shortshort cuts one long video into vertical shorts chosen to end where the sentence ends, frames the face with automatic zooms, and costs €0.025 per minute of video before VAT, less than a quarter of the price per minute of Choppity. Below, side by side with Choppity: the numbers first, then 18 criteria with a check or a cross, then the plans of both.
30 free credits, no cardUp to 2 GB per videoMP4 · 9:16 or 4:5
shortshort turns one long video of up to 2 GB into 9:16 shorts chosen to end where the sentence ends, framed on the face on screen with automatic zooms, captioned word by word, for €0.025 per minute of source video before VAT, less than a quarter of the price per minute of Choppity. 30 minutes are free, no card.
Choppity turns podcasts and long videos into short clips, cropped and captioned. It may fit better for bigger files, a crop that follows whoever is speaking, square or landscape exports; the table below says where, with the source.
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Four things the product does by design; the table below checks the rest, both ways.
€0.025 per minute here, before VAT: €12 a month for 480 minutes on Starter. $0.13 per minute at Choppity: $24 a month, Starter. Priced per minute of source, not per short: 1 short or 5 cost the same on Starter, up to 20 per video on the Studio plan.
The AI reads the whole transcript and picks complete, quotable passages, chosen to open and close on a sentence rather than on a timer; the end of each short is checked against the transcript.
The 9:16 crop follows the face on screen and adds automatic zooms between x1.0 and x1.6; slides and wide shots stay whole. Framing is automatic; cuts, title and captions stay editable.
Drop the file, choose how many shorts and how long, check the proposals, export the MP4s. No timeline, no template to configure.
One line per criterion, the same shape on both sides. The Choppity column is derived from Choppity's own site: the number after a cell points to the source, and the exact wording is under the table.
Reading note. Their pricing page opens on yearly billing; monthly prices are read from the monthly toggle. Creator and Team scale with an hours slider; the 5-hour entry point is the one listed.
| Criterion | shortshort | Choppity |
|---|---|---|
| Getting the video in | ||
| Longest video | Set by the 2 GB file size, 12 hours at mostOne file of up to 2 GB and at most 12 hours, on every plan; below that, how many hours fit in 2 GB depends on the bitrate. | 3 h per file, 4K limited to 60 min [1]Maximum duration is 3 hours per file; 4K sources above 1920px wide must be under 60 minutes; YouTube imports follow the same 3 hour limit. |
| Largest file | 2 GB per fileMP4, MOV or WebM. | 4 GB per upload, official pages conflict [1]Help center says each upload can be up to 4 GB on every plan; the upload widget on feature pages says up to 10GB and the API page says 5 GB for local files. |
| How the video gets in | File upload or a YouTube linkMP4, MOV or WebM from your disk, or a public or unlisted YouTube link of your own, downloaded on our servers at up to 720p with its audio. | Upload MP4, MOV, AVI or paste a YouTube link [2] [3]Public YouTube videos only, fetched at up to 1080p; MP3 and a screen recorder; bulk uploads of up to 10 from Creator; no cloud drive import mentioned. |
| What comes out | ||
| Crop follows the face | Follows the face, zooms x1.0 to x1.6The 9:16 crop follows the face with automatic zooms; slides, screens and wide shots stay whole; framing is set automatically. | Yes, detects who is talking and switches focus [4]AI keeps the subject centered when reframing to 9:16, 1:1 or 16:9; you can add multiple crop boxes, split scenes or fine-tune the framing manually. |
| Automatic captions | Word by word, 4 stylesSpotlight, Impact, Karaoke, Minimal; timed on the audio; SRT import and export. | Yes, animated word-by-word, 97 languages [5]97%+ accurate subtitles, keyword highlighting by clicking in the transcript; font, size, weight, color, shadows and shapes customisable; custom fonts from Creator up. |
| Aspect ratios | 9:16, or 4:5 for the Instagram feedChosen at export for the whole series; a 4:5 export tracks the face again for that frame. No 1:1 or 16:9. | 9:16, 1:1 and 16:9 [2]Automatic reframing for TikTok, Reels and Shorts (9:16), Instagram (1:1) and YouTube (16:9). |
