I Built Cue Because the Tool Didn’t Exist
The problem is repeatable. You have text. You need it animated. A social clip, a title card, a lower-third that moves and lands like it was placed there on purpose.
The tools that can do this well require the same thing: a full software launch. After Effects. Motion. Premiere. Boot time, project setup, template sourcing. You need fifteen seconds of animated text and you’re twenty minutes into a comp you’ll open exactly once.
I wanted a browser tab. Open it, type something, pick a style, export a video. Close the tab. Done. That tool didn’t exist. So I built it. It’s called Cue.
What You Can Make
Cue has two modes.
Typo mode takes text and animates it as a timed sequence — the kind of kinetic typography you see in trailers, promos, and social content that actually stops the scroll. Type directly or drop in an SRT file from your edit and Cue turns your captions into a ready-to-export animation. Four styles to choose from:
- Zoom Into Frame — words snap in one by one, punchy and fast
- Typewriter — characters reveal left to right, controlled and precise
- Cascade — words stagger up with overlapping timing, layered and cinematic
- Cinematic — full card fades in, holds, fades out — clean and deliberate
Callout mode builds animated title cards. Big scrambling headline. Subtitle that builds word by word. Aspect ratios for 9:16, 4:5, and 16:9 — so whatever you’re cutting for, it fits.
Both modes export real video — not a screen recording, an actual .webm file. Download it, drop it in your timeline, done.
Who It’s For
If you’re cutting social content and you need text that moves, this is faster than anything else. If you’re in a pitch or a rough cut and need a title card that doesn’t look like a placeholder, this is the right tool. If you’re working alone and don’t have a motion designer on call, this closes that gap.
No account. No subscription. No export limit. It runs in the browser right now.
Why It Shipped Before It Was Ready
There are styles I want to add. Refinements I already know about. Things I’ll fix in the next version.
The version that exists does the thing it’s supposed to do. That’s the threshold I ship at. I’ve been in production long enough to know what the alternative looks like — the perfectly specced, fully-polished version that’s still a Figma file when the project wraps.
Cue is live. Open it and make something.
Start before you’re ready. That’s the whole thing.