Clapshot vs Krock.io

Clapshot is a self-hosted tool for teams reviewing video, audio, and image files, including subtitle tracks. It is aimed at organizations that want to keep media outside commercial cloud services. Reviewers can watch together with synchronized playback and seeking, share review links, and discuss time-coded comments in threads. The browser player includes frame-by-frame navigation, loop controls, editable SMPTE timecode fields, waveform visualization for audio, timeline pins, and drawing annotations with seven colors.

Media can be uploaded through the web interface or read from a monitored folder, which can assign users based on file ownership or folder names. FFmpeg handles transcoding, thumbnails, and metadata extraction; custom scripts and hardware acceleration are supported. Authentication can connect through a reverse proxy to OAuth, LDAP, Kerberos, or SAML, and notification hooks can connect to email, Slack, or other systems. Deployment options include Docker Compose and a Debian package for Debian 12 or 13. The server and client are GPLv2 licensed. Clapshot is free at free. Mobile browser support is limited, and desktop Chrome or Chromium is recommended.

Krock.io is video review software and a creative collaboration platform for teams working with media. Reviewers can leave text comments, drawings, attachments, and time-coded feedback on video, images, audio, PDFs, and multi-page PDFs. It can generate storyboards from text and includes project templates, workspaces, workload Gantt charts, and a calendar view. Listed integrations include Adobe Creative Cloud, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve Studio, Slack, calendar sync, and webhooks. It is available on the web, macOS, Windows, and as an extension. The Free plan costs nothing and includes one user, 2 GB storage, one workspace, two projects, 50 AI Tokens, and unlimited reviewers. Pro costs $10 a month per user, while Unlimited costs $400 a month with 100 users included. All plans include standard customer support; the team says it aims to respond within 1–2 business days. Krock.io says media files are stored on Amazon S3 and core application servers run on DigitalOcean IaaS. It also says individual accounts can use two-factor authentication and that user content is not used to teach AI models.