Overview
Yarn is a clip-search website for finding spoken lines in movies, television, and music. Users search a quotation and explore matching excerpts from its indexed media library. Yarn retrieves existing clips for reference and sharing rather than generating original AI video footage.
Our take
Yarn finds film, television and music clips by a quoted line, free to search. It is a search index over subtitle data rather than an AI product, and it does that one thing unusually well — finding the exact moment a line was said is genuinely hard by any other method. Copyright applies to what you do with the clips.
Worth it if
Finding the exact clip where a line was spoken, for reference, quoting or research.
Look elsewhere if
Sourcing footage for published video, where the clips are copyrighted material.
✨ Features
Quote Search
Finds indexed media excerpts using words from a spoken line.
Clip Discovery
Explores matches from films, television shows, and music.
Short Previews
Plays matching excerpts so users can identify the desired moment.
Clip Sharing
Provides clip pages for referencing and sharing matching moments.
⚖️ Pros & Cons
Pros
Cons
💰 Pricing
Free Search
$0
- Search quoted lines
- Browse matching excerpts
- No ownership of source media implied
Categories
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
Can I use these clips in my own videos?
They are copyrighted material, so it depends on whether your use qualifies as fair use or fair dealing where you are — commentary, criticism and parody have stronger arguments than decoration. Platform content-identification systems will flag them regardless, and the dispute process is yours to handle.
How does it find clips so precisely?
By indexing subtitle data with timestamps, which is why exact quotes work well and paraphrases do not. It is a search problem rather than a video-understanding one. That also explains the coverage pattern — content with good subtitle data is findable, and content without it is invisible.