2short.ai
Tool · this deep dive is built from the official pages of the platform itself and of the tools that support it.
Overview
2short.ai turns a long video into short ones — for YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Reels. The AI picks out the most noticeable fragments, face tracking keeps the speaker in the centre of the frame, and animated subtitles are added in one click. The frame is assembled in vertical, square and horizontal formats, and a logo and brand overlays can be laid on top.
The input is a single one: a link to a video on YouTube. There are two requirements for the source, and both are technical — speech must be audible and subtitles must be present. The homepage adds that for most videos YouTube creates them itself.
The languages are listed there too, by name, and there are twenty-six of them: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian. Russian is there. Arabic, Hindi and Chinese are not, and the list is a closed one: the tool gave it in full rather than getting away with a number. The tool's own reservation is that the list is being added to.
Which platforms it works with
Publishing on your behalf the tool does not undertake. Neither on the pricing page, nor in the FAQ, nor in the features block of the homepage is there a mention of connecting social accounts: the clip is downloaded, and a human puts it up. The tool does not state this directly.
The input, on the other hand, is described: a YouTube link, import from Google Drive and uploading by public links. The last two are already a feature of the plans — in the cards they appear from Lite upwards. The platforms that are named figure only as frame formats.
Pricing
The prices are from the pricing page, the currency is a single one, US dollars; other currencies and annual tiers the page does not show.
Lite — 9.90 USD per month: 5 hours of AI analysis per month, 60 minutes of fast server-side exports per month, import from Google Drive and by public links, no advertising. Pro — 19.90 USD per month: 15 hours of analysis, fast exports with no limit. Premium — 49.90 USD per month: 50 hours of analysis, priority support and access to beta features.
The minimum paid tier is 9.90 USD. By the tool's own description, the plans differ mainly in hours of analysis, while the features are available on all of them.
What is free
The Starter plan is free, no card is needed, and its card carries the line "Full access to all features".
The quota, however, is named twice and differently. In the plan card: "30 minutes of AI video analyzing per month". At the bottom of the same page: "With our free Starter plan, you get 15 minutes of AI video analysis". Both figures are from one official page: the tool says different things about itself.
Restrictions
The unit of account is hours of AI analysis per month. Starter — 30 minutes (with the discrepancy above), Lite — 5 hours, Pro — 15 hours, Premium — 50 hours.
The second quota is fast server-side export: 60 minutes per month on Lite, no limit on Pro and Premium. The features block declares "Unlimited high-quality exports" and 1080p.
The words "per month" are on the page, but rules for carrying over an unspent balance are not, and the date on which the quota renews is not named either.
Rights to the output
There is no answer, and the reason for that is a rare one: the tool has no published terms of service.
The addresses /terms and /tos answer with code 200 but return the same homepage — the single-page application substitutes it for any unknown path. In the footer, of the legal documents there is a link only to the privacy policy.
Who owns the cut clip, and whether it may be used commercially, is described nowhere. This is not "the rights are yours" and not "there are no rights" — it is the absence of a document. A division by plan is likewise absent: there is nothing to divide.
Do they train on your data
There is no direct answer. The privacy policy lists only personal data: IP address, email, first and last name, avatar, interface language. The model provider it does disclose: "We use Openai GPT-3 to generate YouTube short videos from public YouTube video links". Whether the uploaded video itself is used to train models the document does not report — neither affirmatively nor negatively.
An opt-out from training is not in the policy; the one opt-out described is from marketing emails. GDPR rights are listed, but they are tied to personal data, not to the training of models.
The age of the document can be read off the document itself: last updated 17 February 2023, and GPT-3 is what it mentions.
How you earn with it
About commercial use of the output there is nothing to say, and that is also an answer. There is no permission and no ban — there is no document in which either of the two could stand.
One adjacent promise does exist: a watermark the tool does not put on any plan — "Say goodbye to watermarks and hello to 1080p quality". But that line stands in a marketing block, not in a plan row and not in terms of service, of which there are none.
What it will not do
It will not publish the clip for you: connecting social accounts is declared nowhere.
