The Offline section
Save a video's or collection's coding to review it offline — kept current automatically, alongside your own local footage.
On this page
The Offline section holds every video and collection you've saved for offline review — its clips, tag deck, events, and catalog tags, downloaded to your browser so you can review it without an internet connection. It plays back alongside a local copy of the video file that you link yourself, in a read-only presentation mode.
This is a web feature for reviewing coding you already created, without an internet connection. It's different from Working offline on the desktop app, which is about capturing and tagging a match live with no internet at all. Offline review never captures or edits anything — it's read-only.
What gets saved
Offline review only saves the coding — not the video file itself. That includes:
- Clips (in/out points, order)
- The tag deck and catalog tags used in the project
- Events
- Video metadata
All of this is stored locally in your browser. The video file is never downloaded through this feature — you always supply the footage yourself, from a file already on your computer.
The Offline section
Saved-for-offline work has its own place in the sidebar, separate from the Studio's capture tools. Open it and the first thing you see is a readiness board: how many saved videos are Ready offline (of the total), how many Need a file, and how many are Online only (YouTube, Vimeo, or link-based videos with no local file paired), plus a storage meter — now with a bar — for what this browser is using.
The Storage tile keeps itself current as you download or remove copies, rather than waiting for you to reload the page. It also says whether this browser is allowed to clear that data if the device runs low on space — "Protected — the browser won't clear it to make room." or "Not protected — the browser may clear it if this device runs low on space." — with a Protect button offered when it isn't. Some browsers decide this on their own: if yours refuses, cliply says so ("This browser didn't allow it. It decides that on its own — installing cliply as an app usually helps.") instead of leaving a button that looks like it did nothing.
Below it, the page works like every other list in cliply: one Download button at the top right opens a panel where you pick videos or collections to save; Videos and Collections are two tabs at the start of the filter strip, each with its own search; and Review sits on every row, with Update offline copy and Remove offline copy behind the row's … menu. An empty list explains how saving works and carries its own download button, so there's nowhere to get stuck.
Save a video or collection from the library, then come here to review it, check on it, or remove it. If you try to open a page you don't have a cached copy of while you're offline, you land back in this section instead of a generic error screen. The small Offline tag in the top bar, shown when the browser has no connection, opens this section too.
Keeping copies current
A saved copy doesn't just sit there — while you have a connection, cliply quietly checks whether anything changed on the video or collection you saved (a clip edited, an event added, a telestration drawn, a note written, a tag renamed in the catalog) and re-downloads it if it has. There's no button to press and no toast to dismiss: it checks when you reconnect, when you come back to the tab, and every ten minutes while it's open. Each row shows how long ago it was last confirmed current, so you always know how fresh what you're looking at is.
When copies are behind the cloud and you're online, an Update all button appears in the header. It refreshes them one by one and reports how many were updated. Copies saved under a different organization are skipped until you switch into it.
Linking your footage
To actually watch footage offline, you link your own local copy of the video file. Once linked, the app plays that local file alongside the saved coding: clips, tags, and events all line up against your file, exactly as they do online. This mode is strictly read-only — there's no editing, no sync, and no conflict resolution.
In Chrome or Edge, you can point a whole project at the folder where its footage lives instead of picking files one at a time. Grant access once, and cliply matches each video to a file in that folder by name, by title, or by fixture number, confirming the match against the video's duration. It only pairs a file automatically when exactly one candidate fits — if two files look plausible, it leaves the choice to you. If you've picked a specific file for a video by hand, that choice always wins over whatever the folder would have matched.
Browsers forget folder permission at the end of each session. When that happens, a banner at the top of the Offline section offers Reconnect folder — one click re-links every match across every project that lost it, not just the one you happen to be looking at.
Safari and Firefox don't support folder access yet, so they keep the one-file-at-a-time picker.
Reviewing a rival coding side by side
You can also import a foreign XML file — the format most video-analysis tools share — to review a different coding of the same footage next to your own. This is useful when you want to compare how another analyst tagged the same match.
Collections
Offline review also works for collections (a reel spanning multiple source videos). Each source video in the collection needs its own local file linked separately before it can play offline.
Saving a whole project
From a project's page, the offline control saves every video's coding in one go, showing progress as it works through them, and reports honestly when it's done: everything saved, or "Saved 4 of 6 — the rest retry on their own while you are online" when some didn't finish, or a clear out-of-storage message when the device ran out of room.
It also keeps the project: turn it on and a match added to that project later gets saved automatically too, with no extra step. That switch, an update-now action, and "remove the project's copies" all sit under the same control — on the project page, in the projects list, and in the workbench's own menu.
What a row tells you
A saved video shows its status as a chip, and the fix for it sits right on the row:
- File ready — your local copy is linked; press Review to watch it.
- File missing — the footage isn't on this device yet; Locate file picks it.
- Folder disconnected — a linked folder's permission lapsed; Reconnect restores it.
- Plays online only — a YouTube, Vimeo, or link-based video with no local file paired. There's nothing to link unless you have your own copy of the footage.
- Removed from the cloud — the video or collection was deleted, or moved to a different organization. Your local copy stays either way — you remove it yourself when you're ready.
A project's heading shows the same idea at a glance — 2/3 ready, for instance.
If the browser evicted a copy's data before you got to it, the row is flagged copy incomplete with a Re-download button, and Review is disabled until it's back, rather than leading to a dead end.
A copy that was saved while part of its data could not be read is flagged incomplete copy — retries while you're online on its row until the next refresh fills it in.
Removing a copy while you're online happens immediately, but the toast that confirms it offers Undo, which re-downloads the copy. Offline, removing still asks you to confirm first, since you can't get it back until you reconnect.
Plan requirements
Offline review is available on every paid plan — Solo, Team, Club and Enterprise. The Free plan does not include it.
Offline data is cleared automatically when you sign out, and also auto-clears if a different user signs in on the same browser. This is a best-effort convenience, not a hard security guarantee — avoid saving sensitive footage for offline review on a machine you don't control.