Feature Comparison 2026

AutoClip vs Medal.tv

Medal.tv runs in the background while you play and saves the last stretch of gameplay when you hit a hotkey — or when its own trigger detection fires. Clips land in Medal's feed or in a Discord channel a few seconds later. It records the game you are playing, on your machine.

AutoClip · From $19.99/mo·Medal.tv · Free tier plus a paid Premium tier — check their site for current numbers

Feature Comparison

Feature

AutoClip

Medal.tv

Automatic Channel Monitoring

Scores Moments in Full-Length Uploads and VODs

Auto-Posting to 9 Short-Form Destinations

9:16 Reframing That Keeps the Action Centered

Manual crop

Word-Synced Animated Captions

Records Your Own Gameplay Locally

Hotkey Capture Mid-Match

Gaming Community Feed

Discord Sharing

Content-Reward Campaign Submission

Run Several Clip Accounts From One Place

✓Where AutoClip Wins

→Records your own machine — a creator's YouTube upload or stream VOD isn't a source it can take
→No channel monitoring of any kind
→No scoring of a long recording to find which window is worth cutting
→No posting to TikTok, Shorts, Reels, or the other short-form destinations
→Medal's feed is a gaming community, not the mainstream short-form reach a clip account is chasing
→Vertical output is a crop, not a reframe that follows the action
→No word-synced captions or saved caption styles to reuse across an account
→No place to submit finished clips to content-reward campaigns
→You can't build an account around a gaming creator's uploads with it — that's the whole clipper use case

✓Where Medal.tv Excels

→Background recording means the moment is already saved before you think to save it
→Hotkey capture doesn't interrupt the match you're in
→Medal's feed gives a clip somewhere to land immediately, inside a gaming audience
→Local capture with quality settings up to 4K and low overhead compared to a full OBS setup
→Frame impact is small enough that most people leave it running permanently
→Built-in trimming, music, and text overlays for a quick tidy-up
→Discord sharing is one click, which is where a lot of clips actually get watched

Verdict

AutoClip vs Medal.tv: Our Take

Medal captures the game you played. AutoClip clips the game someone else played and posts it to your accounts. Most people who compare them end up using both, for different halves of the week.

Medal is good at a narrow thing. You're mid-match, something happens, you hit the key, and thirty seconds of gameplay is already saved — no recording to start, no editor to open, no frame drops worth complaining about. Then it's in Medal's feed or a Discord channel before the next round loads. For a player who wants their own highlights out of their own sessions, that loop is hard to beat. It just isn't the clip-account loop. A clip account is built on footage you didn't play: a creator's four-hour stream VOD, a 40-minute upload, and the question of which minute inside it will hold a stranger's attention on a phone. Medal has no answer to that question because it never has the file — it captures your screen, not someone else's channel. AutoClip starts from the channel. Add a public YouTube, Twitch, or Kick creator once and new uploads and stream VODs get picked up on their own, usually within minutes. A typical video comes back with around nine clips in about 10 to 15 minutes; a long stream takes proportionally longer and usually costs 35 to 90 credits, because only the top highlight windows bill rather than every minute of runtime. Clips come out reframed to 9:16 with the action centered, captioned word by word, and scheduled out to 9 short-form destinations. So the honest answer for a gamer who also wants a clip account: keep Medal for your own sessions, because AutoClip does not record your PC and never will. Use AutoClip for the creators you follow, because Medal cannot see them. The two tools don't overlap enough to choose between.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can Medal clip a gaming creator's YouTube videos?

No. Medal records your own machine while you play; it has no way to take a creator's upload or stream VOD as a source. AutoClip works from public YouTube, Twitch, and Kick channels — you add the creator once and new uploads get clipped without you submitting anything.

Does Medal post clips to TikTok or YouTube Shorts?

Medal shares into its own feed and into Discord. Getting a clip onto TikTok, Shorts, or Reels means exporting and uploading it yourself, each time, per platform. AutoClip posts to 9 short-form destinations on a spaced schedule once your accounts are connected.

Is Medal enough to build a gaming clip account?

It's enough to build a presence inside Medal's community with your own gameplay. It isn't enough to run a clip account on TikTok or Shorts sourced from creators you watch — there's no channel monitoring, no way to process someone else's VOD, no moment scoring across a long recording, and no posting to those platforms. That's the gap AutoClip fills.

Which AutoClip plan fits a gaming clip account?

Starter at $19.99/mo covers one monitored channel, 200 credits, up to 10 videos and 50 clips a month, watermark-free exports, and scheduled posting — enough for one account tracking a single creator. Pro at $39.99/mo moves you to 500 credits, three monitored channels, eight social accounts, B-roll, background music, spoken hooks, and caption translation with dubbing in 31 languages. Scale at $79.99/mo is 1200 credits, ten monitored channels, 4K export, and priority processing. Credits are simple: 1 credit is 1 source minute, and streams bill only their top highlight windows, so a multi-hour VOD usually lands at 35 to 90 credits.