About Kinecard
What it is, and the one decision everything else follows from.
Everything happens in your browser tab. Your audio, images and video are never uploaded, never queued, and never stored by us. Every other property of Kinecard is downstream of that.
Who it is for
People making faceless YouTube videos — narration over stills, where the words carry the video and the pictures support them. That format is badly served by ordinary editors, which assume you are cutting footage. Here the transcript is the timeline: you pick words, and choose what those words become.
Why it runs in the browser
The obvious way to build this is a server that renders your video for you. It is also the way that makes your footage someone else’s problem to store, puts a queue between you and your export, and means the price has to cover compute you may never use.
Rendering on your own machine removes all three. It costs you an open tab and some patience on long exports, and in exchange nothing you make is ever in our possession. A privacy policy is a promise; not receiving the file is a fact.
What that costs you
Being straight about the trade is part of the trade:
- It wants a desktop. A phone browser cannot drive a video encoder for twenty minutes. The editor assumes a real screen and a real machine.
- The first transcription downloads a model. About 45 MB, once. Your browser keeps it, so every run after the first is quick.
- Long exports take time. They run at your hardware’s speed — the editor measures that speed and tells you before you commit.
- Keep the tab open. There is no server finishing the job for you if you close it.
How it is paid for
A subscription, $9.99 a month, which unlocks 1080p, removes the badge and opens every motion card. The free plan is not a trial — it exports real, finished video at 720p with a small badge, for as long as you like.
There is also a points scheme, because a tool like this spreads by being recommended rather than advertised: exporting earns a point a day, and referring someone who subscribes pays ten points to both of you. Sixty is a month of Pro.
Who is behind it
A very small independent operation, not a company with a support department. That means replies come from the person who wrote the code, and that bug reports tend to get fixed rather than filed. Say hello.