Turn a YouTube video into a WhatsApp Status.
Status shows short vertical videos, and people tap through them fast. MyShorts cuts the moment you want from a YouTube video, frames it 9:16 on the speaker and burns in captions so it reads without sound.
Free to start, no card. Works with YouTube videos that have captions.
How it works
Paste a YouTube link
Any public video with captions (manual or auto-generated). Nothing to upload or install.
Pick a short moment
Ask for a tight clip, like “the best 30 seconds about X”. Keep it short so it plays as one Status.
Share it
Download the MP4 to your phone and add it to your Status, or forward it in chats and groups.
What you get
Vertical, not letterboxed
A real 9:16 crop that follows the speaker, instead of a widescreen video with black bars.
Captions burned in
Readable on mute, in Hindi (Devanagari), Hinglish or English.
Hook title
An optional bold line for the first few seconds that tells people why to keep watching.
Full HD on every plan
A 1080×1920 MP4 on Free, 1440p on Creator. Paid plans have no watermark.
Why a converter beats a screen recording
The quick way to put a YouTube video on WhatsApp Status is a screen recording, and it shows: black bars, a tiny speaker, no captions, and the YouTube interface in the frame. A proper Status clip is vertical, framed on the person talking, and readable without sound. MyShorts does that from the link: it finds the exact moment from the transcript, crops to 9:16 with face tracking, and burns captions into the video in the language it was recorded in.
Made for how Status is watched
Status viewers tap through quickly, often with the sound off, so the first second and the on-screen words matter most. Ask MyShorts for the moment that stands on its own, turn on the hook title for the opening seconds, and keep the clip short. The same file also works as an Instagram Reel or a YouTube Short, so one clip covers every place your audience scrolls.
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Common questions
How do I put part of a YouTube video on WhatsApp Status?
Paste the YouTube link into MyShorts, describe the part you want, render the 9:16 clip, download it to your phone, and add it to your Status from the gallery.
How long can the clip be?
Keep it short: 15 to 30 seconds is a good target for Status, where people tap through quickly. Longer clips may be split by WhatsApp.
Is there a watermark?
Free clips carry a small MyShorts watermark; paid plans, from ₹299 a month, have none. Free exports 1080×1920, Starter 1080×1920 and Creator 1440×2560.
Does it work with every YouTube video?
It works with public YouTube videos that have captions, either manual or YouTube’s auto-generated ones, which most videos have. On Creator and Custom, videos with captions turned off are transcribed by AI.
Should I clip other people’s videos?
Clip your own videos, or videos you have permission to use. Reposting someone else’s content can break YouTube’s terms and copyright law.