Clideo
Browser-based video toolkit bundling over 45 tools: a multi-track editor, automatic subtitles, subtitle translation with AI voiceover, text-to-speech, recorders and converters. A permanent free plan carries a watermark; paid credit tiers start at USD 9 monthly.
What is Clideo?
Clideo is a browser-based video toolkit published by Clideo Limited, a company established in Cyprus. It bundles more than 45 tools behind a single account: a multi-track editor that mixes video, images, audio and text on one timeline, and standalone utilities for compressing, converting, resizing, cropping, cutting, merging, splitting, rotating, flipping, looping, muting and reversing files. The homepage claims 5 million monthly users and 380 million videos made.
Everything runs in the browser. Nothing is downloaded or installed, and the site states the service works on any device including Mac, Windows, Android and iOS. Files come in from your device, Google Drive or Dropbox, and exports go back to the same places.
The AI layer wraps around the editing rather than replacing it. Clideo's terms describe six GPU-backed AI features: subtitle generation through speech recognition, subtitle translation, text-to-speech, background removal and substitution, text-to-image and text-to-video. The ones surfaced as tools are the automatic subtitle generator — announced for more than 100 languages, with a built-in editor, preset styles, SRT and TXT export and hard-burned captions — the video translator, which translates subtitles in one click and adds a translated AI voiceover, and text-to-speech, where you pick a language and a voice, preview the result and drop the generated track onto the timeline.
Recorders are built in as well: screen, webcam, presentation and audio, with no extra software. The editor ships with libraries of music, sound effects, shapes, GIFs, stickers, emojis and stock images, plus aspect-ratio presets for YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Beyond video, it converts audio and image formats and builds GIFs, memes, slideshows and stop-motion animations.
The interface is available in 17 languages, and an iOS app sits on the App Store — no Android application is referenced on the site, and there is no public API.
Pricing is freemium and credit-based. The free plan carries 10 credits and watermarks exports; paid tiers run from 500 to 100,000 credits, starting at USD 9 per month on an annual commitment. Premium removes the watermark, raises file-size limits, unlocks more AI usage and keeps projects longer. Without an account, an edit must be finished in one session.
What it does
- Edit video, images, audio and text together on a multi-track timeline, entirely in the browser
- Generate subtitles automatically from speech, edit them, then burn them in or export SRT and TXT
- Translate subtitles and add a translated AI voiceover to reach a foreign-language audience
- Turn written text into a spoken narration with a choice of language and voice
- Compress, convert, resize, crop, cut, merge, rotate, loop or reverse a video file
- Record your screen, webcam, a presentation or audio, then edit the capture straight away
- Create GIFs, memes, slideshows and stop-motion animations from your own media
When to use Clideo / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Clideo is the right fit.
When to use Clideo
- Social media managers and content creators cutting, resizing and captioning clips for YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Facebook with ready-made aspect-ratio presets
- Teachers, lecturers and instructional designers who record a screen or a presentation and need automatic subtitles for accessibility
- Small businesses and freelancers with no editing background, who want a finished video without installing or learning desktop software
- Creators localising a video for a foreign audience: translated subtitles, SRT export and a translated AI voiceover in a single pass
- Anyone needing a one-off fix on a file — compress, convert, crop, merge, mute, rotate — without paying for a full editing suite
When not to use Clideo
- Developers wanting to automate video processing: Clideo publishes no API and no developer documentation
- Enterprise buyers with a procurement checklist: no DPA, no subprocessor list and no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification are published
- Teams needing shared seats or collaborative projects: the terms restrict any premium plan to strictly personal use
- Professional post-production work — advanced colour grading, VFX or complex audio mixing stay out of reach of a browser tool
- Buyers who want a safety net: no refund is issued after purchase, not even when a renewal is overlooked
How to use Clideo
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Open clideo.com and pick a tool, or go straight to the video editor — no download, no installation and no account required to start
- Import your files from your device, Google Drive or Dropbox, or start a project from scratch
- Arrange the clips, images and audio on the multi-track timeline and reorder them as needed
- Edit each item individually: crop, adjust saturation and contrast, change speed and volume, apply a filter
