Reelary vs Jumper
Jumper is the most established local footage-search tool in this category, and it is good at what it does. The question is not whether it searches well - it is whether you want search inside the NLE you already pay for, or an app that takes the job all the way to a file.
| Reelary | Jumper | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $79 one-time (launch, normally $99) | $169 lifetime; Pro $599 lifetime, $49/mo or $399/yr |
| Cost over 3 years | $79 | $169 - $599 |
| Platforms | Windows 10/11 + macOS 12+ | Windows + macOS, as an NLE plugin |
| Where processing happens | On device | On device |
| Search | Visual semantic search, AI scene descriptions, dialogue search and people (dialogue and people are Pro) | Visual, spoken word and face search |
| Produces a finished file | Yes - MP4, plus FCPXML / EDL if you want to finish in an NLE | No - by design it feeds Premiere / FCP / Resolve / Avid |
Jumper figures read from https://getjumper.io/ on 2026-08-01. Vendors change pricing - check theirs before deciding.
Over the past few weeks I've tried around 20 different applications in this category, including free/open-source solutions as well as commercial demos. Out of everything I've tested, Reelary is the application that has suited me best so far. After Reelary, ClipSearch and Clipto are probably the closest to what I'm looking for.
Jumper is a plugin. That is the whole design.
Jumper indexes your footage locally and surfaces results inside Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and Avid, so the shots land on the timeline you were already working in. If you own one of those and you are a fast editor once the right clip is in front of you, that integration is worth a lot.
It also means the premise is that you own one. Jumper does not assemble a sequence for you and does not produce a finished file; the host application does. And a company whose product lives inside Premiere has a good reason never to build its own exporter - it would compete with the host it depends on.
Reelary is the whole path, standalone
Reelary indexes locally too, but it owns the steps after the search: you write the film as a script, each line gets filled with matching shots, you adjust, and you export MP4 with captions and the aspect ratio set - or FCPXML / EDL if you would rather finish in your NLE after all. The NLE stays optional.
Search: closer than it used to be
Jumper searches visuals, spoken words and faces. Since version 1.1 (September 2026) Reelary does all three as well: visual semantic search is free, and Pro adds dialogue search over an on-device transcript of every video plus people recognition that groups faces into named persons. Reelary also writes a local one-line description of every indexed shot, free, which makes those descriptions searchable too.
What Jumper still does that Reelary does not: it lives inside Premiere, FCP, Resolve and Avid. If you never want to leave your NLE, that integration is the deciding feature, and search quality is no longer the thing to choose on.
Price
As published on 2026-08-01: Jumper is $169 lifetime; Pro $599 lifetime, $49/mo or $399/yr. Reelary Pro is $79 one-time and covers both Mac and Windows on the same license, with a free tier that indexes and searches an unlimited library forever.
Pick Jumper if you live in Premiere, FCP, Resolve or Avid, you never want to leave it, and search results landing directly in that NLE matters more than a finished file.
Pick Reelary if you want the assembly and the export too, or you would rather not depend on owning a full NLE.