OpenAI closed the Sora app and website on April 26, 2026, and turned off the Sora API on September 24, 2026. If Sora was your AI video tool, Yerk.app is open now: make videos from text or from your own images, choose from several video models, and start free.
Make Your First VideoOpenAI announced on March 24, 2026, that it would discontinue Sora. The shutdown came in two stages:
OpenAI asked users to download their videos and images before these dates and said that user data is deleted after the shutdown.
The result: a lot of prompts, remixes, and video ideas need a new home. That is the gap fills.
| Feature | Yerk.app | OpenAI Sora |
|---|---|---|
| Available today | Yes | No — shut down in 2026 |
| Text to video | Yes | No longer available |
| Image to video | Yes — upload or make a start image | No longer available |
| Choice of video models | Yerk, Seedance 2.0, Seedance 2.5, Horse | None |
| Multiple reference images | Yes — Seedance 2.0, Seedance 2.5, Horse and | No longer available |
| Edit an existing video | Yes — Edit Any Video | No longer available |
| Free option | VIP: free HD clips up to 10 seconds | None |
| AI images in the same account | , up to 4K | No |
| Mature content for adults | Allowed | Was not allowed |
The general-purpose model for text-to-video and image-to-video clips from 5 to 15 seconds. Start here for ordinary scenes, animations, and social clips.
The main choice for spicy, adult creative work. makes clips from 5 up to 30 seconds with strong motion and prompt adherence.
Under Professional, with Mini, Fast, and Pro tiers. Use reference images, reference video, and reference audio, multi-shot direction, and last-frame control. Read more about Seedance 2.0 on Yerk.app.
Also under Professional. Stack several reference images to build a scene or keep a character consistent, especially for spicy work.
Change a video you already have, up to 30 seconds long, by describing the edit. Add reference images and audio files when you need them.
Make HD clips up to 10 seconds for free while the VIP trial lasts. It is the easiest way to try after Sora. See Yerk VIP.
Keep any Sora videos, stills, and prompts you exported. Your best frames make great start images for image-to-video.
Paste an old Sora prompt into . Describe the start, the action, and the end of the clip. If you want help, the Yerk AI chat helper can turn a rough idea into a full prompt, including dialogue, music, and sound effects.
Make a start frame in (pictures up to 4K), then animate it in . For a one-tap result, use Quick Animate.
Use Yerk for everyday clips, for spicy work, and Seedance 2.0 or Horse when you have several references. Pay per render with credits, with no monthly subscription.
Yes. OpenAI closed the Sora app and the Sora website on April 26, 2026, and ended the Sora 2 API on September 24, 2026. OpenAI announced the shutdown on March 24, 2026.
Yerk.app . It makes AI video from a text prompt or from an image, gives you several models in one app (Yerk, Seedance 2.0, Seedance 2.5, and Horse), edits videos you already have with Edit Any Video, and includes for AI images in the same account.
Yes. Yerk VIP currently makes HD AI videos up to 10 seconds for free for accounts in good standing, and eligible new Yerk.app accounts can get free starting credits for the other models.
OpenAI told users to export their Sora videos and images before the shutdown dates and said that user data is deleted after them. If you saved exports, your best frames make good start images for .
Yes. Yerk, Horse, Seedance 2.0, and Seedance 2.5 can all make sound: describe the dialogue, music, or sound effects you want in your prompt. Seedance 2.0, Seedance 2.5 and can also take reference audio files.
No. Sora video generation is no longer part of ChatGPT. On Yerk.app, describe your video idea to Yerk AI and it writes the prompt for you. The first 5 messages are free.
Yerk.app is a browser product for stills () and short video (), with optional High Fidelity prompt enhancement, image-to-video from a reference photo, and multi-model quality tiers. Yerk.app is free to start, and you pay per render instead of a mandatory monthly seat for every experiment.
New guides live under Learn. Product entry remains the homepage generator.
Text to video, image to video, Seedance 2.0, and free VIP clips. Free to start.
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