# What is Slicer

> Slicer edits your videos, photos and audio into a vertical reel with captions, camera motion and effects. How the service works and where to start.

Source: https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/

Slicer is an AI editor for vertical videos. Shoot on your phone however you like — a talking head, B-roll, a product, a vlog. Upload videos, photos, music or a voice-over, pick a style, and in a few minutes you get a finished 9:16 reel for Reels, Shorts and TikTok. Then you can polish it in the editor and publish it to social media right from Slicer.

## What the AI does

-   **Cutting.** Removes pauses, slips, retakes and filler words and puts the strongest moments in a clear order. If you like, it writes a hook — a catchy line for the first seconds.
-   **Framing.** Builds a vertical frame: the speaker always stays in the shot, horizontal videos and photos are reframed to 9:16. Smooth push-ins on key phrases and changes of framing — like a pro editor.
-   **Captions.** Stylish word-by-word captions with highlights in your font and color.
-   **Graphics and sound.** Emoji, text callouts, media cards with illustrations, subtle sound effects on cuts, music that ducks under the voice, loudness normalization.
-   **Direction.** The director takes the video type, pace and your notes into account, builds the reel and then reviews the finished result itself, fixing the logic and order of the clips.
-   **Media.** Photos appear where they are mentioned, B-roll covers speech by meaning, music plays underneath, and a voice-over becomes the narration while the director picks visuals for it. No speech of your own? Turn on the AI voiceover.

## How Slicer is organized

The home screen is **Projects**. Each reel lives in its own project: media, settings, version history and the editor.

### 1. New project

The **New project** button asks **How shall we edit it?**. **With the AI director** opens a three-step wizard: style → captions and options → media and launch. Details are in the [tutorial](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/tutorial/). And **Edit it myself** is a free project that opens straight in the editor ([A project without AI](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/projects/manual/)).

### 2. Montage

Tap **Create reel**. The montage runs on the server: you can close the tab or the app, and the run card shows progress by stage. A reel costs 24 tokens; the first one is free.

### 3. The finished reel

The director checks the finished reel itself, and the project opens in the editor — there is nothing to pick. Earlier versions of the reel stay in the project history.

### 4. Edits

The **Editor** section is a full-width timeline: caption text, clip order and length, transitions, effects, color, music, elements and the AI assistant. Edits are free and show up in the preview right away.

### 5. Export and publishing

**Export** renders the file with the settings you choose and, if you have connected social accounts, publishes the reel to YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and VK. Export is free.

## Where it works

-   **Web** — in any modern browser on a phone or computer. On a wide screen you get a sidebar, projects as a grid of covers, editor panels next to the preview, mouse and keyboard shortcuts.
-   **The iPhone and iPad app** — the same screens and features, gestures instead of a mouse, the photo library and Share. On a Mac, the iPad version of the app runs. More in [The app for iPhone, iPad and Mac](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/apps/).

One account works everywhere: start a project on your phone and finish it in the browser on your computer.

## What it costs

Slicer runs on tokens. A reel costs 24 tokens; export and manual edits are free, and AI operations in the editor are paid separately. Your first reel is free, with a watermark. Details — [Tokens, packs and the free reel](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/pricing/).

## What's next

[QuickstartYour first reel in five steps.](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/quickstart/)[Tutorial: your first videoIn detail, with a demo of every step.](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/tutorial/)[Tokens and packsWhat is paid, what is free and how the free reel works.](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/pricing/)[The appiPhone, iPad and Mac: how they differ from the web.](https://docs.slicer.media/en/guide/apps/)