Features
A whole edit bay, on your phone
Tael does the cinematography, editing and grading for you — locally, with no watermark and no account.
Private by default
As private as you want it to be
Tael's editing and rendering run on your phone. Nothing is uploaded, no account is required, and it works on a plane in airplane mode. The cloud is something you reach for — never the default.
- Photos and clips stay on your device
- No tracking, no ads, no account to make a film
- You decide if anything ever touches the cloud
Beat-sync engine
Edited to the music, automatically
Tael analyses the track and places cuts on the beat, the bar, or every onset — then puts the punchy transitions on the strong hits.
- Pacing modes: per beat, per bar, per two bars, or steady
- Zoom-blur, flash and glitch transitions land on strong onsets
- Ken Burns motion tuned per look
13 cinematic looks
A real grade, not a filter
Each look is a complete recipe — color grade, film texture, motion, pacing, transitions and title cards — so you get a finished short, not a blank timeline.
- Golden Hour, Epic Adventure, Noir Drama, Neon Nights, Super 8 + more
- Tunable film look: bloom, halation, grain, vignette, scope letterbox
- Cinzel title + end cards (end card off by default — never forced)
Free where it counts
No bait-and-switch
Every look, photos and video, clean exports with no watermark — free. We'll never lock everyday features (like using video instead of just photos) behind a paywall to upsell you.
- All 13 looks, free
- Photos and video, free
- Clean, watermark-free exports by default
Cloud power, on your terms
Pay only for the heavy lifting — or earn it
A few high-end workflows need real compute that a phone can't do alone. Those run in the cloud — opt-in, only when you ask for them — and you pay for the compute you use. Proud of a Tael? Share it with our mark on it and we'll credit your account with compute.
- Cloud features are always opt-in
- Pay for compute you use — no subscription to use the basics
- Share with the Tael mark to earn compute credit (always optional)
Ready to make your first Tael?
Free, private, and it works offline. Every trip's a Tael.