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Free ranking video maker

Open this countdown in the editor Unlock Pro

How to use the free cut on purpose

1. Build the full countdown anyway. Preview Top 3, Top 5, or Top 10. The free ceiling applies when you export, not when you rehearse the order.
2. Put the three you would post at the top of the rail. A free download keeps the first three cards, not whichever three you wish were first.
3. Keep holds at four seconds or accept the cap. The dialog will not quietly shorten a longer preview. You confirm the free cut or you leave it.
4. Read the file before you post it. 720×1280, with a shortsrank.com mark. If that is not the public version, do not upload it by habit.

What free is honestly for

Learning the layout

Safe area, Slam versus Board, and whether your titles fit — all visible before a clean export.

A complete Top 3

Three ranks match the free clip count. You still get the mark, the time cap, and 720p.

No account required to try

The editor opens in the browser. Clips are not uploaded either way.

“Free ranking video maker” should mean a tool you can finish a small countdown in, with the limits written down before you record. It should not mean a countdown that deletes itself, a watermark you discover after posting, or a checkout button that pretends to charge. This page is those limits.

The editor itself is open. You can load a sample, add your own clips, reorder a Top 3, Top 5, or Top 10, and play the preview. Money is not what unlocks the preview.

What a free download contains

If you export without the lifetime flag, and you confirm the dialog, the file is:

• the first three cards in the rail, in that order,
• at most 4 seconds on each hold,
• a small shortsrank.com mark,
• 720×1280,
• the audio that was inside those clips.

You can preview holds longer than 4 seconds, and you can preview more than three cards. The export does not silently match the preview when you are over the cap. The dialog names the cut. Confirm it or back out. If the three cards at the top are not the three you meant to publish, reorder before you confirm. The rail is play order, not a favorites folder.

A Top 3 that you actually wanted to be three items therefore exports as a full count. It is still the free file: marked, capped, 720p. A Top 5 or Top 10 preview is a rehearsal. The free download of those is a three-card excerpt. That distinction is why the Top 3 page exists separately from the Top 5 and Top 10 pages.

What free does not include

It does not remove the mark. It does not write 1080×1920. It does not raise the hold past 4 seconds. It does not keep ten cards. It does not post to TikTok, Shorts, or Reels. It does not add music, a voiceover, or stock footage to fill a list you did not film.

It also does not upload your clips. Free and paid use the same browser path. Closing the tab drops the in-memory preview. Your source files stay on disk.

There is no free unlock button

The only way to the clean export is the paid one. Lifetime is $24 once, taken on a Waffo checkout page for ShortsRank. This browser unlocks after the payment is verified on our server, and a payment on some other site does not set it. If you pay and lose the unlock, the restore page can bring it back with your receipt email.

Lifetime raises this editor to 10 clips, 8 seconds each, no watermark, 1080×1920. The pricing page is where the two columns live. This page does not repeat them as a pitch.

Refund terms are on the Terms page: 7 days, email hello@shortsrank.com, if current Chrome or Edge cannot produce a playable vertical file and that cannot be fixed.

A sensible free workflow

1. Load a sample Top 5 and watch Slam, then Board, on your phone or in a narrow window.
2. Replace the samples with trimmed clips. Rights first, as on the from-clips guide.
3. If you are publishing the free file, build a Top 3 on purpose, or drag the three public cards to the top before export.
4. Play the download. The export checklist is resolution, mark, audio, and safe area.
5. If the mark or the missing ranks are the reason you would not post, stop. Do not crop the frame to hide the mark and call it the same video.

The how-to for the edit itself is how to make a ranking short. Free does not change those steps. It changes the file you are allowed to download at the end.

Questions

Does the free plan expire?

No. It is not a timed trial. The same caps apply the next time you export: 3 clips, 4 seconds each, watermark, 720×1280.

Can I crop the watermark off in another app?

The mark is burned into the free file. Cropping it off also crops the frame the layout was designed around. The clean export is the lifetime file, not a second edit of the free one.

Is there a free way to unlock the clean export?

No. There is no free or local unlock. Lifetime is $24 once, paid on a Waffo page for this site, and it switches on only after the payment is verified on our server.

Where do I pay?

On the checkout page, which opens this site’s own Waffo checkout. Do not send money somewhere else and expect this editor to unlock.

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