AI moment detection + word-level captions
One episode in.
Five viral-ready clips out.
Paste a YouTube or podcast link. ShortsForge finds the best moments, cuts them vertical, captions them, and writes the hook — in minutes, for $19/month.
Real output. Nothing touched by hand.
How it works
Three steps, and none of them are editing
Paste a link
A YouTube video, a podcast episode page, an RSS feed, or a direct .mp3. Or upload the file yourself, up to 2 GB.
We find the moments
The episode is transcribed word by word, then read for the five moments that stand on their own — the numbers, the strong opinions, the stories with a turn.
Download and post
Five vertical clips, captioned and titled, in 1080p. Copy the caption and hashtags with one click.
Features
Everything the clip needs. Nothing it doesn't.
No timeline, no keyframes, no brand kit to configure. Paste a link, pick a caption style, and get five finished clips.
AI moment detection
Reads the whole transcript and picks five non-overlapping segments that work without setup — a strong opening line, a complete thought, and a reason to keep watching.
Word-level captions
Captions land on the exact frame each word is spoken. Three styles: bold, clean, or karaoke with the current word lit in yellow.
Hook titles that fit
Every clip gets an on-screen title under 60 characters, written from what was actually said — plus a post caption and five hashtags.
Podcasts, not just video
Audio-only episodes get a generated vertical scene: your artwork, the episode title, and an animated waveform in your accent colour.
1080p vertical export
True 9:16 at 1080x1920, H.264 with faststart, ready to upload to TikTok, Reels and Shorts without re-encoding.
Two ways to reframe
Center crop fills the frame for a talking head. Blurred bars keep the whole 16:9 shot for screen shares and multi-person interviews.
Pricing
Cheaper than one hour of an editor
Start free with one video. Upgrade when it's paying for itself.
Free
Try it on one episode.
- 1 video, one time
- 5 clips, 720p
- ShortsForge watermark
- Sources up to 30 minutes
- Word-level captions
Creator
For creators shipping every week.
Billed monthly, in USD
- 10 videos per month
- 50 clips, clean 1080p
- No watermark
- Sources up to 90 minutes
- All three caption styles
- Download all as .zip
Pro
For podcasts and agencies at volume.
Billed monthly, in USD
- 40 videos per month
- 200 clips, clean 1080p
- No watermark
- Sources up to 3 hours
- Priority queue
- Download all as .zip
All plans include word-level captions, hook titles and podcast support. Cancel any time. Terms.
FAQ
Questions worth asking
- One source video or episode, processed into five vertical clips of 20 to 60 seconds each. Every clip comes with burned-in captions, an on-screen hook title, a suggested post caption, five hashtags, a viral score, and a thumbnail. Sources under three minutes produce three clips instead of five, because there isn't enough material for more.
- Most 30 to 60 minute episodes finish in three to eight minutes. The largest share of that is transcription, which scales with the length of the source rather than with how long the clips are. Pro accounts are fetched from the queue ahead of everyone else.
- Yes — that's a first-class path, not an afterthought. Paste the episode page, the RSS feed, or the direct .mp3 and we build a vertical scene from your episode artwork, the title, and an animated waveform, with the captions over the top.
- Your credit is refunded automatically and the project shows a plain-English reason. The usual cause is a video the platform won't serve to anyone but a signed-in browser — private, members-only, or age-restricted. Uploading the file directly always works.
- You own your source material and everything we produce from it. We don't claim any rights to your clips, we don't train on your content, and we don't publish anything on your behalf. Clips on paid plans carry no watermark.
- Cancel any time from the billing page — you keep access until the end of the period you've paid for. Your projects and downloads stay available after that; you just stop getting new credits. There's no contract and no cancellation fee.
Your best moment is eleven minutes in.
Nobody is going to scroll that far. Put it first — in five clips, in the next few minutes.
No card required. Cancel any time.