Any pet, in its own colors
Your cat doesn’t have to be black. The video keeps your pet’s own fur color, pattern, markings and eye color, and only adds the grin and a pair of human hands in matching fur. Dogs and rabbits work too.
Cat Clapping AI: Make Your Pet Clap Like the Meme
Upload a photo of your cat, dog or other pet and get a vertical 9:16 video of it taking a treat, standing up, grinning with human teeth and slowly clapping with human hands. Add a photo of yourself if you want the owner’s part too: the sneaky treat and the “shh”. Pick 6, 10 or 15 seconds; a video usually takes about 3–4 minutes.
1Your photos
Use a sharp, well-lit photo of one animal with its face clear and ideally its whole body in frame. For your own photo: one person facing the camera, no sunglasses, heavy filters or other apps’ watermarks.
2Length
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Original
AI version
AI version
- Human grin
- Slow, loud claps
- Your own pet
Clips are posts by the credited creators, shown to explain the trend. They weren’t made on this site.
How the meme goes
A Treat, a Grin, Then the Slow Clap
In the original, the owner checks that nobody’s watching, slips his black cat a treat and puts a finger to his lips. The cat stands up on its hind legs, grins with human teeth and claps with human hands, and he looks into the camera with a straight face. Your video follows the same beats with your pet.
Make My Pet ClapOriginal
AI version
What You Get with Cat Clapping AI
How the generator works today: what you upload, what comes back, and what it costs.
Add yourself as the owner
Upload a second photo of yourself and the clip cuts between you and your pet like the original: you check that nobody’s watching, slip the treat, go “shh”, then reach out to shake on the deal. Same price either way.
Vertical MP4, ready to post
You get a 9:16 MP4 in 720p with quiet room sound and loud, slow claps. Watch it on the page, download it, or post it with the one-tap TikTok button.
6, 10 or 15 seconds
One credit per second: 6, 10 or 15 credits, with or without your photo. The 10-second version is about as long as the original clip.
Free with daily check-ins
Check in 5 days in a row and you collect 6 credits, enough for one free 6-second video. Miss a day and the cycle starts over.
Failed renders cost nothing
If a render fails, we retry it once for free. If it fails again, your credits go back to your account automatically.
Make It With Your Own Cat
Orange tabby, grey, white, calico or black like the original: the AI keeps your cat’s own coat, markings and eye color and only adds the human grin and the hands. A sharp photo that shows its face, ideally its whole body, works best.
Dogs, Rabbits and Other Pets Can Clap Too
The meme started with a cat, but any pet can take the treat, stand up and give the slow clap. Use one animal per photo, sharp and well lit, and the hands come out in your pet’s own fur color.
Play the Owner, Then Use It as a Reaction
Add a photo of yourself and you get the owner’s side of the original: you look around, sneak the treat, smile and go “shh”, then stare into the lens and offer a handshake. Or post the pet-only clip after a setup caption and let the sarcastic applause land.
Pay per Video, No Subscription
A video costs one credit per second: 6, 10 or 15 credits. Packs are one-time payments in US dollars, and pack credits never expire.
Single
$9.90
Two 10-second videos to try it out.
- 20 credits
- 2 ten-second videos
- or 3 six-second videos
- $4.95 per full video
- Room sound and loud claps, no music
- Vertical 9:16 MP4 in 720p
- Credits never expire
Trio
$19.90
Six videos for every pet in the house.
- 60 credits
- 6 ten-second videos
- or 10 six-second videos
- $3.32 per full video
- Room sound and loud claps, no music
- Vertical 9:16 MP4 in 720p
- Credits never expire
Crew
$29.90
Ten videos for you and your friends’ pets.
- 100 credits
- 10 ten-second videos
- or 16 six-second videos
- $2.99 per full video
- Room sound and loud claps, no music
- Vertical 9:16 MP4 in 720p
- Credits never expire
FAQ
Cat Clapping AI FAQ
Can’t find your answer? Email [email protected]. If a video failed, include the reference shown on the page.
What is Cat Clapping AI?
Cat Clapping AI is an independent tool that makes your own pet’s version of the cat clapping meme, the viral clip of a black cat that grins with human teeth and slowly claps with human hands. You upload a photo of your pet, and optionally one of yourself, and get a vertical video of your pet taking a treat, standing up and giving that deadpan applause.
Is it free?
You can make one for free: check in 5 days in a row to collect 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 = 6 credits, enough for a 6-second video (missing a day restarts the cycle). There are no free credits on sign-up. After that, the smallest pack, Single, is $9.90 for 20 credits, which makes two 10-second videos, as a one-time payment with no subscription.
What happens if my video fails?
You don’t lose your credits. A failed render is retried once automatically for free, and if it fails again the credits go back to your account on their own. Photos the video service rejects, such as celebrity faces or screenshots with another app’s watermark, fail without a retry and are refunded too.
Who can see my photos and videos?
Only you. Your photos are kept on the site’s own storage and sent to the AI video provider only to make the video you asked for, and finished videos are visible only in your account. We don’t post them, share them, use them as examples or sell them, and you can ask us to delete them at [email protected].
Who made the original cat clapping video?
Aleksandr Kim, who posts on Instagram as @merkurianin, shared the original on September 25, 2026, with just the caption “#cat”. By October 19, 2026 the post showed about 2.6 million likes. Cat Clapping AI isn’t affiliated with him; it makes your own pet’s version.
Is the clapping cat real?
The cat is real; the grin and the hands are not. It’s Aleksandr Kim’s own black cat filmed at home, and the human teeth and human hands were added with AI. Your version works the same way: your pet stays itself, and only the grin and the hands are added.
Does it work with a dog, or a cat that isn’t black?
Yes. Any pet works: a cat of any color, a dog, a rabbit or another animal, one per photo. The video keeps your pet’s own fur color, pattern, markings and eye color, and the human hands come out in matching fur.
What does the clapping cat meme mean?
It’s sarcastic, deadpan applause. People use the slow clap as a reaction to bad behavior or to someone being too loud, often with captions like “be quiet” or “stop clapping”. A version starring your own pet works the same way: post it after your setup and let the claps do the talking.
Your Pet’s Turn to Clap
Upload a photo, pick 6, 10 or 15 seconds, and get a vertical video of your pet grinning and clapping, usually in about 3–4 minutes.