One sentence → full episode
AI news anchor video generator
Write the headline your studio is covering. Frutti builds the broadcast: desk, anchors, field segments, performed dialogue, burned-in captions and a vertical export.
Real outputs, not a promo reel
Finished, self-hosted Frutti episodes — the same engine and pipeline this generator runs. Judge the output before paying anything.
Write your first AI news anchor episode.
Pick a premise or write your own, and read the episode before you pay for anything. No prompt engineering, no editing, no account.
Story
Your one-line premise becomes a scene-by-scene script with a conflict and a payoff.
Cast
Original characters are designed and kept consistent from scene to scene.
Voices
Every character gets a distinct AI voice — dialogue is performed, not subtitled.
Captions
Word-timed captions are burned in, styled to stay readable with the sound off.
Export
One finished 9:16 episode for TikTok, Shorts and Reels. No editor, no export settings.
The news desk is the most trusted costume in comedy
Audiences read authority into a news desk before a single word is spoken, which is why the broadcast parody format keeps winning: absurd subject, deadly serious delivery. The format only works when the segments have real structure — the cold open, the anchor hand-off, the field report that goes slightly wrong, the sign-off. improvised clips skip all of that and collapse into one joke.
Frutti writes the full broadcast shape from your headline. Anchors get distinct voices and on-air chemistry, the script breaks into segments with a payoff, and captions are burned in for sound-off viewing. Keep the same desk and anchors across episodes and the studio becomes a recurring show.
Broadcast premises to steal
Cover something tiny with the full gravity of a network. The commitment is the joke.
- breaking news: the neighbourhood squirrel has claimed a third bird feeder
- live coverage of the household voting on pizza toppings splits the anchors
- a field reporter interviews the dog about the hole in the garden
- the desk anchors host a midnight broadcast about the fridge light mystery
- urgent report: the baby learned to open doors and nowhere is safe
Same desk, new breaking story
A studio is a repeatable stage: same anchors, same desk, endless headlines. Frutti stores the cast so your desk returns every episode, and the format compounds the way real channels do.
How Frutti compares
Frutti made this page and Frutti is in the table. Each row describes what the vendor's own product page says the tool is built to do; we have not bench-tested the others' output, and every tool here, ours included, has a job it does better than the rest, and a job it does worse. Checked 4 September 2026.
| Tool | What you get | Writes & voices dialogue | Recurring cast | Best for | Where it falls short |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fruttiours | One finished 9:16 episode, captioned, ready to post. | Yes | Yes | Building a channel around a cast that returns every episode, where the writing carries the video. | Rendering is paid, because generation costs real money per second — and it is slower than a template tool, because it writes and performs a script instead of dropping text onto stock footage. |
| HeyGen | A speaking-character video from a script you supply. | Partial | Yes | Brand mascots and presenter-style delivery where the character speaks straight to camera. | Presenter-shaped rather than story-shaped; not built for absurd multi-character scenes. |
| Hedra | One animated talking-character shot per run. | No | Partial | Making one specific character you already have talk convincingly — the strongest option if you bring your own image and voice. | It animates; it does not write. Script, voice, scene order and captions remain your job. |
| Zebracat | A captioned vertical short assembled from one prompt. | Partial | No | Fast, low-effort output when you want the whole thing handled in a single pass. | Marketing-video heritage; the meme formats are one preset among many rather than the focus. |
The numbers, so you can check them
- Format
- AI News Desk. Two or three recurring anchors with fixed desk roles, lead, reactions and field reporter. The field reporter gets one location.
- What you download
- A 9:16 vertical video with the captions already burned in, ready to post without an editor.
- Episode length
- Episodes are built from long dialogue clips, each one continuous shot: Quick 2 clips of 10 seconds, Standard 3 of 10, Long 3 of 15, Epic 4 of 15. Longer runs come from a series of episodes.
- Watermark
- None. No export carries a watermark, on any plan, and there is no watermarked free tier to upgrade out of.
- What is free
- Writing a full episode (script, cast and scene list) on the home page and on every format page, with no account and no card. Rendering runs on credits. There is no free render tier and no watermarked tier.
- Price
- Starter $24/month or $7/month billed yearly, Creator $59/month or $18/month billed yearly. Yearly billing is 70% off and is charged once for twelve months. Prices in US dollars.
- What an episode costs
- 600 credits for a Standard episode, 1,050 for a Long episode. Starter includes 1,200 credits a month, which is 2 Standard episodes or about 30 single clips.
- Languages
- English plus 16 other languages.
- Ownership
- You own the output you generate. Paid plans cover commercial use, including client work, brand channels and paid advertising.
Verified 4 September 2026. Prices, credits and clip counts are read from the configuration that charges for them, not typed into this page. Pricing, refunds, terms. Machine-readable: /api/public/plans and /llms.txt.
Frequently asked questions
What is an AI news anchor video generator?
A tool that produces a complete broadcast episode from one written headline: anchors, segments, performed dialogue, captions and a vertical export. Not a single talking-head clip you still have to edit.
Do the anchors actually speak?
Yes. Every anchor gets a written part performed with a distinct AI voice, and word-timed captions are burned in so the video works with the sound off.
Can I keep the same anchors and desk for a series?
That is the strongest use. Frutti keeps the cast and set consistent, so the broadcast becomes a recognizable show rather than a one-off render.
Is it free?
Writing the episode is free and needs no account. Rendering the video is paid.