For independent creators
Your next delivery.
Already taking shape.
Find the photos a client needs. Turn a long recording into captioned clips. Keep your source files and finished work together.
No card required. AI credits included. Paid tools depend on your plan.
Intro to 5AM55 seconds
Find, edit, create, and share. See what you can make with 5AM.
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Meet 5AM. A home for your photos, videos, and next big idea. Keep your media together, and find what you need with natural language search. Give photos your look, with filters, curves, and precise edits. Build videos with a timeline, titles, and audio. Design on an open canvas. Turn a story into characters, voices, and animation. Share albums with a link, and control who can view them. Automate repeat work with AI characters and workflows. Start with five gigabytes free, at 5am.app.
Built on the frontier — Gemini 3.1 · Nano Banana 2 · Veo 3.1 · DALL·E 3 · Stripe payouts
5 GB
free to start. No card required.
$0.0001
to semantically index a photo — on your own key.
0%
markup on tokens. Bring your own keys.
The Tab Tax
Nobody budgets for the handoffs.
The tools are fast. Moving between them isn't — and that's where the day goes.
Re-export roulette
Every platform wants a different aspect ratio, so the same cut gets rendered again and again — once per destination.
Clip Maker cuts portrait, square, and landscape from one source. The video editor exports in your browser.
Assets with no home
Generated material lives inside whichever tool made it. Finding last month’s render means remembering which tab you were in.
Images, audio, music, and video land straight in your library, searchable by meaning.
Context you re-type
Every tool starts from zero. You re-explain the brand, the tone, and the project to a stranger each morning.
AI Characters keep memory, skills, and library access between sessions.Premium
One Real Workflow
One long talk. A week of vertical clips.
Same job, both sides. The difference isn't the editing — it's everything around it.
Across your stack
7 apps · 6 handoffs
Cloud drive
Download the source file
Editor
Scrub for the moments worth keeping
Cut each clip
Reframing tool
Reframe every clip to vertical
Transcription service
Generate a transcript
Subtitle tool
Style and burn in the subtitles
Encoder
Export each clip separately
Storage
Upload every clip back
In 5AM
One screen
- 1
Point Clip Maker at the video — a local file, or anything already in your library
- 2
It transcribes, picks the strongest moments, and writes a title for each
- 3
Clips render on your own machine, subtitles burned in, in portrait, square, or landscape
- 4
Publish straight to an album — or open the whole set as a video-editor project
The source video never uploads. Clip Maker runs through 5am studio, a companion you run on your own machine. An audio track goes to Gemini for transcription; video analysis also sends a downscaled video proxy. AI calls use credits or your own key; rendering is local. Only the finished clips come back.
That’s also why it’s free on every plan, including Free.
One Hub
Every step between the shoot and the payout.
Edit video, generate and refine images, and find photos by describing them. Download your AI Studio results or choose an album when you are ready to save them to your library.
Cut where your footage lives.
A timeline editor in the browser, working directly on your library. No download step, no size ceiling, no export roulette.
Generate. Refine. Make it yours.
Generate with Gemini, Veo, and GPT Image. Paint targeted image edits, add visual notes, and compare revisions. Supported Google models use included AI credits or your own key; GPT Image uses your OpenAI key. Download results or choose Upload to album.
Watch the 55-second demo with sound →
Pro edits, zero round-trips.
Edit library photos with layers, masks, tone curves, and local retouching tools. Compare against the original, then download a full-resolution image or save a finished copy to your album.
Describe it. Design it. Animate it.
Start with a prompt for an invitation, poster, or social graphic. Choose a size and optional animation, then refine the editable text, artwork, and layers. Download a finished image or MP4, or save it to your library.
Watch the 55-second demo with sound →
Describe the job. Keep the program.
Automate your media pipeline without writing code. Describe the job, review the plan, and let 5AM write the program. Run it on demand or after uploads to an album, follow the live logs, and keep the code.
Watch the 2-minute demo with sound →
Semantic Search
Search by meaning, not filenames.
“Dog on a beach at sunset” finds the file — even if you named it IMG_4421.HEIC.
Get Paid
You set the price. You keep the money.
Share albums with clients or fans — free, invite-only, or paid. Stripe payouts go straight to your account. We’re not a marketplace taking a cut on top of the card fees.
And you don’t have to be paying us to start getting paid — selling access works on the Free plan.
AI Characters & Playground
A regular AI chat is a stranger.
Yours is a teammate.
Build a focused assistant once — expertise, tone, memory, skills — and reuse it forever. It knows your library, remembers last week, and learns from your feedback.
In the Playground, an orchestrator breaks big jobs into pieces and hands them to your specialists. It’s less like prompting an AI and more like running a small team.
Orchestrator
Launch announcement: splitting into research, draft, and hero image. Delegating.
Researcher
3 sources pulled · summary ready.
Editor
Draft written in your voice · 320 words.
Visualizer
Hero image generated → saved to your library.
CLI & Agents
An agent that can actually manage a media library.
Every 5AM feature is scriptable. A single Go binary, JSON by default — wire it into your automations, or hand it to your AI agent instead of just talking about one.
$5am media semantic-search "sunset drone shots"
✓ 3 matches · DJI_0067.MP4 · reel-final-v2.mp4 · IMG_2201.MOV
$5am media upload ./renders -r --album client-x
✓ 14 files uploaded · 2.3 GB
$5am albums share client-x --share [email protected]
✓ shared · access: view
Add Up Your Stack
What are you paying for the plumbing?
Put in your own numbers — we won't guess them for you.
Fill in what you pay each month and we’ll total it up.
Creativity never sleeps.
Turn the 5 a.m. idea into shipped work. Store it, make it, sell it — in one place.
5 GB free · No card required · Free on iPhone and iPad
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