- Add text and set its font, size, colour and background, then layer stickers, shapes, emojis or stock images
- For captions, choose the Auto subtitles option, select the spoken language and click Generate
- Review the generated subtitles line by line and adjust their timing, position, font and style, or apply a preset
- To localise, set the source and target languages, launch the translation, then enable the AI voiceover from the gear icon
- For narration, click TTS in the sidebar, choose a language and voice, type your text, preview it and generate the audio track
- Click Export at the top right, pick an export option and download the result or send it to your cloud storage
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Unusually wide catalogue — over 45 tools from editing to conversion — behind a single browser interface
- Nothing to install: works on Mac, Windows, Android and iOS through the browser alone
- Permanent free plan lets you test the service properly before paying anything
- Low entry price at USD 9 per month on an annual commitment for the whole toolkit
- Automatic subtitles announced for more than 100 languages, with a real editor and SRT export
- Hosting location stated outright — servers in Germany — and confirmed by an independent DNS lookup
- Interface localised in 17 languages, with direct Google Drive and Dropbox import and export
Cons
- No refunds under any circumstance once a subscription is bought, including a forgotten renewal
- The licence granted over uploaded content is perpetual, irrevocable, transferable and sub-licensable, and covers name, voice and likeness
- No API, no DPA, no subprocessor list and no security certification — the product is not built for enterprise procurement
- No published position on whether uploads train AI models, and no opt-out, despite six advertised AI features
- No postal address, no about page and no social account anywhere on the site: the company is hard to identify
- Premium plans are personal-use only and cannot be shared, and the free plan watermarks every export
- Acceptable-use caps on file count, file size and AI processing time are not quantified publicly; the Help Center article detailing them is closed to crawlers
Pricing & Plans
Clideo offers a permanent free plan, credited with 10 credits and applying a watermark to exports. Paid subscriptions are credit-based and start at USD 9.00 per month on an annual commitment (USD 108 per year) for the 500-credit tier, or USD 12.00 per month when billed monthly. Prices are displayed in USD by default, though payment may be processed in EUR, GBP, AUD and other currencies depending on the country and the payment provider. No refund is issued after purchase.
- Free — 10 credits
- watermark applied
- limited file size and limited number of generated subtitles
- projects cannot be saved without an account
- 500 credits — USD 9.00/month billed annually (USD 108/year) or USD 12.00/month billed monthly
- 2
- 000 credits — USD 29.00/month billed annually (USD 348/year) or USD 39.00/month billed monthly
- 5
- 000 credits — USD 74.00/month billed annually (USD 888/year) or USD 99.00/month billed monthly
- 10
- 000 credits — USD 142.00/month billed annually (USD 1
- 704/year) or USD 189.00/month billed monthly
- 25
- 000 credits — USD 337.00/month billed annually (USD 4
- 044/year) or USD 449.00/month billed monthly
- 50
- 000 credits — USD 674.00/month billed annually (USD 8
- 088/year) or USD 899.00/month billed monthly
- 100
- 000 credits — USD 1
- 274.00/month billed annually (USD 15
- 288/year) or USD 1
- 699.00/month billed monthly
- All paid tiers remove the watermark
- allow larger uploads
- unlock more AI usage and keep projects longer
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Clideo handles your data.
GDPR overview
Clideo Limited is established in Cyprus, inside the EU, and its privacy policy dated 5 May 2025 defines personal data by explicit reference to the GDPR. It grants the expected rights — access, rectification, portability, erasure, and objection to direct marketing, profiling, sensitive-data collection and transfers outside the EEA — with consent as the stated legal basis, withdrawable at any time. Requests go through the Help Center form, support@clideo.com or post, answered within one month, and the right to complain to a local supervisory authority is set out. A detailed cookie policy lists every cookie with its issuer, lifetime and purpose. However, the site never states that it is GDPR compliant, names no DPO, publishes no data processing agreement and no subprocessor list.
Who owns the data?
You keep ownership of what you upload and remain solely responsible for it. In exchange, the terms grant Clideo Limited a royalty-free, sub-licensable, transferable, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and worldwide licence to use, reproduce, modify, publish, edit, translate, distribute, publicly display and make derivative works of your content, including your name, voice and likeness. The licence is stated to be for use in connection with the service. Clideo and its licensors separately retain all intellectual property in the platform itself, and reserve the right to remove any user content at their discretion. Anything posted publicly on the site becomes public information.
