RealHedgehog
Drop a link.
Get 15 viral clips at hedgehog speed.
RealHedgehog watches your long videos, streams and podcasts, hunts down the moments that pop, and ships ready-to-post vertical clips — captioned, reframed to 9:16, and scored for virality.
79Three steps. Zero editing.
From a raw link to a folder of post-ready verticals — the whole pipeline runs itself while you do literally anything else.
Paste your link
Drop any YouTube, Twitch, X or direct video URL. RealHedgehog pulls the footage and the audio — no export, no waiting on renders. Or upload a file straight from your computer.
Spike AI does the work
It transcribes word-for-word, finds the hooks, scores each moment for virality, reframes it to 9:16, and burns in animated captions in your chosen style.
Grab your clips
Download the whole batch in one go, or grab clips one at a time — every one ranked, captioned and ready to post.
Every clip, done right — automatically.
The details that make a clip actually perform aren't optional here. They're the default.
Word-perfect captions that move
Whisper-grade transcription places every word to the millisecond, then RealHedgehog animates them karaoke-style in your preset — Hormozi bold, minimalist clean, or podcast subtle. No typos, no drift, no manual timing.
Auto-reframe to 9:16
Landscape becomes vertical without a single keyframe. The crop holds the middle of the frame, set a touch high so heads and eyes stay in shot. Want the frame to move with whoever is talking? Tick Follow the speaker on the job.
Virality scoring
A local language model ranks every moment for hook strength, payoff and pacing — so you post the winners first.
Style presets
Match a creator's look in one click — Alex Hormozi, Minimalist Bold, Podcast, or word-by-word karaoke.
Yours to download
Download the whole pack in one click, or pull single clips as you need them — no watermark on any paid plan, and the files are yours.
Paste once, collect the whole pack
One link in, a full pack of ranked clips out. Every cut is captioned, reframed and scored for you — and we email you the moment the pack is ready, so you're never sat watching a progress bar.
You stay in control of every clip.
Tell it what you want, cut in your own footage, fix a word, put your brand on it, or choose how the frame moves. It's all in the dashboard, with no editing software.
Tell Spike AI exactly what you want New
Type what you're after in plain words, in the box under your video's name. For example: “clip the part where I talk about pricing, under 45 seconds, Hedgehog captions, follow my face”. Spike AI sets the options for you and shows exactly what it will make before anything renders, so there are no surprises. Give exact times like “12:30 to 13:15” and it cuts exactly there. If you ask for something it can't do yet, it tells you plainly instead of guessing.
- Type your request and press Apply.
- Check the “Here's what I'll do” summary.
- Press Generate clips.
Your own B-roll New Paid plans
Upload short clips or photos of your shop, product, team or city, and describe each one in a few words. Tick “Add my B-roll” and Spike AI cuts to the right footage for a couple of seconds whenever you talk about it, while your voice and captions carry on over the top. It never covers the first two seconds, so your hook stays yours.
Edit captions, word by word
Press the pencil on any clip and every spoken word appears in its own box. Fix a name the AI misheard, clear a word you don't want, or switch to another caption style, then press Save. Each word keeps its exact timing, so the captions stay locked to the voice. The new version is usually ready in under a minute.
- Click a word to hear that moment.
- Type the fix, or leave the box empty to remove the word.
- Save. The clip re-renders with your edits.
Clips stay editable for 7 days after they're made.
Brand kit Paid plans
Upload your logo once and it replaces the RealHedgehog mark on your clips, in the corner and at the size you pick. Choose your brand colour and it lights up the highlighted words and the Hedgehog Power glow (the Clean style stays white). To brand a recent clip, open it with the pencil and press Save.
Follow the speaker Optional
Tick it when you turn a wide video into vertical clips. RealHedgehog looks for faces five times a second and works out who is talking from how their mouth moves. It keeps that person centred and cuts to the other person when they start speaking, the way an editor would. With one person on screen, the frame glides with them instead of jittering. If there are no faces in shot, you get the standard centred crop.
Fit tall videos Optional
Turning a Short or a phone video into a 16:9 or square clip? Tick this and the whole video stays in view, centred over a soft blurred copy of itself. Without it, the video is zoomed in to fill the frame, which can cut off faces.
This is what lands in your folder.
Real 9:16 output — animated captions, tight reframes, and a virality score on every clip.
A real frame, and the clip cut out of it.
On the left, an untouched frame from a widescreen YouTube video. The blue outline is the region RealHedgehog picked to cut. On the right, the clip that came out of it — captioned, titled and scored, with nobody touching a timeline.
Both images come from the same job: one widescreen video in, ten ranked clips out. The finished clip also gets a slow 10% push-in inside that outline, plus the title card and captions — which is why it reads slightly tighter than the box.
This is the actual dashboard.
Not a mockup — a screenshot of a live account. Every clip below was cut by the engine from a real video, then scored, captioned and reframed without anyone touching a timeline.
The scores are real, which is why some are low. The ad breakdown scores 87; the silent travel clips score 8. That gap is the whole point — you post the 87 first.
Stop pasting links. Let it watch the channel.
Point RealHedgehog at a channel or playlist once. Every time it publishes, the new upload gets clipped on its own — while you're asleep, at work, or on a plane.
Add the channel once
Paste a channel or playlist URL into your dashboard. That's the entire setup. Pause it or remove it whenever you like.
New upload, clipped on its own
Watched channels are checked every 15 minutes. A new video gets exactly what a link you paste by hand gets — cut on story beats, captioned, reframed to 9:16 and ranked by score.
One credit, same as always
Each upload it clips costs one credit. No surcharge for automating it, and every clip from that video is included.
Pick a pace. Scale when you're ready.
Every plan ships fully-captioned, auto-reframed, virality-scored clips. No watermark. No editing tax.
- 25 videos / month — every clip included
- Auto-captions & 9:16 reframe
- All style presets
- 1080p downloads
- 100 videos / month — every clip included
- Channel watchers — auto-clip every new upload
- Every clip from every video — no per-minute billing
- Watermark-free 1080p exports
- Unlimited videos — every clip included
- Full API access
- Everything in Growth, with no monthly cap
- Priority human support
The stuff people ask.
You paste the link and close the tab — we email you the moment your clip pack is ready. Short videos come back quickly; a long stream is a much bigger job and takes correspondingly longer. We'd rather tell you that than promise a number we can't hit every time.
Any YouTube, Twitch, X, or direct video link. RealHedgehog handles the download, the audio extraction and the transcription for you — no manual exports. You can also upload a file straight from your computer (MP4, MOV, WEBM, MKV or M4A, up to 500MB) if your footage isn't online.
Yes — that's the whole point. Every clip is reframed to 9:16 and burns in word-perfect animated captions in the style preset you choose. No timing, no keyframes, no cleanup.
Always. Your footage and your clips are yours — no watermark, no licensing games. Download them whenever you like.
Yep. Start with 3 free clips, no card required. Paste a link, pick a style, and see the output before you pay a cent.
Your next 15 clips are one link away.
Stop scrubbing timelines. Paste a link and let the hedgehog do the sprinting.