Your documentary channel, made overnight.

Type a topic before bed. Forge researches it, writes the script, voices it, finds the archive footage and renders the film. It's ready in the morning.

A documentary studio on your own computer. Forge researches, writes, voices, illustrates and renders films while you sleep, and shows what each one costs before it starts.

FIG 0.1
Make filmsFrom a topic, a premise or your own script to a finished MP4.
FIG 0.2
Translate videosAny YouTube video in your language, in each speaker’s own voice.
FIG 0.3
Grow channelsIdeas, script styles and subjects picked for each channel you run.
≈ 30–40 minto make a 20-minute film
≈ $0.16a 20-minute documentary
15looks, plus your own
1.0 · Writing

Writing
and sources

Start from a topic, a premise or your own script. Claude researches and writes, and every picture comes from a real archive first, with its licence written down.

Thenightof14April1912:whathappenedonthebridge,andwhytherewereonlytwentylifeboats.
Claude writes to your angle
1.1
From a topic, a premise or your scriptClaude writes it, or uses your words as written.
"Plato bust, marble"
Wikimedia · CC BY 4.088
Europeana · CC084
archive.org · public domain58
AI still · only if nothing fits—
Licence and author savedPicked
1.2
Real pictures firstarchive.org, Wikimedia and Pexels, with AI stills only where nothing real exists, and licences tracked.
2.0 · Sound and style

Voices
and looks

Thousands of narrators or a clone of your own voice, and 15 looks that set the grade, captions, cards and pacing of the whole film.

DanielAI33 · EN
2.1
VoicesThousands of AI33 and MiniMax voices, or a clone of your own from 60 seconds of speech.
Plato’s storyOPERATION ANTHROPOIDCASE 1959-02TAIWAN · LIVEHANNIBAL CROSSES THE ALPSS A T U R NArchive
Move across the still to flip looks
2.2
15 looksArchive, Nocturne, Dossier, Newsroom, Documentary and more, plus your own described in a sentence.
3.0 · Overnight

Queue
and cost

Line up films before bed. The queue keeps going and retries on its own, and every film shows minutes and dollars before it starts.

Queue · 0 of 3 done23:40
Prague, 1942Waiting
The Lost City of AtlantisWaiting
Dyatlov PassWaiting
3.1
Runs overnightA queue that keeps going, retries on its own and shows when everything is done.
Narration and music · AI33
Script and shot check · Claude plan$0.00
Render · your own GPU$0.00
3.2
Know the cost firstEvery film shows minutes and dollars before it starts.
How it works

Watch a film being made

One topic, typed at 23:02: "The lost city of Atlantis". Scroll to follow it through all six steps.

The Lost City of Atlantis23:04 · researching
Plato's Timaeus and Critias (c. 360 BC) are the only ancient source. He puts the island beyond the Pillars of Hercules, 9,000 years before Solon.
Plato — Timaeus, Critias (Perseus Digital Library)Britannica — AtlantisWikipedia — Minoan eruption of Thera+ 11 more · 1:48 · $0.36
CHAPTER 1 · PLATO'S STORY · 0:00–4:12
Plato wrote the story down in two dialogues, Timaeus and Critias. Archive
He placed the island beyond the Pillars of Hercules, larger than Libya and Asia together. Map
Then, in a single day and night, it sank beneath the sea. Card
NARRATING · EN4:12 / 20:14
HeplacedtheislandbeyondthePillarsofHercules,largerthanLibyaandAsiatogether.
Pace148 wpm
ToneCalm
Pitch−2
Wikimedia88
archive.org81
Pexels76
Europeana72
NASA69
AI still1 of 148
Then, in a single day and night, it sank.
1080p · 25 fps · NVENCon your GPU · $0.00
Film check passed
Shots that match the words148 / 148
Claims checked31 · 0 open
Licences recorded147 real · 1 AI
Loudness−14 LUFS
23:41 · Ready
The Lost City of Atlantis
Ready · 20:14 · $0.16
Export MP4Open in editor
CHAPTER IThe Lost City
of Atlantis
20:14
Translate

Any YouTube video, in your language

Paste a link. Forge separates the voices from the music, translates every line and reads it back in each speaker's voice.

Music and effects stay under the new voices.
Every speaker is cloned and keeps their own voice.
Captions burned in, or saved as an .srt file.
Samurai armour on a museum standOriginal · English03:42 / 16:30
Each plate was laced with silk cord, so a smith could repair it in the field.
4.0 · Channels

Forge learns
each channel you run

Connect a channel and Forge suggests what to make next, in the style that works for it.

Forge Channels screen with views, ideas from Claude and best-performing films
4.1
Ideas from ClaudeTitles written for your channel, ranked by how similar ones did.
4.2
A script style to borrowPoint it at a channel you learn from and it copies the hook, voice and rhythm.
4.3
Subjects next to yoursTopics your audience searches for that nobody in your language has covered.
Showcase

See it in action

One part of the app at a time. Pick a chapter or let it play through.

01 / 06Overview
5.0 · Cost and time

A 20-minute film
for less than a dollar

Most of the time goes to Claude writing the script and checking every shot. The render itself runs about 4× faster than real time.

Documentary
Cost$0.16
Time to make30–40 min
Docu-thriller
Cost$0.35
Time to make50 min
Where the money goes$35 of AI33 credits covers about 220 documentaries.
$0.16
Narration and musicAI33 credits
$0
Script and shot checkYour Claude plan
$0
Footage and photosFree libraries
$0
RenderYour own GPU
Measured on · CPUAMD Ryzen 5 5600G
GPUNVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti · 8 GB
Memory16 GB RAM
SystemWindows 11
Measured on real films with Czech narration. Times depend on your internet connection and Claude's response times. Full requirements are in the FAQ.

Pick how long you need it

Every plan is the same app with every feature. Only the length changes.

1 month
$ —billed monthly
Films, Translate and ChannelsAll 15 looks and your ownUpdates while it runs
Buy 1 month
Lifetime
$ —one payment, yours to keep
Films, Translate and ChannelsAll 15 looks and your ownUpdates for life
Buy lifetime

Voices, pictures and music are paid to the providers directly with your own keys. Forge shows each cost before it runs.

Questions, answered

Anything else, ask on Discord.

Recommended: Windows 10/11, an NVIDIA RTX graphics card with 8 GB of memory, 16 GB RAM, about 10 GB of free disk space per 20-minute film, a Claude subscription and an AI33 account. A macOS version for Apple silicon is also available.

Yes. Your Forge account holds your licence, so you can sign in on another computer. Sign in with email and a password, or with Google.

No. Forge exports an MP4 with captions and a thumbnail, and you upload it yourself.

Scripts, voices and captions work in English, Czech, German, Hungarian and the other languages your voice provider supports. Translate works between any two of them.

Forge searches public-domain and Creative Commons sources first and records the licence and author of every shot. AI stills are used only where nothing real exists, and each one is marked.

Yes. The editor lets you swap any picture, change captions, cards and music, and re-render only the parts that changed, usually in under a minute.

Only the narration and music, through AI33: $35 buys 4.6 M credits, enough for about 220 twenty-minute documentaries. Writing, directing and checking every shot run on your Claude subscription, footage comes from free libraries and the film renders on your own GPU.

Yes. Record 60 seconds of speech and Forge clones it. Your clone can narrate any film or translation.

Pixel illustration of a desk with a laptop by the sea at night

Queue tonight's films.

Windows 10 and 11 · macOS on Apple silicon · 2.1.0