About Kashi.mov

Kashi.mov is a lyric video studio I built because every other option was either absurdly expensive, required a desktop app, or produced results that looked like 2014. I make music, I post it to TikTok and Instagram, and I needed a tool that fit how I actually work — not how a software company imagines musicians work.

It does one thing: takes your song, your lyrics, and your clips, and turns them into a vertical lyric video you can post. No subscriptions to Premiere. No After Effects templates. No watermarks.

There are three steps:

1. Sync. Upload your audio and paste your lyrics. Press play and tap the spacebar as each word is sung — the editor records the timing. You can nudge individual words in the fine-tune view until it feels right.
2. Style. Choose an animation and drop in your background clips or photos. The preview updates in real time so you can see exactly what it will look like.
3. Post. Export — the render happens entirely in your browser, so it takes seconds, not minutes. Connect your TikTok or Instagram and post directly from the export page. Or just download the MP4 and post manually.

Most video tools send your files to a server, wait for the server to process them, and charge you for the compute time. That's why they're expensive and slow.

Kashi.mov uses WebCodecs — a browser API that talks directly to your GPU's video encoder. On Apple Silicon it uses VideoToolbox. On Windows it uses NVENC or QuickSync. The same hardware that games use. A 60-second lyric video renders in under 10 seconds on most modern laptops, and we never see your audio or video files during the process.

Two styles are available right now:

• Brat. Stark white text on black. No background. One word highlighted at a time, the others dimmed. Inspired by the blunt, stripped-back aesthetic of current independent pop. Works for any genre but especially anything raw and lyric-forward.
• Anime Subs. Dialogue-style subtitles rendered over your background clips. Current word highlighted in orange. Tight drop shadow instead of a backing box — it sits over footage without obscuring it. Good for tracks with strong visual backgrounds or a cinematic feel.

More styles are in progress.

I'm a musician and developer based in Germany. I use Kashi.mov for my own releases. When something breaks or feels wrong I notice it immediately because I'm using it the same week I fix it.

If you have a feature request or something is broken, email hallo@kashi.mov. I read it.