Birdwalk
Birdwalk is an Australian browser-based AI filmmaking platform that lets creators and content teams generate video and image shots across several leading models, then organise them into projects, scenes, shots and versions with a built-in Claude assistant.
What is Birdwalk?
Birdwalk is a browser-based AI filmmaking platform built by Birdwalk Pty Ltd, a Sydney company that dates itself to 2026 and was founded by two veterans of Australian post-production, Andreas Wanda and Dave Kelly. The product runs at the Birdwalk Studio web app, and it sets out to do three things at once: create, manage and collaborate.
On the creation side, Birdwalk supplies no model of its own. It orchestrates other people's, through what the company calls a pipeline designed by VFX professionals: Seedance 2.5, Seedance 2.0 4K, Veo 3.1 4K, Kling 3 Pro and Kling O3 4K for video, and Seedream 5.0, Nano Banana Pro and GPT Image 2 for stills. Images can be generated and then edited in place with colour, crop and rotate tools, and live-action footage can be ingested and used as shot or augmented.
The management side is where the tool makes its real argument. Work is organised the way a production actually runs: projects hold sequences, sequences hold scenes, scenes hold shots, and every shot keeps its versions. Versioning is automatic, sequences can be assembled, and the stated goal is to let a filmmaker build a narrative without thinking about file management.
Running through all of it is the Birdwalk Assistant, powered by Claude and present in every project. It writes and refines generation prompts in the project's voice, recommends the right model and settings for a shot, reads a project's Foundation documents to block out a scene from a treatment or script, scaffolds shots from a storyboard's panels, and drafts image assets such as characters, environments, props and style frames. It can also rate generations, mark a preferred take and remember creative facts about a project. Crucially, everything it proposes arrives as a draft card you approve, and nothing reaches a model provider or spends money until you open the shot and click Generate.
Collaboration adds shared workspaces, budget controls, review flows and, on the top tier, feedback notes, though each collaborator needs their own paid subscription. Billing is deliberately in Australian dollars rather than tokens or credits, with a monthly wallet included in every plan. There is no public API, no mobile app and no free tier.
What it does
- Generate AI video shots up to 4K through Seedance, Veo and Kling models
- Generate and edit images with Seedream 5.0, Nano Banana Pro and GPT Image 2, using built-in colour, crop and rotate tools
- Structure a production into projects, sequences, scenes, shots and versions, with automatic versioning
- Plan shots with the built-in Claude assistant, which writes and refines prompts and recommends model, aspect, duration and audio settings
- Block out a whole scene from a treatment, a script or a storyboard's panels
- Draft image assets such as characters, environments, props and style frames
- Assemble sequences and collaborate with invited team members inside shared projects
When to use Birdwalk / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Birdwalk is the right fit.
When to use Birdwalk
- Solo AI filmmakers who want several video and image models behind a single subscription
- Boutique studios and small production teams needing shared projects, budget controls and review flows
- Content teams turning out short-form and advertising work at a regular cadence
- Post-production and VFX professionals who think in sequences, scenes, shots and takes rather than files
- Art directors and creative strategists building style frames, storyboards and character or environment assets
When not to use Birdwalk
- Developers who need an API: Birdwalk publishes no public API and no developer documentation
- Anyone wanting to work from a phone or tablet, since the platform is browser-only with no iOS or Android app
- People who want to try before paying, as there is no free plan and no advertised free trial
- Organisations with EU data-protection requirements: the site never mentions the GDPR, offers no DPA and names no EU hosting region
- Budget-conscious larger teams, because every collaborator needs their own paid subscription on top of the project's plan
How to use Birdwalk
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Open the Birdwalk website and follow the Start Creating link through to Birdwalk Studio
- Create an account with an email address, display name and password, or sign in through a third-party identity provider
- Choose a paid tier (Creator, Standard, Pro or Studio), since generative features require an active subscription
- Create a project and lay out its sequences, scenes and shots
- Optionally upload Foundation documents such as a treatment, a script or a storyboard for the assistant to read
