Eklipse review: a gaming-native AI clipper

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Verdict in short

Eklipse is worth shortlisting if you stream games on Twitch, Kick or YouTube Live and want a tool whose stated detection signals are gaming events rather than speech alone. It is a weaker choice if you want a free tier you can export from, or evidence that its game detection is accurate, because Eklipse’s help pages say export needs Premium and no accuracy figure is published. Eklipse’s /pricing/ address redirects to the homepage in a plain fetch, so prices below come from the homepage FAQ and a help article. Every claim about detection below is Eklipse’s own.

Plans and prices, as of 8 November 2026

Eklipse’s homepage FAQ says Eklipse Premium starts at $24.99 per month and Premium Pro is $39.99 per month. The homepage does not state an annual price, but Eklipse’s help article on Premium pricing lists $179.99 a year on the web platform (about $14.99 a month), against $24.99 a month billed monthly, and $27.99 a month on the mobile app. Annual plans add 1080p lossless export, and the FAQ says clips are stored for 14 days on monthly plans and 90 days on annual plans.

The homepage menu lists free features (Gaming Stream Highlights, Auto Clipper and YouTube Clipper) but gives no clip count, minute cap or watermark rule. Eklipse’s help pages differ on what the free tier allows. A help page on the Free and Premium plans says there is no separate free-forever plan, that you can connect a channel, let the AI scan a recent stream and preview the clips it finds, and that export and download require Premium (up to 1080p 60fps with no watermark). An older help page, which we cite as it appeared in August 2025 and have not re-opened, describes free exports at 720p with a watermark. Treat the newer page as current, and read the plan screen at sign-up before you assume anything.

One more item to check at checkout: the homepage describes Ultra Highlights as up to 1440p. As grouped in the menu, Ultra Highlights sits under the free features, while Live Clipping, Posting Companion, Custom Highlights, Quality Max and Private Stream are listed under Premium Pro. The menu grouping is not a plan table, so confirm what each plan includes.

Inputs and outputs

Eklipse’s homepage says you can connect multiple Twitch, Kick and YouTube Live channels to one account, and names Facebook as a connection too. It says Xbox and PS5 streams are supported if they go live on Twitch or YouTube, which is a statement about the stream’s destination rather than a capture feature.

Output is vertical 9:16 with editable auto-captions and templates. A Content Planner publishes to TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels and Facebook, and any clip can be downloaded. The homepage does not state a maximum VOD length or file size, which matters if you record 6-hour sessions. For other tools that state long-VOD limits, see the long-VOD roundup.

The game detection claim

The Eklipse homepage FAQ says Eklipse supports more than 3,000 games, with highlight detection “tuned for each game category”, and names game events (kills, wins, achievements), audio spikes and chat sentiment as signals. That is a vendor claim. Accuracy figures are not stated. We treat the game count as marketing until a supported-game list for your title is in front of you.

Reasoning, not a measured result: if event detection depends on a game being on the supported list, then an unusual or new title may fall back to audio and chat signals, and you should expect to check those clips more carefully. Likewise, audio-spike detection on a stream with loud game audio and a talkative streamer may flag moments that are loud rather than good, so compare its picks with your own highlight notes.

Twitch Auto Clips and why it matters here

Twitch Auto Clips is the main outside factor for any gaming clipper in 2026, and its status is easy to misreport. Twitch’s own last statement we found, dated 30 May 2026, says Auto Clips “automatically generates captioned clips” using “chat activity, vocal inflection, and on-screen events”, that streamers using it have a clip after a stream “up to 85%” of the time, that access is via waitlist, and that “We’ll be moving to beta in the coming months.” Twitch’s help article describes an invite-only Alpha for selected channels set to English, and we found no Twitch page saying it has left Alpha.

Eklipse’s own blog describes Auto Clips as a closed beta. Badge Base (14 July 2026) says the rollout starts in English first and is available to Partners and Affiliates; it does not use the words closed beta. Twitch’s help article confirms the English limit, calls the testing Alpha rather than closed beta, and states no Partner or Affiliate requirement. Twitch’s October 2025 post says “we’ll be Alpha testing some aspects of Auto Clips”. If you stream on Twitch, the practical effect is that a built-in option may widen over time. Our Twitch Auto Clips page tracks the status and the Twitch Auto Clips versus AI clippers comparison covers the decision.

Who should shortlist Eklipse

• Streamers on Twitch, Kick or YouTube Live who want gaming-event signals named as part of detection.
• Creators who want to publish to TikTok, Shorts, Reels and Facebook from one planner.
• Console streamers who go live through Twitch or YouTube, per the vendor’s wording.
• Anyone who wants to preview what the AI finds before paying, since the help page describes a free scan with previews, even though export needs Premium.

Who should not

• People who want to export clips without paying, since the help page says export requires Premium.
• Anyone who needs the annual price from the homepage alone; it appears in a help article instead.
• Channels that want a speech-led, podcast-style clipper may want to compare options, although the Eklipse homepage FAQ says Eklipse is optimized for gaming and also clips podcasts, talk shows, Just Chatting, reaction and IRL streams. That is a vendor claim and unmeasured. See AI clippers for Twitch streamers for broader options.
• Kick-only streamers who want a second opinion on Kick support; the Kick roundup compares what each vendor states.

Downsides from the published evidence

• The free tier is a preview scan only per the newer help page, and the homepage and help pages differ on free-tier limits.
• Clips are kept for 14 days on monthly plans, so you must download what you want to keep.
• No accuracy figures are published for detection.

What to check in a trial on one of your own VODs

1. Connect your channel and note exactly what the plan screen says about limits, watermark and export resolution before you process anything.
2. Pick a game you play. Check whether Eklipse lists it as supported, then see whether its clips match the real kills, wins or funny moments in your VOD.
3. Find a long quiet stretch of gameplay and see what, if anything, it clips there.
4. Check captions against killfeeds, HUD elements and facecam placement in the vertical layout.
5. Check whether music in your VOD ends up in exported clips, and read our music copyright guide before you post them.
6. Count how many suggestions you would actually post. That ratio is your real cost per usable clip.

For head-to-head decisions see Eklipse versus OpusClip, StreamLadder versus Eklipse and Eklipse alternatives. Our methodology explains how future measured tests will be scored. More verdicts are in reviews.

Last checked 8 November 2026. Prices and limits change; we re-check monthly.