Faceless means you never appear: the video carries a voiceover, captions and stock or generated visuals instead of your face. Starting out, three things matter more than any feature list: no editing timeline to learn, a free look at your own video before you pay, and a format that already works on TikTok and Shorts. GhostShorts is template-based: you supply the story, topic or article, it adds narration, captions and a background, renders in about a minute, and the first step is free on most templates.
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The title above is the card the video renders. The story summary is read from the captions in this clip, not from a saved draft.
Six checks you can run on any faceless video tool before you pay for it, including this one. None of them needs a trial longer than ten minutes.
The same six checks, answered about our own product, with what it does not do in the third column.
| The check | GhostShorts | Where it does not fit |
|---|---|---|
| A form, not a timeline | Every template is a wizard: fill in the fields, press render. There is no track editor to learn. | There is no timeline editor at all, so frame-level control over a cut is not available. You can edit the script, the captions and the settings, not the edit. |
| A free look at your own input | Five of the six core templates show you your own input first: ten seconds of narration on a Reddit story, or a silent browser preview of your own chat, quiz or article. | Split Screen has no free step, because it starts from footage you upload and transcribes it at render time. |
| Formats that already work on the feed | The catalogue is 18 templates, including narrated stories, chat threads, quizzes, ranked lists, explainers and clipping a long video into shorts. | They are fixed formats. There is no avatar or talking-head template and no voice cloning, so a format nobody built is not an option. |
| Captions you do not have to add yourself | Word-synced captions are part of the render, from a preset picker, on every template that has narration or uploaded speech. | You choose a preset rather than styling words individually, and the caption styles are ours rather than an open font and effect editor. |
| A file you can post anywhere | Every render is a 1080x1920 MP4 at 30 fps that you download from your library and post wherever you like. | Shorts only: there is no long-form output, and nothing posts or schedules for you. Clipping cuts a long source into vertical clips rather than editing the long video. |
| A price you can count in videos | Plans are monthly with a video allowance. Starter is $19.99 and includes 30 videos, and the default AI voice and image models are included in that. | Premium voice and image models and animated clips spend AI credits on top of the video allowance, so an illustrated or animated short is harder to price at a glance than a flat per-video fee. |
Pick by the channel you want to run, not by the feature list. Each one names what you get to see before you pay.
TikTok and YouTube both allow AI-generated content and both ask you to label it. TikTok requires realistic AI-generated content to be disclosed and labels some uploads automatically. YouTube asks you to disclose realistic synthetic or altered content at upload, and its monetization rules expect a channel to add original value rather than repeat the same output.
Read the policies themselves rather than a summary of them, ours included, because they change and we do not control them: TikTok on AI-generated content, TikTok integrity and authenticity guidelines, YouTube on disclosing altered or synthetic content and YouTube channel monetization policies.
Anything else, email [email protected].
The same template runs through the GhostShorts API and MCP server. Connect it once and ask your assistant for a video; it comes back as a finished MP4 on the same plan and credits.
claude mcp add --transport http ghostshorts https://api.ghostshorts.com/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer <your API key>"