Autopilot
A Reddit story channel, created and posted for you.
Autopilot is an AI agent inside StoryTok. You choose the subreddits, the schedule and the look. Every cycle it finds a new post, rewrites it into an original script and renders a narrated, captioned video. Switch posting on and it sends each video to your TikTok, Instagram and YouTube accounts. It spends the credits you already have and stops the moment they run out.
3 free minutes of rendering at signup. Posting uses paid credits.
An example cycle, with Post automatically on
Illustrative times. A post goes out after its render finishes, not at a fixed minute.
How a series works
- 1
Pick the subreddits
Choose up to five story subreddits, such as r/AmItheAsshole, r/tifu or r/relationship_advice. Autopilot only ever draws from the ones you pick.
- 2
Set the schedule and the look
Every 12 hours, daily, every two days or weekly. Choose a voice, a pool of gameplay backgrounds (it never repeats the previous video's footage), and a caption style. That look applies to every video in the series.
- 3
It sources the story
On each cycle the agent reads the day's top posts in your subreddits and picks the strongest one it has not used before. Every post is used once per series.
- 4
It writes an original script
The post is rewritten into a first-person narration in original words, never copied verbatim: 250 to 550 words, or 140 to 240 when the series has posting on, so every video fits the platforms' short-video limits. The intro card uses the real post's title and stats.
- 5
It renders into your library
A normal StoryTok render: narration, word-timed captions, gameplay, a 1080 by 1920 MP4 in My videos. With posting off, this is where the cycle ends and you download or publish the video yourself.
- 6
It hands the video to posting, if you switched that on
Open the series and choose Review first or Post automatically, the accounts, a caption and a YouTube title. Review first saves each video as a draft for you to confirm. Post automatically sends it to your accounts once the render finishes.
Posting is your call, per series
Nothing posts before you authorize it. You set one of three modes on the series page and can change it at any time; switching back to Off cancels that series' waiting posts and returns their credits.
- 01Off
Render only. This is how every series starts. Finished videos wait in My videos for you to download or publish by hand.
Render credits only.
- 02Review first
Each finished video becomes a saved draft on the Publishing page with the series settings filled in. Nothing posts until you confirm it there.
No posting credits are reserved until you confirm a draft.
- 03Post automatically
An explicit opt-in per series: you pick the accounts, agree that posts go out publicly without a review, and set the most posting credits one video may use.
1 paid credit per account is reserved before the render starts and returned if the render or that post fails.
The platform rules are the same as for any post from StoryTok: Instagram needs a professional account, YouTube decides what counts as a Short, posts are public, and TikTok comments, Duet and Stitch are off for now. How publishing works
What it is, in one table
| Sources | Up to five subreddits per series, top posts of the day |
|---|---|
| Cadence | Every 12 hours, daily, every 2 days, or weekly |
| Script | Original first-person rewrite, never verbatim: 250 to 550 words, or 140 to 240 with posting on |
| Intro card | Built from the real post's title, author and vote count |
| Look | Your voice, a background pool that never repeats consecutively, your caption preset |
| Output | 1080 by 1920 MP4 in your library, no watermark on paid credits |
| Posting | Off, Review first, or Post automatically, set per series. TikTok, Instagram and YouTube |
| Post text | One caption and YouTube title per series, reused on every video |
| Cost | 1 credit per rendered minute: about 2 to 3 per video, or 1 to 2 for the shorter posted videos, plus 1 paid credit per account |
| When credits run out | Pauses and emails you; add credits and press Resume |
What it costs
Autopilot has no plan of its own. A typical story renders for 2 to 3 credits. With posting on the scripts are shorter and usually render for 1 to 2, and each connected account adds 1 paid credit. A daily series therefore uses about 60 to 90 credits a month with posting off, about the same posted to one account, and about 120 to 150 posted to three.
Credits come in packs, so what you pay today is a pack, not a monthly fee: $10 buys 60 credits and $50 buys 360. At the $50 pack's rate, 60 to 90 credits is about $8 to $13 of credits used in a month, and whatever is left stays in your balance. Pause the series and it costs nothing until you resume.
What it does not do
- It only makes Reddit-style story videos. Texting stories, captions and clipping are manual formats, though their finished videos can be published by hand.
- It does not write a new caption, title or hashtags for each video. The series reuses the ones you set.
- It does not post at a guaranteed time, and it cannot promise reach, monetization or how a platform treats a video.
- It does not read a post out loud verbatim. Every script is an original rewrite.
Questions
What does Autopilot cost?
There is no Autopilot plan. Each video costs 1 credit per rendered minute, the same as a video you make by hand: usually 2 to 3 credits, or 1 to 2 when posting is on, because those scripts are kept shorter. Posting adds 1 paid credit per video for each connected account. A daily series uses roughly 60 to 90 credits a month, either render-only or posted to one account.
Does it post to TikTok, Instagram or YouTube for me?
It can, once you switch posting on for that series and connect the accounts. Every series starts with posting off. Review first saves each video as a draft you confirm; Post automatically sends each video to the accounts you chose after its render finishes. Instagram needs a professional account, YouTube decides whether an upload counts as a Short, and every post is public.
Does each video get its own caption and title?
No. You write one caption (and one YouTube title) per series, with an optional caption per platform, and every video in the series uses them. Nothing is rewritten or tuned per episode, so write ones that fit the whole series. In Review first you can edit a draft before confirming it.
Will it post at an exact time?
No. The schedule sets when a cycle starts. The video is posted after it has been sourced, written and rendered, which takes a few minutes and can take longer. If you need a precise time, use Review first and schedule the draft yourself.
What happens when I run out of credits?
The series pauses itself and emails you. Nothing renders, nothing is charged, and the series picks up where it left off once you add credits and press Resume.
Can I use the free trial for this?
You can run a series on the 3 free trial minutes to see what it makes. Trial videos carry a StoryTok watermark and cannot be posted from StoryTok, so automatic posting needs paid credits.
Can it repeat a story or copy a post word for word?
It never reuses a post within a series, and every script is rewritten in original words before narration. Rewriting does not guarantee how a platform will treat a video; it avoids the verbatim-reading pattern that gets channels flagged as unoriginal.
What if a render or a post fails?
A failed render refunds its render credits and any posting credits reserved for it. A failed post refunds that post's credit; the render it belonged to succeeded, so its cost stands. If a series fails three times in a row it pauses and emails you.
Next: the step-by-step guide to automatically posting Reddit story videos, or compare StoryTok with AutoShorts and Faceless.so.