Reddit story template

Reddit story video maker: paste a story, get a narrated short with captions

Paste a Reddit post or your own story. GhostShorts does not write it for you: it narrates your text with an AI voice, adds word-synced captions and a looping background clip, and renders a 1080x1920 MP4. Renders usually take about a minute. The first ten seconds of the voiceover are free to hear before you pay anything.

Paste your story

The facts

Input
Your own story text: a title of up to 200 characters and the body. Typed, pasted, or autofilled from a Reddit link.
Output
One 1080x1920 MP4 at 30 fps: AI narration, word-synced captions, a title card and a looping background clip.
Render time
About a minute. Measured on production over the 60 days to 2026-09-24: p50 61 seconds, p90 99 seconds, across all templates.
Free step
The first ten seconds of the AI voiceover reading your own story, before any payment. It is your text, not a canned demo.
Price to make one
One video from your monthly allowance. Starter is $19.99 a month and includes 30 videos; the AI voiceover and the captions cost no extra credits.
Narration languages
The voice reads your text in whatever language you wrote it. On the API this template takes an ISO 639-1 language code.
API and MCP
Yes. reddit_story on the REST API and on the MCP server, plus a free narration teaser at POST /v1/previews.

One real example

14 seconds

What went in

Title
I made my friend fail med school
Story
The creator's own text, about a roommate called Justin, two years of shared sleepless nights and endless med-school demands, and the week of year exams that went wrong.
Voice
One AI voice, picked from the voice list in the wizard.
Background
Minecraft parkour, from the background library.
Captions
One word at a time, centred.

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.

How it works

Four steps, all of them in the Reddit Story wizard.

1

Paste the story

Fill the Content section: a title and the body. A paste-a-link shortcut can autofill both from a Reddit post.

2

Pick a voice

Choose an AI voice in the Voice section, then hear the first ten seconds of it reading your own story for free.

3

Set the look

Pick a background clip in the Background section and a caption preset in the Captions section.

4

Generate Video

Press Generate Video. The render takes about a minute and lands in your library as a 1080x1920 MP4.

Who it is for

People who already have the story: a subreddit regular with a post that did well, a storytime channel that publishes daily, an agency producing the same format for several accounts. The work it removes is the narration, the caption timing and the export, which is the part that takes an hour in an editor and a minute here.

What it is not

It does not find stories for you and it does not scrape Reddit. You paste the text, and a paste-a-link shortcut only autofills a card you can still edit. It does not write the story either: the AI here reads, it does not author. It will not post to TikTok or YouTube for you, and it has no voice cloning, so the narration is one of our AI voices rather than yours.

Simple Plans for Serious Growth.

Voice, images, scripts and captions are included on every plan. AI credits pay for motion and premium models — nothing else touches them.

Starter Plan

Perfect for getting started

$19.99/month
  • ✓ 30 videos / month
  • ✓ Unlimited AI voiceovers
  • ✓ Unlimited AI images
  • ✓ 30 AI credits for motion
  • ✓ Clipping: 300 source-minutes
  • ✓ Access to growth tools
  • ✓ Captions in 102+ languages
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GhostMode Plan

For professional content creators

$79.99/month
  • ✓ 120 videos / month
  • ✓ Unlimited AI voiceovers
  • ✓ Unlimited AI images
  • ✓ 180 AI credits for motion
  • ✓ Clipping: 1,800 source-minutes
  • ✓ Access to growth tools
  • ✓ Captions in 102+ languages
Get Started

Need more mid-month? $9.99 adds 5 videos + 20 AI credits, and never expires.

Need more power?

Enterprise Plan

Custom solutions for teams and agencies

✓ Custom video and AI-credit allowances✓ API access (approval-based)✓ Higher concurrency limits✓ Priority rendering queue✓ Dedicated support channel✓ Volume-based pricing✓ Early access to new features✓ Batch optimization support
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What Creators Are Saying

Real results. Real reach. Built with GhostShorts.

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Made a Reddit story short in the middle of my chem class. 100K views before I got home.

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@etherstories

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Honestly thought this was just another overhyped AI tool. But it actually delivers and is super easy to use. I already created 10 shorts in 1 day.

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@clip.lott

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Tried a couple viral formats on the app. A month later... 10 million views. This app is stupid easy to use.

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rakaii.fxx

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Making edits CapCut felt homeworkish. GhostShorts is easy af, almost feels likes I am on autopilot.

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@sturdylives

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All I do is copy a Reddit post, paste it in, export, done. It's stupid easy.

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@RedditBook

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Used to doom scroll all night. Now I post the same type of videos I used to binge.

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@tgpu

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I run a few fake text story channels. Jesus I've hit over 5 million likes on just one of my channels alone. It's ridiculous.

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GhostShorts saved me countless hours of editing time. Highly recommended!

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I cut my content creation time by 80% after switching to GhostShorts. It's the only tool that actually keeps up with how fast I work.

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Frequently Asked Questions

We are here to help you with any questions you may have. If you don't find what you need, please contact us at [email protected]

Paste the story into the Reddit Story wizard as a title and a body, pick a voice and a background clip, then press Generate Video. GhostShorts narrates the text, times the captions to the narration word by word and renders a 1080x1920 MP4 you download and upload to TikTok yourself.
Hearing the first ten seconds of the AI voiceover reading your own story is free and needs no card. The full narration and the downloadable MP4 need a plan. Starter is $19.99 a month and includes 30 videos.
There is a paste-a-link shortcut in the wizard that autofills the title and body into the card you can see and edit. It is an autofill, not a scraper: nothing is posted anywhere, and you can change every word before anything is narrated.
No. Narration comes from the AI voice list in the wizard, and you pick one voice per story. You cannot upload a recording of yourself for this template.
Yes. The voice reads the text in whatever language you wrote it, so a Spanish story is narrated in Spanish. On the API the reddit_story template takes an ISO 639-1 language code alongside the text.
About a minute. Measured on production over the 60 days to 2026-09-24, the median render finished in 61 seconds and 9 in 10 finished inside 99 seconds.
The videos are yours to post, schedule and monetize. Two honest caveats: the story is yours to have the right to use, and platforms increasingly demote channels that publish the same template with only the words swapped, so vary the voice, the background and the hook.
Yes. GhostShorts has an API and an MCP server. Connect it to Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT (via API) or n8n and ask for a video; see ghostshorts.com/developers.
API and MCP

Make this from ChatGPT, Claude or Cursor

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>"

This template is available as reddit_story on the API. Plain-text guide for agents

Link straight in: ghostshorts.com/reddit-story?title=…&story=…

Paste a story and hear it back.

The first ten seconds of the voiceover are free. The render takes about a minute after that.

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