Reuse rights
You may reuse everything you produce with Clideo without asking permission: exported videos, SRT and TXT subtitle files, converted audio and images and generated voiceovers are yours to publish, sell or redistribute, and the terms set no restriction on commercial use of your own output. What you upload must be content you own or are authorised to submit — submitting third-party copyrighted material is prohibited, and repeat infringers have their accounts terminated under the DMCA-style takedown procedure. Note the asymmetry: while your reuse rights are unrestricted, the licence you grant Clideo over the same content is perpetual and irrevocable. The site nowhere states whether uploads are used to train AI models, and offers no opt-out.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Clideo states its hosting location outright: the refund policy says its hosts are located in Germany. An independent lookup confirms it — the domain resolves to 88.99.28.182, geolocated in Falkenstein, Germany, on Hetzner Online GmbH, and not to an anycast CDN node. The publisher, Clideo Limited, is established in Cyprus, so both the controller and the infrastructure sit inside the EU. The privacy policy nonetheless reserves the possibility of transferring, storing and processing data outside your country of residence, without naming a destination. Security is described only in general terms — reasonable organisational, technical and administrative measures — with no certification cited, though the video translator page advertises Advanced Encryption and states that only you can access your projects. No subprocessor list is published; the cookie policy does name Google, Google Analytics, Dropbox and Pixabay as third parties, and the pricing FAQ names FastSpring and Stripe as payment providers.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Clideo.
- The content licence is the single biggest thing to weigh: it is perpetual, irrevocable, transferable and sub-licensable, and it covers your name, voice and likeness — think twice before uploading footage of identifiable people
- No refund is ever issued after purchase, so a subscription bought impulsively or a renewal left unattended is money you will not recover
- Automatic renewal is the default; the reminder email arrives only a couple of days ahead, which is easy to miss
- Nothing is published about whether your uploads feed AI model training, and there is no opt-out — for confidential or client footage, that silence is itself a risk
- Machine-generated subtitles, translations and voiceovers carry errors: publishing them unreviewed can distort meaning, and accessibility captions that are wrong are worse than none
- Convenience breeds dependence on presets and one-click fixes; leaning on them can quietly erode the editing judgement you would otherwise build
- Acceptable-use limits are real but unquantified publicly, and repeated heavy use can lead to unilateral termination of the subscription
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Essentially none. There is nothing to install, no plugin, no API key and no server configuration: a browser and a connection are enough, optionally a Google Drive or Dropbox account. You can start editing without registering, though an account is needed to save a project and to use the video translator. The vendor claims no editing experience is required. The only real friction is processing time, which depends on the file — the terms warn that a Full HD video may take up to half its own duration to process.
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Behind Clideo
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Frequently asked questions
Is Clideo free to use?
What does a paid plan add?
Do I need to install anything?
How many languages do the automatic subtitles support?
Can Clideo translate a video and dub it?
Can I import from and export to cloud storage?
How do payment and cancellation work?
Does Clideo issue refunds?
Where is my data hosted, and is there a mobile app?
Should you pick Clideo?
Clideo is a wide, deliberately shallow toolkit, and it is honest about that. For anyone who needs a finished video without opening a desktop editor — a captioned clip for social media, a compressed file that will finally send, a recorded presentation with subtitles, a translated version for a foreign audience — it covers the ground competently at USD 9 per month on an annual commitment, or nothing at all if a watermark is acceptable. The AI features are real but peripheral: subtitles, translation, voiceover and background removal wrap around the editing rather than replacing it. Claimed reach is substantial, with 5 million monthly users and a 4.8 Trustpilot rating over roughly 5,300 reviews displayed on the product pages.
Two things deserve attention before paying. The first is transparency about the company: Clideo Limited is identified only through two lines in its legal documents, with no postal address, no about page and no social presence anywhere on the site, and no beneficial owner is disclosed. The second is the contract. No refund is issued after purchase under any circumstance, premium plans are personal-use only, and the licence granted over uploaded content is perpetual, irrevocable, transferable and sub-licensable, extending to your name, voice and likeness. Nothing is published about whether uploads train AI models.
Against that, the hosting disclosure is better than the price bracket suggests: servers in Germany, stated outright and confirmed independently, with a cookie policy documented line by line. Clideo is a sound consumer and prosumer choice, and a poor fit for any organisation with a procurement checklist — there is no API, no DPA, no subprocessor list and no certification. Test the free plan thoroughly first: the vendor itself insists on it, because there is no second chance.
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