An AI video editor that never uploads your footage

Almost every AI video editor is a website. That single fact decides more than people realize: your footage uploads before the first cut, lives on someone else’s servers while you work, and is governed by whatever their terms say this quarter.

For a holiday video, maybe fine. For client work, unreleased product footage, legal or medical material, or anything under NDA, it is a real decision, and it deserves better than a checkbox at signup.

What "local" actually means in klo

• Your media files never upload. The library, the timeline, the autosaves, the exports: all on your disk.
• A request sends the minimum it needs. Your typed ask, timeline metadata, compressed audio when transcription is needed, individual frames when the agent has to look at a shot to grade it. Processed transiently, not kept.
• The processors are named. Our privacy policy lists every third party and what each one touches. No analytics brokers, no ad networks.

Questions to ask any AI editor, including us

• Does my raw footage leave my machine? Which parts, exactly?
• Is my content used to train models? Where is that promised?
• What license do the terms grant to what I process?
• Can I finish an edit with the network off? (In klo: cutting and playback yes; transcription and generation need a connection.)
• When I delete my account, what actually gets deleted?

A tool with good answers will publish them. Be suspicious of the ones that make you dig.

Privacy without giving up the AI part

The usual trade is: local means dumb, smart means uploaded. A native app with a cloud brain splits it differently: the intelligence sees your request, your machine keeps your footage. That is klo’s architecture, and it is why a two-hour ProRes project is normal here and impossible in a browser tab.

Get klo for Mac. Your footage will not go anywhere, which is the point.