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ShortsCrafter (shortscrafter.com) and ShortFast (shortfast.com) are different products from different companies, and both run a faceless channel on a schedule. ShortsCrafter makes faceless videos in an image art style you choose, whiteboard videos with hand-drawn animation and viral shorts, with voice cloning; ShortFast writes and renders shorts in one of 27 styles, from licensed documentary stock footage to AI video, and posts them for you.
ShortFast is our product, made by SachaSoft LLC; ShortsCrafter is a different product from a different company, and its page title states its aim: “Automate your shorts creation”. Pick ShortsCrafter if you want whiteboard explainers with hand-drawn animation, faceless videos narrated in a clone of your own voice, or viral formats such as car evolution and house construction timelapses; pick ShortFast if you want 27 styles that include licensed documentary stock footage, UGC-style ads with AI actors, or an automation that writes each next episode and posts it to TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts.
Both are built to run a channel on autopilot. On ShortsCrafter, you pick a niche or enter your own, choose the image art style, voiceover, background music and captions, connect your channels, and “AI creates, schedules, and uploads for you”. ShortFast's automations follow a series brief of up to 500 characters and write the next episode for every posting slot, with a new topic, script, title, description and footage, and recent titles checked.
ShortFast's plans are $29, $39 and $99 a month, and every monthly plan starts with a 3-day trial for $1; there's no free plan. On October 24, 2026, ShortsCrafter's four plans ran from $19.99 a month for 2,000 credits to $129.99 for 18,000, and its pricing listed no free plan; its tools page says your first try in each of its AI tools is free. Looking for ShortsCrafter itself? It's at shortscrafter.com.
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| Dimension | ShortFast | ShortsCrafter |
|---|---|---|
| Who makes it | SachaSoft LLC. ShortFast is our product. | A company in Gdynia, Poland, per its terms and privacy policy; Polish law governs its terms. |
| Core job | Write, render and post faceless short videos from a topic, on a schedule. | “Automate your shorts creation”, per its page title. Its homepage says: pick a niche and a style, and it “creates, schedules, and uploads your videos”. |
| Where a video starts | A topic or a prompt: it writes the script and hook. Or write or paste your own script. | A niche you pick or enter yourself (homepage). Whiteboard videos start from an idea you describe or a script you paste (whiteboard page). |
| Visuals and formats | 27 styles: licensed documentary stock footage, AI video, or AI images in a fixed art style (stick figures, cartoon explainer, comic book, anime, whiteboard, claymation…). AI actors for UGC-style video. | An image art style you choose, with AI that turns illustrated scenes into dynamic videos (homepage); whiteboard videos with hand-drawn animation; and viral shorts such as POV, car evolution and house construction timelapses. |
| Voice and captions | A voiceover from 40+ voices. Burned-in, word-by-word captions in 60+ languages, auto-detected, in 9 styles and 18 fonts. | A voice from its library or a cloned voice, made from a recording of your voice (privacy policy). You choose the voiceover, background music and captions. Its homepage doesn't list how many voices or caption languages it offers. |
| Editing | Write or paste the script before generating. Afterwards, edit captions, B-roll, music, title and post text, then re-render; an edited script can't be re-voiced. | Its whiteboard page says AI creates the visuals and animation, then you preview your scenes, make changes and render the video. |
| Series and scheduling | Each automation follows a series brief of up to 500 characters and writes the next episode for every posting slot: new topic, script, title, description and footage, with recent titles checked. No approval step: it posts the video or emails it to you. | Set up once: pick a niche and a style, connect your channels, and choose the date of your first post and the time videos go live. Its homepage says AI handles daily uploads “without opening the app”. |
| Platforms | Posts to TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts on the schedule you set. 1, 3 or 6 social accounts by plan. | Its homepage advertises auto-publishing to TikTok and YouTube, and its privacy policy covers Reels on an Instagram professional (Business or Creator) account, published manually or on a schedule you set up. Its pricing doesn't list how many accounts each plan connects. |
| AI agents and developers | A REST API, webhooks and an MCP server for Claude, Cursor and other agents, with a free API tier: 50 credits every 30 days, 3 renders, watermarked, download only. | Its homepage, terms and privacy policy don't mention a developer API or an MCP server. |
| Pricing and free plans | Starter $29 (2,000 credits), Pro $39 (5,000) and Advanced $99 (15,000) a month; 20% to 48% off billed yearly; extra credits $10 per 1,000. No free plan: every monthly plan starts with a 3-day trial for $1. | Credits: Starter $19.99 (2,000), Pro $29.99 (3,500), Max $59.99 (8,000) and Ultimate $129.99 (18,000) a month, or $199 to $1,299 a year; one-time credit packs too. No free plan listed; the first try in each of its AI tools is free. |
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ShortFast and ShortsCrafter plans
