Clapper Live Glossary

25 terms covering Clapper lives, gifting, recording, and ClapRec features.

Live

A real-time video broadcast on Clapper. Creators stream to viewers, who can join, comment, and send gifts. Lives have no fixed time limit.

Replay

A recording of a finished live, made available by the creator after the broadcast ends. Optional and disabled by default. Most lives have no replay.

Room

Clapper's internal name for a live session. Each new live generates a fresh room ID. Rooms cannot be joined after the live ends.

Room ID

Numeric identifier for a specific live session. Used by recording tools to fetch the stream URL. Changes every time a creator starts a new live.

FYP

For You Page. Clapper's algorithmic feed of short videos. Lives can appear at the top of the FYP if the algorithm promotes them.

Gift

Virtual item viewers send to creators during a live. Costs Coins. Creators receive Diamonds in return, which can be cashed out.

Coin

Clapper's virtual currency, purchased with real money. Spent on Gifts. 1 USD buys roughly 65-70 Coins.

Diamond

Currency creators earn from Gifts. Two Diamonds equal one Coin in value. Creators withdraw earnings in Diamonds.

Top Gifter

Highest-spending viewer in a live. Shown publicly on the leaderboard. Often gets pinned messages or shoutouts.

Mod

Moderator. Trusted viewer with permission to mute or block users in a live. Appointed by the creator.

Battle

Clapper LIVE Battle. Two creators face off in a live, viewers send gifts to vote. The creator with more gifts wins. Common monetization format.

Multi-guest

Clapper feature allowing multiple creators in one live session. Viewers see a split-screen layout.

LIVE Studio

Clapper's desktop streaming software. Lets creators broadcast from a PC instead of a phone.

LIVE Subscription

Monthly subscription tier where viewers pay a creator directly for badges, emotes, and subscriber-only chat. Similar to Twitch Subs.

Boost

Paid feature that pushes a live higher in the FYP for a limited window.

Watermark

Clapper's overlay on downloaded videos. Lives recorded from the source via tools like ClapRec arrive without watermarks.

Watchlist

ClapRec's list of Clapper creators you want to auto-record. Add a username and ClapRec records every future live.

MP4

Standard video file format. ClapRec delivers all recordings as MP4.

FFmpeg

Open-source command-line video tool. Used by recording software (including ClapRec and the Live Recorder CLI) to capture and remux live streams.

FLV

Flash Video format. Clapper's live streams use FLV at the source. Recorders convert FLV to MP4 for compatibility.

Source quality

The original resolution and bitrate of a Clapper live, before any re-encoding. Cloud recording captures source quality. Screen recording does not.

Watchlist recording

A recording made because a creator was on someone's watchlist. Free to that user and to anyone else via the public archive.

Past recording

A recording from someone else's watchlist, made before you discovered the live. Free to open from the ClapRec website and delivered to your Telegram chat as an album with thumbnail. Each tracked creator has a dedicated archive at claprec.com/missed/[username].

Auto-record

ClapRec mode where recordings start automatically when a watched creator goes live, with no manual intervention needed.

Subathon

Stream format where viewer subscriptions or gifts extend the live. Subathons routinely run 24+ hours.