95% cheaper,
still better.
VidLift edits your videos for you. One click turns a script into a finished YouTube video, with voiceover, footage, motion graphics, captions, music and sound effects. No editing skills, no coding agents, and it runs on your own computer for about 17 cents a minute in AI fees.
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No coding agents
No Claude Code, Codex or Copilot to babysit. A finished app: no prompts, no terminal, nothing to debug.
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One click, the whole edit
Paste a script, press Create, and get back a finished video with voice, footage, graphics and captions.
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About 17 cents a minute
AI fees on your own keys: about $4.25 for a 25-minute video. No credits, no render limits.
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Several videos at once
An editor cuts one video at a time. VidLift runs projects side by side, even overnight.
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17 channel templates
History, true crime, finance, cars, stories and more, each with its own look and music.
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Runs on your computer
Windows or Mac. Your scripts and videos stay on your own machine.
$49 a month for the first 100 members. After that the price triples to $147, so joining early pays.
The whole edit, done for you.
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One click
Paste a script and press Create. VidLift voices it, plans every scene, finds the footage, adds the graphics, captions, music and sound, and renders the MP4. No timeline to drag and no editing skills needed.
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No coding agents
Other AI video setups have you running Claude Code or Codex, writing prompts and fixing scripts. VidLift is a finished app with buttons. There's no terminal, nothing to code and nothing to debug.
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Runs on your computer
VidLift installs on your Windows PC or Mac and makes every video there. Your scripts and videos stay on your machine, with no credits to buy and no monthly render limit.
What that video cost
VidLift records every paid AI call it makes. This is the ledger for the whole 57-second Halifax video.
About $4.25
in AI fees for a 25-minute video, at 17 cents a finished minute, the median across our recent videos.
AI fees, paid on your own API keys. Footage costs nothing extra.
The Halifax Explosion
57 seconds, History template
- Script analysis$0.0160
- Voiceover$0.0041
- Scene plan$0.0371
- Graphics$0.0087
- Overlays$0.0050
- Footage selection$0.0472
- Titles and description$0.0010
Total$0.12
Delivered: MP4, three thumbnails, a title and a description.
What an editor charges for the same video
Typical rates for one 25-minute faceless video with B-roll, stock footage, text and captions.
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Offshore editor
India, the Philippines, Pakistan
$50–$100₹4,000–₹8,000
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Editor paid by the hour 4 to 7 hours at $15–$35 an hour
$60–$245for simple assembly
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Fiverr or Upwork freelancer Mid-tier editors who specialise in faceless channels
$120–$220per video
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Western retention editor
Experienced editors in the US, UK, Canada and Australia
$250–$450+per video
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VidLift
AI fees for the whole video, on your own keys
$4.25per video
And the hours come back
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A few minutes
of your time per video. Paste the script, pick a template, press Create. VidLift does the rest unattended, even overnight.
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4 to 7 hours
of editing for every 25-minute video when a person does it, before revisions and the wait for delivery.
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Several at once
An editor works on one video at a time. VidLift runs several projects side by side on your computer, and up to nine more at once on cloud engines.
Your month, next to an editor's bill
95% less, which keeps $1,609 a month in your pocket.
About 55 hours of editing a month you no longer do or wait for.
VidLift here is the $49 membership plus AI fees at 17 cents a finished minute. Editing time uses 4 to 7 hours per 25 minutes of video.
Everything an editor does.
On every video.
Each part of the edit has its own track in VidLift, the same tracks you saw under the Halifax video.
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Footage
Real footage, archive photos and maps, gathered for every line of the script, with AI images when nothing real fits. Each candidate is checked against what the voice is saying, and only the best fit makes the cut.
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Motion graphics
Date cards, counters, timelines, maps, satellite views, real news headlines and spec sheets, placed where the script calls for them and drawn in the template's style.
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Captions
Timed word by word to the voice, with key words highlighted. They step aside when a graphic is on screen, and any line can be fixed in the caption editor.
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Voice
Natural voices that run free on your own computer. Or connect the premium voice service your channel already uses.
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Music and sound
Music that changes with each chapter and dips under the voice. Whooshes, hits and risers land on the cuts.
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Pacing
Cuts fall on the narration's phrases. The first minute is edited hardest to hold viewers, then the pace settles to suit the niche.
Seventeen templates
A template sets the look, voice, pacing, graphics, music and captions for one kind of channel. Each clip below came out of VidLift.
- History (Documentary)
- Documentary (Modern)
- 2D Stickman
- Military & War
- 2D Finance Explainer
- Car Documentary
- News Headlines Reporter
- Sports
- Motivational Speaker
- Dark Psychology
- AI Stories
- Bible Explainer
- Housing Market
- Farmhouse
Also included: Celebrity, Celebrity Documentary and True Crime. New templates arrive with updates.
From script to upload
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Paste a script
Bring your own, or give VidLift a topic and let the AI write it.
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Pick a template
It decides the voice, pacing, graphics, music and caption style.
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Check it, or let it run
Review the scene plan, the footage and the edit as they're made. Or switch on auto and come back to a finished video.
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Upload
You get the MP4, three thumbnails, a title and a description.
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Runs on your computer
Windows 10 or 11, or a Mac with Apple Silicon or Intel. About 15 GB of disk space. Your videos never leave your machine.
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Or on a rented GPU
No NVIDIA card? Start a cloud engine from inside VidLift for 5 to 10 cents an hour, and the finished videos come home by themselves.
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Run it from your phone
Start, approve and download videos from Telegram, or ask your AI assistant to do it for you.
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Updates in the app
New templates and fixes install from Settings. Bugs and requests are tracked in the open on status.vidlift.io.
From the YTA Insiders community
Here are the analytics for a video I edited using VidLift. Since it was published, it has reached 47.2K views, 4.7K hours of watch time, and 241 new subscribers.
- Views
- 47.2K
- Watch hours
- 4.7K
- New subscribers
- +241
It's crazy the output that I'm getting. Bgm is good too. This tool is gonna get better and better with time.
VidLift is crazy good. Results from two different channels, happy to own this software.
VidLift is one of the best tools I've used so far.
Questions
Do I need a powerful computer?
No. Any Windows 10 or 11 PC or recent Mac with about 15 GB free will do. An NVIDIA graphics card makes VidLift much faster. Without one, you can rent a cloud GPU from inside the app for 5 to 10 cents an hour.
What else will I pay for?
Only the AI services you connect, paid on your own API keys. Our recent videos came to about 17 cents per finished minute. Footage costs nothing extra, and the built-in voices run free on your computer.
Who owns the videos?
You do. VidLift makes and keeps everything on your own computer, under your own accounts.
Do I need Claude Code, Codex or any coding?
No. VidLift is a finished app, not a project you build with a coding agent. You download one small zip, open it and press "Install everything". From then on you paste a script and press one button. There's no terminal, no code and nothing to fix.
How do I get VidLift?
Join YTA Insiders on Skool and send your GitHub username in the community. You'll get an invite to the download, and a step-by-step guide for Windows and Mac.
Can I cancel?
Yes, any time. The membership is $49 a month for the first 100 members, and $147 a month after that. Refunds aren't available once you've downloaded VidLift.
Get VidLift with YTA Insiders
YTA Insiders is a Skool community for faceless YouTube creators, run by Himanshu: six years in YouTube automation, fourteen faceless channels. Membership includes:
- VidLift, with every update
- Research on untapped faceless niches
- A high-retention scriptwriting framework
- Playbooks for monetisation and YouTube's policies
- A weekly live Q&A
$49 a month
For the first 100 members, then $147 a month. Cancel anytime.