Practical guides to YouTube Shorts and TikTok automation, and honest comparisons of the tools that do it. What to hand to software, what to keep, and how to stay monetized.
TubeGen AI starts at $149 a month and does not publish for you. AutoShorts.ai starts at $19 and posts to your channel. Full pricing, script limits, and which job each one is actually built for.
TubeGen AI starts at $149 a month, builds long-form YouTube videos, and does not publish them for you. Five alternatives, including four that start under $40.
A review of AutoShorts.ai written by a company that sells against it: what the $19 and $39 plans actually give you, the four things it does better than us, and who should not buy it.
A complete JSON prompt schema for Nano Banana 2, how to fill it in from a reference image or a one-line idea, and how to run it on fal, Replicate, or the Gemini API.
Bernard Films got 245K subscribers from 31 videos in six months. The exact premise it reuses, the title formula behind every upload, the recurring character doing the branding, and three open niches you could run the same structure on.
Both post to TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram. AutoShorts starts at half the price, and yet Revid is the cheaper one at three channels. The arithmetic on where each flips.
Submagic finishes video you already have. Opus Clip finds the clips and posts them. Also: Submagic is priced per member, which changes everything on a team.
Klap is cheaper per clip and Opus Clip actually posts them for you. The cost-per-clip arithmetic on both, and the free tier that only one of them has.
Klap charges per clip you get out. Vizard charges per minute you put in. For a 90-minute podcast that difference is the entire decision, and here is the arithmetic.
Faceless.video is one subscription with credits that roll over. Short.ai is two subscriptions with a free publishing tier most people miss. What each really costs.
AutoShorts.ai sells you a posting rate, Faceless.video sells you a credit balance that rolls over. The arithmetic on both, including the point where Faceless.video gets much cheaper.
Vizard charges one credit per minute of source video, which quietly punishes long podcasts. Four alternatives and the math on each.
Credits, video caps, and per-series pricing produce very different bills for the same channel. A breakdown of the three models and the math on each.
Vadoo AI is priced well for volume but leaves the uploading to you. Four alternatives that close the loop, and when Vadoo is still the better buy.
Topview AI now sells access to Seedance, Kling, and Nano Banana rather than a faceless channel workflow. Four alternatives if you wanted the workflow.
Cloudflare's managed robots.txt blocks Bytespider. Bytespider is ByteDance. ByteDance owns TikTok. Here is how one toggle failed our TikTok app review with no error message that said so.
Submagic prices per member and per video length, and its clipping is a paid add-on. Four alternatives, sorted by what job you actually need done.
StoryShort starts at $39 a month and bundles long-form and UGC video into its upper tiers. Four alternatives, including two that start at half the price.
ShortsFaceless is cheap per video and gives you real editing control. Here is when that is the right trade, and four alternatives for when it is not.
Short.ai splits creating and publishing into two separate plans, so the real entry cost is about $34 a month. Four alternatives that charge once.
Revid.ai covers TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube from one plan. Four alternatives, and an honest look at the tier that costs $39 without auto-publishing.
Repurpose.io moves content between platforms but never creates any. Four alternatives for when the bottleneck is making the videos, not distributing them.
Predis.ai is a social media suite where video is one line item, and its entry plan makes about 9 videos a month. Four alternatives built for video volume.
Opus Clip is the strongest free tier in short-form video, with a catch worth knowing. Four alternatives, split by whether you already have footage.
Klap turns long videos into clips, which only helps if you already film. Four alternatives, including two that need no source footage at all.
Faceless.video has rolling credits, which is rare and genuinely useful. Four alternatives, and the one question that tells you whether rollover is worth buying.
Five faceless video tools compared on published pricing, what they auto-post to, and the one distinction that matters more than any feature list.
AutoShorts.ai and PassiveShorts charge the same $19 and $39. An honest look at what each one gives you for it, and the three cases where AutoShorts is the better buy.
An honest comparison of AutoFaceless.ai and four alternatives for running a faceless video channel, including where AutoFaceless is genuinely the cheaper choice.
The Shorts path into the YouTube Partner Program: 10 million views in 90 days for ad revenue, 3 million for the lower tier, and how Shorts money is actually split before it reaches you.
What the TikTok Creator Rewards Program actually requires: 10,000 followers, 100,000 views in 30 days, and the one-minute rule that leaves most short-form videos earning nothing.
A practical guide to YouTube Shorts automation: which of the six steps you can safely hand to software, which you cannot, and the mistakes that get faceless channels demonetized.
Faceless channel ideas sorted by how crowded they are and how hard they are to produce, plus the three questions to ask before committing to a niche.