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Kiju · a Mac app with an AI film crew

Make a scene.
Then make a series.

Kiju turns one idea into an episode you can post.

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Stand-in · Every Nine Seconds · edited outside Kiju and brought back for review · AI-generated — until the demo film, the funny one, is cut

Its crew writes, draws, voices, films and cuts. You make every call, and every price is on the button before you press it.

Download Kiju

Mac with Apple silicon · first episode free, then €29 a month · AI billed separately by OpenRouter

Watch it being made

crew on standby. Nothing is spent until you press.

Made in Kiju · Gate Zero, a vertical drama made live from one sentence

A pilot ten years late. Start with the coffee.

The sentence it started from

“At 3 a.m., an airport barista gets the same order from a pilot whose flight left ten years ago.”

  • Paused· 0:46–0:59
    Gate Zero — episode 1, The Same Order

    Made in Kiju by APITHINGS on the studio’s OpenRouter account. The images, the video, the voices and the music are AI-generated.

  • A pilot’s hand slides a paper cup across the steel counter
  • Mara Quinn, seen from behind, faces Captain Elias Vane across the counter
  • Mara Quinn at the counter, seen from behind
  • Mara Quinn pours sugar into the black coffee as Captain Vane watches
  • Mara Quinn, close, caught off guard
Episode 1 · The Same Order · 1:04 · fourteen shots · a cast of three · 9:16 · made in Kiju by APITHINGS · AI-generatedIts steps and its bill · Watch it being made five films, 20 min in all
Shot 3 of Gate Zero in Kiju’s screenplay: “Over Mara’s shoulder, Captain Elias Vane stands at the counter with his faded cap tucked under his arm.” Captain Elias Vane, calm, courteous: “Black coffee. Three sugars. Please.”
Shot 3, as Kiju wrote it · a real capture, near actual size

Under the episode

The order, before anyone filmed it.

Under these fourteen shots sit four layers of the real desk: the script, the board, the takes and the cut. Open them; nothing is redrawn.

Gate Zero’s folder, open on the desk

Fourteen shots for one coffee order. Here is the work.

Four real captures of Kiju, near actual size. Drag one, or use its map, to see the rest of the window. The prices on its buttons are Gate Zero’s, as the desk showed them.

Kiju’s Script step on Gate Zero: the screenplay sheet. Shot 2, Mara Quinn: “That’s my handwriting. I didn’t write that.” Shot 3, Captain Elias Vane: “Black coffee. Three sugars. Please.” Shot 4, Mara Quinn: “You’re the first customer since midnight. And you’re dressed for 1995.” On the right, shot 3’s picture and a button: Rewrite this shot with a note.
Real capture, near actual size · Full image

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Script

Kiju does
The show’s title, the season’s plan, the cast, the places, and the episode shot by shot.
You decide
Change any line, any shot, any character, or rewrite a shot with a note.

fourteen shots written. The pilot takes three sugars. Nobody asked why.

Billed by OpenRouter · Gate Zero, ep. 1

Script
$0.040262
Board
—
Film
—
Cut
—
In all
—
Kiju’s Board step on Gate Zero: fourteen pictures, one per shot, each with its speaker and line, the same barista and the same pilot in every one. On the right, shot 3 large, “What should change?” and the button “Redraw this shot $0.04”.
Real capture, near actual size · « Redraw this shot $0.04 » is Gate Zero’s · Full image

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Board

Kiju does
One look, a portrait and full body per character, a picture per place, a picture for every shot, and a voice for every line.
You decide
Play the board before anything is filmed. Redraw a shot with a note; the price is on the button.

14 pictures. The pilot looks the same in all of them. That is the point.

Billed by OpenRouter · Gate Zero, ep. 1

Script
$0.040262
Board
$1.0945675
Film
—
Cut
—
In all
—
Kiju’s Film step on Gate Zero: shot 6’s clip, Mara Quinn pouring sugar into the black coffee, beside its take card, “Take 1 · Google · Veo 3.1 Lite · $0.12 · Chosen”. On the right, “What should change in the next take?” and the button “Retake $0.12”.
Real capture, near actual size · the $0.12 take is Gate Zero’s · Full image

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Film

Kiju does
Films each shot from its picture: moving, lips in sync with the line, or held still.
You decide
Watch the take, say what should change in the next one (the desk’s own example: “his hand keeps five fingers”), and choose the one for the cut.

shot 6, take 1, chosen. It did not ask for its motivation.

