LazyReel - AI Video Editor for Reels, Shorts & YouTube

Make videos in 5 minutes. AI-generated captions, B-Roll, trailers, and kinetic text - all running on your Mac. Export 4K, no watermark, no cloud round-trips. Free forever, no credit card required.

What LazyReel does

LazyReel is a macOS-native AI video editor built for short-form creators. Drop in raw footage and it generates animated captions in 13+ styles, drops in matching B-Roll from a 45+ template library, composes a punchy trailer or teaser, and lays kinetic text over every beat. Color grading uses 11 cinematic presets, and the Forge AI builder turns a single prompt into a full video draft.

Everything renders locally with Remotion, so your footage never leaves your machine. You get pro-grade output without burning hours in Final Cut or Premiere, and without paying a SaaS tax for each export. The free tier covers most creators forever; the Creator and Pro Annual plans unlock unlimited renders and the full template library.

Who it's for

Built for Instagram Reels editors, YouTube Shorts creators, and TikTok publishers who want a faster path from raw clip to finished post. Especially useful if you're editing on a Mac and tired of subscription-only tools, or if you want to keep your creative process offline and private without sacrificing modern AI features.

Why creators choose LazyReel

Most short-form editors are either web-based subscriptions that cap exports and watermark your work, or pro NLEs with steep learning curves. LazyReel sits in between - a native Mac app that's as fast as Final Cut, as automated as a SaaS tool, and as transparent as a buy-once download. Your footage stays on your machine. Your renders happen on your GPU. Your videos ship in the time it used to take to set up a project.

Pricing & refund

Free forever, no credit card. Creator plan at $14.99/month and Pro Annual at $7.99/month (billed yearly). 14-day refund on every paid plan, no questions asked. Cancel anytime.

Learn more

• Step-by-step guide - from raw footage to a finished, captioned video.
• Support - contact us, report a bug, or request a feature.
• Refund policy - how cancellations and refunds work.
• Privacy policy - what we collect and what we don't.
• Terms of service - the rules for using LazyReel.

Need to verify our work? Remotion powers our render pipeline, and our captions are tuned against Google's speech-to-text research.