OpenShortsFree tools for YouTube and short-form video
Three small tools that do one job each, free and without an account. They come from the same team as the OpenShorts clip generator.
What each tool does, and what it does not
The transcript generator reads the captions a video already has on YouTube, either the ones the creator uploaded or YouTube's automatic ones. It does not run speech recognition itself, so a video with no captions at all gets an honest "no captions" instead of a guess.
The tag, title and description generator writes from a short brief you type, using Google Gemini. It follows the limits YouTube documents: titles up to 100 characters, descriptions up to 5,000, tags up to 500 characters in total.
The 9:16 converter works on your device. The video is never uploaded, which is why it has no queue and no daily cap. It keeps the whole frame over a blurred copy, crops to fill, or adds black bars. It does not follow faces: that is what the clip generator is for.
Where the paid product starts
If what you want is not one transcript or one converted file but a long video cut into several vertical clips with subtitles and the speaker kept in frame, that is the free AI clip generator: 20 free minutes a month on OpenShorts Cloud, or unlimited if you self-host the MIT licensed code. To have every new upload on your channel clipped without opening anything, see auto clip with Autopilot.