- Ask the assistant to write or refine a prompt, recommend a model and its settings, or block out a scene
- Review the draft cards the assistant proposes (shots, shot versions, image assets) and approve the ones you want
- Open the shot or asset and click Generate: this is the only action that calls a model provider and draws on your wallet
- Iterate through versions, rate the generations and mark a preferred take
- Assemble your sequences, invite collaborators (each needs their own paid subscription) and route the work through review
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Several leading video and image models in a single interface, with no separate subscription for each provider
- Production structure that matches how crews actually work (projects, sequences, scenes, shots, versions) rather than a flat file library
- Pricing in real Australian dollars, explicitly positioned against opaque token and credit systems
- Spending guard built in: the assistant can draft anything but never triggers a generation, which always needs an explicit click
- Automatic versioning, generation ratings and the ability to mark a preferred take
- Collaboration is native, with shared workspaces, budget controls, review flows and feedback notes
- Clear privacy stance: no sale of personal data, and no training of AI models on customer content or prompts
Cons
- No free plan and no advertised free trial: a paid subscription is required before you can generate anything
- Every collaborator needs their own paid subscription on top of the project's tier, which makes team pricing add up fast
- Monthly wallet credits reset at each billing period and do not roll over
- No public API and no developer documentation, so nothing can be automated from outside the web app
- Browser-only, with no iOS or Android application
- No GDPR mention, no DPA and no published security certification such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001, and the hosting country and region are undisclosed
- Very thin public presence: two indexed pages, and a "Staging environment - not production" banner still showing at the time of review
Pricing & Plans
There is no free plan and no advertised free trial: the Terms of Service state that access to generative features requires an active paid subscription. The lowest price point is the Creator tier at A$15.00 (AUD) per month, billed monthly in advance, cancellable at any time with effect at the end of the current billing period. Each plan includes a monthly wallet in Australian dollars that is consumed by generations and does not roll over; non-expiring top-up credits can be purchased separately.
- Seedance 2.5 and 2.0 4K generation
- video up to 4K
- 10-second maximum shot length
- multi-project and multi-scene workflow
- A$12 of monthly wallet credits
- Seedance 2.5 and 2.0 4K generation
- video up to 4K
- full video length
- multi-project and multi-scene workflow
- A$24.50 of monthly wallet credits
- up to 4K at full video length
- 5% discount on all AI generations
- up to 2 collaborators (each needing their own paid plan)
- A$39 of monthly wallet credits
- up to 4K at full video length
- 10% discount on all AI generations
- unlimited collaborators (each needing their own paid plan)
- feedback notes
- A$100 of monthly wallet credits
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Birdwalk handles your data.
GDPR overview
There is no mention of the GDPR anywhere on the Birdwalk site, neither a compliance claim nor a denial. The privacy policy, dated 15 May 2026, is written expressly against Australian law: the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles, with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner named as the complaints authority and breaches handled under the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme. Users can request access to, correction of or deletion of their personal information by email, answered "within a reasonable period". No Article 27 EU representative is designated, no data protection officer is named, and no Data Processing Agreement is published or offered. Transfers outside Australia are acknowledged and rest on the user's consent, with no named transfer mechanism such as standard contractual clauses. European users should treat GDPR coverage as undocumented.
Who owns the data?
Under the Terms of Service you keep ownership of your prompts, uploads and generated outputs, collectively "Your Content", subject to any rights held by the underlying model providers or by rights holders in the source material you supply. In exchange you grant Birdwalk Pty Ltd a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, process, transmit and display that content, but only so far as needed to run and improve the service for you and the people you collaborate with. Birdwalk states it does not sell personal information and does not train AI models on customer content or prompts. Content created inside a shared project remains reachable by other collaborators after you leave, unless the project owner removes it.
