Vidmoat

Unlike a pure prompt-to-video generator, Vidmoat keeps every AI-driven change — cuts, captions, color grades, reframes — as an editable clip on a real multi-track timeline, so a prompt like "make this a punchy TikTok" produces something you can still trim and adjust by hand afterward rather than a flattened render. The agent narrates its steps as it works ("auto-cut ran", etc.) and the same timeline is reachable three ways: the browser editor, an iPhone app, and a Telegram/WhatsApp bot that returns finished renders in the chat — all sharing the same projects and credit balance. This combination (agent-first editing plus a fully manual fallback) is the tool's clearest differentiator from timeline-only editors like CapCut or Premiere. Source: vendor product pages and FAQ (https://vidmoat.com/, https://vidmoat.com/pricing).

Pricing is public and specific, verified on the live pricing page 2026-09-27 (https://vidmoat.com/pricing): Hobby is free forever (3 projects, 8 exports/month at 720p, small watermark, 40 AI credits/month). Creator is $19/month ($15/month billed yearly, $180/year) — unlimited projects, 4K exports with no watermark, 1,500 AI credits/month. Studio is $49/month ($39/month billed yearly, $468/year) — 6,000 AI credits/month, 8 GB uploads, API access. Team is $29/seat/month (3-seat minimum). There are also no-subscription Day Passes ($2.99/24h, $4.99/3 days, $8.99/7 days) and one-time credit packs ($5–$20) that never expire. The catch for anyone drawn in by the "connect Claude Code or Cursor to your timeline" pitch on the homepage: live MCP access — letting an external agent actually drive projects — is a Studio-only feature. Creator, at $19/month, does not include it; only free test keys work below Studio. Anyone buying in specifically for the agent-integration story needs to budget for $49/month, not $19.

Vidmoat's privacy policy and subprocessor list (last updated 2026-09-20, verified today) name each AI provider by function and location rather than using vague "trusted partners" language: OpenAI (US) for agent planning and transcription-adjacent tasks, Alibaba Cloud/Qwen (Singapore) and DeepSeek (China) for agent planning, xAI/Grok (US) for generation, Google Gemini (US) for video understanding. It states plainly that speech-to-text runs on Vidmoat's own servers rather than a third party, that account data and media are stored in the EU (Hetzner Finland, AWS Sweden), and that user content is not used to train models. It also has an unusually thorough section on what happens if you connect an external AI assistant over MCP — spelling out, permission by permission, what that assistant can read and write, including that raw video frames can be returned to it. Sources: https://vidmoat.com/privacy, https://vidmoat.com/subprocessors.

Vidmoat is operated by Buzz Innovations Ltd, a UK company (number 17212684) incorporated 12 May 2026, per Companies House (verified 2026-09-27: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/17212684). The company's own about page names its sole director, Frederick Abila, and links directly to his Companies House officer record rather than asserting credentials — an unusual level of transparency for a one-person operation. The iOS app (Buzz Innovations Ltd, App Store ID 6798783613) shows version 1.0 released 12 September 2026 and 1.0.1 on 17 September 2026, and currently "hasn't received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview" (verified 2026-09-27: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vidmoat-ai-video-editor/id6798783613). Attempts to find independent reviews on Trustpilot and Product Hunt returned no accessible listing for either. This is a normal profile for a product a few months old — not a red flag — but it means the only account of how well it performs at scale is the vendor's own.

Vidmoat ships a browser editor (works on any device including Android and Linux), a native iPhone app, and desktop apps for Mac and Windows. The Mac build requires Apple Silicon and macOS 13+ — there's no Intel Mac build. The Windows build is explicitly flagged by the vendor as an unsigned installer, so Windows will show a publisher warning on install (verified 2026-09-27: https://vidmoat.com/download). There is no native Android or Linux app; the vendor points those users to the browser editor instead, which they describe as the full product rather than a cut-down fallback.