Frequently asked questions
Seven questions that come up before signup. If yours isn't here, email support@viralmint.net.
How do I find viral video ideas for YouTube and TikTok?
ViralMint scouts trending videos across YouTube, TikTok, Douyin, Reddit and Google Trends in parallel. A 0–100 virality score blends engagement rate, recency, views and likes. Outlier detection compares each video against its channel's median views and surfaces 3×, 5×, 10× and 20× breakouts.
Can ViralMint automate YouTube video generation end-to-end?
Yes. ViralMint exposes its full pipeline — scout trending topics, download competitor videos, transcribe with Whisper, extract viral clips, generate scripts, render Smart Videos with AI voice and captions, export multi-aspect — as 58 Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools. Claude Code, Claude Desktop or any MCP-compatible agent can chain them in a single prompt, so a request like "make a 60-second Short from today's trending tech news" runs end-to-end without manual orchestration. Setup is one command from the Settings → MCP page; the token stays loopback-only on your machine.
How does ViralMint generate videos?
ViralMint's Smart Video pipeline assembles original videos from Pexels stock footage with an AI-written script, AI voiceover (Edge TTS or paid gpt-4o-mini-tts), word-by-word animated ASS captions and auto-mixed background music. You can also drop in your own b-roll clips for higher production value. Output is an mp4 you download and post manually, plus AI-drafted titles, descriptions and tags.
How does ViralMint compare to vidIQ or TubeBuddy?
vidIQ and TubeBuddy are YouTube Chrome extensions — vidIQ leans into keyword analytics and VPH tracking, TubeBuddy leans into channel-management automation (bulk tag editor, A/B thumbnail testing, end-screen templates, comment moderation). Both help you optimize a YouTube channel you already have. ViralMint covers the upstream half they miss: it scouts trending content across YouTube, TikTok, Douyin, Reddit and Google Trends, downloads competitor videos with yt-dlp, transcribes them locally with Whisper, extracts hook / structure / tone with AI, then assembles original Smart Videos with AI script, voiceover and captions. The entire pipeline is exposed as 58 MCP tools that Claude Code can chain end-to-end. The output is an mp4 you download and post manually, plus AI-drafted titles, descriptions and tags.
Does ViralMint auto-upload to YouTube and TikTok?
No. ViralMint generates the final mp4 plus AI-drafted titles, descriptions and tags so you can copy-paste when posting. Auto-upload was prototyped and intentionally removed — it kept breaking on platform OAuth and cookie changes, so the project now focuses on producing a great file and metadata that you publish yourself.
Do I need API keys to use ViralMint?
No. There is no bring-your-own-key. All AI provider access is proxied through ViralMint's cloud backend on AWS, and provider keys never leave the cloud. You sign up with email + password, get a free daily allowance and (optionally) top up prepaid USD balance for heavier usage.
Is there a web version of ViralMint?
Yes — ViralMint Web is a browser-based lite version at https://viralmint.net/app. It exposes the cloud-only features (chat, AI image, AI voice, AI music, account and balance) and shares the same account, balance and daily allowance as the desktop app. Heavy local features (yt-dlp download, Whisper transcription, full Smart Video pipeline) remain desktop-only.
Is ViralMint open source?
Yes. The desktop app is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license, with full source at https://github.com/openclaw-easy/ViralMint. You can audit the code, run from source, or use our prebuilt installer for convenience. The cloud backend that powers paid features (AI chat, image, voice, music) remains a closed-source service — that's the open-core model: an open desktop client paired with a paid cloud you can choose to use or skip.