Built for small creators & teams - Not enterprises

Tag It Once.
Find It Forever.

Index videos and photos across all your drives. Detect duplicates automatically. Tag files once, find them instantly — even when drives are disconnected — and your whole library follows you to every machine, free. Built for small creators and creator teams, not enterprises.

Find any file in seconds

Combine tags with AND to narrow results instantly. Search "drone AND sunset AND 4k" and get exactly what you need. Filter by date, duration, resolution, or drive-across videos and photos alike.

  • Tag once, find forever
  • Multi-tag search with AND operators
  • Filter by date, duration, resolution, drive
drone sunset 4k
0:42
1:15
2:34
0:58

Preview media without leaving the app

Double-click any file to open the built-in viewer. Play videos, view photos, see metadata, file locations across all drives, and manage tags - all in one view. Hover over video thumbnails to scrub through clips instantly.

  • Built-in video player and image viewer
  • See file locations across all drives
  • Hover scrub preview on thumbnails
beach_sunset_final.mov
Resolution3840 x 2160
Duration2:34
CodecProRes 422
Size2.3 GB

Import smart. Skip duplicates.

Plug in an SD card or camera and instantly see which files are new versus already in your library. Videos, photos - it handles them all. Select only new files, auto-tag on import, and copy to your working drive - no manual sorting needed.

  • Automatic duplicate detection on import
  • One-click "Select New Only"
  • Auto-tag files during import
Source: SD Card
MVI_0042.MOV 2:34 New
MVI_0043.MOV 1:45 New
MVI_0044.MOV 3:12 Existing
IMG_0045.JPG 24 MP New
3 new | 1 existing | 3 selected

All your drives. One index.

Index videos and photos across any number of external drives. Clipthesis tracks which files live where, detects duplicates across drives via content hashing, and lets you search and tag everything - even when drives are disconnected.

  • Index unlimited external drives
  • Content hashing detects duplicates across drives
  • Search and tag files from disconnected drives
Footage Drive 1 1,247 files
Working Drive
Connected
Backup Archive 2,092 files
Disconnected

One library on every machine.

Sign in and your whole catalog — tags, collections, clip metadata, thumbnails — syncs automatically to every Mac you use. Tag footage on the studio machine and it's already organised on your laptop. Perfect for small creator teams: every edit machine sees the same library, always current. Sync moves your catalog, not your footage — media stays on your drives.

  • Free with every account — not a paid tier
  • Tags, collections, and thumbnails sync automatically in the background
  • Offline-first — work anywhere, changes sync when you reconnect
Studio Mac 3,412 files · 86 tags
This Mac
Synced · just now
Edit Laptop 3,412 files · 86 tags
Synced · just now
Cloud · Synced

Want your footage in the cloud too? A penny per gigabyte.

Sync moves your catalog; your footage stays on your drives. When you want the media itself in the cloud — an off-site copy for safety, or to pull clips down on any machine — add Clipthesis Backup: automatic, deduplicated storage for $0.01 per GB per month. It's the only thing in Clipthesis that ever costs money, and it's entirely on demand — no tiers, no minimums, just the gigabytes you actually store.

  • Automatic backups run in the background as your drives change
  • Deduplicated — identical clips are stored (and billed) only once
  • Download any clip on any machine, or restore a whole drive
Footage Drive 1 1,247 files
Auto-backup
Backing up… 42%
Archive 2023 2,092 files
Auto-backup
Backed up · 2h ago · 2,092 files
Backing up… 42%

From chaos to searchable in minutes

No training required. No IT department needed.

1

Index your drives

Click "Index Drive," pick a folder, and watch Clipthesis catalog every video and photo. It extracts thumbnails, reads metadata, and automatically detects duplicates across drives using content hashing.

2

Tag what matters

Create tags that fit your workflow e.g: drone interview broll client-acme. Select multiple files and batch-tag in one click. Remove tags just as easily.

3

Import from cameras and cards

Plug in an SD card or camera and Clipthesis instantly shows which files are new and which already exist in your library. Select only what's new, tag files and add to collections on import-no manual sorting needed.

4

Find anything instantly

Search by tag, filter by date, or scrub through video thumbnails on hover. Preview files with the built-in viewer, then click "Reveal in Finder" to jump straight to the file.

Completely free.
No catch.

Every feature in the app is free — including cloud sync that keeps your library identical on every machine. No paywalls, no trials, no per-seat pricing for you or your team. The only thing you can ever pay for is optional cloud backup for your footage, and that's on demand.

Download for Mac
  • Unlimited drives Index as many external drives as you own
  • Unlimited files No cap on indexed videos and photos
  • Full tagging system Create, batch-tag, and search with AND operators
  • Duplicate detection Content hashing across all your drives
  • Smart import Skip duplicates, auto-tag on ingest
  • Cloud library sync Tags, collections, and clips on every Mac you sign in on
  • DaVinci Resolve integration Send media with tags as keywords
The only paid add-on — entirely optional

Clipthesis Backup

Keep an off-site copy of your footage in the cloud and pull any clip down to any machine, on demand. Deduplicated, metered daily, billed monthly for what you actually store — no tiers, no minimums. Cancel anytime — your backup data is permanently deleted when your subscription ends, and 16 days after a failed payment unless payment recovers. Your local footage is never touched.

Learn more about Clipthesis Backup
$0.01
per GB / month
That's $10 per terabyte.
100 GB of footage ≈ $1/month.

Your media deserves better than folder chaos.

Index your drives in minutes. Find any file in seconds. Take your library to every machine — free. Built for small creators and creator teams.

Download for Mac - It's Free