We asked four AI assistants which Twitch clip tool to use, 400 times

Some people find Reelium through ChatGPT. Nearly all of them land on the homepage. My guess was that they already knew the name and asked about it. I wanted to know what the assistants tell a streamer who doesn't know the name — the one who just asks for a clip tool.

So I asked. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google's AI Overviews, 50 questions each, twice. 400 answers in all.

How I ran it

• The questions came first. I wrote all 50 and committed them before asking anything, so I couldn't swap out the ones that went badly. They're at the bottom of this post.
• They're the questions streamers type. Lowercase, half-formed, sometimes annoyed: "is there a clipper that doesn't charge $30/mo just to process one VOD?"
• 47 never mention Reelium. Tool lists, how-tos, Kick questions, one in Spanish. The last 3 ask about Reelium by name.
• Normal accounts, no history. ChatGPT logged out, Perplexity on a free account, Claude on my own account in incognito chats, Google with no account. 24 and 25 October 2026, from the UK.
• Every question was answered twice by every assistant. None were dropped.

The result

Reelium was named in 0 of 376 answers to the 47 questions that don't mention it. Not once, on any assistant.

Ask about Reelium by name and it comes up in 24 of 24 answers, nearly all with a description. Of the 216 claims they made about it, 189 checked out. The assistants know what Reelium is. They don't think of it when a streamer asks for a clip tool.

It isn't the assistants answering from memory, either. All four searched the web on most questions.

Who they recommend

Share of the 376 answers that named each tool at all:

• Eklipse: 64% (named first in 27%)
• StreamLadder: 48% (named first in 6%)
• OpusClip: 44% (named first in 11%)
• CapCut: 39% (named first in 9%)
• Twitch's own clip tools: 31% (named first in 16%)
• Vizard: 20%

Every assistant named Eklipse more often than any other tool. Two odd results: ChatGPT recommended Powder in 1 answer in 10, and Powder has shut down. Google's overviews named Nexus Clips in 28% of their answers, mostly on the strength of YouTube videos.

What they read

The answers cited 1,585 sources. By kind:

• competitors' own product pages: 42%
• "best tools" lists written by a competitor: 26%
• independent lists and reviews: 7%
• YouTube: 6%
• Reddit: 4%
• Twitch's help pages: 4%
• directories such as AlternativeTo and G2: 3%

That second line is the finding I keep coming back to. A clip tool writes "the best AI clipping tools", puts itself on the list, and the assistants cite the page. Some of those tools are as small as Reelium. Add the product pages and 68% of what the assistants read was written by a clip tool about clip tools. Only 7% was an independent list or review.

Each assistant has its habits:

• ChatGPT reads tools' own product pages, plus Twitch's help pages.
• Perplexity reads the most "best tools" lists, and Reddit.
• Claude leans on Eklipse's blog, and reads directories like AlternativeTo more than the others do.
• Google reads YouTube and Reddit.

When they did know Reelium

The most common mistake was ours. In 8 answers, ChatGPT and Google said the free plan gives four hours a month. It changed to an hour every week on 6 October. They were reading copies of our own pages saved before the change. Three answers also drew on reelium.io, a different company with the same name.

What I'm changing

• One plain sentence in every page's structured data — the description search engines and assistants read — saying what Reelium is: a clip maker for Twitch and Kick streams.
• A page written for AI assistants. /llms.txt is a plain-text summary of what Reelium does and costs, built from the same figures as the pricing page, so the two can't disagree.
• Old facts fixed. Two blog posts, our SaaSHub listing and our LinkedIn page had old or wrong facts. They're corrected, and Google and Bing have been asked to read the site again.
• Submitted where assistants look. Reelium is submitted to AlternativeTo, the directory Claude cites.

Progress is anything above zero. I'll ask the same 50 questions the same way around 22 November and post what comes back, whatever it is.

If you're choosing a clip tool

An AI answer to "what's the best clip tool" is mostly the tools' own marketing, read back to you. That includes this post — I make one of them. Run two tools on the same VOD and count the clips you'd actually post.

