Turn a link into a narrated video
Paste the address of an article, blog post, news story or help page and press Read. PopNow fetches the page, keeps the main text and leaves out menus and footers, then plans a narrated video from it: scenes, headlines, captions, music and a voiceover in one of PopNow's narrator voices.
This is for repurposing writing as video, not for downloading a video that already sits at a URL. If you want to save a clip from a social site, this isn't the tool. If you want a blog post to become a YouTube video, a LinkedIn clip or a vertical short, it is.
What a blog-to-video costs
Reading a link has no charge. You pay for the plan, the pictures, the narration and any scenes you animate.
- Writing the plan
- Shown on Write my plan in Studio before you press it
- Each new picture
- 29 credits on Budget · 48 credits on Standard
- Narration with word timing, per minute
- 20 credits
- Moving scenes, per second of video
- 25 credits on Budget · 37 credits on Standard
- A new instrumental track (optional)
- 72 credits
- Library music, captions, chapter cards and the final MP4
- 0 credits
Example: a 1,200-word post turned into about 1:30 of narration with 12 scenes is about 378 credits on Budget or 606 credits on Standard as an animatic; each animated scene adds about 222 credits on Budget.
Budget makes pictures with Seedream 5.0 Flash and moving scenes with Seedance 2.0 Mini; Standard uses Nano Banana 2.1 and MiniMax H3. Failed steps are refunded.
Questions and answers
How do I turn a URL into a video?+
Paste the link into Link and press Read, choose a length and a look, then continue to the plan. You see every scene and the price before anything is made.
Can it download a video from a URL?+
No. It reads the text on a page and makes a new video about it. To edit a video you already have, upload it to the PopNow editor.
Does it work with Medium, Substack or WordPress posts?+
Usually, when the post is public. Members-only posts and pages behind a login can't be read; copy the text into Paste text instead.
Will it copy the article word for word?+
By default it rewrites the article for voice, because written sentences are tiring to listen to. Switch to Keep my words when the article is short enough to read in about 5 minutes.
Can I use someone else's article?+
Only if you have the right to. Turning your own posts, your company's pages or licensed content into video is fine; republishing other people's writing usually isn't.
Can I make the video in another language?+
Yes. Rewrite for voice writes the script in the language of the site you're using, so an English post can become a Spanish or Japanese video. Keep my words reads the text in its own language.
