How to Uninstall Clipchamp From Windows 11

What Clipchamp is and why it is on your PC

Microsoft acquired the Australian web-video startup Clipchamp in 2021 and spent the next two years folding it into Windows as the default lightweight editor. Since 2023 it ships preinstalled on Windows 11, taking over the video-editing role that the legacy Photos app used to cover. The app is a thin shell around a web engine — the same editor runs at clipchamp.com in any browser — and it offers quick trimming, templates, text-to-speech and 1080p exports on the free tier.

Because the heavy lifting happens online and in your graphics card rather than in a large local install, Clipchamp's footprint is modest, and its presence costs you almost nothing but a Start menu entry. If your objection is simply that it appears in the “Open with” menu for video files, you can repoint your default apps instead of uninstalling anything. But if you never edit video at all, removing the app is completely safe — no Windows component, driver or service calls into it.

Before you uninstall: your projects live in the cloud

Clipchamp saves projects to your Clipchamp account in the cloud, not to a folder on your disk, so uninstalling the app neither destroys nor rescues your work. Finished videos you already exported are ordinary files wherever you saved them, but anything still in draft form exists only inside the service. Handle that before you remove the app.

• Export every project you still need as a video file — drafts stay in the cloud, but the app is the comfortable way to finish them
• Note that clipchamp.com in any browser opens the same editor with the same projects after the app is gone
• Keep the exported files somewhere you will find them: Videos folder, external drive or cloud storage
• Remember that a Microsoft account sign-in is what reconnects you to your projects later
• Accept that reinstalling later from the Microsoft Store restores the app but not your local shortcuts

Uninstalling — and keeping it away

Open Settings > Apps > Installed apps, find Clipchamp, click the three dots and choose Uninstall; a couple of clicks later it is gone, along with its Start menu entry. For scripted or repeated removals, PowerShell does the same job: Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers *Clipchamp* | Remove-AppxPackage removes the Clipchamp.Clipchamp package for every user on the machine, from an administrator terminal. Either way, plan on rechecking after Windows feature updates, because big upgrades re-provision inbox apps and Clipchamp occasionally comes back with them.

If what bothers you is less the app and more the general pile of preinstalled software on a new PC, a cleanup pass pays off. Kleaner PRO removes built-in apps like Clipchamp in one sweep along with the leftover folders ordinary uninstalls leave behind. On its own, though, Clipchamp is one of the more harmless inbox apps — small, quiet and easy to bring back from the Store whenever a video project actually shows up.

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