An AI reel generator that never writes a line or films a frame
Every word in a reel here is a word somebody actually spoke, at the time they spoke it, in footage they recorded — there is no script, no stock library, no synthetic voice and no avatar anywhere in this. What it does is read a recording you already have, rank the passages worth turning into a reel, and cut and caption the one you approve at 9:16, karaoke-style.
This does not generate a reel. It finds one in footage you already have
No script, no stock footage, no synthetic voice, no avatar. A reel is a passage that already exists in the video or audio you gave it — the transcript is read and ranked, never written. There is nothing here that turns a prompt or a document into a video.
That is a wall for one kind of search, and a promise for another. If the job is turning an idea with nothing filmed into a finished video, this cannot do it and no amount of scrolling on this page will change that. If the job is finding the thirty seconds of your own recording worth reposting, with your own voice and your own words, that is the entire product.
- Transcription runs in over thirty languages, with captions timed word by word in the language spoken
- There is no translation and no dubbing — the words on screen are the words in the audio, nothing more
- The transcript comes out as a file when you want it — SRT, WebVTT or plain text, on every plan including the trial, and it costs no credits
A YouTube address, or the file — and one address that is neither
A watch page, a Short, a live URL or an embed on youtube.com or youtu.be is fetched once on our side. Everything else that is a video file — mp4, mov, mkv or webm, up to 8 GB — comes in as an upload.
A TikTok or Instagram address is not a way in
Neither platform is something this reads directly. If the recording you want a reel out of already lives on one of them, the route is the same as for any other footage that never touched YouTube: download your own copy, then hand over that file.
The link path asks one question first
You confirm the video is yours to use before the import starts, and what is kept is the sentence you were shown, the version of the terms, the time and the address — refused rather than assumed.
Uploads are not capped; links are, by the day
Three imports a day on the trial, twenty, fifty, a hundred further up — because pasting a link costs you nothing and costs us a fetch. A file you already hold rate-limits itself on your own connection.
How a recording turns into a reel worth posting
The same reading the rest of the product does, aimed at one output shape.
The whole recording, transcribed first
Word by word, with timings, before anything is judged. A reel needs a passage that was actually said, not a guess at where one might be.
The opening is found and set aside
A model reads up to the first ten minutes and reports where the real content starts, so the introduction never becomes the reel by default.
Windows of about thirty minutes
Read in parallel with three minutes of overlap between them, so a passage sitting on a seam is still whole inside one window.
A stranger reads it before you do
The candidate’s own lines, with no title and no surrounding context, go to a cold read. If it cannot be followed, it is cut again; one that still fails keeps its place, capped, with a line saying what is missing.
9:16 with karaoke captions is the shape that matters here
It is one of five output shapes the product renders, and the one this page is written for.
Edge to edge, word by word
Full 9:16 fills the frame; karaoke captions highlight one word at a time, timed off the transcript rather than a guessed cadence.
The frame follows the voice
Speaker tracking (TalkNet-ASD) runs on the 9:16 render by default, so the crop stays on whoever is actually talking rather than a fixed centre.
Editable, except where it is not
Font, size, colour, outline, shadow and capitalisation can all be changed and saved as a named style you reuse. Position is fixed: no free placement, no logo layer.
Boxed 1:1 with text-behind captions exists too, but that pairing is built for the square shape only — on 9:16 it is genuinely unbuilt, which is why karaoke is what this page is written against.
An MP4 in your library, and nothing posted for you
The finished reel leaves as an MP4 by default, MP4 is the standard output. If you want to finish it elsewhere, it can also leave as an XML timeline or a CMX3600 EDL for Premiere or Resolve — the cut and the assembly, not the karaoke captions or the per-frame reframe, which no timeline format can hold.
A publishing calendar holds a date, not a connection. Plan a reel onto a day and mark it published once it is, with a link if you have one — but no account credentials for Instagram, TikTok or anywhere else are ever asked for, and nothing is posted on your behalf. The upload stays yours to do.
Minutes read and exports past a generous batch share one meter
One credit buys one minute of source analysed. Each plan also includes a batch of clip exports — about twenty per hour of allowance — before an export starts spending credits too, at three each. Rendering only ever touches the seconds you approved, so the cost of a reel is mostly the cost of reading the recording it came from.
- Free trial: 30 credits once, no card, does not renew — 10 rendered clips included, exports marked, clips kept 7 days
- Starter, $19 a month: 240 credits (4 hours of video), 80 rendered clips included then 3 credits each
- Creator, $49 a month: 660 credits (11 hours), 220 rendered clips included, clips kept a year
- Studio, $99 a month: 1,620 credits (27 hours), 540 rendered clips included
- No paid plan watermarks a reel — only the free trial marks its exports
Questions people ask before trying an AI reel generator
Does this generate a reel from a script or a text prompt?
No. There is no script-to-video, no stock footage, no synthetic voice and no avatar anywhere in it. A reel is a passage that already exists in a recording you gave it — the transcript is read and ranked, never written.
Can I turn a video that is already on Instagram or TikTok into a reel?
Not by pasting its address — neither platform is something this reads directly. Download your own copy of the video and upload the file, mp4, mov, mkv or webm, up to 8 GB. A YouTube address is the one link this does accept, fetched once on our side.
What caption style do reels get?
Karaoke by default: word-by-word highlighting at full 9:16, timed off the transcript. Font, size, colour, outline, shadow and capitalisation are editable and can be saved as a named style; position is fixed.
How does it decide which part of my video becomes the reel?
It transcribes the whole recording, finds and excludes the intro, then reads the rest in roughly thirty-minute windows in parallel with three minutes of overlap. Each candidate is scored on hook, flow, value and travel, and checked by a cold read that sees only its own lines before it is offered to you.
Does it post the reel to Instagram or TikTok for me?
No. A publishing calendar lets you plan a date and mark a reel published, but it holds no account credentials for any platform and posts nothing on your behalf. The MP4 sits in your library and you upload it yourself.
Will it translate my reel into another language?
No. Transcription works in over thirty languages and captions are timed word by word in whichever language was spoken, but there is no translation and no dubbing — the words on screen are the words in the audio.
Is there a free way to try it?
Thirty minutes of video, once, with no card. Ten clips are included and every shape and caption style is available while you use it. Trial exports carry a small mark; no paid plan does.
The same engine, from a different angle
This page is written for the vertical, captioned shape. These cover the rest of it.
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The category term, answered with the difference: candidates and reasons first, cuts only after you approve.
TikTok clip maker
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Change video aspect ratio
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