Paste a product URL. ShortGenius writes, casts, voices, cuts, and exports a TikTok-ready ad in under four minutes.
100,000+ videos generated
by creators worldwide
Who uses it
Six buyer profiles drive most of the ads shipped through ShortGenius. If you recognize yourself in one of these, you are in the right place.
DTC ecommerce founders
Paste a Shopify URL, get 20 testable creative variants by lunch, and hand winners to your media buyer the same afternoon. Brands ship new-SKU launches without renting a UGC agency.
B2B SaaS marketers
LinkedIn pre-roll, YouTube true-view, and programmatic display with AI actors that look like dev-rel engineers, finance analysts, or ops leads — not generic corporate avatars.
Performance agencies
Batch variant generation, cross-posting to TikTok, Meta, YouTube, X, and Instagram, and 40 variants a week per account without blowing up your creative pipeline.
Creators and solopreneurs
Clone your own voice, pin a backdrop, and ship founder-led ads that still feel like you. Scale past yourself with 200+ AI actors when you need to.
Affiliate and growth marketers
Generate 10 hook variants for the same offer, test across cold audiences, and double down on the creative angle that wins before competitors catch up.
In-house creative teams
Collapse scripting, casting, voiceover, and cutdowns into one workflow. Free your senior creatives for strategy while variants render in the background.
Start free
Spin up your first ad inside ShortGenius.
Create a free account, paste a product URL, and render a finished ad in under four minutes — voice, visuals, and captions included.
One generator, every production step
ShortGenius collapses scripting, casting, voiceover, b-roll sourcing, captioning, and aspect-ratio exports into one workflow. You get three full variants per generation — a curiosity hook, a problem-agitate-solve beat, and a social-proof lead — so you are A/B testing from draft one instead of waiting on a second render.
Every line is editable in place. Rewrite the hook and the AI actor's lip-sync re-renders automatically. Swap the actor, change the aspect ratio, or regenerate a single b-roll shot without touching the rest of the timeline. The editor is built for iteration speed.
Free account
Generate your first ad in four minutes.
No credit card. Three watermark-free exports every month on the free plan.
Create a free accountHow to create an AI video ad
Five steps from product URL to exported ad. Most ShortGenius users finish their first ad within the first ten minutes of signing up.
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Enter a product URL or short brief
Paste your Shopify, Amazon, or landing-page URL and let ShortGenius pull the product name, hero image, price, and review highlights automatically. No URL on hand? Type a two-sentence brief describing the offer, the buyer, and the hook you want to lead with, and the generator will ask the three follow-up questions it needs to write a winning script.
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Pick an ad style and audio
Choose a UGC talking-head ad, a green-screen product demo, a meme-style hook, a testimonial cut, or a motion-graphics spot. Select a voice from our 900+ voice library, upload a clone of your founder, or hand the ad to one of our 200+ AI actors. The style and audio choices you make here flow through every downstream step, so you only pick them once per campaign.
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Generate the full ad with AI
ShortGenius writes the script, casts an AI actor, lip-syncs the voice to camera, cuts in b-roll, grabs licensed music, layers in native captions, and assembles the whole ad in under four minutes. You get three full variations per generation — a curiosity hook, a problem-agitate-solve beat, and a social-proof lead — so you are A/B testing from draft one instead of waiting on a second pass.
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Edit the script, visuals, or timing
Rewrite any line and the lip-sync re-renders automatically without a full regeneration. Swap the actor, change the aspect ratio to 9:16 or 1:1, add captions in 40 languages, apply your logo and colors, or regenerate specific b-roll shots without touching the rest of the timeline. The editor is built for iteration speed — every edit is a render, not a project rebuild.
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Export and cross-post to TikTok, Meta, or YouTube
One-click export to 9:16 for TikTok and Reels, 1:1 and 4:5 for Meta feed, or 16:9 for YouTube in-stream. Schedule and cross-post straight to TikTok, YouTube, X/Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, or download a fully captioned MP4 ready for your media buyer. Every export is free of watermarks on paid plans and ready for commercial use out of the box.
Cross-post to TikTok, Meta, and YouTube
Every generation renders the aspect ratios media buyers actually use: 9:16 for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts; 1:1 for Meta feed; 4:5 for Meta vertical; and 16:9 for YouTube in-stream. Safe zones for each platform's UI are baked in, so important copy never disappears behind a like-count or CTA button.
