FOCUS For podcasters, interviews, webinars, and long-form video

One long video,
every clip worth posting.

Paste a podcast, interview, or webinar. Smooth finds the strongest moments, reframes them to vertical, writes the captions, and hands you a week of posts — ranked by how likely they are to pop.

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AutoReframe + captions
4KMP4 exports
8Caption styles
1Edit, all formats
Publish-ready clips from one long episode — auto-reframed, captioned, and virality-ranked. Run it on your video

Built for the shows people actually watch

10×faster than editing by hand
90%cheaper than a freelance editor
5 minfrom paste to publishable clips
$0forever, with your own API key
/ One source · zero busywork

One video in.
A feed of clips out.

Drop one long episode. Smooth finds every moment worth posting and turns it into a feed of platform-ready verticals — scroll to watch it happen.

Auto-clipping your episode
/ 01 — How it works

One long video. Clips ready to post.

Bring a podcast, interview, webinar, or creator episode. Smooth handles the transcript, ranking, edit, captions, and platform exports.

STEP / 01

Drop the episode.

Paste a YouTube link, upload a recording, or drop in a transcript. Smooth is built for long-form — podcasts, interviews, webinars.

Link Upload Paste
youtube.com/watch?v=founders-pod
the-founders-podcast 58:12 · reading transcript
STEP / 02

Smooth ranks the moments.

It reads the whole transcript, throws out the intros and the filler, and keeps only the complete moments — setup, tension, payoff.

"The $0 growth hack nobody runs"
"Why most founders quit too early"
"The hire that changed everything"
Intro & housekeeping
Sponsor read · rambling
STEP / 03

Export every format.

Approve one edit, then render it vertical, square, and wide — Shorts, Reels, TikTok, and feed — without touching the clip again.

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/ 02 — Features

Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.

A purpose-built clipping studio for long-form creators. Every feature exists to turn one source into platform-ready outputs.

01 Clip Generator

Paste long-form.
Get final selects.

Podcast URLs, interviews, webinars, and raw episodes — Smooth reads, ranks, and rebuilds your strongest moments with captions, cuts, and hooks ready to publish.

02 Captions

Captions that hold attention.

Word-level timing, keyword emphasis, six minimal styles. Hierarchy through weight — never color.

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03 Hook Generator

Fresh hooks. One click. Zero guesswork.

Smooth writes pattern-tested openers in your voice. Swap them live and watch retention curves shift.

01 Stop scrolling, this is rare.
02 You're editing wrong. Here's why.
03 Three rules nobody tells you.
04 Smart Timeline

A timeline that finishes itself.

Auto-cut silences. Auto-highlight key moments. Drag to refine — never to start from scratch.

05 Sequence

One upload. A week of posts. Auto-scheduled.

A fresh angle every day — Smooth plans your whole posting week. Educational on Monday. Contrarian on Tuesday. Hot-take on the weekend.

MONEducational
TUEContrarian
WEDStory
THUHot-take
06 Find

Search any moment by saying it.

"The part where I roast Steve Jobs." Smooth finds it. Returns timestamps + a ready-to-post hook.

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/ 03 — Automatic edits

Everything an editor does.
None of the hours.

Smooth grades the footage, tracks the speaker, reframes to vertical, drops in B-roll, and burns in AI captions with emojis — automatically, on every clip.

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B-ROLL · markets
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Maximize your content growth with these top ideas! #tips #grow #smoothclip
/ 04 — Works on whatever you make

Podcast, course, interview,
keynote — all of it.

If someone's talking on camera, Smooth turns it into clips. Same engine, every format.

Connect & publish

Post everywhere,
without leaving Smooth.

Connect your accounts once. Smooth posts — or schedules — every clip straight to YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, LinkedIn and Facebook, formatted for each one.

  • One-click connect for every platform
  • Schedule a whole week in advance
  • Auto-fits the title, caption & ratio per platform
Connect your accounts
Publish q4-launch-cut
YTYouTube Shorts
TTTikTok
IGInstagram Reels
XX (Twitter)Connect
inLinkedInConnect
fFacebookConnect
Schedule
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
9:00 AM
/ 03 — Live

Pick a hook. Watch the video flip.

Stop guessing what works. Smooth writes openers tuned to your audience, your tone, and your platform.

01 You're editing wrong. Here's why.
02 Stop scrolling. This will save you 10 hours.
03 No one is talking about this.
04 The 30-second mistake costing you views.
05 I rebuilt my workflow. Here's what changed.
06 Three rules nobody tells you.
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You're editing wrong.
Here's why.
/ 04 — Sequence

One upload.
A week of content.

