Updated 1 November 2026 · Markdown

Your films

Every finished film has two pages:

• Its share page, kitcut.ai/v/<id>/<name>: the page to send people. The film fills the first screen and starts playing at once; under it are its title, who made it, share buttons and Create your own KitCut video. Nothing else is on it.
• Its making page, kitcut.ai/film/<id>: the video, the idea it was made from, and how Claude made it. The person who made it publishes it to YouTube from here, or from an AI assistant (Assistants).
• Its page in the Studio, kitcut.ai/studio/film/<id>, for the person who made it: where its video on YouTube is looked after (title, description, thumbnail, who can watch it, its day), with the film's versions, its views and its downloads (A film's page in the Studio).

Films made on the website are public and can appear in the gallery. Films made through an AI assistant are link-only unless the person asks for them to be public.

The video

The making page's player doesn't show the subtitles; the video file carries them. The share page offers them in the player's captions menu.

The share page

• The address is kitcut.ai/v/ and the six letters at the end of the film's id, then the film's name in plain words (for example kitcut.ai/v/qm2ucj/how-bees-make-honey). The six letters find the film; the name is only for people to read, so a link without it, or with an older name, still opens the film. Every other address of the film (its making page, or a link with tracking tags such as ?utm_source=) names this one as the film's own address.
• The film plays as soon as the page opens, with sound. A browser that does not allow sound before the visitor has clicked anything plays it silently, with Tap for sound, and the sound comes on at their first click, tap or key press anywhere on the page, from the beginning. At the end it offers Watch again and Create your own KitCut video.
• The title and the line under it are written by Claude from the finished film, about a minute after it is done, in the film's language. Until then the page uses the idea.
• Who made it: the maker's name and photo, linked to their creator page. Someone who turns this off in their account is not named: the page says "Made with KitCut".
• Share buttons: Copy link, the phone's own share sheet (on phones), X, Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Telegram, Reddit and email.
• Create your own KitCut video is the maker's invite link, so a friend who signs up from it counts as the maker's invitation (Invite friends).
• Made from a template: a film made from one says so in a line under its title, linking to the template's page (Templates).
• No other films are shown on it.
• The link preview (X, Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Slack, iMessage): a 1200x628 picture drawn from the film in its own look, with a few words on it, and the written title. Discord, Telegram and Slack can play the film right in the chat.
• Report this film: a link at the bottom writes to [email protected].

Creator pages

• Every maker who is named has one, at kitcut.ai/creator/@<handle>. The handle is made from their name, and can be changed on the account page; an old handle keeps working.
• It lists their finished public films, newest first, 24 to a page, each opening its share page. Link-only films are not listed.
• Someone who turns naming off has no creator page.
• Search engines are asked to leave creator pages out (noindex), and none is in the sitemap. The page works for anyone with its link.
• Play all opens their films on KitCut TV, newest first.

KitCut TV

kitcut.ai/tv plays the public films one after another, full screen, the way TikTok or Instagram's stories do. No account is needed to watch or to like. KitCut TV is in the sidebar, under Explore, and for visitors in the bar at the top too.

• Next and back: swipe up (or turn the mouse wheel a notch, swipe a trackpad once, or press ↓) for the next film, down for the one before. A short quick flick is enough; a slow drag needs to pass about a fifth of the screen, or the film slides back. A film that ends gives way to the next by itself. The last screen says so, with Create your own and Watch from the top.
• Feeds: For you puts first the films people watched and liked most, weighed against how new they are, and never two films of one maker in a row where another's can come between. New is newest first. Liked appears once you have liked a film: the films you liked, the latest like first. Play all on a creator page opens kitcut.ai/tv/@<handle>: that maker's public films, newest first.
• Taps: one tap pauses or plays. Browsers start a film silently until the visitor touches the page, so the first tap turns the sound on instead (Tap for sound says so); after that every film plays with sound until it is turned off. A double tap likes the film, with a heart where the finger was.
• Beside the film: who made it (their photo opens their creator page; "Made with KitCut" for a maker who is not named), the heart with the number of likes, Share, Captions for a film with subtitles, the sound, and Full screen where the browser has it. An iPhone has no full screen for a page: turn it on its side.
• Share offers Copy link, the phone's own share sheet, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Telegram, Reddit and email, all with the film's share page, plus Open the film's page and Download (the full-quality MP4).
• The line along the film's foot shows where it is; press or drag it to move there.
• Any screen, either way round: a phone held upright shows a wide film across the screen with its words under it, and a tall (9:16) film filling the screen with its words over its foot. On its side, the film fills the screen and its words and buttons fade away while it plays; a touch brings them back. On a computer the film is centred, with its buttons beside it and arrows for the next and the previous film.
• Keys on a computer: ↓ / ↑ (or J / K) next and previous, Space pause, M sound, L like, C captions, F full screen, ← / → five seconds back or on.
• The address follows the film: kitcut.ai/tv/<id> (the six letters of its share link) opens the feed at that film, so the address of the page, copied or reloaded, opens the film being watched. A film that is not public opens its share page instead.
• Likes: a film is liked once per person: per account when signed in, per browser when not (a browser's likes stay with it after signing in). Anyone sees how many likes a film has; nobody sees who liked it. One internet address can like up to 300 films a day.
• What is on it: finished public films. Link-only films and films taken out of the gallery are not.

