Clone any
YouTube niche.

Heclus is an AI-powered content creation platform that helps creators generate trending, high-retention videos using AI workflows, automation, and viral content systems.

Yes, for now. Heclus is focused specifically on helping creators discover and create trending YouTube content. More platforms and content formats are planned for future updates.

No — a niche is a channel slot, not a video. It is the channel you model your content on, and your plan sets how many of those you get:

• Starter — 5 channel slots a month.
• Pro — 10 channel slots a month.
• Max — unlimited.

For each channel you can create an unlimited number of videos. So if you run two channels, you are using two of your slots and can keep producing for both. What limits your output is the Heclus Credits on your plan, which is what generation spends.

Up to 45 minutes at the moment. Within that, length follows your script — a longer script with more narration beats gives a longer video. In practice most videos made on Heclus land between 3 and 13 minutes, with the median around 8, so there is plenty of headroom for long-form.

Heclus uses a number of models including popular text generation tools, text-to-speech tools, as well as the top image and video generation models.

Yes, two ways. Pro and Max include unlimited custom voice cloning on our account, so you can clone a voice inside Heclus with no key and no separate subscription. And on any plan you can connect an ElevenLabs account of your own in setup, which makes the voices already cloned there available in the voiceover step alongside the ones Heclus provides.

Automatic character consistency is not implemented yet. In the meantime you can import your own images for any scene you want to control, so a recurring character or a specific look can be dropped in by hand where it matters.

None whatsoever. Heclus is designed to be user-friendly for both first-time and experienced creators.

A complete content package, bundled in a ZIP you can download and extract:

• A DOCX script file.
• An MP3 voiceover.
• Every AI-generated image, as PNG.
• Thumbnails.
• The full assembled video.

Most of the pipeline is quick. Script and prompt generation typically take a few minutes, and the final assembly — where everything is stitched into the finished file — usually takes a few minutes too, with nine in ten finishing inside about thirteen. The variable part is image, voice and clip generation, which queues against our generation providers and scales with the number of narration beats, so a long video means many more generations than a short one.

If a step sits for hours rather than minutes, that is not normal — stop it and run it again, and contact support if it persists. You do not have to sit and watch either way: progress is saved at every step, so you can close the tab and pick the project back up where you left off.

No. A generation that fails is not charged — credits are only spent on work that completes — and when you press Retry only the failed beats are requeued — it does not start the whole step over. Depending on which step you are in, you may also be able to retry individual failed items rather than the batch.

Your plan includes a standing allowance for everything your projects hold — generated images, video clips, voiceovers, thumbnails and the finished export:

• Starter and Founder — 100 GB.
• Pro — 200 GB.
• Max — 400 GB.

It is a standing allowance rather than a monthly one: it does not reset each month, and it does not run down on its own. Deleting a project you have already downloaded frees its space back up immediately.

Nothing you have made is deleted or locked. Your existing projects stay exactly as they are and you can still download any of them — what stops is new writes, so the next generation step will not run until you are back under the cap. You have two ways forward:

• Download the ZIP for projects you have finished with, then delete them to reclaim the space.
• Move up a plan: Pro is 200 GB, Max is 400 GB.

There is no paid storage add-on to buy. Most accounts never come close — a typical project is a fraction of the allowance, and the heaviest accounts on the platform today sit well under 100 GB.

No keys needed. Every plan includes a monthly allowance of Heclus Credits, and generation spends them: 1,000 credits on Starter, 2,000 on Pro, 6,000 on Max, alongside free image, clip and voiceover allowances on top. Each step prices the work before you run it and your balance is on the same screen, so nothing is spent without you seeing what it costs. Run out mid-month and you can top up; what you have already made is unaffected.

• Included credits reset each month. Anything you top up does not expire.
• You are only charged for work that completes — see the failed-generations question above.
• There is no KIE account to open and no generation key to paste. That is the whole point of the credits: the provider accounts are ours.

Four things make most of the difference:

• Turn video generation off. The project then assembles from stills, one AI image held for the length of its narration beat, with no video-model spend at all. The expensive layer is a choice, not a requirement.
• Pick cheaper models per step. Every image and video step lists its models with the cost printed on the card and sorts by cheapest, and the range across models runs more than twenty-fold. Run a premium model on the hook and a budget one everywhere else.
• Set your prompt prefix once, so your style is consistent from the start. Re-rolling images to fix drift is a large share of what people spend.
• Watch the numbers as you go. Each step prices the run before it starts and shows your remaining credits in the same view, so there is no end-of-month surprise. The usage log lists every charge, what it was for and what it produced.

In our own project data, going images-only and choosing the cheapest image models together cut the cost of a video by roughly 70%.

Every plan gets the editor, not just the top one. Transitions, motion, the effects library, text overlays and elements are all available while you are assembling, so a finished render is something you shape rather than something you accept.

• Starter and Pro — transitions, motion, effects, text overlays and elements.
• Max — the premium set of all of those, plus multi-track timeline editing and your own custom sound effects and elements.

Changes are made in the assemble step and applied when you render, so you can adjust and re-render without starting the project again.

Yes. Heclus is a tool that helps you make videos, and YouTube has no issue with creators using tools like it. Everything Heclus produces for you is generated originally rather than copied from anyone, so the assets are yours to use and monetize. As with any channel, the usual YouTube policies on original content still apply to what you publish.

Yes to both, within a window:

• Commitment — plans are strictly month-to-month. There is no minimum term.
• Cancelling — cancel anytime from your dashboard. You keep full access until the end of the billing period you have already paid for.
• Refunds — a full refund is available within 7 days of purchase, as long as you have not created a niche. Creating one triggers channel analysis and incurs real cost on our side, which is why that is the cut-off.

If your situation does not fit neatly into that, contact support anyway — partial refunds are considered case by case. The full policy is at heclus.com/refund.

Yes. Your projects and generated content are stored under your account and are never shared with other users.