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Tropereel, in plain facts.
Tropereel is a free, browser-based video maker that turns an author's own cover and words into short vertical videos for TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts.
- What it makes
- Three kinds of book video: a trope reel, a quote reel and a first line reel.
- Who it is for
- Authors who promote their own books on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, most of all self-published romance, romantasy and fantasy authors.
- The file
- MP4, 1080 by 1920 pixels, 30 frames a second, under ten seconds, silent.
- Where it runs
- In your browser. The video is drawn and encoded on your own computer.
- What is uploaded
- Nothing. Your cover and your video never leave your computer.
- What it will not do
- It makes no AI images and no AI voices, and it never asks for your manuscript.
- Price
- Free, with a small “made with tropereel.com” line on each video. A paid plan at $19 a month that removes the line is planned and not open yet.
- Account
- None needed to make a video.
- Browsers
- Chrome and Edge on a computer write MP4. Safari and Firefox are still being tested, and a browser that cannot write MP4 gets a WebM file with a note.
- Trope library
- 36 tropes, each with a definition and opening lines.
- Contact
- hello@tropereel.com