What do I need to get started?

A Google account to sign in and some credits. There is no footage to film, nothing to record and no editing software involved: a topic or a script is the only input.

Do I have to write the narration?

Only if you want to. Give a topic and an AI writer drafts narration sized to the length you picked. Paste a script instead and it is read word for word, with the AI planning only the pictures and the title.

How long does a short take?

Shorts with still pictures usually finish within a few minutes. Motion takes longer, since every picture is animated separately. You can leave the page while it renders; the short appears in My shorts when it is done.

What do I get at the end?

A 1080×1920 MP4 with the narration, pictures and captions combined, and a page that lists each beat next to its picture. Shorts are private unless you choose to publish them.

Who owns the shorts I make?

You do. How that works is explained in the terms of service. Copyright is handled differently from one country to another, so please ask a lawyer where you live if you need a firm answer.

The samples are, to watch as often as you like. Making a short uses credits, starting at 15 for a short built from still pictures; new accounts begin with none.

Narrated shorts, made from words

Write a line.
Get a narrated short.

Give it a topic and the narration is drafted for you, or paste a script and it is read word for word. Every beat gets a picture in the look you choose, a narrator records it, and captions follow each spoken word.

Create a short Watch the samples

10 looks · 10 voices
About 30, 45 or 60 seconds
1080×1920 MP4
From 15 credits

How it works

From a sentence to a short in three moves

Step 1
Start with words
Type a topic in a line, or paste a script you have already written. A topic is drafted into narration sized to the length you pick; a script is read word for word.
Step 2
Choose how it looks and sounds
Pick one of ten looks, from film noir to chalkboard, and one of ten narrator voices. The look sets the pictures, the caption colour and the way the narrator delivers the lines.
Step 3
Get a finished vertical video
Each beat gets its own picture, the voiceover is recorded, captions are timed to every spoken word, and it all lands as a 1080×1920 MP4 in your library.

Inside every short

Voice, pictures and captions, made together

A narrator with a mood

Ten voices, each asked to deliver in the mood of the look: a dry detective for noir, a patient teacher for chalkboard, a gallery guide for oil paintings.

One picture per beat

The narration is split into five to eight beats and every beat gets a picture planned from its own lines. Pick stills with slow camera moves, or have each still animated.

Captions that follow the voice

Caption timings are measured from the recorded voiceover itself, word by word, and the highlight in each line is driven by those measurements.

Looks

Ten ways for a short to look and sound

Compare the looks

Each look sets the picture style, the narrator's mood and the caption highlight colour, shown as the dot beside its name.

Samples

One sample short for every look

Each sample started as a single topic and went through the same pipeline you would use, with still pictures. Tap one to play it with sound.

Fingerprints on trial

Film Noir · Cedar · Standard

Five real animal superpowers

Comic Panel · Echo · Standard

That dial-up screech, explained

Vaporwave · Shimmer · Quick

Up Mount Fuji in the dark

Anime Cel · Coral · Extended

The theft that made the Mona Lisa

Old Master · Ballad · Extended

How GPS finds you

Low Poly · Alloy · Standard

Why the sky is blue

Chalkboard · Sage · Quick

A fish market before sunrise

Documentary · Ash · Quick

Behind The Great Wave

Woodblock · Marin · Standard

Colour from metal

Stained Glass · Verse · Extended

Pricing

Pay per short, in credits

A short made of stills costs 15 credits whatever its length. Animated shorts cost 40 / 55 / 70 credits for Quick, Standard and Extended. Credits come from a monthly plan or a one-time pack; there is no free allowance, so you only pay for shorts you actually make.

Compare plans

Storyteller: $9 / month; 250 credits, up to 16 still shorts
Broadcaster: $29 / month; 1,000 credits, up to 66 still shorts

Answers

Questions people ask

What do I need to get started?: A Google account to sign in and some credits. There is no footage to film, nothing to record and no editing software involved: a topic or a script is the only input.
Do I have to write the narration?: Only if you want to. Give a topic and an AI writer drafts narration sized to the length you picked. Paste a script instead and it is read word for word, with the AI planning only the pictures and the title.
How long does a short take?: Shorts with still pictures usually finish within a few minutes. Motion takes longer, since every picture is animated separately. You can leave the page while it renders; the short appears in My shorts when it is done.
What do I get at the end?: A 1080×1920 MP4 with the narration, pictures and captions combined, and a page that lists each beat next to its picture. Shorts are private unless you choose to publish them.
Who owns the shorts I make?: You do. How that works is explained in the terms of service. Copyright is handled differently from one country to another, so please ask a lawyer where you live if you need a firm answer.
Is anything free?: The samples are, to watch as often as you like. Making a short uses credits, starting at 15 for a short built from still pictures; new accounts begin with none.

Your next short is one sentence away

Pick a look from the samples above and give it a topic. A short made of still pictures costs 15 credits at any length.

Create a short

Write a line.Get a narrated short.