reap Reviews

My main use case for Reap was clipping game streams, trading streams, and podcasts.

Game streams: I uploaded a one-hour stream, set the mode to Gaming, and it gave me around 25 clips. About 5–7 of those had wonky split screens. The top screen showed the gameplay, but the bottom screen also showed gameplay when it should have shown the streamer’s face cam.

Trading streams: Same issue here. A couple of the split-screen clips were also wonky, with both the top and bottom showing the charts instead of one showing the streamer’s face.

Podcasts: I tested it with a podcast featuring two people talking. No issues here, honestly. Just use the “Talking” mode and it gives you clean clips that switch the camera focus to whoever is speaking. Pretty neat.

Other stuff:

When removing dead air from a clip, the output becomes unsynced. For example, in a 30-second clip, if there are three parts with 2 seconds of dead air each, removing them causes the audio and visuals to go out of sync.
There’s no audio override yet. So if you upload a streamer’s VOD and their usual volume levels are too low, the generated clips will keep the source volume, and there’s no setting in Reap to boost it.
I’d love to have snapping alignment guides, so whenever you reposition videos or captions in the editor, you can tell when everything is centered.

Other than that, it would be 100% usable for me. I know there are still parts of the product I haven’t really explored, but the things I mentioned above are my core use cases. I’m still giving it 4 tacos since the clip hit rate is still quite high. Out of 25 generated clips, around 20 were usable with only minor edits needed. It gets 80–90% of the work done, then you handle the final touches and post. You could easily distribute multiple clips per day for a brand.

When you guys come back again, hopefully these issues are fixed, and then I’ll finally keep the tier. Thanks for the experience.

I wanted to like this tool more than I do.

On the positive side, it’s genuinely easy to use and pretty intuitive right to use. One of its strongest features is how well it pulls clips from longer videos. I’ve been feeding it 10-minute videos, and it does a solid job identifying the parts that are actually worth turning into shorter content. That alone saves a lot of time.

I also like the branding presets. Being able to lock in colors, fonts, and overall styling makes it easy to keep everything consistent without having to rebuild that setup every time. That part feels well thought out and useful.

Where things fall apart - scheduling reliability.

The scheduling and publishing feature is inconsistent enough that it defeats the purpose of using the tool in the first place. I’ve had it disconnect from my Youtube account three times. The first two times, there was no notification at all. I only realized something was wrong halfway through the week when nothing had been posted. That’s not a small issue, that’s the core function failing. Their support blamed this on Youtube, but I use other tools for publishing and am not seeing similar issues.

During the most recent sheduling failure, I at least got an email telling me I needed to reconnect my YouTube account. But even then, this is not something I should have to check or fix regularly. If I’m using a scheduling tool, I need to trust that it’s actually going to publish when I tell it to.

At this point, I’m giving it three tacos. It’s a strong tool in terms of clipping and branding, but the reliability issues make it hard to depend on. For me, it’s worth paying more for something that just works without needing constant oversight.

Hey,
I initially bought the Tier 2 version, and when I saw the quality of the output, I upgraded to the highest tier and I'm still very happy with my purchase.

This is my first review on AppSumo and I'm happy to do it for this Reap app.

Reap is truly amazing, and so is its team!

It's now one of the main, if not the main, tools in my business today. I use it daily.

I especially appreciate their transparency; when one of their components isn't working, they clearly state that it isn't, and when it is, it actually works.

The shorts that Reap produces are truly top-notch.

I also received impeccable support until I got the solution.

I hope they're here to stay and that we can rely on them for a very long time.

I 100% recommend this app, and it's one of the top 3 deals I've found out of more than hundreds of deals on AppSumo.

My only request today is to one day have the option to use text-to-speech (TTS) in Reap. And why not other features as well?

I bought Reap (Lifetime Tier 2) to quickly turn long videos into short snippets with captions in my own branding. That’s exactly what I need.

I clearly see the potential, but honestly? As a non-technical user, I don’t find the tool intuitive enough at the moment. I’ve made several attempts to smoothly turn one video into snippets, but I keep running into the same frustration: where exactly should I go, and which steps should I follow in the right order? And to this day, I still haven’t managed to create snippets from my long video.

My English is good, so that’s not the issue. For me, the problem lies in usability and the lack of truly simple, step-by-step guidance for beginners.

For now, I’ve put it on hold and plan to come back to it later with a fresh mindset. Because the potential is probably there, but today it doesn’t yet feel like the time-saver I was hoping for.

👉 My advice: make the learning curve easier and provide clear A-to-Z tutorials for beginners.

I'm really enjoying this. I've tried others from AppSumo and this one is the most superior. Also compared to Opus Clip, it really does give it a run for the money. Great job to the team to making this so functional and easy to use.
I also appreciate the updates you've made over the year in the improvement of processing speed.
The AI clipping is also so much better.
Very pleased.

A few notes on things that are annoying and that do slow us down:
* why can't we edit captions before bulk schedule? You understand that the AI doesn't always get it right, so it would be helpful to edit right there on the preview screen any adjustments.
* Why can't we delete video right there in there in the preview screen before bulk schedule because the way it is set up now I have to memorize what to delete. The other workflow is to export and schedule one-by-one which defeats the entire efficiency purpose.
* The scheduler is weird to be separated in minutes - we aren't posting 7 videos in one day. We are spreading them across the week. So when we want to do a day apart have to put in 1440 minutes. I realize you can then go into the calendar and change, but then that take more time, it has to re-export...which, again, defeats the entire efficiency purpose.

Thanks again for this product. It's so helpful and affordable.