The 50 questions

1. what's the best tool to turn twitch vods into tiktoks?
2. What is the best AI clipping tool for Twitch streamers?
3. what is the best ai clipping tool right now
4. best ai clipper for gaming streams rather than podcasts? everything i try seems built for talking-head videos
5. what's a good clipping tool for twitch just chatting streams? most ai clippers seem made for fps games
6. Best editing software for turning 9 hour twitch VODs into TikTok and YouTube Shorts clips? Scrubbing through it all in DaVinci Resolve is a slog
7. is there an app that posts my stream clips to tiktok, youtube shorts and instagram reels at the same time?
8. UK streamer here, need advice on AI auto clipping services for my Twitch. Which ones are actually worth paying for?
9. what app can i use to clip my tiktok live streams? i want my camera and gameplay both in the clip
10. how do I find the best moments in a 4 hour stream without watching the whole thing back?
11. how to turn a twitch vod into youtube shorts with captions
12. why can't i clip my vod on twitch? i want to clip something after the stream ended
13. easiest way to convert a twitch clip into a tiktok? it keeps uploading horizontal with black bars
14. how long do twitch vods last before they get deleted?
15. how do i edit a twitch clip into a youtube short in capcut?
16. is it actually worth posting my twitch clips to tiktok and yt shorts, or does it not help the stream grow?
17. My girlfriend streams Overwatch on Twitch. How can I automate turning her VODs into TikTok and YouTube Shorts clips?
18. what's a good opus clip alternative for streamers?
19. alternatives to streamladder? the quality drops a lot when it makes my clips vertical
20. is there anything better than eklipse.gg? looking for a website to make tiktoks from my twitch gameplay clips
21. streamladder vs eklipse for twitch highlights, which is better?
22. opus clip vs klap vs vizard for gaming stream clips, which one's actually best?
23. Powder shut down. what are people using instead to auto clip their streams?
24. what's a cheaper alternative to streamladder's ai clipper?
25. right now i clip on twitch then edit everything in capcut and it takes ages. is there something faster that does both?
26. best kick clip maker?
27. what's the best tool to turn kick vods into tiktoks?
28. how do i convert kick clips into youtube shorts and instagram reels?
29. what software do people use to clip kick streamers for the kick clipping program?
30. are ai clipping tools like opus or eklipse actually worth the money for a kick streamer?
31. ¿Cómo hago clips para TikTok desde Kick? ¿Hay algún programa que lo haga automáticamente?
32. free twitch clip tool with no watermark? just need something to make tiktoks from my clips
33. is there a clipper that doesn't charge $30/mo just to process one VOD? opus and klap subscriptions are eating my twitch earnings
34. is there a free alternative to opus clip that doesn't slap a huge watermark on the free tier?
35. free app or website to add captions to my twitch clips? capcut put auto captions behind a paywall
36. i pay someone per short to edit my twitch vods into tiktoks. would a cheap ai clipping tool do the job just as well?
37. what do people use to auto caption gaming clips with those mrbeast style captions? opus started adding watermarks
38. is there a tool that goes through my twitch vod and finds the parts where chat went crazy?
39. how do i see all the clips viewers made of one twitch stream so i can turn the best ones into tiktoks?
40. is there a tool that automatically finds my facecam and stacks it above the gameplay when it makes a vertical clip?
41. is there an app that auto clips my twitch streams and posts them to tiktok for me? i don't want to edit anything
42. is there something that auto clips my twitch stream while i'm live? i always forget to hit the clip button
43. i edit tiktoks for a twitch streamer and going through their 6 hour vods takes forever. what do other editors use to find the good parts faster?
44. small twitch streamer here, like 5-10 viewers, can't afford an editor. what's the easiest way to get clips out of my streams for tiktok?
45. what software do people use when they start clipping streamers as a side hustle?
46. i run clips for 6 streamers on twitch and kick. what tool lets me handle all their channels in one place without paying for 6 separate subscriptions?
47. what auto-clip software are IG clip pages using to post stream highlights so fast?
48. what is reelium.ai?
49. reelium review - is it worth it for a twitch streamer?
50. reelium vs opus clip for twitch vods, which is better?