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Video Idea Generator

Get 10 ready-to-shoot video ideas tailored to your niche. Built from formats that consistently win views on TikTok, Reels, and Shorts. Free, no signup.

Pick from the list, or type your own.

Pick a niche above and we'll generate 10 short-form video ideas instantly.

About the Video Idea Generator

Pick your niche, get 10 proven video-format ideas adapted to it. Built from the formats that consistently get views on TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts in 2026.

✓ Runs entirely in your browser. No signup, no AI cost, no data sent anywhere.

From idea list to video

Ten ideas is a plan. Make the first one today.

Inside MakeAIVideo, the Ideas board takes your niche and a tone and returns ten concepts, each with a hook and an angle, and Make this on every card starts the video. Prefer to brief it yourself? Use Prompt to Video.

Five tones.
Entertaining, educational, inspirational, humorous or controversial.
A format for each idea.
Every concept is marked as an AI video or a Talking Avatar video.
Make this.
Turns the idea into a draft video with the script, voice and scenes.

Connect your AI agent

Ask your assistant for ideas, and get videos back

It generates ideas for your niche, makes the one you choose and can post it when it is done.

Connect your AI assistant.
Add MakeAIVideo to Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Claude Code, Cursor or any app that supports MCP with one address. You sign in once; there is no API key to paste.
Ask in plain English.
“Suggest ten video ideas for a home coffee channel, then make the first one as a 45 second YouTube Short.” It checks the cost before it spends anything.
It makes the video.
A finished MP4 with the script, voiceover, scenes, captions and any music, in your library to edit or download.
And posts it if you ask.
To the accounts you have connected, now or on a schedule, across 11 platforms.
Start free trialConnect any AI agent

MCP, API and CLI use the same credits and the same balance as the app.

Connector address

mcp.makeaivideo.ai

Works with

Signed in? Connect an AI assistant

Pricing

Stop collecting ideas and start publishing them

The idea generator stays free with no signup. When you want the videos made, start a 7-day free trial with 350 credits; plans start at $9 a month and every plan includes every way to make one.

Lite

The easy start. Every tool, one creator.

$9/mo

or $99 a year, 1 month free

600credits every month

Use them on any tool below

Start 7 day free trial

7 days free with 350 credits. Cancel before day 7 and you won't be charged.

  • Post and schedule to 2 social accounts
  • Videos up to 10 minutes
  • 1080p export, never a watermark
  • 1 user

Every tool included

Solo

For one creator posting every week.

$19/mo

or $190 a year, 2 months free

1,100credits every month

Use them on any tool below

Start 7 day free trial

7 days free with 350 credits. Cancel before day 7 and you won't be charged.

  • Post and schedule to 4 social accounts
  • Videos up to 10 minutes
  • 1080p export, never a watermark
  • 1 user

Every tool included

Most popular

Plus

Long-form, your branding and a team of three.

$29/mo

or $290 a year, 2 months free

1,750credits every month

Use them on any tool below

Start 7 day free trial

7 days free with 350 credits. Cancel before day 7 and you won't be charged.

  • Post and schedule to 6 social accounts
  • Stock-footage videos up to 40 minutes
  • Brand Kit: your logo on every video
  • 3 team seats with admin and member roles

Every tool included

Pro

For teams and channels running at volume.

$49/mo

or $490 a year, 2 months free

3,000credits every month

Use them on any tool below

Start 7 day free trial

7 days free with 350 credits. Cancel before day 7 and you won't be charged.

  • Post and schedule to 10 social accounts
  • Stock-footage videos up to 40 minutes
  • Brand Kit: your logo on every video
  • 10 team seats with admin and member roles

Every tool included

Run out in a busy month? Add credits any time, from $5. Credits you buy never expire. See pricing

Every plan includes

  • Captions, music and studio-quality voices, free on every video
  • Full HD 1080p export, never a watermark
  • Post and schedule to 11 platforms
  • Video in 24 languages
  • API, MCP server and CLI for ChatGPT, Claude or any AI agent

Video Idea Generator FAQs

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What if my niche isn't listed?

Pick the closest niche. The ideas are generic enough to adapt. We add new niches as users request them; if there's a category you'd like to see, email support@makeaivideo.ai.

How fresh are these ideas?

We refresh the template library every few months as new short-form formats emerge and old ones go stale. The current set was last updated in May 2026.

Can I make these videos with AI?

Yes. Click the "Make this video" button on any idea to send it to MakeAIVideo, which produces it as a finished video with a script, voiceover, scenes and captions in a few minutes. Plans start at $9 a month, with a 7-day free trial: see MakeAIVideo pricing.

Are these ideas unique to me?

The templates are shared, but the niche and details you pick personalise them. Even with identical inputs, two creators producing the same idea will execute it differently. The format is a starting point, not a finished video.

What's the next step after picking an idea?

Open the video hook generator with the same niche to draft an opening, then run the YouTube title generator for the title. That's the full pre-production stack in 3 free tools.

Want to actually make the video?

MakeAIVideo turns one prompt into a finished AI video: script, voiceover, scenes and captions, with music if you want it, ready in a few minutes.

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