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| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | What the plan includes (each vendor's own units) |
|---|---|---|---|
| ShortFast Starter | $29 | $15 a month | 2,000 credits: about 80 one-minute stock-footage or 50 AI art-style videos, 1 automation, 1 social account, videos up to 3 minutes |
| ShortFast Pro | $39 | $31 a month | 5,000 credits, 3 automations, 3 social accounts, videos up to 3 minutes |
| ShortFast Advanced | $99 | $79 a month | 15,000 credits, 6 automations, 6 social accounts (2 profiles), videos up to 3 minutes or 8 to 15 minutes |
| ShortsCrafter Starter | $19.99 | $199 a year | 2,000 credits a month, which its page puts at up to 40 shorts; 24,000 credits a year billed yearly |
| ShortsCrafter Pro | $29.99 | $299 a year | 3,500 credits a month (up to 70 shorts, its figure); 42,000 credits a year billed yearly |
| ShortsCrafter Max | $59.99 | $599 a year | 8,000 credits a month (up to 160 shorts, its figure); 96,000 credits a year billed yearly |
| ShortsCrafter Ultimate | $129.99 | $1,299 a year | 18,000 credits a month (up to 360 shorts, its figure); 216,000 credits a year billed yearly |
ShortsCrafter shows its yearly prices per year, under a toggle labelled “Yearly (2 months free)”, without a per-month figure. Per its pricing panel, a short faceless video costs 50 of its credits for 30 to 60 seconds, and longer ones proportionally more; a 9:16 whiteboard short costs 70 for 30 to 60 seconds. Its short counts are its own figures. The two companies' credits don't convert. ShortFast's video counts are estimates, not limits.
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ShortsCrafter has a dedicated whiteboard video creator. Its whiteboard page says you describe what you want to explain or paste your own script, choose the voice, visual style, music and video format, and it creates the visuals, voiceover and hand-drawn animation; you then preview the scenes, make changes and render.
Its faceless videos start from a niche and an image art style, and its Faceless Videos page shows a match-cut hook in the first second, automatically removed silences and a consistent character throughout a video. You can narrate with a voice from its library or a clone of your own voice. Its Viral Shorts page adds POV, mechanical toys, car evolution and house construction or interior renovation timelapses.
It also runs browser tools: its tools page lists whiteboard and drawing animations, Depthflow 3D and parallax animations and a silence remover, and says your first try in each is free. Per its whiteboard, Depthflow and silence-remover pages, that first try comes after you sign up, and free videos carry a small ShortsCrafter watermark.
On ShortsCrafter, you set a channel up once: the last step on its homepage reads “Schedule. Connect. Done.”, and its FAQ says you choose the date of your first posting and the time your videos go live. The homepage advertises auto-publishing to TikTok and YouTube; its privacy policy, updated September 27, 2026, also covers publishing Reels to an Instagram professional account, manually or on a schedule you set up. Its terms say it publishes only content you select and schedule, and only while the account stays connected.
ShortFast's automations work from a series brief of up to 500 characters. For every posting slot, an automation writes the next episode: a new topic, script, title, description and footage, in the same tone, format and length, with recent titles checked. There's no approval step: it posts the video to TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts on the schedule you set, daily for example, or emails it to you. Starter, Pro and Advanced include 1, 3 or 6 automations and social accounts.
Either way, a channel that posts by itself has to meet each platform's rules. YouTube's monetization policies, in the section headed “Generic or Repetitive Content”, say channels where content “feels interchangeable from video to video” are not allowed to monetize, and its spam policy names “using automated tools or AI to churn out high volumes of similar content with minimal changes”. TikTok requires a label on realistic AI-generated content and encourages one on content completely generated or significantly edited by AI; ShortsCrafter's terms say that where a platform requires the label, it applies it by default, and you're responsible for keeping it accurate. Keep topics varied, and watch the first videos of any automated series.
ShortFast's Starter plan holds 2,000 credits for $29 a month, or $15 billed yearly. At about 24 credits for a one-minute stock-footage video and 37 for one in an AI art style, that's about 80 or 50 videos a month. Extra credits are $10 per 1,000, and every monthly plan starts with a 3-day trial for $1.
ShortsCrafter's Starter holds 2,000 credits for $19.99 a month, which its pricing puts at up to 40 shorts. Its pricing panel lists a short faceless video at 50 credits for 30 to 60 seconds, a 9:16 whiteboard short at 70 and its three-scene “Car evolution” example at 370. Per its FAQ, monthly plan credits expire after 60 days, so unused ones roll over for one more month; yearly plans deliver the year's credits at purchase, valid for 13 months; and one-time credit packs expire after 180 days. The two companies' credits don't convert, so compare the price of a video you'd actually post.
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ShortFast's whiteboard style for explainers from a topic or a script.
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