ShortMake
ShortMake turns a written idea into a finished vertical video: the AI writes the script, generates the images, adds a realistic voice-over and styled subtitles, then renders a 9:16 clip ready for TikTok, Reels and Shorts.
What is ShortMake?
ShortMake is a web platform published by SHORTIA LLC that turns a written idea into a finished short-form video without any editing work. You type a concept in a few words; the AI writes a full script with dialogue and twists, generates an illustration for each scene, records a realistic voice-over, burns in subtitles and assembles everything into a 9:16 vertical clip with built-in audio. The output targets TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels and Snapchat, and the site frames the whole thing as a shortcut to monetizable video for people who have ideas but no time.
The pipeline is deliberately short. The homepage sets its own benchmark against manual production: roughly seven minutes end to end — thirty seconds to type the idea, a minute for the script, a minute to pick voice and style, five minutes to render — against about two hours of writing, recording, editing and exporting by hand, a claimed 95% saving. The FAQ puts most videos under seven minutes.
Customisation is real but bounded. Subtitles come in 23 styles. Voices are described as dozens of ultra-realistic AI voices across several languages, and the count of realistic voices rises from four to twenty depending on the plan; cloning your own voice is listed as coming soon rather than available. Scenes can be edited one by one before the final render. A homepage banner flags Google Veo 3, Kling AI and Wan AI as newly available models. A dedicated page pushes one format hard — AI fruit stories — presented as the trend of the moment, with a three-step walkthrough and a claim of publishing in more than 40 languages.
The commercial model runs on credits: a sixty-second video consumes roughly 100 to 120 of them, and plans grant 1,000 to 4,000 per month. Entry is free and needs no credit card. Two caveats sit in the terms rather than in the marketing: the platform still declares itself an active-development beta in which features may contain bugs, and credits stop being refundable the moment they reach your account. The interface is available in English and French.
What it does
- Turn a short written idea into a complete script with dialogue and twists
- Generate an AI illustration for every scene
- Add a realistic AI voice-over chosen for style and emotion
- Burn in subtitles picked from 23 different styles
- Assemble and render a 9:16 vertical video with built-in audio
- Edit each scene individually before committing to the final render
- Produce three or four variations of the same concept in minutes
When to use ShortMake / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if ShortMake is the right fit.
When to use ShortMake
- Solo content creators publishing short-form video daily on TikTok, Reels and YouTube Shorts
- Digital entrepreneurs and freelancers who have ideas but no time to edit
- Social media managers who need several variations of one concept within minutes
- Video editors looking to cut assembly time on routine vertical formats
- Marketers with no editing skills who still need publish-ready branded clips
When not to use ShortMake
- Anyone producing long-form or horizontal video, since the whole product is built around the 9:16 vertical frame
- Creators who need their own cloned voice, which the site lists as coming soon rather than available
- Developers wanting to automate through an API, as no public API or documentation exists
- Organisations with a compliance function: there is no GDPR mention, no data processing agreement, no subprocessor list and no certification
- Buyers who expect a refund, because credits stop being refundable the moment they reach the account
How to use ShortMake
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Create a free account from the homepage; no credit card is requested
- Write your idea or prompt in a few words
- Let the AI expand it into a full script with dialogue and twists
- Let the AI generate the illustration for each scene
- Review and edit individual scenes before rendering, if you want to
- Pick the AI voice and the tone that fit the piece
- Choose one of the 23 subtitle styles
- Launch the render, which the site times at around five minutes
- Download the finished 9:16 clip with its built-in audio and publish it
- Move to a paid plan for more credits, HD output, no watermark and more realistic voices
Pros & Cons
Pros
- One tool replaces a stack: script, images, voice, subtitles and assembly in the same interface
- Large claimed time saving — around seven minutes per video against roughly two hours the traditional way
- No editing skill required, which is the whole point of the product
- A free tier with no credit card, so the output can be judged before paying
- Subscriptions carry no commitment and can be cancelled at any time
- Genuine customisation: 23 subtitle styles and scene-level editing before rendering
- Annual billing is discounted by 30%, and the interface is available in English and French
Cons
- Credits become non-refundable the moment they reach the account
- The terms still describe the platform as a beta with possible bugs, and say so three times
- The publisher is barely identified: SHORTIA LLC with no postal address, no named officer, no about or contact page
- No GDPR mention, no data processing agreement, no subprocessor list and no certification of any kind
- Personal data is kept for an indefinite period by default, deletion happening only on request
- Voice cloning is advertised as coming soon rather than delivered, and there is no mobile app or public API
- Audience claims are inconsistent: 200,000 creators and 10,000 creators appear on the same page, and the 4.9/5 rating on display is 4.8 in the site's own structured data
Pricing & Plans
ShortMake offers a permanent free tier that requires no credit card. The cheapest paid entry point is the Starter plan at USD 19.99 per month on monthly billing; the same plan works out at USD 13.99 per month when paid annually. All plans run on credits, a sixty-second video consuming roughly 100 to 120 of them, and subscriptions may be cancelled at any time.
- Free tier — no credit card required
- available ahead of any paid plan
- Starter — USD 19.99 / month on monthly billing
- or USD 13.99 / month billed annually
- 1
- 000 credits per month
- around 10 videos
- +4 realistic voices
- Creator — USD 23.99 / month on monthly billing (down from 29.99)
- or USD 16.79 / month billed annually
- 2
- 000 credits per month
- around 20 videos
- +10 realistic voices
- flagged Popular and carrying a 20% first-month discount
- Pro — USD 49.99 / month on monthly billing
- or USD 34.99 / month billed annually
- 4
- 000 credits per month
- around 40 videos
- +20 realistic voices
- All three paid plans include text-to-video
- vertical TikTok framing
- standard voice-over
- watermark removal
- HD quality and AI illustration generation
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how ShortMake handles your data.
