Free to start — 30 seconds a month. If a film fails, the seconds come back.
runoff followed the pavement
0:000:100:200:30
0:15“After 1998 the paved area doubled, and runoff followed it.”
Start from what you have.
Each kind is its own pipeline: its own script, voice, and picture. Pick one and the form follows.
Explainer
Starts with a PDF, a link, or a note
WatchRecap reads the source, drafts a script, and lays it out as a storyboard. Flag any beat that strays and it rewrites. Nothing animates until you approve, then the voice is recorded and each shot is drawn to match.
Storyboard you approve
30 s to 3 min
5 styles
Voice and music
Try: A 12-page flooding paper, back as 30 seconds.
WatchRecap opens your app in a real browser — you sign in once — captures the screens worth showing, and cuts them into a short film with voiceover and music. What the viewer sees is the product itself.
Real screen capture
30 or 60 s
5 styles
Voice and music
Try: Your dashboard, back as a 30-second launch film.
Type a history or a story and WatchRecap writes a chaptered film around it, then records one continuous narration across the chapters. There is no source document and no storyboard, so treat on-screen facts as illustrative.
Chaptered film
30 s to 3 min
One continuous voice
Music bed
Try: “How the Bay Area grew,” back as a 60-second history.
Each pipeline ships as a SKILL.md: the full method, the frame sizes, and the checks that decide whether the film is done. Fetch the catalog, download the skill, run it.