Medal

Medal is a clip recorder and sharing app for gamers. It runs quietly in the background while you play — press a hotkey when something happens and it saves the last stretch of gameplay as a clip you can trim, caption, edit and share with a link. Think of it as a dashcam for your matches.

It's a different tool from post-stream AI clippers like Eklipse: Medal captures in real time while you play, so it's just as useful for players who never stream as for streamers. Clips live in a social feed where other gamers watch and post, and everything records to standard MP4 with separate game, mic and Discord audio tracks — so you can remix or mute audio later.

The free tier genuinely covers casual clipping; Premium ($9.99 a month or $7.99 a month billed annually) removes the caps: unlimited-length uploads instead of 20 minutes, original-quality uploads up to 4K, unlimited cloud backup, auto-generated subtitles, removable watermarks and no ads.

How Medal works

A typical session looks like this:

1. Install Medal on Windows (or the mobile app) and pick your recording quality — up to 4K/144fps supported.
2. Play; Medal records in the background with GPU acceleration on NVIDIA, AMD or Intel, using a few hundred MB of RAM.
3. Hit the hotkey when something clip-worthy happens — it saves the last 15 seconds, 60 seconds, 10 minutes or whole session depending on your setting.
4. Trim and edit in the built-in editor; Premium adds auto-generated subtitles and removable watermarks.
5. Share a link to the clip, post it to your Medal profile, or take the MP4 elsewhere — YouTube, TikTok, Discord.

Key capabilities

Background capture — Records as you play with minimal overhead; a hotkey saves the last stretch as a clip.

Flexible clip lengths — Save the last 15 seconds, minute, 10 minutes or an entire session.

High-quality recording — Up to 4K resolution and 144fps on capable hardware, via NVIDIA, AMD and Intel GPU acceleration.

Separate audio tracks — Game, microphone and Discord audio balanced or muted independently, plus webcam overlay.

Built-in editor — Trim clips and, on Premium, add auto-generated subtitles.

Medal Cloud — Automatic upload of clips to the cloud on Premium, with full-library backup that resumes if interrupted.

Social layer — A community feed of gaming clips, profiles, and Premium profile flair (GIF avatar, animated banner, badge, Discord role).

MP4 output — Standard files you can take to any editor or platform.

Medal plans and pricing explained

Prices are in US dollars; mobile subscriptions bill through the Apple and Google app stores.

Free — the core recorder and editor at no cost: clip upload limit of 20 minutes per clip, uploads capped at 1080p/60fps, ads shown, watermarks and outros on clips, and shared links that may expire. Enough for casual clipping and sharing.

Premium — $9.99 a month, or $7.99 a month billed annually ($95.88 a year). Unlimited clip upload length, uploads in full original quality including 4K, unlimited cloud storage and full-library backup, unlimited auto-generated subtitles in the editor, removable watermarks and clip outros, ads removed (some programmatic placements remain), premium profile features, a subscriber badge and Discord role, and priority support. Independent reviews report a 14-day free trial with Premium.

A June 2026 update made Premium meaningfully better without a price change: upload limits went from 30 minutes to unlimited, uploads moved to full original quality, and cloud backup and subtitles were added — existing subscribers got it automatically.

Medal versus running OBS

If you already stream through OBS, Medal isn't a replacement — it's a complement with a different job. OBS records or broadcasts what you tell it to; Medal's job is retroactive capture: it keeps a rolling buffer so the hotkey saves something that already happened. That distinction matters mid-match — you don't decide to record a great play before it happens. Many players run Medal purely as their "save that" button and OBS only when they go live, since Medal's footprint is small enough not to matter alongside a game. The sharing feed is the other difference: OBS produces files, Medal produces posts — though the MP4 export means you're never locked into its platform.

Who Medal is for

Gamers who clip moments — streamer or not, the hotkey capture works for anyone playing.

Streamers wanting live capture — clip as it happens rather than scanning VODs later.

Clip channels and montage makers — 4K/144 recording and original-quality uploads.

Anyone wanting a light alternative to running OBS — it just records.

Who should look elsewhere

If you want your finished streams auto-clipped, that's Eklipse's job — Medal captures live instead. Console players should note recording is PC and mobile; console clips can be imported for editing but not captured directly. And if you want a full production suite rather than clip capture, that's what streaming software is for.

Getting the most out of Medal

Set your clip length before the session — a 15-second save won't catch the whole teamfight.

Bind the hotkey somewhere reachable mid-fight; the default is easy to miss in the moment.

Use separate audio tracks so you can strip out Discord chatter before posting.

Free tier links may expire — download the MP4s of anything you want to keep.