Reuse rights
You may reuse your generated outputs without asking Birdwalk for permission: ownership stays with you, and the licence you grant the company runs only to operating the service. Two limits apply. First, the terms preserve whatever rights the underlying model providers or third-party rights holders hold in the material, so the chain of rights is not entirely yours to assign. Second, the acceptable-use rules forbid several uses outright: unlawful content, material exploiting minors, non-consensual sexual imagery, impersonating a real person to defraud or deceive, incitement to hatred or discrimination, infringement of others' intellectual property, and using the service to develop, train or benchmark competing generative-media products. Birdwalk also warns that outputs may be inaccurate, offensive or biased, and places the duty to review them before use on you.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Birdwalk Pty Ltd is an Australian company and its privacy policy, dated 15 May 2026, is governed by the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). Application servers run on DigitalOcean infrastructure and uploaded or generated content is kept in DigitalOcean Spaces object storage, but the site names no hosting country and no region, so the physical location of the data is undocumented. Alongside DigitalOcean the policy names Stripe for payments and Resend for transactional email, and refers collectively, without naming them individually, to the third-party AI model providers that receive prompts and input assets whenever a generation is requested; the outputs come back and are stored in the user's account. Birdwalk states plainly that some of these providers process data outside Australia, and bases those transfers on the user's consent rather than on a named legal mechanism. Security measures claimed are TLS in transit, encryption at rest, hashed passwords, role-based internal access controls and audited backups, with serious breaches notifiable to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. No Data Processing Agreement, no EU hosting region and no security certification such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001 is published.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Birdwalk.
- Generated outputs may be inaccurate, offensive or biased, and the terms place the duty to review them squarely on you
- You must hold the rights to everything you upload, reference images, audio and likenesses included; misusing a real person's likeness breaches the terms and carries legal risk
- Ownership of your outputs is qualified by the rights of the underlying model providers, so the chain of rights is not entirely in your hands
- Content you create inside a shared project stays available to other collaborators after you leave, unless the project owner deletes it
- Cancelling opens a grace window of unstated length; if you do not resubscribe before it closes, your content becomes inaccessible
- Every generation draws on the wallet and monthly credits expire, which rewards impulsive iteration and can quietly inflate a project's cost
- Leaning on the assistant to block out scenes and pick models can erode the craft judgement, framing, coverage and pacing, that the tool is meant to support rather than replace
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very low on the technical side. Birdwalk runs entirely in the browser, so there is nothing to install, no server to configure and no API key to manage: you sign up with an email address and password or a third-party identity provider, then pick a paid tier. The real learning curve is editorial rather than technical, namely getting used to the project, sequence, scene, shot and version hierarchy and knowing which model and settings suit a given shot. The built-in Claude assistant softens that curve by recommending model, aspect, duration and audio settings and by drafting the prompts.
Deployment
Integrations
Behind Birdwalk
Social
Resources
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Frequently asked questions
What is Birdwalk?
Which AI models does Birdwalk use?
Is there a free plan or a free trial?
How does billing work?
Does Birdwalk train AI models on my content?
Who owns the images and videos I generate?
Is there an API or a mobile app?
Can I work with a team?
Where is my data hosted, and does Birdwalk cover the GDPR?
What is the minimum age to use Birdwalk?
Should you pick Birdwalk?
Birdwalk answers a real problem for anyone doing AI video seriously: the models are excellent and multiplying, but working across them usually means a scatter of separate subscriptions, browser tabs and download folders. Bringing Seedance, Veo, Kling, Seedream, Nano Banana Pro and GPT Image 2 under one login, inside a structure of projects, sequences, scenes, shots and versions, is a genuinely useful piece of plumbing, and the fact that it was designed by people who spent decades at Animal Logic, Fuel VFX, Fin Design and Alt VFX shows in the vocabulary. The Claude assistant is well judged too: it drafts prompts and scaffolds scenes, but it cannot spend your money, since every generation still requires you to open the shot and click Generate.
The reservations are mostly about maturity and scope. There is no free plan and no advertised trial, so evaluating the tool costs at least A$15. Each collaborator needs their own paid subscription, which makes team pricing climb quickly, and monthly wallet credits do not roll over. There is no API and no mobile app. On the compliance side the picture is thin: the privacy policy is competent but purely Australian, with no mention of the GDPR, no DPA, no published security certification and no stated hosting country or region beyond the name DigitalOcean. European teams with procurement requirements will find little to hand their legal department.
It is also very new. The company dates itself to 2026, the domain was registered in April 2026, and the marketing site was still carrying a staging banner when this record was compiled. Birdwalk suits solo creators, content teams and boutique studios who want production structure around AI generation and can live with an early-stage vendor.
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