Updated 1 November 2026 · Markdown

Your account

A KitCut account is needed to make films, and to connect YouTube channels or AI assistants; watching films needs none. Accounts have no password. People sign in with Google, or with a one-time link sent by email, and Google and email sign-in for the same address reach the same account.

Signing in

• More than one workspace: signing in on the home page or in the Studio asks which workspace to open, unless you chose one to open every time (Switching workspace).
• Staying signed in: 90 days on the same browser.
• Signing out: the account menu (your picture, top right, on every page) and then Sign out.
• Age: people under 13 may not use KitCut.

One account per person

Free film is once per person, not once per address: the monthly free credits, the welcome bonuses and invitation rewards belong to a person's first account.

• Another spelling of your address is the same account. Gmail ignores dots and anything after a +, so [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected] are one mailbox, and signing in with any of them opens the same KitCut account. The same holds for + addresses at Outlook, Hotmail, Live, iCloud, Proton and Fastmail.
• Temporary inboxes get no account. Signing up with a throwaway address is refused with "Use an email address you keep: KitCut does not make accounts for temporary inboxes." An account that already exists keeps signing in.
• Private and forwarding email services get no new account. Signing up with an address at Proton Mail, Tuta, cock.li, or an alias service (SimpleLogin, Proton Pass, addy.io, DuckDuckGo, Firefox Relay, 33mail) is refused with "Please sign up with a work or personal address from a mainstream provider. KitCut does not make new accounts at private or forwarding email services." Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo, GMX, Fastmail, mailbox.org and the like, and an address at your own domain, are accepted. An account that already exists at one of these services keeps signing in.
• No new accounts with Russian email addresses. Signing up with an address under a Russian domain (.ru, .su, .рф, .рус, .москва, .дети, .moscow, .tatar), or at a Russian mail service elsewhere (Yandex on any domain such as yandex.com, Mail.ru's mail.ua, Rambler's rambler.ua, VK), is refused with "KitCut does not make new accounts with Russian email addresses (.ru, .su, .рф, Yandex, Mail.ru, Rambler). Please sign up with another address." An account that already exists keeps signing in.
• No new account through a VPN or a proxy. A sign-up that comes through a VPN, a proxy, Tor or a hosting company's network is refused with "Sign-ups through a VPN or proxy aren't available. Please turn off your VPN and try again." iCloud Private Relay is accepted. Some company, school and mobile networks leave through hosting networks too; signing up from another connection, such as home Wi-Fi, works. This is checked only when an account is made: an account that exists signs in from anywhere.
• A second account is one that looks like another account of the same person:
  • it was made in the same browser as the first one was;
  • or its address is very likely the same mailbox (a + address at a domain of its own);
  • or it has the same name, or the same letters in its address, and has been on a browser or a network the first account used.
• What a second account gets: it works like any account and can subscribe to a plan. It gets no monthly free credits and no welcome bonuses, and it earns nothing as somebody's invited friend. Free credits and welcome bonuses it still held end when it is found. Its account page says so at the top, and the home page's credits line links there.
• Sharing a network is fine. People in one home, office or event are different people, and each gets their own free film.
• If KitCut has it wrong (a family's shared computer, for example), write to [email protected]. A cleared account gets back what was ended and is not marked again.
• A closed account is one KitCut has shut for misuse, such as films that break the terms. It cannot sign in ("This account is closed."), under any spelling of its address, and a browser still signed in to it is signed out. Its credits cannot be spent. A new account that looks like a second account of a closed one is closed too. To ask about it, write to [email protected].

The account page

The account page shares the Studio's layout: the bar with the credits left and the account menu, and a sidebar with the Make a film button, then Your work (All projects, All videos, Views), your six most recent projects (with All N projects when there are more) and New project, Explore (Templates, Video examples, KitCut TV), and an Invite friends card. The account page itself opens from the account menu or the credits in the bar.

The page is in tabs, one subject at a time: Overview, Films, Invite friends, Public profile, YouTube and apps, Emails and Credit history. Each tab has its own address, so a link opens it and Back returns to the one before: kitcut.ai/account#films, #invite, #profile, #connections, #emails, #credits. A dot on Overview means your card needs attention.

Overview:

• Credits left: the balance, the amount held for films being made, and the amount that expires unused at renewal.
• Plan:
  • the plan and its minutes a month;
  • the longest film;
  • priority on Pro;
  • 2 films at the same time on Pro;
  • this month (or cycle) and what happens when it ends: renewal, or the plan's end date.
  • in a free trial: when it ends, and what is charged then (Free trial).
  • Buttons: See plans (Try a plan free while a trial is open to you) / Change plan, Cancel plan or, once cancelled, Keep my plan, and Manage billing (paid plans, Stripe's portal: card and invoices).
• Latest films: the last four finished films as pictures, each opening its page, and All films, which opens the Films tab.

