2short.ai does one thing: you paste the link of a long YouTube video, and it extracts the best moments as shorts, centred on the speaker and captioned. Dailies does one thing too, from another source: it records the calls you hold in Chrome and cuts captioned vertical shorts from them. If you publish long videos on YouTube, 2short.ai starts from what you have. If you publish none, Dailies starts from your calls.
Checked against 2short.ai’s own site on October 1, 2026.
Dailies
For people with no long videos to cut, whose calls with clients hold what they would want to post.
2short.ai
For YouTubers who want a simple way to turn the long videos already on their channel into shorts.
| Feature | Dailies | 2short.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Records Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls itself | YesIn Chrome, on the call you were going to hold anyway | NoIt starts from a YouTube link; Google Drive and public URLs on its paid plans |
| Records without a bot joining the call | YesFrom your browser | NoIt records no call |
| Records your webcam on a track of its own | YesYour camera and microphone, apart from the call’s picture | NoIt works on a video that already exists |
| Picks the passages worth posting by itself | YesUp to eight per call | YesIt extracts the best moments of videos with spoken words |
| Makes vertical 9:16 shorts, reframed on whoever speaks | Yes | YesFacial tracking keeps the active speaker centred; the layout of a two-person call is not stated |
| Burns in animated captions | YesFifteen styles | YesOne-click animated subtitles |
| Cuts silences, filler words and false starts | Yes | Not stated |
| Blurs or replaces the room behind you | Yes | Not stated |
| Blurs your guests and disguises their voice | YesOne switch | Not stated |
| Handles calls in French | YesFrench and English, mixed included | YesFrench is among the 26 languages it lists |
| Writes meeting notes, summaries and action items | NoDailies makes shorts, not minutes | No |
| Works on any video file you upload | NoOnly the calls it records | PartlyA YouTube link; Google Drive imports and public URLs on its paid plans |
| Posts or schedules to social networks for you | NoYou download each short in Full HD and post it yourself | Not stated |
2short.ai generates YouTube Shorts, TikToks and Reels from long YouTube videos. You paste a YouTube link; its paid plans also import from Google Drive and from public URLs. Its AI extracts the best moments of videos with spoken words. Its facial tracking keeps the active speaker at the centre of the frame, in vertical, square or horizontal ratios, and manual cropping tools take over when the automatic tracking is not enough. It adds animated subtitles in one click, in 26 languages, French included, and brand presets with your logos and overlays. Exports are in 1080p, without a watermark.
2short.ai is built around a YouTube link, with Google Drive and public URLs on its paid plans. A call fits that only after some work: record it with the platform, then put the file on Drive or publish it at an address 2short.ai can reach. Dailies skips those steps because it is the recorder. It captures the call tab, your microphone and your webcam in Chrome, on Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Zoom (its web client).
Both tools pick the passages themselves, centre the picture on whoever speaks and add animated captions. Dailies also cuts the silences, filler words and false starts, puts above each short the question it answers, and can blur your guests and disguise their voice. On the 2short.ai pages we read, we found no mention of such clean-up, of a title line, or of a way to blur a guest.
It works on videos that already exist, starting with the long ones on your YouTube channel. It makes square and horizontal versions as well as vertical ones, lets you crop by hand, and applies brand presets with your logos and overlays. Dailies stays narrower: vertical shorts only, from the calls it recorded only, downloaded in Full HD.
Only once the call is a video it can reach. 2short.ai starts from a YouTube link, and its paid plans import from Google Drive and public URLs. We found no call recording and no Zoom, Meet or Teams import on the pages we read. Dailies records the call in Chrome and delivers the shorts.
Yes. 2short.ai adds animated subtitles in one click and lists 26 languages, French among them. Dailies handles calls in French, in English and in both mixed.
No. Dailies takes no link and no file: it only makes shorts from the calls it records in Chrome. To cut a video that is already on YouTube, 2short.ai does that and Dailies does not.
From a Chrome extension on your own computer. It captures the call tab, your microphone and your webcam, with no bot joining the call.
Add Dailies to Chrome, record the call you were going to have anyway, and watch its shorts a few minutes after you hang up.
Add to ChromeWhat this page says of 2short.ai comes from the pages below, published by its maker and read on October 1, 2026. Where its site says nothing, the table says “not stated” rather than “no”. Products change: write to hello@berenger.dev if something here is out of date. 2short.ai is a trademark of its owner, which has no link with Dailies.