Paste any article, blog, or news URL and ViralMint scrapes the page, writes a 30–45 second script with AI, and assembles a captioned vertical short — voiceover, topic-matched stock footage, and word-by-word captions — for about $0.06 per video.
Already wrote a blog post or read a news article? Paste the URL and ViralMint extracts the readable text with a multi-layer reader pipeline (trafilatura, with HTML fallbacks), so you skip copy-pasting and cleaning the page yourself.
An AI writes a punchy 30–45 second vertical script from the article — hook first, takeaway last — and ViralMint pulls a license-cleared stock background matched to the article's topic, then burns word-by-word captions over the voiceover. No scene-by-scene editing.
No subscription and no per-minute meter. The voiceover (free Edge or premium Gemini), transcription, and rendering run on your own machine for a flat fee of about $0.06 per video, with no watermark.
Launch the free ViralMint desktop app and open the URL → Short tool from the Tools page.
Drop in any public article, blog, or news link. ViralMint scrapes the page text automatically.
Choose a voice (free Edge or premium Gemini), a caption style, and 9:16, 1:1, or 16:9.
Click Generate. The AI drafts the script, voices it, matches stock footage to the topic, burns captions, and exports a ready-to-post vertical video.
Last updated June 2026
| Capability | Pictory | Lumen5 | Fliki | ViralMint |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | $19–39/mo | $19–59/mo | $28/mo+ | ~$0.06 per video (no subscription) |
| Input | Article / script | Article / blog | Script / blog | Any article / blog / news URL |
| AI script from the article | Summarizes | Summarizes | Summarizes | Yes (hook-first short script) |
| Topic-matched stock | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (license-cleared, auto) |
| Watermark on free tier | Yes | Yes | Yes | Never |
| Runs locally / private | Cloud | Cloud | Cloud | Local rendering |
highlighted column = clearer fit for that capability. Tied capabilities are left unmarked.
Any public article, blog post, or news page. ViralMint fetches the page and extracts the main article text with a multi-layer reader pipeline (trafilatura, with HTML fallbacks). Paywalled or login-gated pages that hide their body text won't extract cleanly — paste an accessible source instead.
The AI targets a 30–45 second script (roughly 90–120 words) — the sweet spot for Reels, Shorts, and TikTok. Longer articles are summarized to the most punchy through-line rather than read in full.
ViralMint matches the article's topic to a license-cleared Pexels stock clip automatically, then loops and crops it to your chosen aspect ratio. The footage is royalty-free and safe to monetize.
About $0.06 per video, flat, with no subscription. The free Edge voice adds nothing; the premium Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS voice is billed separately per 1,000 characters if you pick it. No watermark, no per-minute meter.
The URL → Short tool is one-shot for speed. If you want to tweak the script first, use the Smart Video tool in the desktop app — paste or generate a script, edit it, then generate. The two share the same captioned-short engine.
The Article to Video ships inside the free ViralMint desktop app — no subscription, no watermark, no per-minute cap. Download once, use on as many videos as you want.
