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 Munch. Below, side by side with Munch (also known as Munch Studio): 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 Munch. 30 minutes are free, no card.
Munch, now Munch Studio, is an AI social media marketing suite with video clipping inside. It may fit better for a crop you set by hand, virality score, B-roll, music, titles; the table below says where, with the source.
Facts checked against the product on . Prices before VAT.
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. $0.14 per minute at Munch: $68 a month, Essential. 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 Munch column is derived from Munch's own site: the number after a cell points to the source, and the exact wording is under the table.
Reading note. getmunch.com now redirects to munchstudio.com, an AI social media marketing suite where clipping is one quota inside broader plans, so the comparison is not like for like.
| Criterion | shortshort | Munch |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | Not stated on their site |
| Largest file | 2 GB per fileMP4, MOV or WebM. | Not stated on their site |
| 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 from computer or paste a public link [1]Videos must be public; up to two target platforms per project; cloud drive imports are not stated. |
| 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. | Auto crop with manual override, tracking not stated [2]Crop button defaults to Auto mode with a Manual Crop override; face or speaker tracking is not explicitly stated. |
| Automatic captions | Word by word, 4 stylesSpotlight, Impact, Karaoke, Minimal; timed on the audio; SRT import and export. | Yes, with saveable style templates [3]Font, color, size and animation are set in the Styles tab and saved as a template; word-level highlighting is not stated. |
| 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. | Selectable per project, full list not stated [4]Ratios chosen per project and switchable in the clip preview; Manual Crop has an aspect ratio setting; 16:9 is mentioned in the Brand Kit article. |
| 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. | Not stated on their site |
| 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, timeline trim, subtitles and crop [1]Drag clip ends on a timeline, edit subtitles word by word, toggle auto or manual crop, then export to social or download. |
| Brand presets | One preset, Studio planCaption colour and font, preselected on every new video. | Yes, unlimited Brand Kits [5]Brand Kit holds logos, CTAs, images and GIFs as overlays plus intro and outro videos; caption styles save as templates. |
| 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. | Not stated on their site |
| 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. | Not stated on their siteContent generation supports six languages (English US and UK, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian), but no caption translation or dubbing feature is described. |
| Virality score | None, by designThe AI keeps complete, quotable sentences; you choose what goes out. | Coherence Score per clip, not a virality score [6]Five levels from Fair to Excellent rate how well a clip keeps the coherence of the source; no virality or engagement prediction is stated. |
| B-roll, music, titles | None addedThe short is your video, reframed and captioned. | Stock media only in AI voiceover videos [7]Allow stock media fills gaps in generated Voiceover Videos; no B-roll insertion is stated for repurposed clips. |
| 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. | Yes, 5 platforms, on every plan [8]Publishes to Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and TikTok, with scheduling via the Smart Content Planner. |
| Team and price | ||
| Team seats | One account, one login | Unlimited from Premium, 1 seat on Essential [8]Essential allows one team member, the owner; Premium, Studio and Scale allow unlimited team members. |
| API | None | Not stated on their site |
| 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. | 7-day free trial on every paid plan [8]No free plan card is shown; the FAQ names a Free single-brand plan but publishes no limits or watermark policy. |
| 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, 500 to 7,500 repurposing min a month [8]Monthly or yearly billing; repurposing minutes and generated videos are monthly quotas, video scripts are per week or unlimited, storage and brands vary by plan. |
Their pages can change after that date; the table does not update itself.
Munch plans as listed on munchstudio.com/pricing, read on 16 October 2026 [8]. By the minute of source video: $0.14 per minute on Munch's cheapest plan ($68 a month, Essential, 500 repurposing minutes a month), 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, the cuts and the framing; Munch when you need a crop you set by hand or virality score. 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.
Only as a trial. Munch's own site offers a trial rather than a lasting free plan. On Munch: 7-day free trial on every paid plan. No free plan card is shown; the FAQ names a Free single-brand plan but publishes no limits or watermark policy (their own site, read on 16 October 2026).
Munch's pricing page lists 4 plans. On Munch: Essential, $68 a month, $38 a month billed yearly (500 repurposing min, 10 generated videos); Premium, $85 a month, $60 a month billed yearly (1,000 repurposing min, 30 generated videos); Studio, $148 a month, $118 a month billed yearly (2,500 repurposing min, 50 generated videos); Scale, $398 a month, $318 a month billed yearly (7,500 repurposing min, 150 generated videos) (their own site, read on 16 October 2026). They are listed on this page under "Munch pricing (checked 16 October 2026)". By the minute of source video, that is $0.14 per minute on Munch's cheapest plan ($68 a month, Essential), 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. Munch may fit better if you need a crop you set by hand, virality score and B-roll, music, titles, 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 Munch.
shortshort times every word on the audio, in one of four styles (Spotlight, Impact, Karaoke, Minimal), with SRT import and export. On Munch: yes, with saveable style templates (their own site, read on 16 October 2026).
Yes. The 30 free credits cover 30 minutes of video, with up to 3 shorts per video, no card needed. Your upload and drafts stay private until you export: an exported short is published to the community with its full source video and the transcript of the short, unless your account is set to keep it out, which every paid plan can do.
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.