Write a YouTube Shorts script with AI: a hook, a tight body and a payoff, timed for 30 or 60 seconds. Works for TikTok and Reels too.
Free tier: 20 generations a day.
How It Works
A sentence about your topic, audience or video is enough.
AI writes several options in a few seconds.
Copy one, edit it, or generate again for new ideas.
The YouTube Shorts Script Generator is a free online tool from ShortsHero: hook, body and payoff timed to 30-60 seconds. An AI model writes the result in a few seconds. Free, up to 20 runs a day.
Hook, body and payoff timed to 30-60 seconds.
Why Use This Tool
Pick the best or combine them.
Lengths, tone and format match what performs there.
Generate straight away.
Yes — 20 generations a day, no account needed.
Yes. The text is yours to use, edit and publish.
ShortsHero turns long videos into short vertical clips with AI moment detection, face tracking and animated captions — and has free tools for subtitles, transcripts and video formats.
The same transcription powers ShortsHero's clip maker: it finds the strongest moments, reframes them to vertical and adds word-by-word captions in 36 styles.
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Keep Going
Find the best time to post YouTube Shorts in your time zone. See the top windows for each day of the week, and how to test your own.
Check if your channel qualifies for YouTube Shorts monetization. Enter subscribers and Shorts views and see how far you are from each tier.
Check your YouTube title against the 100-character limit and see exactly where it gets cut off on mobile, desktop and Shorts, before you publish.
Resize video for YouTube Shorts at 1080×1920 and under the length limit. Fill, blur or AI reframe, then upload straight to Shorts.
Repost your TikToks to YouTube Shorts as clean files. Paste the link, we fetch the original, fix the length and captions, and hand you a Shorts-ready MP4.
Add subtitles to YouTube Shorts automatically. Burned-in, animated captions that show for every viewer, plus an SRT for YouTube's own CC track.