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Category
Video & Audio Production
Best for
ai short video generator
Pricing
Freemium
Access
Free plan available

What is this tool?

Wisecut takes a talking-head recording and does the tedious passes before you open an editor: silences cut, highlights picked, shot reframed, captions written, music bedded under the speech. What you get back is a storyboard of text and scenes rather than a timeline. A free plan gives 60 minutes a month at 360p, Starter+ is US$23.25 a month billed annually for 1080p and Professional+ US$83.25 for 4K. One term in the customer agreement should be read before any client footage goes in, and it concerns training.

By QT Desk
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Wisecut listens to the video first, and every later decision follows from what it heard: the pauses come out, the passages worth keeping are chosen, the shot is reframed around the speaker, captions are written and optionally translated, and music is bedded under the speech with ducking. What comes back is a storyboard — text and scenes you rearrange — rather than a timeline you cut. Hook Titles, punch-in zooms, Studio Voice and noise cancelling fill in the polish, and WISH takes editing instructions in plain language. It runs in the browser, including a mobile browser; no native app, extension or API is named.

The plans meter three different things at once, which is easy to misread. Resolution and export length rise with the tier — 360p and 60 minutes a month on the free plan, 1080p and 60 minutes per export on Starter+, 4K and 90 minutes on Professional+ — while Editor and Autopilot hours are counted separately, and a monthly credit figure sits alongside both without any published definition of what a credit spends on. If unattended publishing is the reason you are buying, the Autopilot hours are the line that matters, not the credits.

The privacy notice and the customer agreement do not say the same thing about your footage. The notice, revised February 2024, gives no retention period, names no sub-processor, claims no certification and does not mention model training at all. The agreement, updated September 2025, says the vendor obtains no rights to your content — and then asks for your consent to use that footage, and the data around it, in training and improving its AI models, while promising not to post or share it publicly. It also warns that projects expire by plan, that keeping anything is your job, and that content may be deleted 30 days after termination. Cancellation has to happen more than two business days before renewal.

Is this right for you?

Quick fit check against how you actually work.

Choose this if
  • Your source material is speech — podcasts, lessons, webinars, coaching calls — which is what the whole pipeline listens to
  • You do not want to edit on a timeline and would rather move transcribed text around
  • You want clips posted on a schedule without opening the tool, which is what Autopilot hours buy
  • You publish for more than one language and want captions translated in the same pass
  • You want to test the output on your own footage before paying, which the free tier's monthly allowance is enough for
Consider alternatives if
  • Your footage is mostly not speech — music, gameplay, b-roll — because the cutting, the highlights and the storyboard all run off the transcript
  • You need a long finished piece rather than clips: exports cap at 60 minutes on Starter+ and 90 on Professional+
  • You cannot consent to your footage training a vendor's AI models, which the customer agreement asks for as a condition of use
  • You need to keep projects in the tool, since they expire automatically by plan and downloading anything you want to keep is explicitly your responsibility
  • You need frame-accurate control, or a route in other than the browser — no installable app and no API appear in the vendor's documentation

Key features

What you can actually do with this tool.

Silence removal and highlight detection from the transcript

The AI reads the speech, cuts dead air with an automatic zoom to cover the join, and picks the passages it thinks will hold attention. On an hour of unscripted talk that is the pass that takes a person longest and the one worth automating first.

A storyboard instead of a timeline

Edits are made by moving transcribed text and scenes around rather than by dragging clips against keyframes. That is the feature that makes this usable by someone who does not edit video, and it is also the ceiling: precise frame-level work is not what this interface is for.

Captions, translations and music with ducking

Captions are generated and can be translated for other markets, and background music is chosen automatically with audio ducking that drops it under speech and lifts it in the gaps. Three separate post-production jobs arrive already done.

Autopilot publishes without you

Autopilot turns a source video into clips and schedules and posts them to YouTube by itself. It is metered in its own hours — 2.5 a month on Starter+, 10 on Professional+ — separately from the Editor hours, so an unattended workflow has to be sized on that line rather than on the credit figure.

Framing and polish passes: reframe, punch-ins, Hook Titles, Studio Voice

Auto Reframe tracks the face into vertical, square or horizontal; punch-in and punch-out zooms mark key moments; Hook Titles write the opening text; Studio Voice and noise cancelling clean the audio. These are the details that separate a raw recording from something that survives a social feed.

Integrations

Tools and platforms this connects with.

YouTube

Plans & pricing

Pricing tiers and what's included in each.

Free

US$ 0.00/mo
  • 'Always free'
  • 60 min/month
  • 360p resolution
  • 4 GB max file size

Starter+

Starting paid plan
US$ 23.25/mo
  • Billed annually at US$ 279 ('Save US$ 60/year')
  • 1080p Full HD, up to 60 min per export
  • 300 credits/month
  • 5h Editor, 2.5h Autopilot
  • 4 GB max file size, unlimited downloads

Professional+

US$ 83.25/mo
  • Billed annually at US$ 999 ('Save US$ 420/year')
  • 4K Ultra HD, up to 90 min per export
  • 1,200 credits/month
  • 20h Editor, 10h Autopilot
  • 5 GB max file size, unlimited downloads
Official pricing pagePricing may have changed. Always verify before purchasing.

Frequently asked

Common questions about this tool, answered.

Can it turn a two-hour video into a single shorter cut?

A viewer asked exactly this under one of the vendor's tutorials and did not get an answer; the plan limits give one: exports are capped at 60 minutes on Starter+ and 90 minutes on Professional+, so a long recording can be condensed within those ceilings, and the free plan's 60 minutes a month covers the whole account rather than one video. The tool is built to remove silences and lift highlights rather than to summarise two hours into fifteen minutes, so test that specific job on the free plan before buying for it.

What does the free plan actually cover?

60 minutes of video a month at 360p, with a 4 GB file ceiling, and the pricing page labels it 'Always free' rather than a trial. That is enough to see how the silence cutting, captions and reframing handle your own footage. What it is not is a publishing plan: 360p output is a preview resolution, and unlimited downloads start on the paid tiers.

Does Wisecut use my videos to train its AI?

Yes, with your consent as part of using it: the customer agreement asks you to consent to the vendor using your content and its associated data to train and improve its artificial intelligence models, and it undertakes not to post or share that content publicly. The agreement separately says the vendor obtains no other rights to your content. The privacy notice does not mention training at all, so the agreement is the document to read on this.

How long does my material stay in the account?

Projects expire automatically according to your plan, and the agreement makes downloading and storing anything you want to keep your responsibility. After a subscription is terminated, the vendor may remove or delete your content from its systems after 30 days. Cancellation itself has to be made more than two business days before the renewal date, after which the subscription runs to the end of the period.