Four moods
Emotional, warm, dawn and activity. The mood is the colour β the same photo reads differently under each one.
Pick photos, get a short.
No timeline, no keyframes, no account. Choose a mood, choose a few photos, and a finished vertical video comes out the other side β colour graded, typeset and scored.
The idea
I didn't want to edit. I wanted the video to already exist.
Every editor I tried wanted me to become an editor first β drag the clip here, set a keyframe there. bshort has no editing screen on the main path. You pick, and it renders.
Left out, on purpose
- βA timeline and keyframes
- βAccounts, sign-in and cloud storage
- βSubscriptions and in-app purchases
- βOnboarding, tutorials and tooltips
- βA single filter applied to everything
- βAn export queue β it renders where you are
What that leaves
- +Four moods, eight templates each β thirty-two in all
- +A colour grade built per template, none reused
- +Two or three layers of type, set differently every time
- +A different music track behind every template
- +1080Γ1920 at 30fps, up to sixty seconds
- +A custom path for your own photos, words and music
- +Korean, English, Japanese and Spanish
What's in it
Six things, done properly.
Thirty-two templates
Eight per mood, and every one has its own grade, hand-tuned. No shared preset doing duty for all of them.
Layered typography
Each template stacks two or three text layers with their own faces, weights and positions, so they don't collapse into one layout wearing different fonts.
Music per template
Thirty-two tracks, one for each. Nothing is reused, and the preview you tap plays the track you'll get.
Make your own
Bring your own photos and videos, set how long each one holds, place your words anywhere, and drop in a track from your library.
Rendered on the device
Compositing happens on your phone. Nothing is uploaded, and it works with the network off.
Where it came from
Two hundred photos, three posted.
Every trip ended the same way: a camera roll with two hundred photos in it and maybe three that made it anywhere. The rest were not bad photos. They were just B-cuts, and nothing was ever going to be done with them.
That is the whole name β B-cut + shorts. The app exists to give the other hundred and ninety-seven somewhere to go.
The work went almost entirely into the parts you don't operate: thirty-two colour grades tuned one at a time, type set in layers so the templates stay distinct, a track chosen per template. What's left on screen is a grid you scroll and a button you press.
2026.07First release on the App Store
2026.08Launched on Product Hunt
NowVersion 1.0.0 β thirty-two templates, four languages
Privacy
Your photos never leave the phone.
There is no server to send them to. Selection, compositing and export all happen on the device, and the app has no account to sign in to. It is free and carries ads, which means Google AdMob collects the usual advertising identifier and device information β all of it written out in the privacy policy.
Go make one.
Free on the App Store. Pick a mood, pick a few photos, and see what comes out.