The making page

The page opens on the film. What can be done with it is right under it, and everything else is further down or folded away.

• The film's name at the top: the title written from the finished film, or the idea while it is being made. The browser tab and search results show the same name.
• The video, with its poster, in the browser's own player. It is as large as the screen allows while still leaving room for the row of buttons under it. While the film is being made, its latest review sheet (the stills Claude checks) is in the video's place.
• Under the film:
  • its status: how long it took, or what Claude is doing now;
  • its views;
  • for the person who made it, Download and Publish to YouTube once it is finished (Publishing to YouTube), and Stop while it is being made. Once the film is on YouTube the button says where the video stands, with Manage, which opens its page in the Studio (A film's page in the Studio);
  • under the share bar, for the person who made it and can publish to YouTube: where the film is on YouTube (a scheduled video with Change date beside it), and Open in Studio, the film's page there (A film's page in the Studio);
  • for the person who made it, Remove branding, when the film carries the KitCut mark and ending (Removing the mark from a film);
  • for the person who made it, Edit film once it is finished (Changing a finished film), and a line that says which version the page shows once the film has more than one.
• The share bar, under a finished film: the share page's address, Copy link, and X, Facebook, LinkedIn and WhatsApp. The maker also sees how the share page names them, with a link to change it, and Email, which puts the film in an email (A film in an email).
• The prompt, on one line; click it to read it all.
  • Copy copies the prompt.
  • Make it again (Make one like it for anyone else) opens the idea box under the film, filled with the same idea, look and length, ready to change and make. The pictures, text files, voice notes and people the film was made with do not come back; add them again.
• The making log ("What Claude is doing") sits beside the film while it is being made: each step and Claude's own notes.
  • Once the film is finished, the log folds into one line, How Claude made it, which shows Claude's turns and how long the film took.
  • Opened, it shows the film's stats and the whole log. The stats are how long it took, Claude's time, the render time, Claude's turns, and, for a painted or collage film, the number of paintings or cut-outs.
• A film that didn't finish (it failed, was stopped or was interrupted) says so in the video's place, with Try again. Try again opens the idea box with the film's idea, look and length.
• A link preview: the same picture and title as the share page, which search engines are pointed to instead.

All videos

All videos, under Your work in the Studio's sidebar (kitcut.ai/studio/videos), lists every film made in your workspace: yours and everyone else's in it, in every project and outside them, newest first. Everyone in a workspace sees all of its films, link-only ones included; nobody outside it sees any. In another workspace you are in, it lists that workspace's films, and the workspace menu keeps you on All videos when you switch.

• A card a film: its picture (the version it shows now, for a film changed with notes), its title (or the start of its idea), who made it ("You" for your own), its project as a coloured chip ("No project" outside one; an archived project is still shown, marked archived), when it was made (hover for the date and time) and its length.
• Badges: a film being made says Making…; one that failed, was stopped or was interrupted says Didn't finish.
• Opening one: a finished film opens its page in the Studio; one being made, or that didn't finish, opens its making page. Everyone in the workspace can watch a film there; changing it, listing it and publishing it stay with whoever made it and the workspace's owner and admins (Workspaces).
• Filters, in one bar above the cards: Who (Everyone, Me, or anyone in the workspace who has made a film; hidden while you are the only one), Project (all, one project, or No project), Status (Finished, In progress, Didn't finish) and a search of titles and ideas (up to 100 characters). Each lists only choices that have films. The filters are in the page's address, so a filtered list can be shared with others in the workspace, and Back goes to the filters before.
• How many: the number of films that match, and 48 at a time with Show more for the next.
• Films made before workspaces kept who made them show as the workspace's person in your own workspace; in an organisation's they show as "Someone", and the Who filter leaves them out.

Views

A film is counted in two places, and KitCut keeps the two apart: they are never added together.

