About Podcli

Podcli is free, open-source software for turning a podcast episode or interview into social clips. It runs on your own computer and combines transcription, clip selection, vertical reframing, captions, thumbnails, and export in one workflow. The project is designed for people who care about their source files, want predictable tooling, and do not want a watermark or a monthly minute meter deciding what they can publish.

Podcli is not a hosted video-upload service. The video, transcript, project files, and exported clips stay on the device where you run it. Optional AI clip scoring uses a provider account that you configure yourself; it is never routed through podcli.com.

Podcli is an independent project created and maintained by Nika Siradze in Tbilisi, Georgia. The source code is published under the GNU AGPL-3.0 license, so people can inspect, run, adapt, and contribute to the software under that license. Commercial licensing is available for teams that need an alternative arrangement.

The project is shaped around practical creator workflows: a command-line interface for repeatable jobs, a local web studio for review, and a Model Context Protocol server so Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other MCP clients can operate the same local pipeline.

Read the documentation, review the source code, and try it with a real episode before relying on it for a production workflow. Podcli is best suited to podcast and interview clipping. It is not intended to replace a full multitrack editor, a DAW, or a zero-setup hosted editor. For support, feedback, commercial licensing, or a correction to this page, use the contact details on the contact page.