ClipKeeper

ClipKeeper is a free, open-source tray companion for OBS Studio on Windows 10/11. It is not a recorder by itself: it works alongside OBS (28+) through the built-in obs-websocket, so OBS Studio is required.

It has two halves, and each can be turned off.

Recording guard: OBS can break silently, and you only find out after saving a clip. ClipKeeper watches for that and fixes it automatically:

• keeps audio and screen capture sources on the right devices, even after a driver or audio software update (SteelSeries Sonar, Voicemeeter) changes device IDs;
• restarts a crashed replay buffer, and OBS itself after a crash;
• notices audio that never reaches OBS and a black or frozen picture;
• checks every saved clip: length, all audio tracks, dropped frames;
• if it can't fix something, shows an alarm over the game that doesn't steal focus.

Clip library: saved clips are sorted into folders by game, with covers. A frame-exact trim editor cuts pieces from the middle, mixes tracks with per-track volume, and exports lossless or in one click for Discord (10 MB), Nitro or Telegram. Statistics show what you record and what you keep.

No accounts, no telemetry, no ads. The interface is in English and Russian.