Smooth plans your entire posting week from a single source — a different angle every day, each one virality-ranked and mapped to its best time to post.

MON
EDUCATIONAL v6
YT IG TT
9:00 AM
TUE
CONTRARIAN v9
YT IG TT X
12:00 PM
WED
STORY v9
YT IG TT
7:00 PM
THU
LIST v8
YT IG LI
9:00 AM
FRI
QUOTE v7
IG X LI
3:00 PM
SAT
HOT-TAKE v8
YT TT X
11:00 AM
SUN REST

Each clip is mapped to its best-performing day based on platform engagement curves. CONTRARIAN on Tue-Thu (peak engagement). QUOTE on Fri (cross-platform reposts). HOT-TAKE on weekend (warmer audience).

/ 05 — Why Smooth

In a class of its own.

Most tools hand you raw clips and a bill. Smooth hands you publish-ready verticals, the reasoning behind every pick, and a whole posting week — free, running on your own key.

Bring anything

A YouTube link, a pasted transcript, or an uploaded file — Smooth works from all three, not just video uploads.

See the why

Every clip gets a virality score with the reasoning written out — the hook, the tension, the payoff. Never a black box.

A week, not a clip

One upload becomes a full posting week — a fresh angle each day, auto-mapped to the best time to publish.

Find any moment

Describe it in plain words — "the part where I roast Steve Jobs" — and Smooth jumps straight to the timestamp.

Yours to run

Runs on your own API key with no credit markup, and exports real H.264/AAC .mp4s straight to your device.

Captions that hold

Word-level timing with the load-bearing words auto-emphasized, in a clean style built to keep eyes on the screen.

Smooth — Forever free
$0 / month

Bring your own API key — no credit markup, no export limit. Just clips.

  • Unlimited clips, sequences, and exports
  • Virality score with full edit reasoning
  • Multi-source: URL · transcript · video
  • Real H.264/AAC .mp4 export to your device
  • Runs on your own account — private by default
Start free — no signup
BYO Private setup
0 Watermarks
4 Export ratios
8 Caption styles
/ 04 — Customers

Built by perfectionists.
Loved by people who ship.

"It does the timeline part of editing — the part I hate. I just pick the hook and ship."

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Saanvi Rao
@saanviraotalks

"We used to outsource short-form. Smooth does it better, in 5% of the time, for nothing."

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Emil Larsson
Marketing Lead, Northwave

"The hook generator alone is worth the subscription. It's like A/B testing for openers."

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Dani Kim
Founder, Tiny Studio

"Pasted my Substack URL. Got a finished short. I'm still a little scared, honestly."

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Marco Vieira
Writer · The Quiet Note

"Whoever designed this hates clutter as much as I do. Finally — an editor that gets out of the way."

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Aiko Tanaka
Designer at Method & Co.
/ 06 — Got questions?

Honest answers.
No marketing-ese.

How does Smooth actually work?
You drop in a long-form source — a YouTube podcast, interview, webinar, or uploaded episode. Smooth reads the full transcript, finds the highest-leverage moments, keeps only the strongest ones, writes hooks with reasoning, builds captions and cuts, and exports every platform ratio from one edit.
What can I bring as a source?
YouTube URLs, podcast/interview links where video can be fetched, and video/audio uploads such as MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV, and audio files up to 4 hours. Transcript paste is supported for planning, but the core workflow is long video in, publishable clips out.
Is it really free forever?
Yes — bring your own API key and Smooth Clip costs nothing. Your usage runs through your own account, not through a subscription markup. We don't have a free trial that converts to a $29 plan; we have a forever-free tier and a hosted-key tier coming for teams. Free exports include a Smooth Clip watermark. No export limits.
Where does my video go? Is it private?
Local-first where possible. Files imported directly into the browser stay in IndexedDB until you analyze or export them. URL analysis and rendered clips are cached on the Smooth server's upload storage so previews and downloads work; self-hosters control that storage. Analysis runs through the processing service configured under your own key.
Do you watermark exports?
Free exports include a small Smooth Clip watermark. Paid exports can remove it, and the editor preview shows you exactly where it will sit.
What makes Smooth different?
Three things: (1) Smooth is tuned for podcasters and long videos. (2) It filters down to a small set of complete moments instead of dumping random clips. (3) One approved edit can render Shorts, Reels, TikTok, square, feed, and wide formats without starting again.

Start creating in seconds.

No credit card. Free forever with your own API key.