| Export | MP4 1080 × 1920 or 1080 × 1350, 30 fpsH.264, rendered on our servers on every plan: 1080 × 1920 in 9:16, 1080 × 1350 in 4:5. | 1080p HD and 4K exports on paid plans [3]Exports and downloads are 1080p HD and 4K on Starter, Creator, Team and Enterprise; Free shows no exports; uploads accepted up to 3840x2160. |
| Editing and export | ||
| Manual editor | Yes, on the AI proposals, with a free accountClips and their bounds, title, description, caption words and caption style of each AI proposal; the editor and the MP4 export need a free account. | Yes, full editor with text-based editing [2]Delete a word in the transcript and the cut is made automatically; add images or B-roll on any part of the transcript; advanced editor on every plan including Free. |
| Brand presets | One preset, Studio planCaption colour and font, preselected on every new video. | Creator and up, 1 to unlimited templates [3]Creator 1 brand template, Team 5, Enterprise unlimited, plus saved brand assets from Creator up; Free and Starter have none. |
| Edit export | JSON edit plan on every planThe studio exports the plan of the open short on every plan; the Studio plan adds the plan of every saved short from My projects. | None mentioned, only TXT, SRT or VTT transcripts [6]No XML, EDL, Premiere or DaVinci export mentioned; transcripts export as TXT from the Transcript tool or SRT/VTT from clip exports. |
| Extras | ||
| Translation or dubbing | Not offeredCaptions in the language spoken, transcribed by OpenAI's whisper-1 (98 languages according to OpenAI); nothing is translated or dubbed. | No dubbing, in-app translation limited, export SRT [6]No dubbing; captions are generated in the source language (97 languages) and in-app translation is limited, so export TXT, SRT or VTT and translate elsewhere. |
| Virality score | None, by designThe AI keeps complete, quotable sentences; you choose what goes out. | Yes, composite viral score plus hook score [7] [8]Clips are ranked by hook strength, contextual framing, story coherence and emotional pull, with five goal scores from 0 to 100 (views, trust, share, sales, inspire). |
| B-roll, music, titles | None addedThe short is your video, reframed and captioned. | Manual B-roll upload, AI generated where available [9]Upload clips or pick from your asset library and drag onto the timeline; AI generates stock-style B-roll where available; no automatic insertion or stock library stated. |
| Publishes to social | YouTube on a calendar, TikTok in early accessConnect a YouTube channel, pick a day and time per short or auto-fill the calendar. TikTok is in early access. One MP4 per short, or a ZIP, for the rest. | Paid plans only, 1 to unlimited social accounts [10] [3]Post now or schedule to YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X and LinkedIn; Starter 1 account, Creator 3, Team 6, Enterprise unlimited; not on Free. |
| Team and price | ||
| Team seats | One account, one login | Team plan, unlimited seats [3]Free, Starter and Creator are 1 seat; Team has unlimited seats, shared workspace, user roles and team billing; Enterprise seats are Custom plus sub-teams and workspaces. |
| API | None | Yes, REST API from Creator up, plus an MCP server [11] [12]Versioned REST API with API keys, webhooks and presigned uploads up to 5 GB; a remote MCP server, added as a custom connector, for workspace owners on a paid plan. |
| Free plan | 30 credits once, no cardThe account never expires; the 30 credits are given once, not every month. Up to 3 shorts per video, watermarked, exports join the public community. | Free plan, 1 h a month, exports locked or watermarked [3]No credit card required; 1 seat, 2GB cloud storage, 3 day project storage; the pricing table shows no exports, scheduling or social accounts on Free. |
| How you pay | 1 credit = 1 minute of videoWhatever the number of shorts. Plans from 12 EUR a month for 480 minutes, before VAT. Unused credits roll over and never expire, even after cancelling. | Subscription metered by hours of AI analysis [3]Monthly or yearly billing (yearly labelled 30% off); usage resets on the 1st of each month; Creator and Team scale from 5 to 100 hours with a slider. |
Their pages can change after that date; the table does not update itself.
Choppity plans as listed on choppity.com/pricing, read on 24 October 2026 [3]. By the minute of source video: $0.13 per minute on Choppity's cheapest plan ($24 a month, Starter, 180 minutes a month (3 h)), against €0.025 per minute on shortshort Starter, before VAT. Every plan, per minute, in the price index.
