From the web to a desktop app: YouArt is back on Product Hunt
YouArt Desktop APP went live on Product Hunt today : https://www.producthunt.com/prod...
We started on the web, and I'm glad we did. A canvas in the browser, the best image and video models in one place, and a team that could work on the same board. It was the fastest way to put something real in front of people and watch how they used it.
And watching is where the next step came from. People would generate a clip they liked, then carry it into After Effects or CapCut to finish it. Nobody was doing anything wrong, and nothing was broken. That's just how video gets made. But it showed us how much further YouArt could go if it could follow the work onto the machine where the finishing happens.
So about several months ago we started on a desktop app, and that's what we're launching. The agent now edits directly in Apps like After Effects and CapCut. What it builds in AE stays as ordinary keyframes, so you can adjust any of it the way you'd adjust your own work. It can also integrate with Gmail, Notion, Slack and other tools to gather client feedback onto the canvas and edit autonomously. These are the tedious yet vital pieces of creative work.
The web version is still here, and it's still where a lot of projects start. It's the same canvas, and your team can leave notes right on a cut. The desktop app picks up from there when a project needs to go further.
If you try it, I'd love to hear how it fits into the way you already work. I'll be in the comments today.
We're so excited to bring you YouArt Desktop App.
A little over a year ago, we launched the first version of YouArt right here on Product Hunt. It was one of the first products to let an agent run a creative workflow. Back then, that was hard to imagine: most agents still couldn't reliably orchestrate a node-based system.
A year later, intelligence has leaped forward. Seedance 2.0 is an impressive video model. Opus 5.5 is to video editing and motion graphics, what Sonnet 3.7 was to coding. And Astra's computer use finally connects agents to traditional creative workflows.
But a smart agent in a browser tab can only do so much. Real creative work lives on your computer: your project folders, your After Effects and CapCut files, your client feedback in Slack and Gmail. Web tools make you upload, download and switch apps at every step, and the context gets lost along the way. So we brought the agent to where the work actually happens. On desktop, it can read your local files, work alongside your team's conversations and operate the creative tools you already use.
All of this made us believe that agentic first video production is finally possible. YouArt Desktop is our take on AI-native creative production. We hope you love it.
@harry_zheng How well does the desktop agent handle complex edits acroos tools like effects and capcut?
@shivam_kushwaha16 It handles multi-step edits in both. After Effects is the most reliable: effects, masks, native editable keyframes and renders, all verified by reading the project back. CapCut works too. It can chain the two in one task (AE motion graphics, then render, then CapCut edit and export), handing off via rendered files.
@harry_zheng running AE and CapCut off local files is a big step. I'd still want to see the timeline before it exports so I can fix the last bits myself
Yet another Y Combinator launch.
Just curious, how do you make money if you route jobs to the cheapest provider?
@lavana_cricko Fair question! We think video model margins will be commoditized over time, so the margins platforms like Higgsfield see today won't last. Longer term, we plan to charge for the agent (per seat), plus storage and sandbox compute. We're still exploring, but at least we're not losing money by routing to the cheapest model.
Exactly something I am looking for(I am creating some videos for my TikTok account recently). $0.208/s for Seedance sounds great, but is that a launch price? What happens after?
@justin2025 Glad it fits! What stays the same is smart routing: even after the promo, it will keep choosing your cheapest available API provider for each model, so you'll always get the lowest price.
looks interesting and useful is there are trial option before we bring our api keys ?
@harini_mukesh Yes, you don't need your own API keys to get started. Just download YouArt Desktop at youart.ai/download and sign up. You'll get 50 free credits to try everything with our built-in models. BYOK is completely optional
@harry_zheng cool will try it
YouArt Desktop is a product we’re proud of, and one we use internally every day. It is gradually replacing Codex and Claude in our daily workflow.
We built it because we couldn’t find a product that brought everything we needed for video creation:
1) an agent that could use various LLMs (the best being Fable 5.2 and GPT 6 at the time of this post),
2) a native canvas that carries all of our scripts, images, videos, and commentsl,
3) and computer/browser use, for sure, because I don’t want to bother browsing myself to gather all that context.
Boom, there you have YouArt Desktop!
In the past few weeks, we have used YouArt Desktop to create viral trending videos, product tutorials, launch videos and almost everything. We believe more people could benefit from it, so we’re excited to put it in your hands.
Meet YouArt Desktop. Enjoy!
Does YouArt support collaboration when multiple designers are working on the same project?
@daris_esteban Yes, we offer team workspaces and shared canvases.
can beginners create professional quality designs without having any experience with workflow editors?
@vespertine_dallarosa Technically, it’s achievable. With AI tools, I believe the biggest gap between beginners and professional creators lies in their aesthetic judgment and the ability to steer the work toward their vision. This can be bridged by feeding reference pieces of the desired style into AI for deconstruction and learning.