Scrubjay

Scrubjay transcribes and analyzes the footage on your device or NAS locally, surfacing insights on a smart timeline to help you find the moments worth sharing.

If you record long-form content (streams, vlogs, podcasts, interviews) and dread scrubbing through hours of footage to find the best moments, Scrubjay automates that first pass. It runs directly on your device, transcribing and analyzing your library to surface the moments most likely worth cutting — big reactions, standout lines, key beats — so you can go straight to editing instead of hunting.

How it works:

Runs entirely on your machine. No video ever leaves your device — no uploads, no file size limits, no cloud storage lifetimes. Your library stays exactly where you put it.

Smart timeline navigation. Instead of scrubbing blind, Scrubjay highlights the parts of the timeline worth watching, so you can jump straight to what matters.

Searchable by content, not just filename. Since everything gets transcribed and analyzed locally, you can search your library the way you'd search text — no more remembering which of 40 VODs a moment was buried in.

Fast. Processes a 10-hour video in under 10 minutes on standard hardware, and scales with better GPUs (NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel all supported).

Private by design. Because nothing is uploaded or transmitted, Scrubjay doesn't collect or retain any data from your videos — your content is simply never in play.

Pricing: A flat $5/month early adopter pricing, with a 3-day free trial. Scrubjay is in active development, and early adopters get a direct line to the team via Discord to shape upcoming features.

Platforms: macOS, Windows, Linux