Dailies vs FlexClipThe FlexClip alternative for shorts from the calls you hold, with no file or link to bring
FlexClip is an online video editor built on templates and stock media, with a set of AI tools. One of them, AI Long to Shorts, takes a YouTube link or a file and returns reframed, subtitled clips. Dailies makes the same kind of short from another source: it records the call you hold in Chrome on Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Zoom, your webcam on a track of its own, and delivers up to eight captioned vertical shorts a few minutes later. What separates them is whether your video already exists.
Checked against FlexClip’s own site on October 1, 2026.
Dailies
Choose Dailies if
For people whose video does not exist yet: it is said on client calls, and should be recorded and cut in one go.
Your material is said on calls and has never been filmed.
You do not want to record, download and upload after each call.
You want hesitations cut out and your guests unrecognisable.
FlexClip
Choose FlexClip if
For people who want an all-round online editor with templates and stock, and now and then clip a YouTube video or a webinar.
You want a general online editor with templates and stock for videos of all kinds.
Your long videos already exist, on YouTube or as files.
You want to publish a clip to YouTube Shorts or LinkedIn from the tool, with its title written for you.
Dailies and FlexClip, feature by feature
Feature
Dailies
FlexClip
Records Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls itself
YesIn Chrome, on the call you were going to hold anyway
PartlyIts clipper takes a link or a file; its editor has a screen recorder; call recording is not described on the pages we read
Records without a bot joining the call
YesFrom your browser
YesNo bot is involved: its screen recorder is part of its editor
Records your webcam on a track of its own
YesYour camera and microphone, apart from the call’s picture
Not statedIt finds the speakers inside the video it is given; a camera track of its own is not stated
Picks the passages worth posting by itself
YesUp to eight per call
YesCaptures highlight moments, normally 5 to 10 clips per video
Makes vertical 9:16 shorts, reframed on whoever speaks
Yes
Yes9:16 by default; centres the active speaker, split screen for two-person conversations
Burns in animated captions
YesFifteen styles
YesAnimated subtitles, with editable font, alignment and style
Cuts silences, filler words and false starts
Yes
Not stated
Blurs or replaces the room behind you
Yes
YesIt has an AI video background remover
Blurs your guests and disguises their voice
YesOne switch
Not stated
Handles calls in French
YesFrench and English, mixed included
YesFrench among the languages its subtitle generator transcribes; its website exists in French
Writes meeting notes, summaries and action items
NoDailies makes shorts, not minutes
No
Works on any video file you upload
NoOnly the calls it records
YesA YouTube link, or a file from your computer or Google Drive, up to 2 hours
Posts or schedules to social networks for you
NoYou download each short in Full HD and post it yourself
YesPublishes to platforms such as YouTube Shorts and LinkedIn; scheduling is not stated
What FlexClip does
FlexClip, made by PearlMountain, is an online video editor built on templates and stock media, with brand kits and a set of AI tools. Its AI Long to Shorts tool takes a YouTube link or a video from your computer or Google Drive, up to 2 hours long. The AI analyses the video, reframes it, captures highlight moments and adds subtitles, normally returning 5 to 10 clips, in 9:16 by default. It detects who is speaking and centres the active speaker, switching to a split screen for two-person conversations. Subtitles are animated, can be translated, and their font, alignment and style can be edited; its subtitle generator supports up to 140 languages, French among those it names. A finished clip can be published to platforms such as YouTube Shorts and LinkedIn, with a title and a description written by AI. The editor also has a screen recorder, an AI video generator that starts from a prompt, an article or a URL, a video background remover, voice cloning, an avatar, text to speech and a translator. Its website exists in French.
Where Dailies and FlexClip differ
A link to paste, or a call to hold
FlexClip’s clipper needs a YouTube link or a file from your computer or Google Drive. We found no recording of a Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Zoom call on the pages we read, so a call would be recorded with something else, then uploaded. Dailies needs no file: it records the call tab, your microphone and your webcam from Chrome while you talk. No bot joins the call.
Finding the speaker in the picture, or recording them apart
FlexClip looks for the speaker in the video it is given: it detects who is speaking, centres them, and switches to a split screen for a conversation between two people. Dailies does not have to look for you: it records your webcam on a track of its own and crops your guest’s tile on their face in the call tab, so each short shows whoever speaks, full screen.
What a call leaves in: hesitations and guests
A call is spoken without a script: people pause, hesitate and restart. Dailies cuts silences, filler words and false starts out of every short, and one switch blurs your guests and disguises their voice. On the FlexClip pages we read, we found no removal of silences or filler words and no guest blur, which is why the table says “not stated” on those lines.
What FlexClip does that Dailies does not
FlexClip is a full editor: templates, a stock library, brand kits, a screen recorder, video generated from a prompt or an article, an avatar, voice cloning and translation. It clips a video you link or upload, and publishes the result to platforms such as YouTube Shorts and LinkedIn. Dailies does not edit a video you upload and does not post for you: it makes shorts from the calls it records, and you download each one in Full HD.
Questions people ask
Can FlexClip record a Zoom, Google Meet or Teams call?
Not that we found. FlexClip’s editor has a screen recorder, and its AI Long to Shorts tool takes a YouTube link or a file from your computer or Google Drive; the pages we read describe no recording of a call. Dailies records the call itself in Chrome: the call tab, your microphone and your webcam.
Does FlexClip turn a long video into shorts automatically?
Yes. Its AI Long to Shorts tool analyses a video of up to 2 hours, captures highlight moments, reframes them in 9:16 by default, centres the active speaker and adds animated subtitles, normally returning 5 to 10 clips. Dailies also picks by itself, up to eight passages per call, from the calls it records.
Does FlexClip work in French?
Yes. Its subtitle generator supports up to 140 languages and names French among those it transcribes, and its website exists in French. Dailies handles calls in French, in English and in both mixed, and its interface is in French.
Is Dailies a FlexClip alternative for a YouTube video?
No. Dailies does not edit a video you upload or link: it only makes shorts from the calls it records in Chrome. For a YouTube video or a recorded webinar, a clipper such as FlexClip’s is the right kind of tool.
Your next call already holds your next shorts.
Add Dailies to Chrome, record the call you were going to have anyway, and watch its shorts a few minutes after you hang up.
What this page says of FlexClip comes from the pages below, published by its maker and read on October 1, 2026. Where its site says nothing, the table says “not stated” rather than “no”. Products change: write to hello@berenger.dev if something here is out of date. FlexClip is a trademark of its owner, which has no link with Dailies.