Prices before VAT, from the product. Annual billing: Starter €115 a year, Creator €278 a year, Studio €758 a year. Full detail on the pricing page.
shortshort for the price per minute and the cuts; Choppity when you need bigger files or a crop that follows whoever is speaking. Both lists come from the table.
A published transformation from the community: the original on top, the shorts it became below. Click one to see it next to the original video.
3 of 6 shorts shown · The Override That Saved Humanity · watch it in the community, with the transcript of each short
Demo footage: Tears of Steel © Blender Foundation, licensed CC BY 3.0. Cut, cropped and captioned by shortshort.
Three things the table can only name. The passage, the frame and the captions below are illustrations; the community shows the real thing.
The reason most clips fail is that they stop before the idea lands, and a viewer who never hears the end of the sentence has no reason to share it. ✂ mid-sentence
The reason most clips fail is that they stop before the idea lands, and a viewer who never hears the end of the sentence has no reason to share it. ✂ on the full stop
Same passage, same 30-second target. shortshort keeps going to the end of the sentence, 37 seconds here, which is inside the 25% margin it allows.
Spotlight, one of the four caption styles. Impact, Karaoke and Minimal use the same word timing.
Yes. Choppity's own site lists a lasting free plan. On Choppity: Free plan, 1 h a month, exports locked or watermarked. No credit card required; 1 seat, 2GB cloud storage, 3 day project storage; the pricing table shows no exports, scheduling or social accounts on Free (their own site, read on 24 October 2026).
Choppity's pricing page lists 5 plans. On Choppity: Free (1 hour of AI analysis a month); Starter, $24 a month, $16.80/mo billed yearly (3 hours of AI analysis a month); Creator, $32 a month, $22.4 a month billed yearly (5 hours a month, slider up to 100 hours); Team, $48 a month, $33.6 a month billed yearly (5 hours a month, slider up to 100 hours); Enterprise, Custom (Custom AI analysis, storage and seats) (their own site, read on 24 October 2026). They are listed on this page under "Choppity pricing (checked 24 October 2026)". By the minute of source video, that is $0.13 per minute on Choppity's cheapest plan ($24 a month, Starter), against €0.025 per minute on shortshort Starter, before VAT. shortshort charges 1 credit per minute of source video, whatever the number of shorts: Starter is 12 EUR a month for 480 credits, Creator 29 EUR for 1,600 and the Studio plan 79 EUR for 6,000, before VAT, and every account starts with 30 free credits, given once.
shortshort can be tried for free: 30 credits given once at sign-up, no card, which cover 30 minutes of video, with up to 3 shorts per video and a small watermark on the export. Your upload stays private until you export; exported shorts join the public community gallery by default. It is a one-time allowance, not free minutes every month: the tools that give free minutes every month are listed, with the limits of their free plans, in the price per minute index.
It depends on what you need. shortshort turns one long video of up to 2 GB into vertical shorts, 3 per video on the Free plan and up to 20 on the Studio plan, cut on complete sentences, framed on the face on screen and captioned word by word in one of four styles. Choppity may fit better if you need bigger files, a crop that follows whoever is speaking and square or landscape exports, according to its own site. If the job is cutting long talks into shorts, try it with the 30 free credits and compare the result with what you get from Choppity.
On shortshort, one file of up to 2 GB and at most 12 hours on every plan; the file size is what usually limits, and how many hours fit depends on the bitrate. On Choppity: 3 h per file, 4K limited to 60 min. Maximum duration is 3 hours per file; 4K sources above 1920px wide must be under 60 minutes; YouTube imports follow the same 3 hour limit (their own site, read on 24 October 2026).
shortshort times every word on the audio, in one of four styles (Spotlight, Impact, Karaoke, Minimal), with SRT import and export. On Choppity: yes, animated word-by-word, 97 languages (their own site, read on 24 October 2026).
The fastest comparison is your own video: 30 minutes are free, no card. Your upload stays private until you export; exported shorts join the community with their source video by default, and any paid plan can keep them out.