The other tabs:

• Films: the latest 50, each with its picture, idea (linked to its making page), date, length and credits, and its status. Made (the default) lists films finished or being made, Credits back the ones that failed or were stopped and gave their credits back, and All both; the switch shows only when there is a film with its credits back. A round of changes to a film is a line of its own, "Changes to" the film with the version it makes, and the seconds its notes cover as its length:
  • Charged: finished, with a Share page link, Open in Studio (the film's page there: its video on YouTube, its versions, its views and its downloads, A film's page in the Studio) and a Public switch (off: link-only, out of the gallery and your creator page; films are kept out of search engines either way, Who can see a film; the same switch is In the gallery on the film's page in the Studio);
  • Being made;
  • Refunded, with the reason.
• Public profile: how your films' share pages and your creator page name you. See Public profile.
• YouTube and apps: the connected YouTube channels (Publishing to YouTube). Shown only for accounts that have publishing. A channel that has not given KitCut its YouTube Analytics permission says so, with Connect again, which adds its views day by day to the Views page.
  • Connected assistants, on the same tab: each AI app connected to the account, when it was connected and last used, with Disconnect. Shown when there is at least one.
• Invite friends: your invite link with Copy and share buttons, how many people opened it, joined, made a film and subscribed, what it has earned you, the rules (folded under The rules), and each friend's status. See Invite friends.
• Emails: three switches, each on unless you turn it off and saved as soon as you click it: Email me when a film is done, Email me when a video changes on YouTube, and A weekly email with my views.
• Credit history: each batch (monthly free credits, plan credits, bonus credits, invitation bonuses, refunds), with its period, and what was used and what is left.

Public profile

• Name: the name shown on your films' share pages and your creator page. Without one, the name Google gave is used; with neither, "KitCut creator".
• Your page: your creator page's address, kitcut.ai/creator/@<handle>: 3 to 30 lower-case letters, digits and hyphens. It is made from your name the first time it is needed; a handle you change away from keeps working.
• Photo: Google's picture, or one you upload (cut to a square). Remove photo goes back to Google's; Hide my Google photo shows a letter instead.
• Show my name and photo on my films and my creator page: on for every account until it is turned off. Off, your films' pages say "Made with KitCut" and your creator page is gone.
• Changes show within the hour on pages already visited.

Emails

• KitCut sends people sign-in emails (the link, or the code), and notes about invitations: a friend joined through your link, made their first film, or subscribed, and a bonus arrived.
• "Your film is ready": a few minutes after a film is finished, an email with its picture, its share page's address, Watch and share, and links to send it on by X, WhatsApp, LinkedIn and Facebook; and a link to its making page to publish or download it. It comes for films made on the site, in a project or through an assistant, so the page doesn't need to stay open.
  • A Free film of your own has one more line in that email: it carries the KitCut mark and ending, with a link that opens the film on its Remove branding offer (Removing the mark from a film). Opened where you are not signed in, it asks you to sign in first and then shows the offer.
  • "Your film is clean": when the mark has been removed from a film, an email says so, with a link to the film.
  • A film that fails gets an email too ("Your film didn't finish"), saying its credits are back.
  • A film paused for its narrator's voice (its ElevenLabs account stopped speaking half-way) gets "Your film is paused", saying why and where to fix it. In a shared workspace, when the fix is its owner's and admins', they get one too. See Narrator voices.
  • A film you stop yourself gets none.
  • A new version of a film (Changing a finished film) gets "Version N of your film is ready", with what Claude changed and a link to its notes. A version that did not finish, or that was not made because Claude found nothing to change, gets an email saying so: nothing was used, and the notes are saved. A version you stop yourself gets none.
  • Turn it off under Emails on the account page, or with the link at the bottom of every such email. It is on for every account until then.
• "Your video changed on YouTube": when KitCut finds one of your videos removed on YouTube, turned down, or made public, unlisted or private there, one email lists every change it found at once. A change you make from KitCut sends none. Turn it off under Emails, or with the link at the bottom of every such email.
• "Your week on KitCut", on Mondays: your views on YouTube and on KitCut, the most watched films and what changed on YouTube (The Views page). Turn it off the same way.
• News, now and then: an email when something new arrives, such as a new look, from [email protected] to every account.
  • Every one ends with an Unsubscribe link. It opens a page with an Unsubscribe button; mail apps that show their own unsubscribe button (Gmail, Apple Mail) do the same in one click. After that no news comes; sign-in links, invitation notes and emails about your own films still do.
  • To get news again, press Subscribe again on the same page.
  • A news email counts whether it was opened (a tiny picture in it loads) and which of its kitcut.ai links were followed.
• Payment receipts and invoices come from Stripe.

Your data

• Kept while the account exists: the account, its films and what they were made from, and roughly where you were (city, region, country) when you signed up and when you last signed in or asked for a film. The IP address itself is not kept.
• Unused uploads are deleted after 24 hours. See the privacy policy.
• A copy of your data, a correction, or closing the account and deleting its films: write to [email protected] from the account's email address. Answers come within 30 days.
• There are no buttons yet to delete the account or a film, or to change the account's email.