Billed by OpenRouter · Gate Zero, ep. 1

Script
$0.040262
Board
$1.0945675
Film
$5.12
Cut
—
In all
—
Kiju’s Cut step on Gate Zero: shot 6 of 14 in the player at 0:22 of 1:04; on the right, “Kiju watched it: nothing left to fix, you left 2 differences as they are”, and “Watch again, up to $0.37”; below, the timeline with picture, dialogue and music lanes.
Real capture, near actual size · « up to $0.37 » is Gate Zero’s · Full image

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Cut

Kiju does
Music, captions and every line on a real timeline. Then it watches the cut and lists what does not match.
You decide
Trim a shot, hold its last frame. Fix what Kiju found, or leave it as it is.

watched the cut. 2 differences. You left them as they are. Bold.

Billed by OpenRouter · Gate Zero, ep. 1

Script
$0.040262
Board
$1.0945675
Film
$5.12
Cut
$0.329638
In all
$6.5844675

The desk showed $6.73 for the same work, and $6.33 for the episode alone, the show’s plan, look, cast and places apart: it rounds each take up to the cent.

The poster of Every Nine Seconds, episode 2: a cormorant on a door, on the rocks, in a lighthouse’s beam

Also made in Kiju · a Kiju original, the stand-in at the top of this page

Every Nine Seconds

“An old lighthouse turns every nine seconds and guesses wrong in the dark.”

Written, cast and generated in Kiju on the studio’s keys; edited outside it, and brought back to Kiju for review.

one-minute episodes
2
of generations
$70.64
takes
112
in the final cuts
12

112 takes, 12 in the cut. The sea does not take direction.

Watch both episodes, and how they were made

The poster of episode 2. Every image, video, voice and music: AI-generated.

Why Kiju

Five promises, each beside its evidence.

The crew never sleeps and never argues. It does keep a few rules, and you can check every one.

The cast comes back.

The look, the cast, the places and the voices are made once, and come back as they are in the next episode.

The Door, episode 1 of Every Nine Seconds: the cormorant, a black mound on a pale blue four-panel door
The Fog, episode 2: the same cormorant on the same door, in a pocket of clear air
Every Nine Seconds, episode 1 and episode 2: the same door and the same cormorant. AI-generated.

The price is on the button.

Every paid press shows its estimate before you make it. Once you film, each episode has a ceiling: Kiju refuses any press estimated to go over it. Nothing is spent until you press.

ceiling reached. Kiju refuses the next press. It is not tempted.

The desk’s button: Redraw this shot, $0.04

Board · redraw one shot

The desk’s button: Retake, $0.12, beside Chosen

Film · one more take

The desk’s button: Watch again, up to $0.37

Cut · watch the cut again

Gate Zero’s buttons, as the desk showed them, enlarged. Examples, not a tariff.

Your AI, at OpenRouter’s prices.

Billed by OpenRouter to your own account, from the first script. Kiju adds no markup.

The AI
OpenRouter’s prices
Billed to
your own account
Kiju’s markup
none

Kiju’s cut of your AI bill: nothing. It only cuts the other kind.

Your show is a folder on your Mac.

A folder of readable files. No Kiju account, no media host. Your keys stay in the macOS keychain.

Your show
a folder on your Mac
Kiju account
none
Keys
macOS keychain

Post it, or finish it in your editor.

An MP4 with captions, ready to post; an SRT and a thumbnail; or a project with separate tracks for your editor.

To post
MP4 with captions
Beside it
SRT · thumbnail
To finish
separate tracks

export complete. Your editor may now take the credit.

What it costs

€29 a month. The AI is a separate bill.

Kiju is one subscription. The AI is billed by OpenRouter, at its prices, to your own account. You see both before you press anything.

Kiju, the desk

€29a month,
VAT included

  • Your first episode is free in Kiju, and so is episode 2’s board.
  • Then the first 14 days are free, with a card.
  • Cancel at any time.
The subscription, in full
AI billed separately

OpenRouter’s prices, no Kiju markup. To your own account, from the first script, your free episode included.

Download Kiju

A Mac with Apple silicon, macOS 13 or later

Billed by OpenRouter · Gate Zero, ep. 1

What one real episode cost in AI, for scale

Script
$0.040262
Board
$1.0945675
Film
$5.12
Cut
$0.329638

In all$6.5844675

The desk showed $6.73 for the same work, and $6.33 for the episode alone, the show’s plan, look, cast and places apart: it rounds each take up to the cent. Made in Kiju by APITHINGS, on the studio’s OpenRouter account.

Every bill, line by line

the plot gets complicated. The bill gets itemised.

Big shows. Little monster.

Your crew.
Your call.

Kiju is a Mac app for Apple silicon, in English and French. Your first episode is free in Kiju; the AI is billed by OpenRouter, to your own account.

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