POGTAPE
Local DVR · Desktop app

Clip Twitch streams
from the past.

Twitch's Create Clip only reaches back ~90 seconds and fires off into the void. Pogtape runs a local DVR — it buffers the live stream into a rolling ring of HLS segments, so you can rewind, cut from any recent moment, reframe it vertical, and post it straight to your socials.

View on GitHub ↗ See how it works
◆ macOS · Windows · Linux ◆ Built-in OAuth — no dev apps ◆ Runs 100% on your machine
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The problem

Good clips happen before you hit the button.

By the time you realise a moment was clip-worthy, the window is gone. Pogtape keeps the recent past on tap.

✕ Twitch Create Clip

~90 second reachable window — miss it and it's gone.

Clips capped to 5–60s, processed async, sometimes never land.

No reframe, no trim precision, no direct multi-platform publish.

◆ Pogtape local DVR

Buffers a rolling ring of the live stream — rewind minutes back.

Cut instantly with ffmpeg stream-copy, then edit frame-accurate.

Reframe vertical, stack cam + gameplay, and publish in one place.

What's inside

A full broadcast clip deck on your desktop.

Capture, edit, and publish — without leaving the app or pasting a single API key.

Rewind the live buffer

A streamlink → ffmpeg ring buffer keeps recent HLS segments hot, so you can scrub back and cut from any point in the recent past.

DVR capture

Instant clip export

Lock in/out points and export with ffmpeg -c copy — no re-encode, the clip is ready the moment you stop scrubbing.

Stream-copy

NLE-style editor

A multi-window editor: reframe to vertical, blur-fit, stack cam over gameplay, trim, mix audio — with live render-progress.

Reframe · trim · audio

Publish everywhere

Send finished clips to YouTube (resumable upload), TikTok (draft to your inbox) and Discord webhooks — straight from the deck.

YouTube · TikTok · Discord

Built-in OAuth

Connect Twitch with a device code in your browser. No dev apps, no client secrets to paste — tokens live in your OS keychain.

Device-code flow

Private by design

No server, no analytics, no tracking. Every video, token and setting stays on your machine. We never see your data.

Local-only
The loop

Connect once. Clip all night.

[ 01 ]

Connect Twitch

A device code opens in your browser. Add the streamers you follow.

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Buffer the stream

Pogtape rolls a local DVR ring of the live broadcast as it plays.

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Rewind & cut

Scrub back to the moment, set in/out, export instantly to your gallery.

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Edit & publish

Reframe vertical, polish, and push to YouTube, TikTok or Discord.

Privacy

No server. No tracking. None of your data leaves home.

Pogtape runs entirely on your own computer. Account tokens live in your OS keychain; clips and the DVR buffer are files on your disk. The app only ever talks to the services you connect, at the moment you act.

Read the Privacy Policy →  ·  Terms of Service →

CRT palette

Tag clips by color.

The gallery labels clips with a phosphor palette so a night's haul stays sortable at a glance.

Open source

Stop missing the moment.

Pogtape is a Tauri V2 desktop app built in Rust + React. Grab the source, build it, and clip the recent past.

Get it on GitHub ↗