Medal vs Eklipse vs AutoClip for Twitch Clippers: Every Question Answered

What Medal is really built for

Medal began as a desktop capture app for PC gamers. It watches your own gameplay and saves the last stretch of footage when something happens, so you can clip your own moments without planning ahead. A social layer grew around that — a place to post and browse those clips.

VOD processing came later, as an extension rather than the core. You can paste a public Twitch VOD link and get highlight detection on a channel you do not own.

For someone clipping their own gameplay, Medal is excellent and inexpensive. For someone building a clip channel from other people's streams, it is a capture tool being used sideways: one link at a time, manual submission, no channel subscription, no queue. That works for two streamers and stops working somewhere around four. Side-by-side detail on the AutoClip vs Medal page.

What Eklipse is really built for

Eklipse is purpose-built for gaming highlight detection on Twitch and YouTube. Connect an account or paste a VOD URL and it scans for high-impact moments.

Its distinguishing idea is using Twitch chat as a signal. A sudden burst of emotes tells you something happened even when the screen looks calm — a delayed reaction, a running joke landing, a moment whose payoff is social rather than visual. On competitive shooters and reaction-heavy streams, that catches material a purely visual pass misses. It is a genuinely good idea and Eklipse deserves credit for it.

The constraint is what happens after detection. Eklipse's output is oriented around 16:9 gaming highlights. If your destination is a landscape YouTube highlight reel, that is exactly right. If your destination is TikTok, Reels, or Shorts, you still need vertical reframing, burned-in captions, and a way to publish — three more steps and usually another tool. More at AutoClip vs Eklipse and the Eklipse alternative page.

Can they process channels you do not own?

All three can, with different amounts of friction.

Medal accepts public Twitch VOD links. One at a time, manual, no batch, no channel-level subscription.

Eklipse works on public Twitch and YouTube streams via URL or channel handle, pulling recent streams. For two or three sources checked weekly, workable.

Neither watches channels for you. That is the important distinction, and it is easy to miss when comparing feature lists. You still have to notice a stream happened, find the archive before retention expires, and submit it. That discovery step does not scale — it is the same effort per source per stream, forever.

AutoClip monitors public YouTube, Twitch, and Kick channels directly. New uploads and stream VODs get clipped without a submission step: 1 monitored channel on Starter, 3 on Pro, 10 on Scale. Kick support is the other gap worth flagging, since neither Medal nor Eklipse covers it. The Twitch clip automation guide covers the workflow end.

What happens after the clip exists

This is where clipping workflows actually consume time, and where tool comparisons usually stop.

A detected highlight is not a publishable short. It needs a 9:16 crop that follows the streamer rather than the scoreboard, burned-in captions because most short-form viewing happens muted, a defensible in-point, and then an upload to each destination.

Medal hands you a file or a post on Medal. Eklipse hands you a highlight built around a landscape frame, with vertical conversion and captions as follow-on steps rather than the default output. In both cases the finishing work is yours, and at 30 clips a month across three platforms that is 90 manual uploads plus 30 reframes plus 30 caption passes.

AutoClip finishes the clip: 9:16 reframe with a facecam split layout on gaming sources, word-synced animated captions, and auto-posting to 9 short-form destinations on a spaced schedule — 3 connected accounts on Starter, 8 on Pro, 25 on Scale. Reddit, Snapchat, and Twitch are not supported destinations, which is worth knowing up front if any of those are in your plan.

Around nine clips come out of a typical video in about 10 to 15 minutes; a long stream takes proportionally longer. Each clip carries a virality score broken into five visible criteria, so a 30-candidate review becomes a prioritized skim rather than half an hour of scrubbing. If you disagree with a cut, the timeline editor is there.

What it costs for a real clipping week

Medal and Eklipse both sit at consumer price points — a few dollars to low double digits per month, with free tiers that are genuinely usable for trying them. Check their current pricing pages; these numbers move.

AutoClip is more expensive on the sticker: Starter $19.99, Pro $39.99, Scale $79.99 monthly, or $12.49, $24.99, and $49.99 effective on annual billing. There is a free tier producing watermarked trial clips with 2 connected social accounts.

The comparison only makes sense if you count the whole workflow. A cheaper highlight detector plus a reframing tool plus a captioning tool plus a scheduler is rarely cheaper in cash and never cheaper in hours. If you are already paying for two of those, the arithmetic tilts fast.

On credits: one credit equals one source minute, but Twitch and Kick sources bill only their top highlight segments, so a multi-hour stream typically runs 35 to 90 credits rather than its full runtime. That is what makes covering several streamers on a fixed budget possible. Pro's 500 credits and Scale's 1200 are sized around that.

| | Medal | Eklipse | AutoClip | |---|---|---|---| | Built for | Capturing your own gameplay | Gaming highlight detection | Clip channels at volume | | Third-party VODs | Yes, manual link | Yes, Twitch + YouTube | Yes, YouTube + Twitch + Kick | | Kick support | No | No | Yes | | Automatic channel monitoring | No | No | Yes | | 9:16 vertical reframe | Manual crop | Available, secondary to 16:9 | Subject-tracked, default | | Burned-in captions | Not the focus | Available | Word-synced, styled, brand kits | | Direct posting to short-form | No | No | 9 destinations | | Free tier | Yes | Yes | Yes, watermarked |

Verify the two competitor columns against their current pages before deciding — feature sets in this category move every quarter, and a table is a snapshot.

Which one to pick

Pick Medal if you are clipping your own gameplay from your own machine. That is what it was built for and nothing here beats it at that job.

Pick Eklipse if you want gaming highlight detection with chat-aware signal and your output is landscape — a YouTube highlight channel, a Discord, a personal archive. Also a reasonable pick if you are covering one or two streamers and genuinely enjoy the manual editing pass.

Pick AutoClip if you are running a clip channel: several sources, Kick in the mix, vertical output, and volume high enough that discovery and uploading have become the actual job. It costs more per month and is overkill below roughly ten clips a month.

Worth being clear about: nobody needs three tools. Test whichever two look closest to your situation on the same five VODs, count how many clips you would actually publish and how many minutes you spent fixing them, and let that decide. Related reading: Klap vs Eklipse vs AutoClip and the Twitch and Kick clipper page.