• KitCut page views are counted by KitCut, not YouTube. A view is a finished film's page opened: its share page, its making page or its plain page (where an email's picture of it leads), every time, reloads included (page views); and a film watched on KitCut TV for 3 seconds, once a visit. The number shows after the maker's name on the share page, under the film on the making page, on each episode's card in a project ("… views on KitCut"), and to the maker's AI assistant (get_film, list_my_films, get_views). Counting began on 2026-09-29; views are kept day by day since 2026-09-30, and the ones from before are in the totals but not on the charts.
• YouTube views are YouTube's own, for films published to YouTube from KitCut: the running total YouTube reports, read every hour (it shows on the episode's YouTube badge), and, where the channel allows it, views, watch time and subscribers gained day by day from YouTube Analytics, up to 3 days behind. See Publishing to YouTube.

The Views page

Views in the sidebar shows every film in the account; a project's Views tab shows its episodes only.

• Ranges: 7 days, 28 days, 90 days or all time. YouTube or KitCut picks whose numbers the chart and the trends show.
• Four figures: YouTube views, watch time, subscribers gained, and KitCut page views, each with the same span before it to compare.
• A bar a day for the chosen numbers (a bar a week past four months). Hover, or focus the chart and use the arrow keys, for a day's number. YouTube's last days are hatched until YouTube reports them.
• By project (on the account's page): each project's views and trend. Films outside a project are grouped as "Not in a project".
• A row per film, which opens the film's page in the Studio: its YouTube badge (with its menu), a trend line, YouTube views and watch time in the range with the running total under them, KitCut views with their total, and the day it was made. The headers sort.
• Average view duration: under a film's watch time, YouTube's own averages for the video's whole life: how long a view lasts, and how much of the film it covers (for a channel that gave KitCut its Analytics permission).
• A weekly email on Mondays says the same in short: your YouTube views and watch time for the 7 days YouTube has reported, your KitCut page views, the three most watched films, and what changed on YouTube that week. A week with nothing to say sends nothing. Turn it off under Emails on the account page.
• A channel that has not given KitCut its Analytics permission shows a Connect again banner; until then its films show YouTube's running total only.
• The Studio's project cards show each project's last 28 days: YouTube's views where it has them, else KitCut's.
• Days are UTC.

Who can see a film

• Search engines: films made since 27 October 2026 are kept out of search engines, public or not, and no film is in the site's sitemap. A public film made before then can still be found in search. Creator pages are kept out of search engines too, and are not in the sitemap. Its link, its link preview, the gallery, creator pages and KitCut TV work the same either way.

• The gallery on the home page lists every finished public film, newest first (the 12 newest while the film-making service is offline).

• Switching: the Public switch beside each film on the account page, In the gallery on the film's page in the Studio (A film's page in the Studio), or an assistant (set_film_public, Assistants), moves a film between public and link-only.

• Taking a film out of the gallery: write to [email protected].

• Failed and stopped films keep their page, which search engines are told to skip.

What a film's page shows to anyone with the link:

• the idea, under the film (and as the page's title until the finished film has a title of its own);
• the making log, including Claude's notes, which may describe the pictures the person attached, and the review sheets shown while it is made;
• the video.

What its share page and creator page show: the maker's chosen name and photo (or Google's), unless they turn that off on the account page (Your account). A maker with no name shows as "KitCut creator".

What no page ever shows: the pictures, text files and voice notes themselves, credits, costs, or the maker's email address.

The KitCut mark (Free only)

• Free films carry a small mark: "made with kitcut.ai" in the bottom-right corner, for the whole film.
• Free films end with a 3-second closing: the last frame as a snapshot, the KitCut logo, "Make your own film" and kitcut.ai, with a chime and a spoken "Make yours at KitCut AI".
• Films on a paid plan carry neither.
• The terms ask that the mark and closing on a Free film be left in place.

Removing the mark from a film

A film made on Free can lose its mark and closing later, once its maker is on a paid plan. A film made in a plan's free trial loses them by itself when the trial's first month is paid (Free trial); until then its Remove branding says on which day. It is the same film: KitCut draws it again from the same code, voice and music, without the mark and the closing, at 60 frames a second. Nothing is written or voiced again, and it uses no credits.