Schedule and cross-post straight to TikTok, YouTube, X/Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Native captioning defaults to platform conventions — TikTok bottom-third karaoke, Meta animated captions, YouTube sentence-level — so you skip the re-upload loop entirely.
Twenty variants before lunch
Every run returns three full variants by default — a curiosity hook, a problem-agitate-solve beat, and a social-proof lead. Bulk generation clones a winning middle against 10 hook openers in a single batch, so you can stress-test the part of the ad that actually decides whether a cold viewer watches or scrolls.
Pin an actor to a campaign and every variant reuses the same face, wardrobe, and set so your ad library builds recognition across placements. Or rotate actors intentionally — which face converts best in your audience is one of the highest-leverage tests we see accounts run.
Features
Every part of ad production, one generator.
Scripting, casting, voiceover, editing, localization — assembled into one tool with no plugins or duct-tape pipelines.
AI script generation
Hooks, body copy, and CTAs tuned to the platform you are targeting. Paste a product URL and receive three variants from the same brief — curiosity hook, PAS beat, social-proof lead.
AI UGC actors
Cast from 200+ diverse AI actors or clone yourself with 30 seconds of clean footage. Every actor lip-syncs any script in any supported language with natural hand gestures.
Voice library and cloning
900+ licensed AI voices across 40+ languages, plus commercial-grade voice cloning from 30 seconds of audio. Tune pacing, emphasis, and emotion per line.
Brand assets
Logo, fonts, and colors applied to every ad. Upload once so every new render stays on-brand.
Multi-language output
Localize one winning ad into 40+ languages with native voice actors and language-native caption typography — Cyrillic, Arabic, and CJK render the way a local designer would style them.
Aspect-ratio presets
9:16, 1:1, 4:5, and 16:9 rendered from the same project. Safe zones for platform UI baked in so captions and CTAs never get hidden behind like counts or chrome.
Social scheduling
Cross-post finished creative to TikTok, YouTube, X/Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Skip the re-upload loop that eats hours off a weekly variant cadence.
Variant batches
Bulk-generate 10 hooks against one middle, or 10 middles against one hook, in a single run. A/B test the part of the ad that actually decides performance.
Four-minute renders
15 to 30 second ads finish in under four minutes. 60 second spots with custom voice clones typically complete in six to eight. Priority queues on paid plans.
Pricing
Start free. Upgrade when you are ready to ship volume.
Free
$0
- 3 videos / month, watermark-free preview
- 200+ AI actor library
- Captions in 40+ languages
- Standard voice library
Lite
$19/mo
- 15 credits / month
- HD renders, no watermark
- Cross-post to TikTok, YouTube, Meta, X
Standard
$39/mo
- 30 credits / month
- Voice cloning + UGC avatars
- Social scheduling
- Commercial use licensing
Pro
$69/mo
- 60 generations per month
- Commercial voice cloning
- Full UGC avatar library
- Cross-post to TikTok, Meta, YouTube, X, Instagram
- Priority render queue + support
No credit card required.
Why ShortGenius vs other AI video ad generators
Three other tools show up in every ad-team evaluation. Here is the honest summary of where each one fits and where it falls short for performance marketers.
HeyGen
HeyGen is optimized for corporate training and enterprise avatar video. Ad-platform presets and iteration speed lag behind tools built for performance marketers. Full breakdown on the HeyGen alternative page.
Creatify
Creatify focuses on UGC-style ads and does them well, but the voice library and language coverage narrow fast once you scale past 10 variants a week. See the Creatify alternative comparison for the specifics.
Arcads
Arcads is tightly scoped to talking-head UGC and charges per clip. For teams generating more than a handful of ads a month, the pricing math flips fast. Our Arcads alternative includes a per-variant cost table.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. You can sign up, generate, and export short-form video ads on the free plan without entering a credit card. The free tier includes three watermark-free exports every month, access to the full 200+ AI actor library, captions in every supported language, and the standard voice library. Paid plans scale to 60 generations a month on Pro with higher-resolution exports, commercial voice cloning, UGC avatars, and social scheduling to TikTok, Meta, YouTube, X, and Instagram. See the pricing page for the full breakdown by plan.
Ship your first AI video ad today
Paste a product URL, pick an actor, and export a TikTok-ready 9:16 in under four minutes.
No credit card required.