airplane mode is both a feature and the easiest privacy audit.
Where are my projects stored?
In your browser's private storage (OPFS) on your own disk — imported media is copied there so projects survive tab closes and crashes. Nothing syncs anywhere; cancelling Pro can't take your projects hostage because we never had them.