Features
An editor that already knows your photos.
It cuts the mistakes, suggests the photo moments and writes the searches. You get the final say on all of it.
01Cut
Your take, cleaned up.
The mistakes are gone before you look, and anything comes back in a click.
Record or pick. Your Mac's camera and mic, or any video in Photos, iCloud included.
Silences, gone. Dead air and long pauses are cut for you. One switch turns it off.
Retakes, already cut. A restarted line arrives struck through. One click brings it back.
Strike to cut. Strike a word to cut it from the video, or fix a word it misheard.
Hide swears. Shown with asterisks in the captions, still heard.
02Moments
Where the photos go.
It marks the moments. You keep them, drop them, or add your own.
Suggested as you go. It underlines moments that could use a photo. One click makes one a photo spot.
Add your own. Highlight any words that should get a photo.
Undo. Photo picks, transcript edits and photo spots can all be undone.
03Photos
The right photo for every moment.
In the Studio, each moment gets its own search, written from what you said, and a dozen photos to pick from.
Searches, written for you. From what you said, matched to your photos by meaning. Reword it anytime.
A dozen to pick from. Up to 12 photos per spot, and more on request.
Say the place, or @ it. Name a place, or type @ to pick a person or place from your library.
Text inside photos. Put words in quotes to match signs, slides, receipts and screenshots.
Lookalikes, folded. Near-duplicates fold into one, led by the one that fits a vertical frame.
Never show certain people. Mark someone "never show" and they stay out of your shorts.
04Finish
It finishes the job.
A headline, captions and a polished render, saved to Photos.
A hook headline. Written for you and shown at the start. Rewrite it or ask for another.
Captions on the words. Burned in, sized for vertical, and shown in the preview before you render.
Polished by default. A slow zoom on every photo, and loudness evened out for phones.
Saved to Photos. Each short lands in a VideoGhost album, ready to post.
Edit it again. Reopen a finished short, change its photos and render again.
Ready

Our weekend at the lake
Posting schedule
- Mon4:00 PM
- Tue4:00 PM
- Wed4:00 PM
- Thu4:00 PMNext
- Fri4:00 PM
- Sat10:00 AM
- Sun10:00 AM
Destinations
- YouTube Shorts
- TikTok
- Instagram Reels
05Publish
Scheduling, built in.
Line up your shorts once. Each one takes the next open time in your week and posts to YouTube, TikTok and Instagram.
A weekly schedule. Set posting times for each day, or start from a preset. Each short takes the next open slot.
Three places at once. YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Instagram Reels, each with its own settings, like who can view and comments.
Post text, written for you. A title, caption and tags drafted from the short. Change any of it.
Pick the cover. Choose the frame TikTok and Instagram show.
Change your mind. Withdraw any post before it goes out.
Your own Zernio account. One Zernio key posts to the accounts you connect at zernio.com. It's kept in your Mac's Keychain.
Establishing shots
Wide shots that tell people where you are.

Coast

Land

Urban views
People and moments
What you and your people were up to.

Eating and drinking

Sport and outdoors

Celebrating
Inserts and details
Close-ups to cut to while you talk.

Food

Signs and text

Drink
Collections
Shelves a video maker would build.
VideoGhost sorts your whole library into shots you can cut to, not just dates and places. All on your Mac.
Collections. Establishing shots, people and moments, inserts and details: shelves like Coast, Food and Signs and text, filled in for you.
People. Faces are matched on your Mac. Merge, or say "not this person", and it learns.
Search by meaning. Describe a shot, like "a selfie on a hike". Ideas to try are one click away.
Library. Every photo and video, laid out like Photos. Zoom out to Months, then Years.
Always current. New iCloud photos are searchable within a minute.
Screens kept off your shelves. Screenshots and documents stay out of Collections.
Encrypted on your Mac. Your VideoGhost library is locked with a key in your Mac's Keychain.
VideoGhost for iPhone
Start on your phone.
Make a short on your iPhone, or start one there and finish it on your Mac.
Continue on Mac. Send a short from your iPhone and finish it here, through your own iCloud. Turn on Receive projects from your iPhone in Settings.
Your iPhone shorts, in Projects. Shorts you saved with the iPhone app show up on your Mac too.
Requirements
- Chip
- Apple silicon (M1 or later)
- Memory
- 16 GB of memory
- System
- macOS 15 Sequoia or later
- Space
- About 5 GB free
VideoGhost for iPhone needs iOS 26 or later.