Free sermon clipping on iPhone
Turn a 45-minute sermon into 8–12 shareable clips for Reels, TikTok, and Shorts. Free, no monthly subscription, no upload — your sermon never leaves the phone.
No card · No trial · No account · No upload
$0
Forever
vs Sermon Shots / Pulpit AI at $20–$60/mo
8–12
Clips per sermon
Ranked by hook strength
0 ms
Upload time
On-device — sermon stays on your phone
Why iPhone-only matters for churches
No subscription, no per-clip fee
Sermon Shots, Pulpit AI, and Opus Clip charge $20–$60/month. For a small church, that's a year of curriculum or an outreach event. Clipped is free.
Sermon stays on the phone
Cloud tools upload every sermon to a server. Clipped processes locally — the audio of pastoral counseling moments or sensitive topics never leaves your device.
Anyone on the team can clip
No subscription seats, no admin permissions, no learning a desktop app. Hand the iPhone to a youth-group volunteer and they can clip a sermon.
Works at retreats, mission trips, conferences
On-device AI works offline. Clip a guest speaker's sermon at a remote retreat with no Wi-Fi.
Captions matter for ministry
85% of social video is watched silently. Burned-in captions are essential for sermon clips to reach beyond regular viewers.
Hook detection finds the share-worthy moment
The AI scores every second by emotional energy, audio peaks, and key-phrase density. The moment your pastor leaned in and said the thing that matters? It surfaces it.
The workflow
Record the sermon
Use the church's existing video rig — output to MP4 — or just record on iPhone if your setup is simple. Save to camera roll.
Open Clipped, drop in the file
Share-sheet → Clipped, or pick from camera roll inside the app. No upload — processing starts immediately.
Review the 8–12 ranked clips
Each one is reframed to 9:16 with the pastor centered, captioned, and labeled with a hook preview. Pick your top 3–5.
Add church branding
Lower-third with church name, logo overlay, caption style matching your social brand.
Post natively
Reels, TikTok, Shorts, Facebook. Native uploads only — cross-posting reduces reach.
Track what works
After 2–3 weeks, you'll see which clip styles, lengths, and hook types resonate with your congregation's network.
FAQ
Clipped runs sermon clipping (hook detection, vertical reframe, captions) entirely on iPhone, free, with no recurring subscription and no upload. Sermon Shots and Pulpit AI are the paid alternatives ($20–$60/month recurring) — both upload your sermon to the cloud. Clipped exports include a small Clipped watermark by default; one optional one-time in-app purchase removes it permanently.
30–60 seconds is the sweet spot for Reels and TikTok. YouTube Shorts allows up to 60s and the algorithm rewards full-watch. Find the moment with the strongest standalone hook — a single point that lands without context.
Yes — record the live service to your iPhone's camera roll (or download the YouTube/Facebook Live archive after), then process in Clipped. Everything runs offline once the service is on your phone.
Yes — Clipped lets you customize caption styles and add a logo overlay or lower-third with your church name. All applied on-device.
Clips of your own church's sermons: no permission needed. Clipping a guest speaker's sermon: get the speaker's permission, especially if their sermon notes are copyrighted. Clipping another church's sermon: get permission first or fair-use commentary protections may apply but vary by jurisdiction.
Free for every church
Free on the App Store. No subscription, no upload, no account. Built so any volunteer with an iPhone can serve.
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