Paste your Shorts topic and get a feed-ready title, a 3-second hook, and a script with retention beats at 15s and 30s — so viewers stay past the swipe zone.
Paste your weak hook or video topic — get 5 rebuilt hook variations with diagnosis, director notes, text overlay suggestions, and retention predictions. Stop losing viewers in the first 3 seconds.
Stop rewatching long videos to find clips. Drop in a YouTube URL and get Shorts candidate cards with timecodes, a first-3-seconds hook, a vertical script, and paste-ready ffmpeg cut commands. Transcripts come via yt-dlp (manual subtitles first, auto fallback); picks are ranked against a 9-type hook catalog and a 5-point checklist. Conditions like "under 45s only" apply as-is; exclusions are reported with reasons. Includes 2 Python scripts (343 lines). No video editing or speech-to-text.
Send a topic or an image, get 5 ranked 6-second hook packs: first frame, AI prompts, voiceover line, on-screen text, score.
Free. Paste a long-video or podcast transcript and get your 10 best shorts moments — ranked, with the exact quoted lines to cut, why each one works on its own, and a working title. No guessing where to cut. Picked a moment? Hook Lab turns it into 5+ hooks and a ready-to-film script.
Create stronger hooks for TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, and other short-form videos. Turn one topic or video idea into multiple opening lines, curiosity hooks, problem-based hooks, questions, pattern interrupts, on-screen text ideas, visual openings, retention structures, and CTAs. Compare hook variations and improve weak openings for clearer, more engaging short-form content.
Analyzes your video hook or script, predicts 1-to-6-second retention, exposes drop-off points, and instantly generates a fully rewritten, high-retention script version.