Long videos in. Scroll-stopping shorts out.
Paste a YouTube link or drop a podcast file. ReelForge transcribes it, finds the strongest moments with Claude, and renders vertical, captioned clips ready for TikTok, Reels and Shorts — without opening a video editor.
- 30 free minutes
- No credit card
- Cancel anytime
viral starts here”
viral starts here”
viral starts here”
- YouTube
- Spotify
- Apple Podcasts
- Twitch VODs
- Vimeo
- Direct upload
- Zoom recording
From a 2-hour podcast to ten posts in one pass.
Every job runs on our queue with live progress over SSE — close the tab, come back later, your clips are waiting.
Drop a link or upload
Paste any YouTube, podcast, or VOD URL — or upload an MP4/MP3 up to 2 GB. We probe duration with ffprobe and queue the job.
Transcribe with Whisper
Audio is extracted with ffmpeg and sent to Groq Whisper for a word-level transcript with accurate timestamps.
Claude finds the moments
Claude reads the transcript in chunks and ranks the strongest standalone moments — punchlines, hot takes, story beats — with start/end times.
Render captioned shorts
A native Rust pipeline crops to 9:16, burns animated captions in your style, and ships an MP4 ready for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts.
Every step you'd hire an editor for, automated.
Word-level captions
Burned-in animated subtitles that pop on every word. Pick a style preset; we render it in-binary, no After Effects.
9:16 smart crop
Speakers stay centered. Faces are tracked when present so the clip never cuts off the person talking.
Live progress over SSE
Watch the queue, transcript pass and render in real time. Long jobs survive page reloads — they're queued, not in your browser.
Pick or auto-select moments
Approve Claude's picks, drop the weak ones, or write your own prompt and re-rank. Final cut is yours.
Bulk download
Grab one clip or zip the whole batch. Outputs are MP4 H.264 + AAC, ready to drag straight into the native uploader.
Built on solid pipes
ffmpeg + yt-dlp + Whisper + Claude, glued together by a native Rust binary. Predictable, fast, no flaky third-party render farms.
Anyone with too much footage and too little time.
10 shorts from one episode
Stop hiring an editor to listen to your own podcast. Drop in the YouTube link, get a folder of vertical highlights ready to schedule across the week.
Turn lectures into a teaser feed
Long-form lessons become bite-sized hooks. Captions burned in for silent autoplay. Watch CTRs climb without rewriting a thing.
Fundraise highlight reel from a Zoom
Drop a Zoom recording, get the 3 best 30-second segments. Ship them on LinkedIn the same afternoon you closed the call.
Catch the stream highlights you'd miss
Twitch VODs in, vertical reactions out. The funny bit at hour 4 you forgot about? It's already clipped.
Start free. Pay when you ship more.
Every plan includes word-level captions, 9:16 smart crop, and live SSE progress. Limits reset every billing period.
- 30 minutes transcribed / month
- 5 rendered clips / month
- Up to 30 min source videos
- Up to 200 MB uploads
- Word-level animated captions
- 9:16 smart crop + speaker tracking
- 300 minutes transcribed / month
- 50 rendered clips / month
- Up to 90 min source videos
- Up to 1024 MB uploads
- Word-level animated captions
- 9:16 smart crop + speaker tracking
- 1500 minutes transcribed / month
- Unlimited rendered clips / month
- Up to 240 min source videos
- Up to 2048 MB uploads
- Word-level animated captions
- 9:16 smart crop + speaker tracking
- Priority queue & longer source videos
Common questions.
Do you actually need my whole video?
Yes. We extract audio with ffmpeg, transcribe with Whisper, then re-encode the chosen segments. The original is deleted from our work directory after 7 days.
Which platforms can I post the output to?
Any. Outputs are standard 9:16 H.264 MP4s — the same format TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and LinkedIn natively accept.
Can I edit Claude's picks before rendering?
Yes. Once Claude returns its candidates you can preview each segment, drop the ones you don't want, or extend the cut points before the render step runs.
What if a job fails halfway?
The queue retries automatically. You can also manually retry from the job page; we resume from the latest completed phase rather than re-running the whole pipeline.
Is my source video private?
Yes — your uploads are scoped to your account, served only over signed routes, and pruned on a 7-day rolling window.
Stop watching your own footage twice.
The first 30 minutes are on us. No credit card. Cancel anytime.