ClipSweep · Windows
Hundreds of gigabytes of clips?
One keypress each.
ClipSweep is the easy, keyboard-driven way to sort the clips piling up from OBS, Medal, ShadowPlay, and other capture tools — so you can
keep what matters and clear out the rest before they take over your entire hard drive.
One clip on screen, one key to decide its fate, and the next one is already playing…
Free for your first 100 clips. $7.99 unlocks it forever.
The clips ate your hard drive.
Sorting them shouldn’t eat your afternoon.
You know the folder. Three thousand files with names like GamingClip_2026-07-31-22-41-07.mp4. Somewhere in there are the twelve clips you actually want.
Sorting them normally means opening one, watching it, closing it, dragging it into a folder, and starting again. Forty seconds a clip. Do the math on three thousand.
ClipSweep cuts the process down to the decision. The clip is already playing when it appears. Press one key to keep it, star it, sort it, or send it to the Recycle Bin. Then the next clip is already up.
You can even hold SHIFT and click your chosen hotkey for an instant rename while sending it to your chosen folder!
The Default Keymap
| R | Keep — moves it to KEEPERS, next clip |
| S | Star — moves it to STARRED, next clip |
| D | Delete — sends it to the Recycle Bin, next clip |
| F / T / G / C | FUNNY, TEAMMATES, STRATEGIES, SCRIMS — or whatever you rename them to |
| Z | Undo the last decision. Unlimited, all session. |
| Space | Play / pause |
| J / K | Move back and forward without deciding anything |
| 1–9 | Jump to 10%–90% of the clip |
| + / − | Playback speed, 0.5x to 4x. 0 resets it. |
| ← / → | Seek backward or forward 5 seconds |
| Shift + ← / → | Precise seek backward or forward 1 second |
| H | Show or hide the hotkey cheat sheet |
Clicking the video won’t steal keyboard focus — the keys always work. Holding a key down won’t machine-gun through forty decisions — only J and K repeat.
Your files are not the product
- Nothing is ever permanently deleted. Delete means the Windows Recycle Bin, every time. ClipSweep will never offer to empty it for you. That’s your move.
- Undo really undoes. Kept and starred files go back where they came from. Deleted ones get pulled back out of the bin — and if Windows refuses, ClipSweep tells you instead of pretending it worked.
- Decisions stick. A clip you’ve sorted never reappears in a later session, even if you move the file back into the source folder yourself.
- A broken file won’t kill the run. An unreadable clip shows a small card offering delete or skip, using the same keys as everywhere else.
Set up for what you’re actually sorting
The first launch asks one question: what are you sorting?
- Gaming clips — starts with FUNNY, TEAMMATES, STRATEGIES and SCRIMS alongside keep, star and delete
- Home videos — just the three simple decisions, nothing else in the way
- Something else — same three, plus any folders and letters you want to invent before you start
Add, rename, or remove destination folders whenever you like — assign each one an unused letter.
Sorted clips can’t wander back into the queue. Every destination folder is excluded from future scans.
Sort newest first, oldest first, largest, smallest, or random.
Otherwise this is a chore
Every successful decision earns 1 Broomie and plays a short two-note chime. The bar in the corner tracks your lifetime total, and every level takes exactly 20 Broomies. Every five decisions, a small note fades in and out without stealing focus. The session timer runs in yellow, and every five minutes a little confetti shower turns up to tell you the hard drive is expanding. Finishing a queue gets a proper burst over the summary — clips triaged, gigabytes reclaimed, time spent.
None of it can interrupt you. The notifications can’t take focus, can’t be clicked by accident, and can’t pause a clip. They fade in, they fade out, you keep sweeping.
What it runs on
- Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
- No installer. Unzip the folder, double-click
ClipSweep.exe, done. - Nothing else to install — the video engine and everything it needs ship inside the folder, which is why it’s a few hundred megabytes unzipped
- Windows SmartScreen may warn you on first launch, as it does for any app without a code-signing certificate. More info → Run anyway.
Free for 100 clips, then $7.99. That’s the whole model.
The trial isn’t a crippled demo — it’s the entire application, with a counter. You get 100 real decisions, with a heads-up when you’re ten away. Pausing, skipping, navigating and undoing don’t count against you; only decisions that actually move a file do.
When you hit 100, ClipSweep stops cleanly before the next clip rather than dying mid-session. $7.99 one-time purchase. Lifetime license key. Activate on up to two Windows devices.
Download the Free Trial first. Your emailed key unlocks Full Edition in the same app.
Need help activating a license or resetting a device? Visit ClipSweep License Help.
Third-Party Software
ClipSweep is proprietary software and includes separately licensed third-party components. Their licenses and notices are included with every download. Matching source/build materials for those components—not ClipSweep’s proprietary source code—are available here.
Questions people actually ask
Does it only work for gaming clips?
No. It was built for gameplay captures but it doesn’t care what the video is. Phone footage, GoPro dumps, a decade of family videos on an external drive — same job, same three keys.
Can it permanently delete something by mistake?
No. There is no permanent delete anywhere in the application. Everything goes to the Recycle Bin, and undo will pull it back.
Is there a Mac or Linux version?
Not yet, ClipSweep is Windows x64 only.
Does the $7.99 cover future versions?
Yes. One payment, updates included, no renewal.
Go find out how much space you’re wasting.
Medal, OBS and ShadowPlay are trademarks of their respective owners. ClipSweep is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any of them.