Cue · Bubble — free, one sign-in
Build a chat — bubbles, names, typing dots — and Bubble animates it into a text-story clip for Shorts, Reels, and TikTok. Or pop a single number to make a stat land. Free, in your browser, no watermark.
Free · one sign-in · no watermark · runs in your browser
Write a back-and-forth, set the senders, and the messages spring in with typing dots between them — the text-story format that runs on Shorts and TikTok.
Or pop one bubble — a number, a stat, a one-liner — with a spring bounce that grabs the eye.
Per-sender colors, names, avatars, and skins — make it read like a real conversation, or your own look.
Export a transparent (alpha) .webm to lay over footage, or a clean MP4. No watermark, at no cost.
Yes — Bubble is free — sign in once (free; it also adds you to our newsletter), with no watermark. Build chat clips and stat pops and export them at no cost.
Yes — Bubble's chat mode animates a back-and-forth conversation with bubbles, names, and typing dots, the format used for text-story Shorts, Reels, and TikToks.
Yes — a typing indicator appears between messages on the delay you set, so the conversation feels real as it plays.
Yes. Bubble exports a transparent (alpha) .webm that composites over your video, plus a standard MP4.
No. Your chat clips are clean — Starting Frame never brands what you make.
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Free, in your browser — one sign-in. When you're ready for the production tools — a teleprompter and a live run-of-show — there's a membership for that.
The free tools are free forever. The Starting Frame membership ($24/mo, 14-day trial) adds Just Read It (teleprompter) and Next (live run-of-show). The free tools stay free either way.