• Who sees it: the person who made the film, signed in, on a film of their own that carries the mark. Nobody else sees the button or the offer.
• On Free, Remove branding opens an offer:
  • what the mark and the closing look like on this film;
  • the plan that removes them: Pro, from $45 a month for 10 minutes of film (Plans and credits);
  • one button to the checkout, which comes back to the film.
• The offer also opens by itself, once a film: the first time the film plays to its end, or the first time Download is pressed. From Download it has Download with branding, so the download is one click away either way. Closing it is remembered for that film; the button stays.
• After paying, the film's page says Removing the KitCut branding. The film keeps playing as it is until the new one is ready, usually a few minutes later (longer when the studio is busy), and then takes its place on the same page. It carries on if the page is closed, and an email says when it is done.
• On a paid plan already, the button removes the mark from an older film in one click. No offer, no credits.
• What changes: the video, its download, its poster and its link preview. Its page, its address, its views and its title stay.
• What does not: a copy already published to YouTube keeps the mark; the clean film goes up as a second video, asked for in the publish dialog (A film goes to a channel once). The publish dialog says so while the film still carries the mark.
• Not offered: for an organisation's film (its plan is chosen by its owners and admins), or for a film whose project has KitCut watermark switched on in its settings; switch it off there for the next episodes. On Free it is also not offered for a film made through the KitCut plugin in ChatGPT or Codex, or to a person who has that plugin connected (Assistants): the plans are on the pricing page, and on a paid plan the button is there as for any film.

Changing a finished film

The person who made a film can change it after it is finished, on the same page and address: Changing a finished film has all of it.

• Edit film, under a finished film of your own, opens the notes over it. A note points at a spot or a boxed area in the picture, a stretch, a narration line, a moment or the whole film, and says what should change.
• Make version 2 sends the notes. Claude makes the film again with those changes and answers each note; an email says when it is ready.
• The new version is the film for everyone. The version before is kept, and one click goes back to it.
• The first round of changes on a film uses no credits; after that a round uses the seconds its notes cover (What a round uses).

Sharing and using a film

• Share the share page's address: it is in the "Your film is ready" email, in the share bar under the film, and beside each film on the account page. The making page's address works too, from the moment a film is asked for.
• Commercial use of the films is allowed (Terms).
• Download: Download beside a finished film on its making page saves the full-quality MP4, for editing or uploading elsewhere. Only whoever made the film sees it. The film's page in the Studio has the same file, with the film's captions (a .vtt file) and its picture (A film's page in the Studio). An assistant gives the same file's address from get_film (download_url), and the lighter web copy for watching (video_url).
• YouTube: a finished film can be published to the person's own channel (Publishing to YouTube).
• In an email: a picture of the film with a play button, which opens a page with only the film on it (A film in an email).

A film in an email

Mail apps (Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail and the rest) don't play videos inside an email. Instead, KitCut gives the email a picture of the film with a play button on it, linked to a page that plays the film and shows nothing else.

• Where: Email in the share bar under a finished film, on its making page. Only whoever made the film sees it.
• The thumbnail. Choose one of these:
  • Card: the film's link-preview picture, one of its first seconds. This is selected when the dialog opens.
  • A moment of the film: 8 moments spread through the film, and a slider to pick any other moment.
  • Upload a picture: a JPG, PNG or WebP of your own, cropped to the film's shape.
• What is drawn on it: a play button in the middle and the film's length in the corner, as a video player shows them. The preview in the dialog is the exact picture the email shows, with the film's title and length under it.
• Copy for email copies the picture and the title, both linked to the film's plain page.
• The plain page, kitcut.ai/play/<id>/<name>: the film on a black page, as large as the window allows, with the player's own controls and nothing else: no title, no share buttons, no KitCut bar. It starts playing at once, with sound where the browser allows it, otherwise silently with Tap for sound at the top of the picture. Captions, when the viewer turns them on, sit on the bottom of the picture. It counts a view like the share page, and search engines don't list it. Emails copied before 2026-10-29 link to the share page instead. Paste it into a new message in Gmail, Outlook or Apple Mail. Copy HTML copies the same thing as HTML code, for a newsletter tool (Mailchimp, HubSpot and others) or an email template.
• Size: 600 pixels wide for a wide film (a mail app's column); a square or tall film is shown narrower, so it isn't taller than one screen.
• The picture stays: each picture has its own address on kitcut.ai and is never changed or removed, so emails already sent keep theirs when you choose another one. The dialog opens on the moment the film's email used last time. A film can have up to 50 different email pictures.
• When a moment can't be chosen: if the browser can't read frames from the film's video, the dialog offers the card and your own picture only.

Not possible yet

• Editing a finished film by hand. There is no timeline and no cutting. A finished film is changed by leaving notes for Claude (Changing a finished film), or by making a new film: its characters, look, voice and music can come back (Characters and projects).
• Deleting a film yourself. Write to [email protected].
• Vertical or square for your own idea on the website. A film from the idea box is 16:9; there, square and tall films come only from templates made in those frames (Templates). Through an assistant, make_film makes a film from an idea tall (a YouTube Short) or square (Shorts from a chat). Other shapes aren't made.
• While the film-making service is offline, a film's page may say it can't be shown right now; the gallery still lists films from their copies online.