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Shortshort

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Cutting a two-hour conference recording into a dozen shareable clips by hand burns an afternoon — and the clips still come out wrong-framed and uncaptioned. Shortshort automates that cut.

€12/month to €79/month · Free tier: 30 welcome credits (30 minutes of video), up to 3 shorts per video, watermark on exports, exports published in public community · Checked Oct 31, 2026

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Summary

Drop a long video, set a target clip count and duration, and the tool identifies quotable passages, reframes to 9:16 around the speaker, and burns word-timed captions — all without touching a timeline. The workflow is five steps: upload, generate, review framing, pick a caption style, download. Where it breaks: free-tier outputs land in a public community gallery unless you are on a paid plan, which matters if your content is embargoed or client-facing. There is no API, no integration layer, and no batch-upload path for teams processing dozens of recordings a week — every video goes in one at a time.

Bottom line: Shortshort earns its place in a solo creator's or small events team's post-production stack; it hits its ceiling the moment you need private outputs on the free tier or programmatic access to feed a content pipeline.

Pricing Plans

SubscriptionLast verified 6 days ago
Price
€12/month to €79/month
Free Tier
30 welcome credits (30 minutes of video), up to 3 shorts per video, watermark on exports, exports published in public community

Free

Free

Try it first, free. Every account starts with 30 welcome credits (30 minutes of video), given once, no card needed.

  • 30 welcome credits (30 minutes of video)
  • Up to 3 shorts per video
  • Small watermark on exports
  • Exports published in public community
  • Scheduled publishing to YouTube

Starter

$12per month
$115/yr Save 20%

For one channel that publishes a few shorts a week. u20ac0.025 per minute of video (about $0.028) billed monthly, u20ac0.02 billed yearly, before VAT.

  • 480 credits per month (8 hours of video)
  • Up to 5 shorts per video
  • No watermark
  • Option to keep exports out of public community
  • Unused monthly credits roll over
  • Scheduled publishing to YouTube (TikTok in early access)

Creator

$29per month
$278/yr Save 20%

For creators who turn every talk, episode or lesson into a series. u20ac0.018 per minute of video (about $0.02) billed monthly, u20ac0.014 billed yearly, before VAT.

  • 1,600 credits per month (26 hours 40 minutes of video)
  • Up to 10 shorts per video
  • Everything in Starter
  • Credit top-ups of 400, 1,200 or 4,000 credits
  • Top-up credits never expire
  • Scheduled publishing to YouTube (TikTok in early access)

Studio

$79per month
$758/yr Save 20%

For agencies and studios that cut for several channels from one account. u20ac0.013 per minute of video (about $0.015) billed monthly, u20ac0.011 billed yearly, before VAT.

  • 6,000 credits per month (100 hours of video)
  • Up to 20 shorts per video
  • Everything in Creator
  • One brand preset with caption colors and font
  • Download JSON edit plan of every saved short
  • Scheduled publishing to YouTube (TikTok in early access)

View full pricing on shortshort.io →

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Pros

  • Moment detection scans the full audio and selects complete, quotable passages automatically, so you are not scrubbing a two-hour timeline to find the three clips worth posting.
  • Speaker-tracking reframe crops the 16:9 source to 9:16 and follows the active speaker throughout the clip, which means you avoid the common failure of a speaker walking out of a static center crop mid-sentence.
  • Word-level caption timing with four style presets ships in the same render pass, so you are not running a second tool or paying a transcription service to add captions after the fact.
  • The manual frame editor lets you override the AI crop on any segment without re-running the full generation, which means a wrong-framed clip does not force you back to the start of the queue.
  • Browser-based with no install, so an events team can hand a recording link to anyone on the team and get clips back without provisioning software or local hardware.

Cons

  • Free-tier outputs are published to the public community gallery automatically — there is no opt-out on the free tier. A team editing client presentations, pre-launch product demos, or embargoed recordings cannot use the free tier at all; they must pay before the first clip is private.
  • There is no API and no batch input. A marketing team or agency processing five to ten recordings a week uploads each file individually through the browser and waits per-video. At that volume, teams move to a tool with programmatic intake — or build a manual handoff to a contracted editor — because the one-at-a-time queue becomes the bottleneck.
  • Background server processing — so you can close the tab and collect clips later — is described as a paid-plan capability. On the free tier, the docs instruct you to keep the studio tab open during generation, which is a real constraint for longer source files.

About

Platforms
Web
API Available
No
Self-Hosted
No
Last Updated
September 21, 2026

Best For

Who it's for

  • Podcasters
  • Course creators
  • Speakers and events
  • YouTube creators
  • Sales and marketing teams

What it does well

  • Podcasts into multiple clips per episode
  • Webinars into short highlight reels
  • Online courses into one-idea shorts
  • Conference talks into post-event clips
  • YouTube long-form into Shorts

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Shortshort free?
Shortshort offers a free option alongside paid upgrades. Pricing: €12/month to €79/month. Check the current allowances and terms before choosing a plan.
What platforms does Shortshort support?
Shortshort is available on: Web.

Cutting a two-hour conference recording into a dozen shareable clips by hand burns an afternoon — and the clips still come out wrong-framed and uncaptioned. Shortshort automates that cut.

How it works

Drop a long video, set a target clip count and duration, and the tool identifies quotable passages, reframes to 9:16 around the speaker, and burns word-timed captions — all without touching a timeline. The workflow is five steps: upload, generate, review framing, pick a caption style, download.

Key strengths

Moment detection scans the full audio and selects complete, quotable passages automatically. Speaker-tracking reframe crops the 16:9 source to 9:16 and follows the active speaker throughout the clip. Word-level caption timing with four style presets ships in the same render pass. The manual frame editor lets users adjust output before download.

Limitations

Free-tier outputs land in a public community gallery unless you are on a paid plan. There is no API, no integration layer, and no batch-upload path. Every video goes in one at a time.

Who it is for / who should skip it

Best for podcasters, course creators, speakers and events, YouTube creators, and sales and marketing teams handling use cases such as podcasts into multiple clips, webinars into highlight reels, online courses into one-idea shorts, conference talks into post-event clips, and YouTube long-form into Shorts. Teams that need private outputs or batch processing should skip the free tier and paid plan entirely.

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