It will not take on a video without audible speech and without subtitles: both requirements are named in the FAQ directly.
It will not say plainly how many minutes of analysis the free plan gives: on one page both 30 and 15 are printed.
It will not permit commercial use in writing — and will not forbid it: the tool has no terms of service.
It will not name any topical prohibitions: neither terms of service nor an acceptable use policy is published. Rules about someone else's face in the frame and about someone else's music in the uploaded video do not exist; the only restrictions found are technical.
It will not answer whether models are trained on your video, and will not let you opt out of training: there is no procedure in the policy.
It will not mark what is created as made by AI: neither a watermark, nor metadata, nor C2PA is mentioned.
Verified data
The checked data this deep dive rests on.
About the platform
Cutting long video into short clips for YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Reels: the AI picks the most striking fragments, keeps the speaker centred in frame with face tracking, adds animated captions in one click, supports vertical, square and horizontal formats, and lets you overlay a logo and brand overlays. The input is a link to a YouTube video; the clip needs captions (YouTube generates them automatically for most videos) and audible speech
The features and input requirements are taken from the features block and the FAQ section of the home page
source, checked 2026-08-07
The FAQ lists 26 languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian. Russian is there. Arabic, Hindi and Chinese are not in the list
The list is given in the FAQ in full and by name, so the absence of Arabic, Hindi and Chinese is a closed list, not silence of the source; the service adds that the list is being extended
source, checked 2026-08-07
Platforms
Direct publishing to social networks is not claimed: the result is downloaded and published by the user. Input is claimed: a link to a YouTube video, import from Google Drive and via public links (import is listed as a feature of Lite and above). Frame formats cover vertical, square and horizontal platforms; YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Reels are named as targets
The absence of direct publishing is inferred from the fact that neither the pricing page, nor the FAQ, nor the features block mentions connecting social network accounts even once; the service does not state this outright
source, checked 2026-08-07
Pricing
Lite — 9.90 USD/month: 5 hours of AI analysis a month, 60 minutes of fast server-side exports a month, import from Google Drive and via public links, no ads. Pro — 19.90 USD/month: 15 hours of analysis a month, unlimited fast server-side exports. Premium — 49.90 USD/month: 50 hours of analysis a month, priority support and access to beta features. The service stresses that the plans differ mainly in hours of AI analysis, and that the features are available on all of them
All three amounts and volumes are printed directly in the plan cards on the pricing page
source, checked 2026-08-07
9.90 USD a month (the Lite plan)
The amount is given in the Lite plan card; there are no other currencies or yearly tiers on the page
source, checked 2026-08-07
Sources diverge: The Starter plan is free, no bank card needed. In the plan card: «30 minutes of AI video analyzing per month», viewing and exporting already created short clips, «Full access to all features» (verbatim). But at the bottom of the same page the service describes its own free plan differently: «With our free Starter plan, you get 15 minutes of AI video analysis»
The two figures for the free quota, 30 and 15 minutes, stand on one and the same official page — in the plan card and in the call to action at the bottom. Which one applies does not follow from the page
source, checked 2026-08-07
Limits and restrictions
Quotas are measured in hours of AI analysis per month: Starter — 30 minutes (see the contradiction in the free_tier line), Lite — 5 hours, Pro — 15 hours, Premium — 50 hours. A separate quota covers fast server-side export: 60 minutes a month on Lite, unlimited on Pro and above. The features block claims «Unlimited high-quality exports» and 1080p. How quotas renew, beyond the words «per month», and what happens to an unspent balance, the page does not explain
The hours of analysis and export are confirmed by the plan cards; the source gives no rules for carrying over a balance and no exact date when the quota renews
source, checked 2026-08-07
Legal
The service promises no watermark on the output on any plan: the features block says «Say goodbye to watermarks and hello to 1080p quality» (verbatim), and the plans, by the service's own statement, differ only in hours of analysis. There is no separate rule for the free plan. Metadata, C2PA and other markers of AI origin are not mentioned
The «no watermarks» promise sits in the marketing features block rather than in a plan row, and is not backed by terms of use — the service has none
source, checked 2026-08-07
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