One sentence → full episode
AI news generator
Write one headline. Frutti builds the whole broadcast: the desk, the anchor hand-off, a field segment that goes slightly wrong, the sign-off, 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 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.
A broadcast is a structure, and the structure is written
What separates a news generator from a talking-head clip is the shape. A real broadcast has a cold open, two anchors who hand off to each other, one field report that goes slightly wrong, and a sign-off delivered with total seriousness. The subject can be anything, and for parody formats the smaller the subject the better: a squirrel claiming a third bird feeder gets full network treatment.
Frutti writes that shape into the episode from your headline. Anchors get distinct voices and on-air chemistry, the field segment has its own beat, captions run like lower thirds for sound-off viewing, and the same desk and anchors return every episode so the broadcast becomes a show rather than a one-off render.
Headlines to cover first
Write the sentence like a breaking news alert. Tiny subject, enormous gravity.
- breaking news: the neighbourhood squirrel has claimed a third bird feeder
- live coverage of the household pizza-topping vote 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, endless headlines
A studio is a repeatable stage. Frutti stores the anchors and the desk so episode ten looks like episode one, only more confident, and every render exports ready to post.
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 generator?
A tool that produces a complete news-broadcast episode from one written headline: anchors, segments, performed dialogue, captions and a vertical export, in one pass.
How is this different from an AI news anchor video maker?
The anchor page is about the cast: creating recurring anchor characters for your desk. This page is about the broadcast itself: the segment structure a full news episode needs. Same engine, two entry points.
Can it cover real events?
The format that works, and stays in the platform's safest category, is parody: absurd subjects delivered with network gravity, labelled as AI. It is built for fiction, not for synthetic footage of real reporting.
Is it free?
Writing the broadcast is free and needs no account. Rendering the video is paid.