A Powder alternative, now that Powder has shut down
Powder has shut down. Its site now points to a farewell letter saying the app will no longer be updated or maintained and that all active subscriptions are being cancelled. If you used it to pull highlights out of your streams automatically, you need something else, and there are a few honest options depending on how you streamed.
We make one of them, so weigh this accordingly. OptimusClips runs a vision model over the whole recording and picks the moments from what happened on screen, in any game, rather than matching events with a model trained per title. That makes it different from Powder in useful ways and slower in one important way, and both are set out below.
OptimusClips vs Powder
| OptimusClips | Powder | |
|---|---|---|
| How moments are found | A vision model watches the frames and reasons about what is unfolding, alongside the audio and transcript. | Highlight models trained per game, looking for that game's key events. |
| Game coverage | No game list. It works on footage, so a new or niche title is no different from any other. | Limited to the games it had models for. |
| Where it runs | In the cloud. Paste a YouTube, Twitch or Kick link, or upload a file. | An app on your own PC. |
| Speed | Roughly the runtime of the recording plus overhead. We email you when the clips land. | Quick, because it only looked for known events. |
| Status | Actively developed. | Shut down. No updates, subscriptions cancelled. |
Powder ran on your own PC and was quick to hand back moments after a session. We run in the cloud and watch every second, which takes roughly the runtime of the recording plus overhead. If you clipped every stream you did and liked having highlights moments after going offline, Eklipse is the closer replacement and its flat monthly price will suit heavy use better than ours.
The closest replacements, honestly
If you want the same shape of tool, per-game event detection at a flat monthly price, Eklipse is the nearest thing. It reads the game's on-screen signals, such as the kill feed and victory banners, and charges $24.99 a month for up to 3 streams and 12 hours a day. For someone clipping every stream, that flat price beats paying by the minute.
If what you liked about Powder was that it found the moment rather than the loudest second, that is the thing a vision model is built for. It is not waiting for the game to print an event: the near miss, the reaction, the teammate saying something absurd while nothing happens on screen all count, because the model is working from what it saw.
The practical test
Take an old recording where you remember a moment you would definitely have clipped, and run it through the free plan here: 60 minutes of video a month, and the source trimmer lets you pick the hour that contains it. Then look for one thing. Did the moment you remember come back?
Questions
- Has Powder shut down?
- Yes. powder.gg now points to a farewell letter saying the app will no longer be updated or maintained and that all active subscriptions are being cancelled.
- Can I bring my Powder clips or settings across?
- There is nothing to migrate. Keep the clips you exported from Powder; for new ones, paste a link to a recording or upload it, and the clips come back with captions, sized for TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels.
- Does OptimusClips work with my game?
- Yes, whatever it is. There is no game list, because nothing in the pipeline is trained on a specific title. The model watches the footage the way a person would.
- Is there a free plan?
- Yes: 60 minutes of source video a month, with the same vision model as the paid plans. Paid plans start at $18 for 180 minutes.
- How fast is it?
- Roughly the runtime of the recording plus overhead, because it watches every second. Powder was quicker. If clips within minutes of going offline matter most to you, a tool built on event detection will suit you better.
See what it finds in your footage
The free tier gives you 60 minutes of source video a month. Paste a YouTube, Twitch or Kick link, or upload your own file.
No card required. See pricing for what the paid tiers add.