Video Timelines

A video, frame by frame.

Bring in a reel or a recording and read how it’s built: how long the hook lasts, how often it cuts, what the text says.

iPhone, iPad and Mac · No account

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Reference 01

0:47 · 12 cuts

0:00

Hook0:00–0:03 · 3 s

0:000:010:02

detected cut

0:03

The problem0:03–0:11 · 8 s

0:030:060:09

your cut

0:11

The demo0:11–0:38

0:110:180:27

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Video Timelines

A video becomes a rail.

Pick the video

From Photos, Files, or drop it in. The import sheet estimates frames and megabytes before anything starts.

Study a video

Cuts are the events.

Video Timelines is not an editor for delivery. It builds a rail so you can read how a video is made: the hook, the pacing, the on-screen text, and a kit you can export.

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Reference 01

0:47 · 12 cuts

0:00

Hook0:00–0:03 · 3 s

0:000:010:02

detected cut

0:03

The problem0:03–0:11 · 8 s

0:030:060:09

your cut

0:11

The demo0:11–0:38

0:110:180:27

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Rail

Frames, top to bottom

Each stretch between two cuts is a card, with its strip and its time. The first one is called Hook.

Cuts

Detected, or yours

Detected cuts are teal; the ones you mark are orange. The Cuts tab gathers every video: first cut, cuts per minute, average length.

Kit

Cover, frames, Markdown

Export cover, frames, timeline.md, cuts.json and metadata.json as a zip or a folder, or copy the Markdown to paste into a prompt.

Made for

A reel that works. Or your own recording.

The same engine to study a reference and to pull the screens out of what you recorded.

Reels and shorts

Study references

How long the hook lasts, how often it cuts, what the text does. Pacing, read — not guessed.

Yours

Your recordings

Bring a screen recording and pull the useful frames, with speech lined up to the cuts.

In parts

Long videos

Anything past a couple of minutes splits into timelines you can wait for. You pick the parts, with the frame count up front.

Kit

Export a kit

A zip or a folder ready for a brief, or Markdown for a prompt. The app does not render an edited video.

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Videos

3 videos · 214 frames

Reference 010:47 · 47 frames · 12 cuts

iPhone recording1:12 · 4 cuts

Onboarding demo0:28 · 6 cuts

On disk · 186 MB

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Cuts

3 videos

First cut0:03

Cuts / min15.3

Avg segment3.9 s

Reference 01first cut 0:03 · 15.3/min

iPhone recordingfirst cut 0:08 · 3.3/min

Onboarding demofirst cut 0:02 · 12.8/min

What it knows about the cut

It describes the structure. It never overwrites your titles.

Apple Intelligence describes the video from the cuts and the on-screen text: summary, hook, pattern and a label per segment. If you download Gemma, it looks at one frame per stretch on this device. No video leaves.

BetaGemma 4 E2B is optional, about 3.6 GB, once, and only if you ask. Without it, everything else still works.

Hook · 0:00–0:03Pattern · On-screen text, fast cuts

Apple Intelligence Beta

A 47 s reel: 3 s hook, the problem, the demo, the close. 12 cuts.

short hookon-screen textclose

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Private by design

No account. No analytics.

Projects live on the device. You can drop the video copy and keep the frames. Gemma is the only network use, and it is on demand.

Private by design

No account. No analytics.

✓Everything on device
✓No account
✓No analytics

Video

Projects live on the device. You can drop the video copy and keep the frames. Gemma is the only network use, and it is on demand.

Across your Apple devices

iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Both apps go on all three. Capture cleans up more comfortably on Mac, where an assistant can read the library over MCP. Video imports the same way from Photos, Files or a drop.

iPhoneWhere you capture and study a reel

iPadRails at full width

MacExport, drop files, MCP

FAQ

Before you start.

Are they the same app?＋

No. Capture Timelines sorts the screenshots already in Photos. Video Timelines imports a video and breaks it into frames and cuts. Both are Timelines apps; each one does one job.

Does Video edit the video?＋

No. It doesn’t cut, join or render for delivery. It builds a rail so you can read it, and exports a kit (frames, Markdown, JSON).

Do I need an account?＋

No. Neither app has an account, analytics or sync. Capture never talks to a network. Video only talks to a network if you download the vision model, and that is on demand.

What is Gemma?＋

An open Google model (Gemma 4 E2B, about 3.6 GB) that Video can download once to look at one frame per segment, on device. It is never downloaded by itself. Without it, frames, cuts, transcription and Apple Intelligence are still there.

Coming soon

A video, frame by frame.

Bring in a reel or a recording and read how it’s built: how long the hook lasts, how often it cuts, what the text says.

App StoreVideo

Two apps. One rail each.

Capture Timelines

Twenty screenshots. One session.

Nothing to import. It reads the screenshots, recordings and clips already in Photos, groups them by burst and deletes a whole session in one go.

See Capture