Tell us what your Short is about. Get ten opening lines written for YouTube Shorts' first three seconds. Free, no login.
A first line that tells the viewer exactly why to stay — a question, a surprising claim, the result first or the start of a story — in under three seconds. Shorts that loop well also tend to open on a line that pays off at the end.
It's the same generator with the platform fixed to YouTube Shorts. Use the general Hook Generator to write for TikTok or Reels as well.
Yes. A long-form intro can take 15–30 seconds to set up; a Short has about three. These lines are written for that: no greeting, no channel name, straight to the point.
Yes. Three generations a day without an account; a free account raises the daily allowance. A shared network limit of 10 requests in 10 minutes applies across Hookova's free AI tools.
Score it with the free Hook Checker, time your script with the Script Timer, and when a Short works, run it through the Hook Analyzer to see shot by shot why.
Hook CheckerPaste your opening line and get a 0–100 hook score, four sub-scores and three rewrites.
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