GDPR overview
There is no GDPR implementation to report, because there is no GDPR mention at all: a dedicated search across every page collected returns nothing for GDPR, CCPA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, DPO or Article 27. No legal basis is stated, no representative is designated, no data processing agreement is offered and no transfer mechanism is described. The policy neither claims compliance nor denies it — the subject is simply absent. Some rights do exist in practice: users can email contact@shortmake.com to update, export or delete their personal data, and cookies, limited to authentication sessions, can be disabled in the browser at the cost of some functionality. The policy took effect on 2 November 2023 and the terms on 2 February 2024.
Who owns the data?
The privacy policy of SHORTIA LLC covers personal data only: the email address collected at sign-up and the payment details used at checkout. It states that this information stays confidential and is not shared with third parties, except to meet a legal obligation or to protect the publisher's rights and property. Nothing in the terms or the policy addresses ownership of what the tool produces — no clause assigns, licenses or restricts the scripts, images, voice-overs and videos generated by users. Training on customer data is never mentioned either, in one direction or the other. The controller is named but never located: no postal address appears anywhere on the site.
Reuse rights
Users may reuse what they produce without asking permission. Neither the terms nor the privacy policy imposes a licence, a credit requirement or a commercial restriction on the finished videos, and the publisher reserves no right of use over them. The product is in fact sold for publication: the homepage advertises monetizable videos, the fruit-stories page describes clips that are ready to publish and can be posted straight to TikTok, Reels and Shorts, and every paid plan removes the watermark. The only obligations placed on users are general ones — comply with applicable law, and do nothing that harms the site or other users. On the publisher's side, personal data serves account management, transaction processing, notifications and marketing emails, while non-personal data feeds improvements to the site.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
The site publishes nothing about where data is hosted. Neither the privacy policy nor the terms names a country, a region, a hosting provider or a transfer mechanism; no standard contractual clauses are referenced and no subprocessor is identified. The only element available is technical rather than contractual: the domain resolves to 216.150.1.1, an address that geolocates to the United States on Amazon's AS16509 and is flagged as anycast. An anycast node indicates where a request is answered, not where data is stored, so it cannot stand in for a hosting declaration — which is why the hosting country and region fields are left empty here. The policy limits itself to a general statement that the publisher takes the security of user data seriously, without describing a single technical or organisational measure. Anyone with a jurisdictional requirement should treat the hosting location as undetermined.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting ShortMake.
- Personal data is kept for an indefinite period by default, so deletion depends entirely on you asking for it
- Marketing emails sit among the stated purposes of processing, with no separate consent described
- With no GDPR mention, no data processing agreement and no disclosed subprocessors, the actual level of protection cannot be verified
- The publisher is opaque: SHORTIA LLC has no published address, no named officer, and could not be found in any reachable company register
- Credits are non-refundable once credited, so the financial risk of a disappointing render sits entirely with the user
- Volume is the explicit selling point, and mass-produced AI clips slide easily into undifferentiated or misleading content without anyone noticing
- Handing scripting, narration and editing over wholesale erodes the craft you would otherwise build, while synthetic voices and faces invite misuse the terms do not address
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Setup is minimal. ShortMake is a web application: nothing to install, no API key, no connection to a third-party tool. You sign up free, without a credit card, and the only input required is an idea written in a few words. The site puts the first finished video at under seven minutes and states plainly that no editing skill is needed. The single concept to absorb is the credit economy — roughly 100 to 120 credits for a sixty-second video — which determines how far a monthly allowance goes.
Deployment
Supported languages
Behind ShortMake
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Alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
What is ShortMake?
How long does a video take to generate?
Is there a free version?
What do the paid plans cost?
How do credits work?
Can I use my own voice?
Can I get a refund?
What does ShortMake do with my data?
Is there a mobile app or an API?
Is there a minimum age?
Should you pick ShortMake?
ShortMake is a consumer-grade shortcut rather than a production tool, and it is honest about which of the two it means to be. Its real strength is consolidation: script, images, voice, subtitles and assembly in one interface, where the same job otherwise means juggling several tools — a point the site makes through testimonials naming ChatGPT, ElevenLabs, CapCut and Canva as the stack it replaces. For a solo creator or a small marketing team shipping vertical video regularly, the free tier costs nothing to test and the Starter plan opens at USD 19.99 per month, which is a modest bet.
The reservations are not about the product but about the company behind it. SHORTIA LLC is named in the terms and nowhere else: no address, no named officer, no about or contact page, and no trace in any company register that could be reached. The privacy policy never mentions the GDPR, offers no data processing agreement, discloses no subprocessor and keeps personal data for an indefinite period by default. Credits stop being refundable as soon as they are credited. The terms still describe a beta and have not been revised since February 2024, while the footer reads 2026.
None of that disqualifies the tool for its natural audience, which is publishing entertainment and marketing clips rather than handling anyone else's data. It does disqualify it for organisations with a compliance function, for teams needing an API or long-form output, and for anyone who wants to know who they are paying. Judge it on a free render or two before committing credits, and treat the audience figures on the homepage — 200,000 creators in one line, 10,000 in another — as marketing rather than measurement.
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