How to clip
on Kick.

Route 1: Kick's built-in Clip button

Any logged-in viewer, or the streamer, can clip a live Kick stream. Per Kick's help center:

1. While watching, click the Clip icon on the player, or press C on your keyboard.
2. The Create clip window opens. Drag the slider handles to set the range. Clips can be 10 to 180 seconds long.
3. Add a title and click Publish.
4. You get a preview, a shareable link, a button to post it in chat, and a Download option that saves an MP4.

A few limits worth knowing: there is a 60-second cooldown between clips, processing can take a few minutes, you cannot clip a channel that has banned you, and streamers can turn clipping off for their channel entirely. Clips live in the channel's Clips tab and in your own profile's clip library. Only the channel owner can delete a clip.

What the native clip does not do: it comes out in the stream's original 16:9 frame, with no captions and no vertical version. Kick's help pages do not describe any share-to-TikTok or Shorts feature. To post it as a short you still need to crop, caption and export it yourself.

Route 2: a chat bot !clip command

If you want viewers to clip from chat, a bot like KickBot adds a !clip command. According to KickBot's docs: the bot must be a moderator on your channel, the command is enabled from its dashboard, the stream has to be live, and viewers type !clip or !clip 45 for a 45-second clip. On the free plan the default is 30 seconds with a 120-second maximum. You can restrict the command to subs, VIPs or mods. The bot replies in chat with the clip URL.

It is a good way to let chat call moments for you. The result is still a standard Kick clip: landscape, no captions, and someone has to notice the moment and type the command.

Route 3: automatic clipping while you are live

The third route removes the human from the loop. An automatic clipper watches the stream and decides what to cut. Most of them do this after the stream from the VOD. ReelShift does it during the stream:

1. Connect your Kick channel. There is nothing to install and no bot to add; ReelShift watches the public live stream. Kick is included on every plan.
2. Go live. The AI reads audio spikes, emotion and chat velocity in real time. When the room erupts, the clip is cut seconds later.
3. Each clip comes back with word-synced captions burned in and reframed vertical, with your cam and gameplay framed automatically.
4. Want to call one yourself? Say "clip that" on stream and the last 60 seconds are cut and tagged in your library.
5. Review the clips in your library, download the keepers, or post them to TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels. On Creator Plus you can schedule them.

The difference from routes 1 and 2 is what arrives: not a 16:9 Kick clip to edit later, but a finished short, minutes after the moment, while the stream is still going.

Which route should you use?

• Just want to save one moment for the Kick page? The Clip button. Free, instant, done.
• Want chat to flag moments during a long stream? A !clip bot, with the command open to subs or everyone.
• Want clips on TikTok and Shorts while you are live, without editing? An automatic clipper. If you already pay for one that works from the VOD, check whether it supports Kick at all and on which plan. ReelShift includes Kick on every plan and does not need the VOD.

Plenty of streamers use all three: the Clip button for the channel page, a bot for chat, and ReelShift for the feeds that actually grow the channel.