ClipRadar review
A Windows-first video search app with multimodal discovery and Premiere workflows.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
ClipRadar is a Windows desktop application for editors who need to find footage by visual content, spoken words, faces, or combined natural-language queries. It indexes video locally on an NVIDIA GPU and returns searchable scenes, transcripts, face appearances, and visually similar shots. The product includes a standalone desktop app and an Adobe Premiere Pro panel, making it suited to Windows editors working in Premiere and teams exploring AI-agent workflows.
ClipRadar uses paid plans with two published prices. The Monthly plan costs $29 per month and includes face, speech, and visual search, Ultra Search local LLM, the Premiere Pro panel and standalone desktop app, plus unlimited searches and terabyte-scale libraries. The Annual plan costs $249 per year with the same listed features. The Founding Edition provides full product access, a year of updates included, face, speech, and visual search, and access to the Premiere Pro panel and standalone desktop app. A trial provides 40 free searches without a credit card, while ongoing access is paid.
Its main distinction is the combination of local multimodal search and editorial workflow support. Ultra Search combines faces, speech, and visuals; reference-image matching and visually similar-shot search add another route to footage discovery. The local MCP server connects with Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and Codex, while Premiere results can be inserted on a timeline. ClipRadar is a fit for Windows-based editing workflows that can provide an NVIDIA GPU and prefer local processing. Editors on other platforms, or those seeking a non-beta product or a different processing model, should look elsewhere.
ClipRadar pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Searches footage by faces, speech, visuals, and combined queries
- Transcribes spoken words in 110+ languages
- Connects Premiere Pro and local MCP workflows
- Where it doesn't
- Requires Windows and an NVIDIA GPU
- Public beta status may not suit production-critical workflows
- Paid access; the trial is limited to 40 searches
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